"peanut"-butter cookies

Use any recipe and just substitute sunflower seed butter for peanut butter. just a warning, though, the sunbutter and baking soda combination may turn your cookies green, but they're perfectly fine to eat (http://www.buysunbutter.com/cookingtips.asp).

pretend PB&J

millet potato bread
spreadable fruit (jelly without the sugar)
sunbutter (made from sunflower seeds instead of nuts)

carrot soup

About 32 oz. chicken broth
about 10 carrots
about 2 tsp. crushed ginger
Butternut squash is really good in here when you have some on hand, too

Pour in pan, simmer until carrots are soft, maybe an hour. Blend until smooth (be careful and don't fill it too full--just little bits at a time so hot soup doesn't spew out).

Yummy with salad and bread. Freezes well, too.

pretend mac & cheese

This doesn't taste much like real mac & cheese, but when you're really missing it and haven't had it for long enough, this works with a little imagination.
Boil:
about a cup or so of rice pasta.
In another pan or in the microwave, boil:
¼ c. nutritional yeast (I get this in the bins at Whole Foods. It’s yellow flakes).
¼ c. water. (unsweetend hemp milk works great, but I rarely have this on hand).
1 T. olive oil
1 t. mustard
Couple shakes of paprika
Shake of cumin
Salt if you want it
Some people also like to add a little white cooking wine.
Once the sauce boils, it’ll thicken.
Pour the sauce on the noodles. I like to add some crumbled up toasted wheat-free bread crumbs and tomato (it helps distract me from the lack of cheese).
It’s also good with some organic nitrate-free chicken dogs.

corn!

We've recently added corn, so some of these recipes will now contain corn ingredients.