Home Style: The Vegan Frontier

The hardest part about this diet is the fact that you don't feel like you are eating a home cooked meal. Something comforting like mom used to make. Since most of the veggies are to be eaten raw, salads and carrot sticks abound, but not too much that really sticks to your ribs.

I happen to have found a great recipe for Vegan Shepard's Pie and had made it vegetarian before I was even on the Eat to Live plan. Now, I modified it so that I am still packing in tons of veggies with little additives!

So here is a link to the original recipe:
http://vegweb.com/recipes/meat-eating-husbands-love-shepards-pie

My modifications:

For the Eat to Live diet, you should be taking in very little starch. Seeing as this recipe calls for mashed potatoes on top, I did a little bit of adjusting. Instead of using just potato, I used 3/4 cauliflower, to 1/4 potato. This way I still had the creaminess without all the starch! I didn't use any butter (vegan or otherwise) and only used almond milk to bind the mashed veggies, along with nutritional yeast to give it a wee bit of cheesy flavor.
As well, I did not add ANY oil to the veggies! The trick to sauteeing them with no oil is getting the pan quite hot before adding any veggies to it. To prevent sticking, add a little veggie broth to the pan!

Hope you enjoy this stick to your ribs vegan dish!