autumn cookie day.
i am baking 'the best damned cookies on the planet' because adree is coming over! and because i happened to have maple syrup, a luxury in a bottle that i haven't had for a couple months. i just ate a ton of the dough and now they are in their oven, baking. adree and i are having a photo shoot and then we are going to go run! And eat cookies for dinner and make Jamie Oliver's 'quick tomato sauce' with spaghetti! mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm. tomorrow i have the day off, so i am doing a shoot with mandy & kodie! i love having all these photo shoots booked! i need new customers as well! anyways...here's the recipe for the best damned cookies (aka maureen's oatmeal chocolate chip cookies from the garden of vegan)
3/4 c flour, 2 c oats, 1/2 c sugar, 1/2 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp baking soda, 1/2 tsp salt
Mix dry...then in a blender, blend....
1/2 a very ripe banana, 1 tbsp. pure vanilla extract, 1/3 c oil, 1/2 c pure maple syrup
Pour blended mixture into flour mixture along with 3/4 c semisweet chocolate chips (i use ghiradelli semisweet chips) and mix them up.
Bake at 350F for 12-15 mins, or until edges are browned.
After the photo shoot we took Noodles for a walk down the road. (avoiding the strange man that was at the house talking to dad.) Then we went inside and made Jamie's tomato sauce and paired it with Barilla spaghetti. We tossed it together in my huge flower mixing bowl and we ventured outside with a lantern and sat at the top of the hill with a blanket and ate our spaghetti from the huge bowl. we had a night picnic with spaghetti! it was so much fun. the spaghetti was so flavorful and yummy tomatoey.
Today I have the day off, and Mandy has a half day. I think I am going over there to take some pictures later on. For now, it is cold and my tummy feels unwell from too many cookies before bedtime.
I am bored...here is the vegan's 100 list....I bolded the items i have eaten....and put an 'x' next to the things i would never consider.
1. Natto
2. Green Smoothie
3. Tofu Scramble
4. Haggis
5. Mangosteen
6. Creme brulee
7. Fondue
8. Marmite/Vegamite
9. Borsht
10. Baba Ganoush
11. Nachos
12. Authentic soba noodles
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo Gobi
15. Taco from a street car
16. Boba tea
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Gyoza
20. Vanilla ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Cevishe
24. Rice and beans
25. Knish
26. Raw scotch bonnet pepper (ha! scotch bonnet! thats on two fat ladies)
27. Dulce de Leche
28. Caviar 'x'
29. Baklava
30. Pate
31. Wasabi peas
32. Chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Mango lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Mulled cider
37. Scones with buttery spread and jam
38. Vodka jelly
39. Gumbo
40. Fast food french fries
41. Raw brownies
42. Fresh Garbanzo Beans
43. Dahl
44. Homemade soymilk
45. Wine from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Stroopwafle
47. Samosas
48. Vegetable Sushi
49. Glazed doughnut
50. Seaweed
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Tofurkey
54. Sheese
55. Cotton candy
56. Gnocchi
57. Piña colada
58. Birch beer
59. Scrapple 'x' why would a vegan eat scrapple?
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Soy curls
63. Chickpea cutlets
64. Curry
65. Durian
66. Homemade sausages
67. Churros, elephant ears, or funnel cake
68. Smoked tofu
69. Fried plantain
70. Mochi
71. Gazpacho
72. Warm chocolate chip cookies
73. Absinthe
74. Corn on the cob
75. Whipped cream, straight from the can
76. Pomegranate
77. Fauxstess Cupcake (adree and i are planning to bake them!)
78. Mashed potatoes with gravy
79. Jerky
80. Croissants
81. French onion soup
82. Savory crepes
83. Tings (?)
84. A meal at Candle 79
85. Moussaka
86. Sprouted grains or seeds
87. Macaroni and “cheese”
88. Flowers
89. Matzoh ball soup 'x' moth ball soup?
90. White chocolate
91. Seitan
92. Kimchi (daun loves it)
93. Butterscotch chips
94. Yellow watermelon
95. Chili with chocolate (recipe in my vegtimes)
96. Bagel and tofutti (yucky tofutti)
97. Potato milk
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Raw cookie dough
from: http://bittersweetblog.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/the-vegans-hundred/
I am going to make my own now, for you to fill out!