Vegan Manicotti

 Garlic bread! (roasted garlic, 1 tbsp of soy milk, nooch, and sesame oil, just a dash, all spread on toasted whole wheat slices)

prep the pan with aluminum foil/sauce

 The mixture getting ready to stuff! and the noodles drained/cooled, I threw in the sauce I used as well.

Ok so Ingredients:

1 "tube" of fake sausage (got mine at sprouts)
1 bell pepper
some frozen squash
1 package of firm or extra firm Tofu (14 oz.)
2 TBS "noonch' or Nutritional yeast flakes
Manicotti Shells (1 package)
1 jar of spaghetti sauce
garlic, salt, pepper to taste

The oven should be heated to 350 degrees (I roasted my garlic for the garlic bread, 400 for 30 min, so my oven was pre-heated)

Boil water for noodles, and cook until al dente or a little less, I did a little less. drain and set aside.

Meanwhile, brown the fake sausage, and peppers and squash in a pan, I cut my squash and peppers into very small pieces. Set aside to cool.

Mix in a large bowl, tofu, nooch, salt, pepper, and garlic. (I use my hands to crumble the tofu and mix it all together) after the sausage and peppers mixture cools, mix it in as well.

prep the pans as shown in the pic earlier, with aluminum foil and sauce on the bottom, leave half the sauce to pour over top

stuff the shells with the mixture, as you can see in the pictures, I used a bakers bag, and piped it into the shells, it was a great success and I totally pat myself on the back for thinking of it, hahaha. add them to the pan. Once the noodles are stuffed pour the remaining sauce on top and cover with aluminum foil tightly.

Bake for 30 min at 350 degrees.

take out and let cool for 5 min, then serve!

I give this 5 stars! and Jake exclaimed "oh wow" when he took the first bite.....so im guessing he would agree!

this makes plenty, so we will have leftovers, you could even freeze them and re-heat later!

Things I'd change next time; I'd add a bit more sauce on top....thats it!

Thanks for reading guys and gals, I hope you try this and if you do, let me know how it goes! I'm pretty happy with my recipe blog debute! I dont know if I can top this, next post!
~Amy