Sweet Soy-vegan blog

Huge party weekend called Halloween/Samhain. baking & cooking friday night and carved pumpkins, a puker, a bug eyed-jack skellington-like and the pentacle. Lunch party at 2 pm.
hot red cider heating in the crockpot, huge salad with best homemade dressing [paprika, oil, salt, sugar, dry mustard powder, olive/veg oil and rice vinegar] from julia. 2 kinds of roasted pumpkin seeds and asiago kroger cheese bread from andy d and v. and biscuits (with 2 vegans) by v.
cooked up 2 large pots of gypsy soup (moosewood cookbook). sweet sugary pumpkin seeds by chris and butterfinger toll house that got turned into mini chocolate pudding butterfinger crusted whipped cream topped little fridge cakes. Also on the dessert side were chocolate-cinnamon cupcakes frosted with floofy floofy airy chocolate frosting, and we topped them with sugar crystal decorations. spun sugar.
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Recipe for GYPSY SOUP:
3-4 tbsp oil of the olive. 2 c chopped onions. 2 cloves crushed garlic. 2 c chopped & peeled sweet potatoes. 1/2 c chopped celery. 1 c chopped tomatoes. 3/4 c chopped sweet peppers. 1-1/2 c cooked chickpeas. 3 c stock/water. 2 tsp paprika. 1 tsp turmeric. 1 tsp basil. 1 tsp salt. dash cinnamon. dash cayenne. 1 bay leaf. 1 tbsp tamari.
soup kettle: saute onions, garlic, celery, and s. pot. in oil 5 mins. add seasonings except tamari, and the stock/water. simmer covered 15 mins. add tomatoes, peppers, chickpeas, and tamari. simmer 10 mins or till veg are tendery dendery.
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Recipe for RED CIDER. from martha.
1 orange. 32 oz. cranberry juice. 2-3 inch cinnamon sticks. 1-2 inch piece of fresh ginger, peeled and sliced.
remove 2 3-inch long pieces of orange peel from orange, throw in a crockpot. juice the orange and strain seeds & pulp. to the crockpot, add orange juice, cranberry juice, cinnamon sticks and ginger peels. heat heat heat until steamy.
THEN on sunday it was andy d's bday, so i baked him a key lime pie. complete with meringue on top too. a bowl of sugar borrowed from the neighbors.
recipe from an old recipe postcard daun sent me from florida.
florida's state pie. the key lime pieeeh.