My Garbanzo Bean Loaf.

Last night was my first time cooking a vegan meal and I messed it up.  Haha.  It still tasted really good, but I have a problem measuring things - I just don't do it.  It wasn't until it was all mixed up and ready to go into the loaf pan that I realized that I had waaay too many garbanzo beans.  So it never set right and never *really* turned into a loaf and was just a hot delicious mess.

Sooo delicious.

So it was supposed to be a vegan version of meatloaf, something I LOVE.  It didn't really taste like meatloaf but it had the components and substitutions that somehow all worked together.  It was mostly blended garbanzo beans and rice which was the meat substitution with shredded carrots which I'm saying substituted the crackers and tomato sauce that substituted the ketchup.  I was very surprised by how WELL the tomato sauce stood out and tasted with everything!  Without that it wouldn't have been nearly as good.  All in all, I should probably measure things I put in the oven, but it was a tasty success!  

And we have TONS of leftovers.  

Another thing I forgot was sides.. I was so concerned with getting all of the ingredients for this that I completely forgot that you can't really eat meatloaf by itself nor would you probably want to eat garbanzo bean loaf by itself, so I opened a can of green beans.  They went surprisingly well together.  

All in all, I would definitely make this again.