Vegan Stuffed Shells

Dairy has just been hating my body lately. It makes me feel completely awful. This of course doesn't stop me from craving it. I LOVE stuffed pasta in all its forms. Stuffed shells and manicotti are my two favorites. What's normally in these two dishes? Ricotta cheese, mozzerella cheese and parmesan. That is a LOT of ricotta too.

I've made normal stuffed shells before and forgot how tricky they were, even though my friend Suzy was there to help - it was quite a feat but they turned out super tasty. I've been craving shells again and decided to be nice to my stomach and see if I could find an equally tasty vegan version.

Hello tofu! I found a great recipe for Spinach Stuffed Shells and used a great brand of mozzerella cheese. Even Shane liked these!

Fake Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato with Sally Lunn bread

Yummmm. The title ought to have your mouth watering...nevermind having pictures! Okay well since everyone loves pictures I have some for you. I'm so nice.

I've tried fake bacon before and let me tell you, it was only so so. Not good enough that I really wanted to consider buying it again. Bacon is the one meat I actually miss so not finding a good substitute was kind of sad.

But the other day at the store I saw a new brand of fake bacon (new to me at least) and thought hey why not. I have tried other things by this brand and was pleasantly surprised. I went home, put it in the fridge and promptly forgot about it.

So of course one day I am scouring my fridge looking for something to make with my fresh new wonderful loaf of Sally Lunn bread and I remembered I had all the ingredients for a BLT!

I quickly fried up some of the bacon slices (they were a butt to get out of the packaging though!), toasted my bread, spread some mayo, laid the tomato slices and lettuce and dug in.

What a wonderful and yummy lunch.