Cooking with Amanda – Vegan Comfort Foods

Below are links to the recipes and recordings from online classes on Vegan Comfort Foods, including breakfast foods, mac n cheese, bangers and mash, tamale pie and popcorn, and a Lentil Shepherds Pie.

Pancakes and Breakfast foods

Pancakes are traditionally made with eggs, but bananas and apple sauce both give a moist texture. Amanda will show how to make your own vegan pancakes from scratch and talk about other healthy breakfast alternatives.

Get the recipes: Pancakes and breakfast foods

Vegan Mac N Cheese and Pesto Pasta

Cheese sauce and pesto are two delicious sauces that usually contain dairy products. Amanda will demonstrate how to make them both vegan while maintaining the delicious flavor.

Get the recipes: Vegan Mac N Cheese and Pesto Pasta

Bangers and Mash and Chocolate Pudding

An English tradition is to eat sausages (bangers) with mashed potatoes. Amanda will make a healthy mashed potato recipe, and show a selection of vegan sausages to go with it.  She’ll follow this up with a chocolate “pudding”.

Get the recipes: Bangers and Mash and Chocolate Pudding

Tamale Pie and Popcorn

In this class, Amanda explains about the many forms of corn, and how to make a Tamale Pie, using cornmeal, along with pinto beans, onions, peppers and tomato. She also demonstrates how to cook popcorn on the stove from scratch.

Get the recipe: Tamale Pie and Popcorn

Lentil Shepherds Pie

In this class, Amanda uses a mixture of different lentils and split peas to make the “meaty” part of a Shepherds Pie, along with a root vegetable mash, using rutabaga, parsnip and celery root. She talks about the health benefits and demonstrates how to make this interesting twist on a traditional recipe.

Get the recipe: Lentil Shepherds Pie