Peaceful Palate's Pasta with Peanut Sauce

To satisfy my hankering for Thai food (without the time or expense of eating out!), I eagerly tried the Pasta with Peanut Sauce from the Peaceful Palate cookbook.   It was perfect for a mid-week dinner as it's quick to prepare and, depending on the number of people you're serving, leaves enough left-overs for a sack lunch the next day.

I found the recipe online at the Vegan Peace website (never heard of the website before but they do seem to have a lot of vegan recipes--along with other "activist" links that I have not browsed so can't comment) and they say they have permission from Jennifer Raymond to reprint her recipe so I will provide a link to their site:
http://www.veganpeace.com/recipe_pages/recipes/PastaWithPeanutSauce.htm 

I really enjoyed this recipe!  It's tasty and filling and exotic without costing you a fortune in herbs and sauces at the Asian specialty stores.  I cut the sugar way down, to about one teaspoon, but it was still sweet enough for me.   I used the red pepper flakes and it gave a little kick without being too spicy.

The recipe says to "serve immediately" and I agree that it is best when hot.  While it did make a nice lunch at work the next day, I ate it cold (as you sometimes see chilled Asian pastas in the deli section) and, while still tasty, it definitely had a stronger peanut-butter flavor and it was harder to taste the other elements.  All in all, a worthy entry for this week's Vegaloca Weekly Vegan Cooking Challenge.