Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Daiya Mac-n-Cheese Cups and Crock Pot Apple Sauce

Applesauce (kinda tastes like apple butter)




Start your applesauce early in the day because it takes 6 hours to cook the apples in the crock pot. Be sure you have some homemade bread ready to spread this on with some Earth Balance.

Peel, core and dice 8 medium sized apples (preferably organic) and put them into crock pot.
Now add:
1 t lemon juice
juice of one orange
2 inch cinnamon stick
5 t light brown sugar
1/4 t nutmeg
1/4 t ground cloves

Cook on low for 6 hours. Discard cinnamon stick and transfer apples and juice to your food processor and process until smooth.

This only makes about a cup of apple sauce, so if you want more double or triple the recipe.
Store in fridge up to 3 weeks
Can or freeze for longer storage

Update: I had to come back and add to the post that this only made 1 cup of applesauce. Lots of work for that, so next time I will use more apples and triple or quadruple the recipe so I'll have some leftover to freeze. If you want it less apple buttery and more apple saucey, omit the nutmeg, cloves and orange juice. I made these changes because I wanted to spice it up.




Daiya Mac-N-Cheese Cups


3 cups unsweetened milk of choice- I used oat
2 1/2 T cornstarch
8 oz (1 bag) Daiya Cheddar
3 cup whole wheat elbow macaroni or shells
1/8 cup nutritional yeast 
1 t salt
pepper as desired
1/4 t celery salt
12-18 muffin liners and muffin pan

Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Cook pasta according to package directions
In a medium saucepan, heat 2 cups of the milk over medium.
In a small bowl, mix 1 cup milk and 2 1/2 T cornstarch and whisk until smooth.
Add the milk with the cornstarch to the milk on the stove and whisk. Continue to cook over medium.
Add salt, celery salt, pepper and nutritional yeast.
Now add the Daiya and stir. Allow Daiya to melt and cook another 5 minuted to thicken.
Add the cooked macaroni to the cheese sauce. Mix well and spoon into lined muffin pan.
Bake for 15 minutes.

Leftovers: you can freeze these in freezer bags and pull a couple out as you need them.







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