Cow protein free meals

Vegan Banana Chocolate Chip pancakes with Peanut Syrup

First off most of you know we are expecting baby number 2!!! So that is the reason and excuse I am using for not blogging lately. Morning sickness was really bad in the 1st trimester but I am 16 weeks and 2 days today!!! Yay!!! So since I am feeling better I want to get back to blogging. :-)

Now onto the pancakes........ I have been really wanting to try make pancakes for Zoe because all the ones in the store frozen or in the box has eggs in it or milk. So I bought all the ingredients I thought I would need and made them tonight! Zoe absolutely loved them! She kept telling me "yummmmmmmmmmmmy mommy!" and I got many hugs and her telling "thank you for my pancakes". So all I think now is why haven't I made these sooner?????? Here is what i did.......

Ingredients

• 2 cups Bisquick Original
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup non-dairy milk (I used Zoe's vanilla almond milk)
• 2 very ripe bananas, mashed 
• 1/3 cup of chocolate chips

Peanut butter Syrup

• ½ cup pancake syrup
• ¼ cup peanut butter
• about 1 tbsp non-dairy milk

  

Zoe helped me make the pancakes too. She was so excited!

 The pancakes turned out so fluffy

I made enough for Alex, Zoe, and I. And I still had leftovers to freeze for breakfast.

My hubby put peanut butter on his pancakes anyways so I made this and syrup and everyone  loved it! 

The pancakes and syrup together....It was so yummy!

 I can't get over how much she enjoyed them. Zoe loved them! So they are kid approved ;-)

Mac and Cashew Cheese

I cant remember if I have ever posted on my blog Zoe's favorite Vegan meal. she loves mac and cashew cheese. Its pretty easy to make too. So its a win-win for the both of us. But its very expensive. I paid almost $15.00 for a pound of raw cashews. That is why I dont eat very much of it. But its very yummy.....

First I soaked 1/2 of a pound of raw cashew in water till its just covered. For two hours atleast. (I have left it soaking over night and I got the same results)

Then I cook a 1/2 of a pound of pasta fully

 While the pasta is cooking I make the "cheese"


I drain the cashews and put the water that they were soaking in a side in a cup. And then I put my cashews in my food processor and add...

2 squeezes of lemon juice
1/3 of the cashew soaked water
1 teaspoons of minced garlic
1 Tablespoon of apple cider vinegar
Salt and pepper to taste.

I love salty cheese so if it was for me I would have added more then what I make for Zoe

 Then I puree till smooth

Then put the "cheese" in a mixing bowl

Then pour the macaroni in with the "cheese"  and fold it in

And your done!!!

 I put most of it in freezable containers but if you are going to freeze it you have to add 2 tablespoons of milk to it (I use almond milk for Zoe) and it helps it not to be so dry when you reheat it.

Zoe so excited about her mac and cashew cheese.

This is serious....

 "Momma leave me alone I am trying to eat"

This is how i do it....

People ask me all the time how i not cook anything with cow protein because of Zoe's allergy. So i thought i would show you all one of our favorite meals....Shepherds pie. Its very easy.

For a substitute i of beef i cook with turkey burger

In my casserole dish i put just enough vegetables in to cover the bottom

I put mayonnaise, garlic powder, and soy butter in my potatoes

Then i pour my turkey buger on top of my vegetables

Then i drain my potatoes

Then i add my ingredients to my potatoes and mash them.(this is also the way i make and eat my mash potatoes at home.)

My mashed potatoes

This is the before its cooked

And this is the after being cooked....

And I usually put turkey gravy on the bottom with the vegetables but i forgot to pick some up.

Enjoy!!!!