New Years!

So this blog is about to turn into an amazing factually fun and entertaining, dear-diary kind of platform! Really my only resolution this year is to make The Inspired Cookie connected to everyone! So starting January 1st, the blogs will start, the recipes, the experiments, the guest writers, the Zen of cookie making will be discussed in full! Please post and leave me ideas on what you'd like to read about or what you'd like to see more of. So have a great holiday and I can't wait to get started! Happy New Year!!

Easy & Quick end of summer salad

I eat this salad all year long but generally make it for others around the end of summer begining of fall. It's so simple and EXTREMELY delicious!

(for 2) Ingredients:

3 garnet yams

olive oil

salt

pepper

garlic powder

onion powder

cinnamon

Favorite Vegan hard cheese (cubed and preferably mozzarella or pepper jack)

Organicville Tarragon Dijon Dressing

Baby greens of choice.

In an roasting pan, place chopped yams cover in olive oil, stir well, add all the seasoning generously. Roast on 400 for 25-30 mins till the center is soft (test with a toothpick or fork)

Remove from oven.

Fill your plate/bowl with baby spring mix of choice add the cubed cheese & dressing to your liking and top with the cooked garnet yams.

Ridiculously easy, surprisingly Delicious!

Enjoy!

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Vegan, Gluten Free, Creamy Mac or even Creamy Pesto

I know I'm a cookie company, but I'm also a chef that loves to help people eat amazingly well!

A requrest for delicious mac & Cheese has been asked by many friends recently so I decided to post it!

This was my absolute favorite meal to make after culinary school.... ridiculously easy and amazingly delicious. It's without soy, dairy, gluten, or processed crap! And it's amazing:

1/4 cup cashews-raw

1 cup water

1 tablespoon Miso

2 tsp lemon juice

5-10 cloves of garlic (just your preference, generally 4 cloves is enough, but when in life is garlic a bad thing..I mean really)

Salt & pepper to taste

IN a blender, add cashews, puree till finely ground. Add water, puree again. Add miso, lemon juice and cut garlic, puree till completely smooth.

Over medium heat stirring consistently bring mixture to low boil, lower heat and simmer for at least 9 mins (so the cashews cook, raw cashews cause extreme gas!) Add salt and pepper to taste, and you have an amazing cream sauce!

I like to use Tinkyada fettuccine pasta http://www.tinkyada.com/ and sauteed veggies.

For a pesto, after the mixture has simmered and you have your cream sauce, let cool for 5-10 mins, add 1/3 -1/2 cup basil into blender, pour made sauce into blender, puree and put back in pot, it's an incredible pesto sauce, and the color is beautiful! (You can at this point use it straight to your pasta or if the basil is too intense, simmer it on the stove for 2-3 more mins)

*NOTE, When the sauce hits the heat, the cashews will expand quickly and become very thick, you can add more water at any time, and then more of everything else to balance the flavors!

Cookie Pusher

My Vegan Gluten-Free Cookies are delicious! www.TheInspiredCookie.com I'm just trying to get the word out. My cookie lab-o'-goodness is currently located 15 mins south of San Francisco in San Mateo. I do all things vegan & gluten free, so let me know if you have any 'projects' that your just too excited to have created!