Spooky buddies... Vegan MoFo post 1

Little man picked out the movie Spooky Buddies. So I made haunted hot dogs  with cashew chili cheese sauce, using the seitan hotdogs recipe from my vegan cookbook.Little man picked out the movie Spooky Buddies. So I made haunted hot dogs  with cashew chili cheese sauce, using the seitan hotdogs recipe from MyVeganCookbook (http://www.myvegancookbook.com/blog/2012/03/04/seitan-hot-dogs/), ghastly green beans, 

and spooky salad with Woodstock dressing for me, and smokey tomato vinaigrette for monkeybutt. 

Recipe for cashew chili cheese is as follows:

3/4 c raw cashews soaked overnight, or blanched for 10 minutes or so to soften them quickly

1/4 cup nooch 

1/2 tsp cumin

1/2 tsp garlic powder

1/2 tsp onion powder

1/2 tsp turmeric

Enough water to blend until smooth. Set aside until beans are ready.

1/2 cup of kidney beans drained  (left over from the hot dogs)

1 tbsp tomato paste (or ketchup if you want it a lil sweet and tangy)

1/2 tsp liquid smoke

1/2 tsp garlic powder

1/2 tsp onion powder

3 hearty grinds of Melissa's organic chile seasoning

1 tsp dehydrated onions

Mix beans with tomato paste/ketchup and add 1/4 cup of water at a time to keep it just a tad saucy, and from 

sticking to the pan. I cooked them and kept stirring and adding water while waiting for the hotdogs to finish 

steaming over low heat, when the hot dogs were almost done, I threw in about half of the cheese sauce to warm 

it up, and scooped it all over the dogs. The sauce is definitely a keeper. The hot dogs still seemed a little soft, and

  I turned them back on to see if another 15 minutes or so would help. I'll keep you posted on that. It was probably

 my half assed steaming with a metal colander that did it.