Prep Time: 45 Minutes
Cook Time: 15 Minutes
Having the football playoffs at your home this year? Here are a few of my favorite recipes I love to serve for the playoffs or any party.
1. Sweet and Sour Refrigerator Mixed Vegetables
Ingredients, Mixed Vegetables
- 20 Ounce package of frozen mixed vegetables, cooked, drained, and cooled
- 1 Can kidney beans, drained and washed
- 4 Stalks celery, chopped ¼ - inch pieces
- ½ Green pepper, chopped ¼ - inch pieces
- ½ Red pepper, chopped ¼ - inch pieces
- 1 White or red onions, chopped ¼ - inch pieces
- 10 Radishes, sliced
- 15 Fresh mushrooms, sliced
- 20 Cherry Tomatoes, cut in half
- 1 Cucumber, cut in half, seeds removed, and sliced
Prepare Vegetables
- After the cooked vegetables have cooked, mix together all vegetables in a large mixing bowl and set aside.
Ingredients, Vegetable Dressing
- ¾ Cup vegan sugar
- 1 Tablespoon Dijon mustard
- ½ Cup white, red or apple cider vinegar
- 1 Heaping tablespoon flour
Prepare Dressing
- Mix all ingredients in a saucepan.
- Cook over medium heat, stirring continuously until sauce thickens.
- Remove from stove and cool.
- Pour over your mixed vegetable and mix well.
- Refrigerate for 1 hour before serving.
2. Stuffed Dilly Mushrooms
Ingredients:
- 24 Large, fresh white button mushrooms
- 2 Tablespoon green onions, diced
- 2 Tablespoon vegan butter or margarine
- ¼ Cup Italian bread crumbs
- 1 Teaspoon fresh dill weed, dried
- ½ Teaspoon Organic Vegan Worcestershire sauce, Annie’s Homegrown
Prepare:
- Cut the stems off each mushroom and dice fine. In a frying pan, add vegan butter or margarine; add chopped mushroom stems, chopped onions, and sauté until tender.
- Remove frying pan from the stove and stir in your bread crumbs, dried dill weed, and Worcestershire sauce.
- Place the mushroom tops upside down in a glass baking dish.
- Fill each top of the mushroom with your ingredient from your frying pan.
- Bake on an ungreased baking dish or cookie sheet for 6 to 8 minutes at 425 degrees.
- Remove from oven and serve hot.
3. Nutty Yam Apples
Ingredients:
- 2 – 19 ounce cans of yams, drained and slicked into thin chunks
- 4 Red delicious apples, cleaned, peeled, and sliced
- 3 Tablespoons fresh squeezed lemon juice
- 3 Tablespoons vegan brown sugar or organic brown sugar
- 1 ½ Teaspoons cinnamon
- 3 Tablespoon vegan butter or margarine
- 1 Cup thinly sliced almonds
- 1 to 1 ½ Cups miniature marshmallows
Prepare:
- Mix the cinnamon and brown sugar together in a small mixing bowl.
- In a 2 ½ quart buttered casserole dish, add a 1 inch layer of sliced yams.
- Cover the yams complete with 2 of the sliced apples.
- Sprinkle ½ of the sliced almonds on top of the apples.
- Sprinkle the layers with ½ of the lemon juice.
- Sprinkle ½ of the brown sugar and cinnamon on top.
- Repeat the first 6 steps for the second layer.
- Heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Bake for 20 minutes and remove from the oven.
- Add the miniature marshmallow on top.
- Return to oven and bake 10 minutes longer or until the marshmallows are golden brown.
- Remove from oven and serve hot.
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