Vegan Apple Crisp
(Wal-mart Friendly)
I really want to go back to the initial vision of OpenSourceVegan.com. One part of that vision was to make Wal-mart friendly (a.k.a. local grocery store friendly) vegan recipes. Yes, on occasion, I still want to share recipes that might require soy curls or yeast flakes, but this year, I want to make food with ingredients that a normal person will buy on a regular basis.
This is why today I made a Wal-mart friendly apple crisp.
Here’s the recipe idea:
I used:
Cornstarch
Water
1 14 oz can of frozen 100% apple juice concentrate
1/2 c. of raisins
5 chopped up apples
Granola
The basic principle of making this recipe was to put the frozen apple juice concentrate and cornstarch mixed with water in a pot. Then you can turn the stove onto high or almost high and constantly stir the mixture with a whisk until it thickens. After that, I would turn the stove’s temperature down to about a medium heat and add the apples to cook them in it.
However, today, I can’t give you an exact cornstarch to water amount because I thickened my apple juice concentrate too much. I solved the problem by adding more water to the mixture, and the taste was still great, but I need to work on this recipe a little bit more.
Anyways, I cooked the apples in the apple juice concentrate mixture, turned off the stove, and then I added the raisins.
I placed everything in a nice dish and added granola on top of it. Hopefully next week I can post a simple granola recipe on OpenSourceVegan.com for you to try!
My dish could feed about 4-5 people this morning, assuming they’re eating 2-3 pieces of additional fruit as well. This crisp was very filling for me this morning, and I liked it. 
Please tell me how your apple crisp adventure goes!
–Franklin
OpenSourceVegan.com
Sunny Florida Health Trip
I’ve been able to help with and eyewitness Wellness Secrets’ (my job) 5 day road to wellness health seminar in sunny Florida!
This is the daily schedule:
Worship
Breakfast
Stretches
Lecture
Walk
Lecture
Hands on vegetarian cooking school
Lecture
Lunch
I did a short video about my experience:
Vegan Mac & Cheese Demo
After making the vegan Wal-mart pizza and sharing it with my iPhone, I decided to make another simple video again.
This time I wanted to show you how I basically make my vegan mac and cheese.
Just like the Wal-mart vegan cheese pizza recipe yesterday, you can make this vegan mac and cheese with ingredients SOLELY from your local grocery store!!
This my vegan cheese recipe:
1. 16oz bag of cooked elbow macaroni noodles + 1 tsp. salt
2. OpenSourceVegan.com’s Yeast Flake Free cashew cheese (I didn’t use the tahini, and I added 4 tsp. of cornstarch per recipe).
I cooked the macaroni noodles in water and a little bit of water. I also cooked the cashew cheese and made sure I stirred it so it wouldn’t burn.
Then I mixed the cheese and macaroni together.
This is much faster than baking the cheese with the noodles, which is what I’ve traditionally done. The cornstarch does dilute the flavor slightly, but it sure does accelerate the cooking time.
My Grandma and Cousin said they liked the macaroni, but they would reduce the salt a little. I added 2 tsp. of salt to the macaroni noodles, so I reduced the salt content in my recipe to 1 tsp.
My Grandma said that the cashew cheese tasted like real macaroni and cheese.
Here’s the macaroni demo that I made with my iPhone:
This is a picture of a vegan mac and cheese dish that I and others made at my school’s vegan cafeteria a few months ago:
–Franklin
OpenSourceVegan.com
My Wal-mart Vegan Pizza
Today, I went to Wal-mart, picked up my iPhone, and I recorded my quest to make a vegan pizza solely from ingredients from Wal-mart.
I used:
Rustic Italian Herb Crust
Ragu Pizza Sauce
OpenSourceVegan.com’s Yeast Flake Free Cheese Sauce (minus the tahini–it still tastes great without it. I also used a different kind of pimentos)
Already sliced, canned black olives
Different colored peppers
Onions
It was a real hit for my Grandma and Cousin. Please check out my two short videos about my experience today:
Something Better Foods
Customer Reviews
I went to the grand opening of the Something Better Foods vegan restaurant in Fayetteville, Arkansas. This is what the customers had to say about it that day:
