Lentil and mushroom loaf; cranberry, ice wine and tarragon gravy; sauteed spinach

A simple holiday loaf (lentils, sweet onions, mushrooms, gluten flour, tamari, canola oil, sea salt, vegetable stock) with cranberry, ice wine and tarragon gravy (ice white wine, cranberries, organic sugar, coconut oil, tarragon, vegetable stock, tamari, unsweetened soy milk, arrowroot, nutritional yeast), and sauteed spinach (spinach, sea salt, nutritional yeast, olive oil).

Banana nut bread

My mother used to make this for my brother and me when we were young.

The recipe is very simple: 2 over-ripe bananas, 1/2 cup of vanilla rice milk, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, 2 tablespoons of flax seed,  1/4 cup organic sugar, 1/2 cup of agave nectar, 1.5 cups of whole wheat flour, 1/2 cup of chopped walnuts, 2 teaspoons of baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon of sea salt.

Walnut brownies

 

I used to eat walnut brownies as a child, although those of my childhood were fudgier.  These were cakier, but fairly straightforward: one small package of vanilla non-dairy yogurt, 1/4 of almond cream, 1 cup of sugar, 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup of cocoa powder, 1/2 cup of olive oil, 1.5 teaspoons of baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon of sea salt and about a quarter cup of chopped walnuts.