playing with flax and nutritional yeast :)

I wanted to wait until I'd finished my schoolwork to post this, and then realized my cookies were disappearing too fast and it was now or wait until the next time I make these. Which, believe me, will be very soon.

I got my foods from Canada yesterday; soy protein powder (like the bodybuilders use, hellz yeah lol), nutritional yeast, and flax seeds. I was hanging out in the kitchen and decided to taste the flax seeds. Just plain.
I decided I liked them, they tasted a bit like wheat germ and would taste good with oatmeal, and oatmeal tastes best in cookies! So making oatmeal-flax cookies became my second mission of the day.
Those are the four I managed to round up (I ate one right after I took this picture too)

I used the quick oatmeal cookie recipe from The Joy of Cooking (that cookbook is nowhere near vegan, but I still adore it) I just replaced the eggs with banana and baking powder and obviously soymilk for the milk. Then I just dumped in the flaxseeds. The banana added a touch of extra flavour that was really good, and worked perfectly as as egg replacement.

I had a couple of friends over at the time, and these cookies were being eaten as fast as they came out of the oven. I made about five cookie sheets full, and when I pulled the last ones out of the oven, there were maybe three left from the first four sheets.

My other cooking adventure yesterday: nutritional yeast sauce!

I used:
1/2 c soymilk
1/4 c nutritional yeast
some olive oil.. about 1/4 tsp I'd guess
quite a bit of garlic powder and pepper

I just heated the stuff and when it came to boil, I added a cornstarch and cold water mixture to thicken it a bit.

Then I ate it the best way you can eat anything; out of a huge mixing bowl with my friend, each of us with our own spoon, and other people wandering in and taking some too.

This was a hit with everyone too, especially since I made it before the cookies. It made about four cups of cooked pasta, and there was only a small bowl of leftovers for lunch today.

I love feeding people, it's an instict I have I think... it just makes me happy. And it makes me even happier to fill up someone's stomach with healthy(ish) cruelty-free food, replacing whatever omni meal they would've eaten instead. One less serving of meat for at least three people every couple days... it's gotta add up, right?