Sweet Soy-vegan blog

Easter egg hens & chicks cup-CAKES.

2010-03-17T14:11:00.000-07:00

Took a walk down the road with mum and noodles.
baked these marble chocolate-vanilla cupcakes topped with cinnamon vanilla cream cheese frosting, white sprinkees, and hershey's easter pastel eggs.
crazy baking!
these did turn out pretty cute, and tastier than the maple ones. marble cupcake is my favourite.
hens & chicks!

aninaatig ahfiwaagamizigan (maple syrup)

2010-03-15T07:36:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was game day all day long! Played pictionary with mom and dave, with dave's very poorly drawn toad and mom almost wetting her britches. Baked up 8 vegan chocolate cupcakes and a skinny chocolate bundt cake, unfrosted. Frosted the cuppincakes with chocolate butter maple frosting i made up, and sprinkled them with maple sugar and topped with a tiny chunky maple leaf hard candy. I also topped 2 with maple cotton candy fluff, but it deflated soon after back into sugar and maple sugar! Courtesy Leane & Michael's Sugarbush in Salem, IN.
The Sugarstore is my favourite! I think I spent about $60! and with a t-shirt!

My chocolate butter maple frosting receipt;
2/3 cup powdered sugar
1-1/2 or 2 tbsp. cocoa powder
3 tbsp. maple syrup, i used grade B
1 tbsp. butter
Mix all up to syrup, and then beat in butter.

Jammin' dodgers!

2010-03-10T10:47:00.000-08:00

Warmest day of the year yesterday!! Flew my kite again, took a lot of pictures, and baked these jammy dodgers! It took me about 3 hours. They turned out very luscious!
Went and bought Ponyo and watched it last night toooooooo.

cheese's, maple, raw desserts!

2010-03-04T10:53:00.000-08:00

oh, makings makings!
and a very happy day of spring sunshine....and photography and dog walking...little pup is sitting in the sunshine right now coming in thru the door.
On the food site, I have been cooking cheese & mushroom eggs for Dave every morning, and last night I made him one of Jennifer Paterson's own recipes (receipts); Welsh Rarebit! Tonight I am baking up a broccoli-cheese casserole with crushed Ritz crackers on top for Dave and Mom, it's also Survivor night! So that means raw chocolate pudding cup on Mummy's bed.
And along with that raw dessert, I also have raw chocolate cupcakes topped with maple-almond butter frosting in the fridge, and half of a big raw mango cobbler courtesy ani phyo.
Also, last week Dave made homemade fettuccini alfredo for Mom and him, with heavy whipping cream, salt and pepper, and parmesan cheese. whoa!!! he remember it from his days working in the kitchen at the ordinary. and a picture of stuffed shells i made a few weeks before for him and mommy.
Anddddd to top all these wonderful food times, we went maple-ing down in washington county on sunday, had to watch the pup saturday so didn't get to then, but took him and he just slept in the car! Featured are all the wonderful maple things i purchased in the "sugarstore!"

raw cake, a pink walled bedroom.

2010-01-31T09:51:00.000-08:00

Signing onto a lease for a little house in the woods! With an old green train/tram car in the side of the yard, overgrown with ivy. sorry no photos yet... hopefully moving in in two weeks with dave (pony friend who is a human boy) and catfish (my black dwarf bunny). going to paint my bedroom a "carousel bubblegum pink" as i told dave last night in the volvo.
I like Behr paint, and i love the color of this wall! it's orchid rose.
then there's my raw cake, ani phyo's raspberry ganache fudge cake, without the raspberries. halved recipe to make a single layer hand-formed cake.

ladies who snack and take their clothes off....

2010-01-27T09:56:00.000-08:00

Nice big ladies clothing swap last night at daun-daun's!!
no pictures from it...but there is this photo of coleco in a cake box that i lovvve. it speaks enough for the party i think.
daun made deviled eggs [the old fashioned smelly hor'doevre party food] to put on her new 50cent "mermaid shell ashtray egg plate". i made veganomicon's chocolate raspberry preserve cookies except i used blackberry preserves and they were full of good ol' white sugar.
then there were daun's famous biscuits, 1/2 filled with cubes of cheddar and the other half with gouda and apple.
big fur coat...1 piece blue jumper...white legwarmers with multicolored hearts....a dress..

Popcorn-unicorn skirt & raw pecan pie cookies.

2010-01-18T10:44:00.000-08:00

Dress-up day...liza kate and cold mountain soundtrack music.

Ani Phyo's Raw Pecan Pie Cookies.

1 cup pecans
1 tsp good vietnamese cinnamon
1 tsp orange oil/juice (i used mango juice)
1 cup pitted medjool super soft dates.

All in a food processor, party the pecans, cinnamon and orange. pulse to small chunky bits. add dates and process until mixed well.
Shape into 10 hearts.

imaginarium of sushi.....

2010-01-18T07:01:00.000-08:00

On Saturday, Dave and I burnt ourselves out on driving around and looking for a neat old cabin in the woods to live in....so we headed up north to the movie theatre and saw "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus".
Good good. inspired me for my small plays i'm going to put on in spring and summer down at [the cabin].

Then next came Kabuto!! sushi bar eating....seaweed salad, shrimp tempura roll & fried rice for dave...and i had vegetable roll, avocado roll & 2 bean curd pockets. mmmm. full.

randy's joker cakes.

2010-01-18T06:56:00.001-08:00

This post is quite awhile back...dave's day-dee had a birthday a couple weeks ago...january 8th i believe, and he told me one day he loved the Appleworks Dutch Country pumpkin rolls rolled up with cream cheese icing...so I baked him up moisty pumpkin cupcakes and filled them with rich cream cheese icing, and stuck 2 pictures of the joker in there, he went berz-erk.

snow castles, tempeh's temperature.

2010-01-09T19:02:00.000-08:00

well here I'm back again....after a day of hiking at brown co. state park, the ogle lake trail full of photographing trees, frozen lake, and the slowly running creek with snow mounds. then the #8- 3.6 mile hike with dave slipping and falling twice in his big no grip boots and me slipping on a bridge and catching myself on the rail like a cartoon.
we were ravaged after the hike, ravaged for food, deprivation of nutrients. we split half a choco-coconut Larabar. headed for kroger and bfoods.
Made "Jamaican curried tempeh tacos" & "Pineapple lassi's"
mmmmmmmm . mmmmmmm . mmmmmmm .

dave said they were better than laughing planet burritos. i would have added a couple of things; tomato sauce perhaps, and more pineapple juice....
we served them with salsa and some pre-made bfoods bbq seitan. and curly burny mustard greens.
THEN after the 2 burritos Dave had, i made the vegan pineapple lassi's.....
here's whatcha doooo!

Combine all these in a blender;
2 cups vanilla soy yogurt (I use Silk)
1 cup crushed pineapple in juice
1/3 cup pineapple juice
1/4 cup lite coconut milk
12 ice cubes
i tweaked it by adding pineapple juice & 6 more ice cubes than what it called for.

Thanks! I'm full!

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2009-12-15T15:02:00.000-08:00

little trip to chicago on saturday with dave.
walked all day long...shopping...and a salv-o type store.
EATING at the Chicago Diner, a vegan reuben with mashed potatoes and the diner gravy.
fat tall chunk slice of raw cheezcake for the ride home!

"are you pukin'? usually if i'm down on the floor like that, i'm pukin!"-steve.

2009-11-27T06:52:00.001-08:00

Thanksgiving at teresa's this year! i baked a vegan pumpkin pie and topped it with chocolate ganache the night before....i planned to only have it and just snack on apples at her house, but i ended up running to kroger the morning of with noodles and buying onion, celery, dog biscuits for noodles and then they didn't have a roll of vegan gimme lean sausage, so i had to run to the other kroger up north and buy it with some steamfresh corn, tofutti cuties, a quorn to'rkey roast log and annie's macaroni for dave.
i went home and mixed up 2 pans of vegan cornbread sausage stuffing....oh man is it fantastical. lots of sage and thyme, and browned gimme lean sausage...dave picked me up and we headed to teresa's. i grabbed my purple apron.

At teresa's, i put my quorn turkey in the toaster oven to bake and brown. mixed up dave's white cheddar macaroni, and microwaved my corn. teresa had a huge table of dark and white meat turkey, sweet potatoes extra sweetened, noodles cooked in meat broth, brown and serve rolls, croissants, stuffing, puppy chow, pumpkin and pecan pie, mashed potatoes, and celery-carrots-green olives with ranch dippins.
She made me a huge pot of hot spiced apple cider with captain morgan's in it.
the house was warm from the fire, i wore my apron and my tall knee socks and pink shorts.
we watched the goonies and got sleepy on the couch. i had 2 plates of me food.
teresa's friend steve came over, and i believe i have found the spokesperson for quorn t'rkey roast, he was eating a medallion of the fungus mycoprotein "meat" and he said it tasted like real turkey, while wearing a navy baseball cap that read something like..."nuckin futs..." this is also the man that called me dave's "old lady".
fun fun time at teresa's house. after we sat a bit and had a go at the food, teresa and i made peanut butter fudge from katie's recipe-using marshmallow creme. then we baked hunter's birthday cake, a chocolate texas sheet cake with rich rich chocolate pecan icing on top.
what a good day.

thank you satan for kroger-joe stone

2009-11-01T05:08:00.000-08:00

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.

"mmmm chocolate squirrel head" & mango bread!

2009-10-26T14:31:00.000-07:00

daun and i purchased the new Bolthouse Farms thick mango juice smoothie. ideas of mango orange bread with chocolate chips came into our minds.
trader joe's trip on saturday, i bought a generic brand of the mango smoothie and used it in my dessert bread. it is soooo good. nuts too.
adapted the recipe from veganomicon (which daun always has layin around) their recipe for cranberry-orange nut bread.
Here is Mango-Chocolate Chip Bread.
3/4 c bolthouse mango drink/generic brand from trader joe's
1/4 c oil
3/4 c turbinado sugar
1 tsp vanilla (or try orange extraction)
2 c flour (white whole wheat)
1-1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 c semisweet vegan chocolate chips (ghiradelli or trader joe's brand)
1/4 c nuts is optional-i used hickory nuts from papaw and raw walnuts
325F. grease a loafer with veg marg
mix mango smoothie drink, oil, sugar and extract in large bowl. whip real nice.
add in flour, bp, bs, and salt. mix until just all moistened.
fold in chocolate chips and nuts. rubber scrape into loaf pan and bake 1 hour.
cool in pan and then loosen edges and invert onto wire rack.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

"they were giving out free butterfinger"

2009-10-25T20:26:00.000-07:00

Mandy's birthday cupcakes! made on wednesday night....for her thursday birthday. vegan marble chocolate-vanilla cupcakes with cinnamon-creme chz tinted neon pink frosting. and the hippy mix box of annie's graham bun-buns.
thursday was new tires on car day and b-town with adree (and free gas station butterfinger and laughing planet tofu-cuban burritos). julia pictured with wickey and headband i crafted for her head.
weekend in btown with opera romeo and juliette in french...trader joe's trip, half price bks, and baby shower...vegan soyrizo-mushroom-onion enchiladas...6 mile hike today with julia and neesa.

chunky tomato-orange stew soup & into the wild documentary.

2009-10-21T19:17:00.000-07:00

adree night! back to our old photoshoot and dinner nights.
had a photoshoot in the front yeeard with a pink tulle dress hanging behind the skeleton, and the half egg hanging chair from the tree.
and her dressed in white and turquoise reeboks, a short short tulle skirt, fishnets to her knees, tall poof hair, candy cigarettes, a deer planter, a moose mug and tons of vibrant blue eyemakeup.
baked mandys birthday cupcakes! (vegan choc-vanilla marble cupcakes!) warm and soffft.
cooked up a big pot of bean-potato-tomato-veg fall harvest stew soup! and watched a small documentary on channel 20 about chris mccandless.!!
the soup contained these ingredients; garbanzo-black-kidney beans, cabbage, sweet potato, cilantro, carrot medallions, thyme, chili powder, dried orange peel, salt, sugar, tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, vegetable broth, onion, garlic, celery.....
lad-le it and suck those taters down yr throat.

muff my cup

2009-10-17T08:10:00.000-07:00

cookie baking day with mum!
Halloween shaped (cats, bats, pumpkins, ghosts) sugar cookies with colored powdered sugar frosting and candies (Reese's pieces, candy corn, gummy worms) . just like when i was little at Lissa's old house.
and vegan pumpkin-blueberry cupcakes with cinnamon tofutti crm chz frost. with dino wrappers. and julia child french chef background treatment.
veganomicon pumpkin crumb cake turned into cupcakes.

walt disney's hard-on

2009-09-29T13:43:00.000-07:00

Recieved doughnut pan so early!!!
i can just see myself in these older woman's [late 50's, please!] navy swish pants, in my bloomington kitchen baking doughnuts for friends who are listening to records in my livin room.
vegan apple cider dough-doughnuts. recipe from veg.times.
glaze is powdered sugar, maple syrup, and apple butter. and a bit of agave. all sweetness
full weekend ahead of a show on friday, babysatting saturday with daun-daun & ren faire!!! on sunday. faery i am.
i can't wait to roll those hot babys in sugar! (donuts or children satting?)
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mr. disney's hard on was discussed over chicken noodle soup & lemon bars today at lunch at the ol' orchard.

bake a pie. save yr plastic fork

2009-09-28T11:42:00.000-07:00

Mom and dad gone to st. louisy. baked a vegan derby pie last night.
whoa. fatty sugar cremey pecan pie sticky insides-like...filled with chocolate chips and some hickory nuts from papaw.
whoa. ate outside with my work friends on this really windy day.
planning to have lemon bars, peanut butter cookies, and chicken soup tomorrow at work.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

recipe for "sticky chocolate chip-sugar nut pie"
from la dolce vegan, wolffie's derby pie (or Pegasus pie) A derby pie is a chocolate chip-nut pie originating in KY. i love food history.

1/2 c. earth balance, room temp
1 c. sugar
2 tbsp. ground flax seeds
6 tbsp. water
1/2 c. flour
3/4 c. soymilk- i did use very vanilla silk brand
1 tbsp. vanilla
1 c. walnuts- i used hickory nuts shelled by papaw
1 c. chocolate chips-mmmm ghiradelli semisweet is used
1 pie crust*
preheat 350f. blend marg, sugar, flax and water till smooth. add in flour, soymilk, and vanilla. blend again until smoothened. stir in nuts and chocolate. pour in pie crust. bake about 50 mins. 45-50. remove from oven and let cool then refrigerate overnight.
cut small slices or big ones and pop the buttons on your trousers.

pie crust i use-
1-1/2 c. whole wheat pastry flour
1/2 tsp. salt
3 tbsp. sugar
1/2 c. oil
1 tsp. apple cider vinegar
3 tbsp. ice water
whisk flour, salt, and sugar. add in oil, vinegar and water. mix mix mix and press into 9-inch pie pan. pour filling in, then bake according to filling directions!

nonstick my kurt blondie girl

2009-09-27T12:42:00.000-07:00

Ordered a doughnut pan this morning! fresh-baked vegan doughnuts to work by Friday!
apple cider doughnut recipe found in vegetarian times.
work weekend at the orchard, big Scottish festival complete with steamy hot dogs, bowls of shepherd's pie, and big ol' fattttt bbq sandwiches on sesame buns.
peeing outside and drinking a special oj drink teresa brought for me.

baked the best thicky chocolate chip cookie dough cupcakes last week and took into work. thanks to dave for naming them.
more baking tonight!
something filled with chocolate chips...pie?

chris' chili dogs & goblin king tarts!

2009-09-13T17:13:00.001-07:00

daun and i went whoopy last night when we found out we could make dinner for chreees, who had been burning calories all day and sweating, foodless.
we made him 2 happytizers, chili cheese fritos that earlier that day, daun had went a bit stupid for, and warmed up cheez whiz with tortilla chip crumbs from the bottom of the bag.
the finale was 4 chili cheese hot dogs (turkey dogs) on white bread! with home-grated block cheese, a line opposite each other of ketchup & mustard, and sweet relish. douse it again with chili dog sauce. you have a happy boy now.

TODAY taylor and i rode blasterdly bikes to the heartnut festival, bought a ride on the mini coal train & hiked the nature path. watched Labyrinth when we got back and made Goblin King stained berry freezer tarts!
mmmm mmmm good.

dern. dern.

2009-09-07T12:10:00.000-07:00

papaw wanted a blue cake...with hyacinths...? on it. my cousin sara made this ginormous hobby lobby cake pan 14-incher for him. soullled out!!!
swinging...
black puff dress 2 days in a row. weekend spent in bton. bot town. smoothie today with my work friends at the williamsburg. drenched in dairy whipped cow cream. penis colada flavour-by ronnie
and some of teresas yellow, blackberry orchard style cake.

i can't keep my pants clean...when you bake me cakes

2009-08-29T07:26:00.000-07:00

ultimate laughing planet dinner with TyLea. our glittered eyes made us think we saw moths. underwear shopping at target, salty salty spicy jalapeno guac at the l.p. restaurant. tylea had a classic burrito with pinto beans, and secret sour cream tucked inside. i had my veggie burger with really melty hot soy cheez on top, the tastiest burger and best trip to laughing planet, at night right before quittin' time. stepped in deep puddles to and from. ANDY D! at rachael's cafe around midnight, playing golf with tylea.
danced
danced
danced.

leo birthday sweets.

2009-08-20T16:58:00.000-07:00

The round balls were made for Taylor, her 13th birthday. they are chocolate cake balls with my fudge cocoa frosting, a layer of caramel frosting, and rainbow sprinkees.
The white cake is a white cake for dad's birthday, happening today. he is 52 today.
The white cake recipe is from vegan cupcakes take over the world, and the frosting is a roux first, then sugar-butter mixture from the farm's cookbook.
butter & eggs flowers on top and a sprinkle of cocoa powder.

"i love GAS!"-julia.

2009-08-20T14:54:00.001-07:00

Spent the night with julia the other night and we had luscious curry dinner-supper.
tons of veg from her fridge; mushrooms, baby corn, fresh basil from the windowsill, carrots, a whole onion!, fresh ginger, garlic i believe, cauliflower.
and thin ! thin! rice noodles.
and her economy packs of jarred coconut milk curry sauce.
mmm mmmm mmmmm. better the second time while watching mulholland dr. with toasted sourdough!

kern

2009-08-16T17:22:00.000-07:00

Homemade grilled corn i shucked the hairs from in the rain.
i had never had it before, it is tasty and sweet. i love the bi-color.
watched prince caspian today and wrote a poem inspired by the upcoming movie, "bright star". need to bake taylor's birthday treat....make adree's short tulle skirt tomorrow, like the one i made for mandy [pictured]!

chocolate caramel-coated ballerina pie cake!

2009-08-15T18:32:00.000-07:00

mermaid+faery+doll+pirate party ended up being doll+pirate party!
covered in tulle and eating real meat hamburgers (not i) we watched "the fearless vampire killers" NO BATH! NO BATH! (which i used that quote tonight at a dinner theatre game of whose line?)
onto the foodin's....i baked a chocolate vegan cake, covered it in the remainder of the pink frosting daunie made for my b-ton mermaid pirate taco cupcake party and then made a lattice design with thick caramel frosting! and sprinkee-sprinkles!
like a cherry pie! really good rich cake that we ate while playing a new card game, "golf". putting this pie cake recipe in my new cakewalk III zine!
also in attendance, but not pictured: katie & tyLea!

green dirty home dish

2009-08-13T11:39:00.000-07:00

my wheat spaghetti had meal worms. so i couldn't use it. i had mixed up wolffie's nutritional yeast cheez sauce and had the water boiling. all i had was green noodles from japan.
buckwheat green tea japanese noodles with vegan cheez sauce and curry ketchup. mmmm der-tee
it was good last night but not looking so good today. i think spaghetti makes me sick now, or was it too much honey with breakfast?

waffle tats!

2009-08-08T16:39:00.000-07:00

movie night! 2 bette davis movies, popcorn, chocolate trail mix, chips-salsa-guac and spinach cheese pasty savouries. with mickey, julia, victoria, and edwin.
next day, waffles for breakfast![whole wheat-blackberry-blueberry-banana] and then for lunch [buckwheat-dark chocolate chip-raspberry] again before heading off to the lake for big waves, warm bananas & gingersnap cookies, and frisbee-in'.

coleco's homegrown blackberry waffles.

2009-08-07T12:48:00.000-07:00

WAFFLES! the name of my future bunny/cat. is what we made this morning, last minute before daun went off to work. used the veganomicon recipe for the banana-nut waffles and tweaked it to our bare cupboard ingredients. added blueberries & blackberries. left out the nuts. never nuts. never nutmeg. here ya are...steal your mom's waffle maker and make up some. our recipe made 4 largies.
b.b.b waffles.
1-3/4 c. soymilk
1/4 c. water
OR soy creamer & water for the liquid
2 tsp. apple cider vinegar
2 bananas
3 tbsp. oil
1 tbsp. honey (or 3)
1 tsp vanilla
2-1/4 c. whole wheat flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 c. each of frozen blueberries & blackberries
plug in waffle iron to preheat. mix soymilk, water and vinegar. set aside to curdle. mash bananas, add to soymilk mixture along with oil, honey and vanilla. stir. mix dry in seperate bowl and add wet to dry, mix until just combined. oil waffle iron gridges and pour batter on. cook until done and soft!

a sandwich for Old Rabies

2009-08-05T07:29:00.000-07:00

Came back into town on monday.
stopped at Bfoods. DADDY! bought me a bag of veggie booty and a grab n' go blackened tofu sandwich [my favourite flavoured sandwich]
daun and i have also discussed the amount of veggie booty in 1 bag, we agree that we would pay any amount of money for any amount in the bag, but agree that they need to double the amount [of powdered spinach-sugar snack] to about 8 oz. instead of a measly 2 serving 4 oz. bag when the back of the bag states there are 4 servings. bullshit.

Pirates & Cupcakes, Mermaids & Tacos Party.

2009-07-30T21:41:00.000-07:00

nice lunch with emilee, daunie and joe stone at dunn meadow.
emilee brought a vegan strawberry-blackberry pie. kugel?
that was chowed immensely by me.

the party was at daunie's house, her first "house show". starring ANDY D.
tacos & cupcake kabobs.
the night was spent gabbling amongst each other, eating tacos filled with tvp soy, watching turtle sex and ogling mickey's purple boobs.

bubz

2009-07-28T19:20:00.000-07:00

oatmeal.

containing:

cinnamon
blackberries
apple slices
baked apple butter
agave nectar
soymilk
granola

also had a burrito as lunch. wheat tortilla with cooked up, mashed up chickpeas and olive oil, cumin, braggs, black pepper, green pepper, tomatoes.
avocado to dress and lettuce, blackened tofu, salad dressing, sprounts.

muppet stew

2009-07-27T14:12:00.000-07:00

saturday was pad thai day with daunie. i say day because we always make a day of pad thai, eating it over the course of a few hours and watching a show. we watched THE STATE. cute dark haired boys eating muppet. not enough bean sprounts...tofu like a fried/panfried chicken.
discovered bear naked trail mix yesterday at julia's...addicted.
"continental divide blend" hoo hoo...has chocolate chips, banana chips, almonds, chocolate clusters.
rode bike all around today in pink. couldn't find the pinball machine at the union, but i liked the tudor room...harry potter-esquey. dropped off a few invitations...went to the hub. riding again!

chanterelle ice cream.

2009-07-25T07:39:00.000-07:00

Watching andy and victoria's kitties! gus gus smashy face kitty. he just sneezed.

lunch with mickey was delicious on thursday. he got a homegrown burrito in a bowl. i got the pestato loaded with roasted potatoes and vegan pesto.

afterwards we walked to chocolate moose and i got a lemon italian ice in a cake cone. mickey got his usual strawberry in a pointy sugar cone.

we visited the costume shop and i bought face paint for the tacos & cupcakes, pirates & mermaids party on thursday.

i hiked 2 miles with daun later on, to the secret location where her and the girls camped last night. we found chanterelles and a blue mushroom. iggy laid in a mud hole.

hot dog eating contest on "meatballs" movie.

brownie-stuffed cupcakes!

2009-07-22T07:15:00.000-07:00

Last night Miss Julia, sagittarius had a dinner party for mickey! i baked some brownies that were bubbly and really gooey, so i baked peanut butter cupcakes too. when the cupcakes came out, i made a hole in the middle of each of them and shoved in a brownie wad. (vctotw peanut butter cupcakes, with a brownie recipe on the back of the ghiradelli sweet chocolate cocoa mix, veganized) we had lasagna, bread, salad, cantaloupe, cherries, blackberries, and wine. by the end of the night i was so tired and i rode the bike home in the rain. it is dark today and rainy. i'd like to go hiking! tomorrow i'm taking mickey to laughing planet for lunchins and burritos. *yesterday i ended up touring part of bloomington in rashad's car with him and TyLea. He is looking around for apartments. we visited daun at bfoods (rashad used this word, already using the local lingo) and they ate at wendys. their hamburger was wrapped in a package marked hamburger. toured the music store and tylea mentioned the pink ice cream that mickey was eating, so i showed them the way to The Chocolate Moose. TyLea got exactly what mickey got, 2 scoops of strawberry in a sugar cone and Rashad got a giant chocolate chip ice cream cookie sandwich! I snapped photos of them. (photos to be added later today)

ms. apple butters

2009-07-21T06:57:00.000-07:00

It's not fall but i had smashed apple spread, jarred.
andy & victoria had some, i'm assuming old, baked apple butter in the back of their fridge when i stayed there, and i spread it on my peanut butter sandwich and it was tooth achingly sugary sweet. i watched jane fonda while consuming it. sugar blonde. sugar spread.
so i came back "home" to b-ton yesterday. fancied a stop in nashville for a jar of baked apple butter, and a smoothie sugar strawberry smoothie at hal's.
daun brought home from work, big puffer ginger cookies frosted on top with her apple butter frosting.
whoa whoa whoa.
she said it is- powdered sugar, earth balance, and apple butter. work it out with a frosting beater.

witch hot dog bowl.

2009-07-17T18:20:00.000-07:00

exciting pleasure (tylea's name on my guestbook.)

went to see mandy today at work, bought a bag of 70 purple balloons, unicorn invitations! and a giant shiny pink flamingo for the party in bloomington.
i ate raw for breaky and lunch.
then dinner i cooked a huge pot of vegan mac and cheez with peas and cut-up smart dogs.
i ate a big really dirty bowl of it while watching Bell, Book & Candle. My boyfriend Mr. Jack Lemmon. and beautiful Kim Novak.
dame darcy reviewed it in one of her meatcake comics and i got it at the library today.
[no photo] because my camera has not batteries. it has of the zero number of batteries.
tomorrow is perhaps rollerskating with katie, and maybe target for some hair colour.

ball form- raw samoas

2009-07-15T16:54:00.000-07:00

Back to some raw foods now that I am home again for awhile. My food processor is wounded, so I mixed up these cookies:

Heavenly Cookies

*Since I used peanut butter, these taste like raw samoa girl scout cookies!*

Yield approximately 10 cookie balls

From Kristen's Raw

¼ cup + 2 tablespoons raw nut butter (I used crunchy natural peanut butter)
½ cup + 2 tablespoons unsweetened, dried coconut
½ cup raisins
2 tablespoons raw agave nectar (I prefer the light agave)
¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
pinch Himalayan crystal salt
dash cinnamon

Stir everything together in a bowl with a spoon (large bowl and spoon if you’re making a double or triple batch). Then, take a moment and mash it together with your hands. Yes, it’s sticky and gooey, but it’s fun and you still have to roll them so you’ll be getting sticky and gooey anyway. Using a 1-tablespoon measured amount of cookie batter, roll them into balls. Store these in the refrigerator or freezer. *I added cocoa to a few of them, but I like them plainly much betterer*

Hot dog volcano.

2009-07-13T10:45:00.000-07:00

Last night Daun and Chris went out to dinner and i stayed here, rummaging the internet for cupcake recipes and raw desserts. chatting with tyLea (in las vegas.)
daunie came home with food gifts from kroger...a pack of smart dogs (my summer love) and a bag of buns, and my peanut butter.
I quickly whipped up the baked bean dip* (other summer love...having affairs of all sorts.) and I cozily fitted 2 smart dogs in one bun, and topped it with yellow mustard, dijon, ketchup, relish, and baked bean sauce-dip.
it overflowed and was a vegan mash taste feast in the mouth.
i had to eat it standing up because daun forced chris and i to watch a youtube video about christian the lion.
this other photo, with skeleton man, is daun's raw cake she made at work. it is ani phyo's raspberry ganache fudge cake.
oh man.
*baked bean dip is courtesy of wolffie in La Dolce Vegan. a summer staple.

this is insane.

2009-07-11T12:56:00.001-07:00

donut holes, hugs, tall bikes!

2009-07-11T07:25:00.000-07:00

finally! donuts for me! vegan styled! met mickey at soma & we walked to the vegan bake-sale benefit. ordered $1 donut holes (cinnamon sugary goo-ness middles) and a bowl of dreamsicle temptation ice cream! $1 melty! delicious. andy d. and i rode on edwin's double tall bike. it was awesome! ("death defying"-andy) the photo at bottom is a representation of the bike (pic from google)...the seat towers over bike racks. it is rather large.
Looks to be a rainy day today...no plans yet.
Cooked some rice on the stove, at which I am horrid at, and 'et it with some curry daun brought home and discovered a huge container of pot pie in the back of the fridge! gaaaaaaaaa. also pictured at top is daun and i's lunch yesterday. a big pot of veggies (red pepper, tomato, asparagus, corn) cooked with marinated seitan and a bit of rice. tasty cheap.
Rollerderby tonight!

toga & floating kombucha fermentation.

2009-07-09T15:43:00.000-07:00

Photo day with Mickey today! He treated me to a B-foods lunch. I grabbed a hefty blackened tofu sandwich & he got veggie sushi. He wore the primary colors and ran thru sprinklers and laughed on the swings. I bought him a pink strawberry 2 scooped pointy sugar cone ice cream cone and we started the "Boys & ice cream" theme...my dream. We shopped at Salvation Army, bought drinks at B-foods (3 visits total today) & I made him a red toga for his toga party tonight. showin' a little leg...really awesome day.
Food was good and satisfyin'

pink frosty on my lips.

2009-07-08T07:03:00.000-07:00

Leftover pizza 2 days ago! Pancake is always present when I snap foody pics. We haven't baked anything new lately, but I am hoping daunie will make ani phyo's raw raspberry chocolate ganache fudge cake and bring me a piece on Friday. i have been craving a donut....that's not normal for me. I remember these super glazed, super soft yeasted donuts Dad and i used to buy. They were in a red and white package and are always at those dusty floored local grocery stores. I used to eat them with milk.
I have a photoshoot planned with Mickey tomorrow! We are lunching and then I'm buying him an ice cream at The Chocolate Moose!
Photos to come of our lunch and him gorging ice cream...and maybe I'll get lucky and eat a vegan donut along the way....

dough dough risin'

2009-07-05T12:15:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was rainy & dark. I traveled to bfoods and the curidrome under my bubble umbrella. bought some japanese orange fizz puccho candy & went home to find candles burning and ramones playing. daun and chris were back from camping and we decided to do a pizza night again! new dough recipe and krogering....3 pizzas later and we were real-axin' on the couch watching Two Fat Ladies in Jamaica. Daun and Chris went to see Public Enemies and I watched Picnic at Hanging Rock. We had late night garlic chunk breadsticks. This morning I started the biscuits and got daunie up to the sound of the kitchenaid. We had biscuits, gravy, and gimme lean faux sausage patttties. Daun and I worked off the sausage thighs at the Y after brunch.

*my pizza= ragu mushroom + pepper sauce, nutritional yeast cheez sauce, red pepper, tomato, green and black olives, avocado, spinach, chili powder, cajun seasoning, and spike seasoning.

Me?

2009-07-02T18:12:00.000-07:00

Was scouring the internet for recipes, as i usually do when i am a bit boring...
visited raw food blogs again and that got me wanting to start it up once more. i was really raw before i moved down here for the summer, then i got down here and started gorging on vegan smart dogs & daunie's homemade biscuits.
so for dinner i made some banana soft serve ice cream.
just puree frozen bananas until they are really whippy and awesome looking. until they look like silky white velvety mooshy softness that you want to put into your mouth.
i got Gilda from the library, i wanted to watch it again after victoria mentioned it on facebook and said they had her makeup case at the library full of orson welles love letters. i have yet to make an appt. and view it, but it would be lovely to see it.

sticky food summer.

2009-06-27T10:57:00.000-07:00

I have made my specialty again! Cookie sandwiches!
This tyme they are unvegan, loaded with pasture salted butter and the middles are brimming with daun-made nutella frosting. open the plastic container it is being held in, and you smell the creme filling that is usually in hostess cupcakes.
mandi's yard sale was to-day and i delivered 2 cookie sandwiches to her and sal and bought some ballerina slippers.
the other tantalizing photo held by daun, is a bowl of our veri veri teriyaki udon veggie stir fry dish. really slurpy and sticky, outside on the porch we ate bowls of it with chopsticks and sweated mustaches.

pleasers please my palate.

2009-06-25T13:20:00.000-07:00

since i got a j-o-b f-i-n-a-l-l-y down here, daun and i had lunch at laughing planet today!
she texted me "me so hungy" and i greeted her in the superman ice cave library.
we walked down the alley and saw leah! with her curly hair in pig tails and proceeded to buy a red, i thought was blue, superman ice cave kombucha drink beverage.
we ate burritos and veg burgers by the frank zappa dec.21 same birthday as me paintings.
dauns ethiopian burrito was the sauce! it was full of randy lentils, rice, potatoes, tofu...
and my veggie burger was about an " thick.
we are planning a kayak/canoe trip next week and some gypsy market action on saturday night. my first paycheck daun and i are going to eat at hogwarts.

Biscuits & Nutella Cupcakes!

2009-06-23T19:56:00.000-07:00

Mandy came for the weekend! We walked our little legs off and played in a fountain. we spotted a black winged, green bodied dragonfly next to a woodsy creek. we sat at the coffee shop and ate vegan peanut butter-chocolate chip bars. the chocolate chips on top were goo because the shop was warm. we shared a berry smoothie. we watched vicky cristina barcelona & thelma and louise.
I successfully re-created daun's famous biscuit recipe for Monday morning biscuits! And we had a nice strawberry, frozen banana salad.
I got my hair cut today and bought a vintage $2 dress at cactus flower.
Daun & Chris had another Tuesdate and I had a date in bed with Rocky and some vegan hash. (gimme lean, potatoes, tofu)
We baked vctotw chocolate cupcakes for Benny's Mommy with nutella frosting (unvegan= butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, nutella, heavy cream) heavenly smell.

b-ton hottttt

2009-06-18T16:22:00.000-07:00

hot summer in b-ton. with cold food. & a takeout vegan pizza from aver's last week after the Landlord house show.

you hit pancake. done!

2009-06-13T06:07:00.000-07:00

These past few days have been walkings out with iggy, snacking on linzer cookies from daun's work (the best cookie), making more rainbow bracelets/neckies, watching 2 fat ladies, the duchess, finding neverland. party, thursday night.
watching the home dogs today, and going to a landlord show tonight.

Yard Sale weekend party.

2009-06-08T07:38:00.000-07:00

yard sale weekend blow-out!
we had a grill-out on saturday with tofu pups (made by leah pup) and boca vegan burgers and daunies baked bean party chip dip.
it was the best weekend i think i've ever had in b-ton. Joe Stone came in the morn with a beagle bagel and shooped. i made some dark chocolate truffles (the wizard). had a virgin pina colada that leah made me....mmmmmmm! i bought about 5 pairs of leah's stockings and some b&w faery stockings that i wore on sunday with my new jean shorts bought from julia.
mom and dad came down on sunday with the dog party and we ate lots and lots of bread. and drank water. That night I went to see my friends band play at rhino's, The Spiral! dorned them with truffles and had austin meet daun and joe stone. talked to matt a bit, he's livin down here now.
Sunday's yard sale was really laid back, Leah brought us breakfast of tofu scramble and fruit. Victoria rode over again on her pink bicycle! and dorey came over and we wore fashionable hats and chris took our picture.
celebrate ! celebrate!
my plate feautured is the grilled tofu pup with K&M and tortilla chips with baked bean dip.

a study on pbj's.

2009-06-05T12:01:00.000-07:00

I stumbled onto a site called Serious Eats. I searched "peanut butter" of course, and found a study on the peanut butter & jelly sandwich. One of the most satisfying treats, a bite of salty & crunchy (i prefer the kroger brand crunchy natural), a bite of sweet & tangy (my favorite jam being blackberry) all between two slices of wheaty bread that is as soft as a down pillow (i love my P.B.J in between 2 slices of Rudi's organic bread, multigrain oat being the closest to white bread without actually having white flour). So serious eats had this study, a bread to pb to jam ratio.
Here is the diagram and ratio. 1 : 0.6 : 0.3 : 1
ratio of bread-to peanut butter-to jam-to bread.

Just ask my friend Adree, I make the best damn peanut butter sandwich ever. She once asked me to make her a pbj because I always put so much peanut butter on it and it tasted divine.
If you are unsure, really, how to make a pbj, here are instructions and let's not forget the pictures too.

faerys & chocolate

2009-06-04T14:33:00.000-07:00

I am at Daun's for the summer! (my sisters place)
I have an attic upstairs, I call it my faery attic because it inspires me and reminds me of Elsie's upstairs room on Fairytale: a true story.
I have been watching Sex & the city and I finished Chocolat today. Then afterwards, I warmed up a bar of Endangered Species chocolate and am going to make some chocolate truffles rolled in cocoa powder.
I am listening to Faerie Radio, from the World of Froud site. I started a story today, the first story that I have written where the characters were so developed that I didn't have to really think about what they would say next.
I have decided to delve deeper into Faerie, and study more about it. I have forgotten my Faerie tarot set at home though, down in the country.
I have just found a book that seems of interest, "Little Big" by John Crowley.
I am contemplating a brian froud smashed faery tattoo someday, I do like this one. What do you think?

Baby Princess Tickle-giddles & Caramelized-Banana Cinnamon Rolls.

2009-05-28T05:10:00.000-07:00

Wow! I have been soooo busy! which is very unusual for me!
I am moving in with my sister tomorrow, to live upstairs in the little attic corner that i am going to make beautiful!
On Thursday morning I made some caramelized banana cinnamon rolls to take to Mandy's! Adree came over and helped me and we ran down the road. Adree is pictured here with Dog (a.k.a. Princey Noodles, Cowboy Higgins, Nudey Noodles, Noodles)
At Mandy's we ended up having a Peter Pan/Wendy/Tink day. We got on the subject of Tinkerbell and then did a Wendy photoshoot. *Mandy pictured at left, as Wendy, with Tink playing on her torso* We also played Sims because they are addicted! We watched Hook & on Friday we watched the real-people Peter Pan movie. There is also Finding Neverland and the Disney Peter Pan, 4!! But we didn't watch those.
We stayed up late on Thurs. playin Sims and we made a sorta fort in Mandys room that fell on us during the night.
On Friday (which Mandy said was a random day...."played sims, took pictures, swam-kinda, watched Peter Pan, I graduated, went to DQ and went to a bonfire")
That is basically what yesterday consisted of.
Today I went to my cousin Jordan's graduation party and ate tons of fruit (eat green grapes & strawberries at the same time, you won't be disappointed) & cashews. I also met Iris, the Brazilian foreign exchange student that is staying with my cousin.
I love her! She reminds me so much of Marilia!
Well, as far as food, the caramelized banana cinnamon rolls with cinnamon-creem chz frosting were AMAZING. I adapted the recipe from the pumpkin cinnamon rolls from 'don't eat off the sidewalk' zine.

Mandy's Grad Party!

2009-05-26T06:52:00.000-07:00

Huge party yesterday! Mandy had her grad party from 2-6. I went at about 12:30 and brought along fudge brownies, peanut butter fudge, and teddy graham cupcakes! The boys played basketball, everyone ate nachos from the nacho bar, it was a drizzly day, so we couldn't swim! :(
I watched the indy 500 race dinner at 7. Here are a bunch of photos from the party!

Peonies & Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls.

2009-05-22T16:22:00.000-07:00

Busy day! I ran to Kroger this morning to stock up on baking goods, like sugar and flour. My sugar bag had a hole in it! And I was sprinkling sweet sticky granules on everyone.
Then I rushed home and baked another loaf of Sticky Finger's Bakery Banana-chocolate chimp bread & a batch of Pumpkin cinnamon rolls from "don't eat off the sidewalk!" zine. I saw this recipe at Baking Bird blog and decided I had to make them. You should too! But double the icing recipe and maybe add more sugar inside the filling. Sweeten them more! We kids all has candy-pink sweet toothes. I wrapped up the b-nanner bread in foil and snuggled them in a victoria's secret bag. I snatched the rolls out of the toaster oven with an oven mitt, drizzled them with icing, and ran out the door with the hot pan in hand.
We watched The Crow III on tv and some of Judge Dread? Sylvester Stallone. I got sleepy and petted Sam's cute little circular pups with big popping eyes. They make plopping stone sounds when they jump from couches.
Adri and I ran down the road and sweated a river....and ate Monon carrot cake, my absolute favorite sweet in the world. Mummy bought us a piece!

"What the fluff?!"-Mandy.

2009-05-21T20:34:00.000-07:00

Today was another lovely day and I wanted to go to Brown Co again, but I stayed home and baked spelt biscuits from Babycakes NYC bakery.
I layed outside on a towel and finished writing my second silent movie (in pictures) and tried to fall asleep.
I drove over to Mandy's and we took "urban iris" photos....158! Taylor & I swam in the pond! We went inside and snacked on a true delicacy of Robin's, fresh cut oranges slathered in Hunter's honey. Wow. Mmm. Yum.
We watched Stand by Me and I drove home and tomorrow's food plans are more banana chocolate chimp bread loaves and maybe pumpkin cinnamon rolls all for the boys.

beautiful day in brown co. with katie!

2009-05-20T14:37:00.000-07:00

Katie and I took a little country trip down to beautiful Brown Co. this morning.
We packed up our lunches and I filled the car with banana chocolate chimp bread for her taste buds, and I took a piece to Hal at The Daily Grind. He said it was the best banana bread he'd ever had, and he let me have a free bagel!
I bought some grad presents for Mandy and a small creamer & sugar set at Nature's Cabin.
We lazied in the hanging cloth chairs and went into the candy store and saw my olde favourites, the milk chocolate & white chocolate speckled-peanut butter-filled cows.
We lunched in the gazebo and had oranges and animal crackers. On the way out I bought a wheat bagel for dad.
Lovely, marvelous day! It was slow and we didn't rush at all. The flowers were beautiful in Brown Co!

"i'll hex you!"

2009-05-18T13:31:00.000-07:00

Last night was a celebration!
It was the Survivor Tocantins season finale! Mom and I partied with TyLea and Adree.
Mom prepared non vegan stuffed shells for her and TyLea, they are famous around this house...cream cheese, herbs de provence, basil, and shredded mozzarella stuffed into jumbo shells and baked with marinara sauce covering them. Truly rich and satisfying for omnivore tummies.
Adree and I had a raw night, I made the raw chocolate pudding that I adore, from The Daily Raw Cafe, and 3 pear frostys from ani's raw food kitchen cookbook.
J.T. took the money and ran!

The photo of the asparagus covered in yellow goo-goo is from today, I made Ani's raw asparagus with cheezy sauce. It was pretty tasty earlier, but is giving my stomach a workover now, and the paint on my walls, its smelly.

"Give me some pants!"-daunie

2009-05-16T17:09:00.000-07:00

daunie's bday party! celebrate! celebrate! with 3 dogs!
i made her some homemade mostly-vegan cinnamon buns, Adree helped me by making the icing drizzle and rolling them up and cutting them for me.
Daunie loooooved them, they were very lavish & professional.
We went to the library and rented "Moonstruck" and drove to the local fish fry at the fire department so daun could get her a sammy.
we made souuup! with spinach, beans, chili powder, ground meatless, and macaroni noodles. it was garbage soup because it was aging cans of veg and flabby vegetables on their last legs. it turned out super tasty.

tuna melt & survivor

2009-05-15T15:22:00.000-07:00

TyLea's tuna melt today and Survivor Australia allll daaaay looonggg!
And TyLea made a dip with pinto beans, cumin, salt, shredded cheddar, and sour cream with large restaurant style tortilla chips.

banana bread dough

2009-05-14T07:33:00.000-07:00

I currently have a puffy loaf of BabycakesNYC banana bread in the oven. I have a huge amount of discounted, browning bananas that I am going to just mash up in a huge cauldron so I can bake up about 5 loaves of banana bread. I am QUEEN! of banana bread!
Counting this loaf, I have baked up 5 different loaves of banana bread (my own recipe, the farm's, veganomicon's, sticky fingers bakery chimp bread, and this babycakes kind)
Lately I have been planning what treats of mine I would bake up for a bakery's staples. I want my own little vegan bakery complete with my frosty banana bread and my cookie sandwiches with what i think is the best, chocolate fudge frosting.

Well I had to bake my babycakes bread for a long long long time...so it burned the top but got most of the gummy out.
It is pretty tasty now! It is really the only substantial thing I have eaten all day long...geee wiz. i go raw and this happens. i go back. for a short time.
i did down about half a bag of veggie booty a couple nights ago. in the blink of one eye.
i'd like to think my bread is beautiful and not a slop fest with a dark top and pieces torn off, so we are going to say it looks like this one.

sour grass & victoria's secret.

2009-05-12T10:26:00.001-07:00

Have tasted of the first sour grass of the season!
It sounds good on my hummus sandwich lunch.
I have my first orientation tonight at Victoria's Secret, with my new black tops, pants, pencil skirt, and ballet flats.

Pee rom.

2009-05-08T20:52:00.000-07:00

Prom night! and more raw pudding.
took mandy & adree's prom pics. then drove over to the spirals band practice and stayed till 10, jammin. in a top hat and corset over a bright red dress. much too many boys.
I also baked up some no-bake cookies for the lovely gorgeous's, but no picture of them. I love adree's bootie heels!

rawr rawr! The dirties and pudding.

2009-05-08T07:23:00.000-07:00

raw (or very close to) pudding during survivor! oh what a treat it was, rich and whippy. I do believe this will be a staple in my stomach from now on.

1 om-go-doe (avocado ya'll)
1/2 cup agave neck-tire
1/4 cup cocoa power
1/4 tsp seal salt
2 Tbsp. vanilla extraction
2 Tbsp. walter

bland and drizzel in walter 1 tbsp at a time, he doesn't mind. (i rhyme) recipe from the daily raw cafe.
photo courtesy martha stewart.

bread back & beyond.

2009-05-05T17:54:00.000-07:00

adree visited tonight!
and we made Babycakes bakery chocolate chip cookies. goo fest flat little SQUARE! cookies.
yum yum. she put a dollop of strawberry frosting next to the cookies.
i had to sell precious goods at half price books to get the bakery cookbook. haha. and i had to sell more last week to get my conor outer south love album. albumen.
i had about 4, and now i am going to be raw again. I eat raw & Babycakes sweets!
we talked about conor & taylor & the concert the whole time and sat in her van and talked of habits that nuns style on their sinless bodies.
now she is gone and i am left alone with my aviators. I love having beautiful food models like Mandy & Adri!

pink sunshine!

2009-05-01T10:16:00.000-07:00

May 1st! I enjoyed this smoothie for breakfast! It is the same bright pink as the sequin dress Mandy is "wearing" hehe. Photo taken this past Saturday. TyLea spent the night and we had a Survivor night with mum on the couch.
This smoothie had: 1-banana, 2 dates, 1/2 c. raspberries, 1/2 c. blueberries, 1/4 c. pineapple, 1/4-1/3 c. black raspberries, and good Vietnamese cinnamon (about 1/2 tsp). The fruit was frozen except for the banana and dates! By far the best smoothie I have made in the past 4 days! Chomping on a pear right now...have to shower and go to my interview at Victoria's Secret!

smoov

2009-04-30T03:57:00.000-07:00

just threw together a really good raw smoothie.......
1 banana
4 dates, chopped
1/4 cup frozen blueberries
1/2 cup frozen raspberries
1/3? cup water
bland and sarve!

muted. maggie moo's. mall.

2009-04-29T17:18:00.000-07:00

I accidentally missed class today while looking at library books.
so I met TyLea and we had lunch sitting in her car, her subway and my raw lunch: apple and hummus-lettuce-stoneground must. on ezekiel. we then decided to go get applications so we can get jobs.
i have an interview at victoria's secret on friday....very very excited!
tyLea enjoyed maggie moo's at the mall, strawberry ice cream with strawberries mooshed into it. it looked so creamy and delectabilicious.
makes me want some rawwwww ice cream.
wayne thiebaud. desserts, love the colors.
and my favorite painting...the peanut butter sandwich. i want it in my future ghost kitchen.

raw!

2009-04-28T11:01:00.000-07:00

Trying to go raw again for awhile....been eating too many of snyder's pretzels. pretzels always make me want to go raw. especially the mini's, because they didn't have my big old tyme pretzels.
I want to make a ton of Ani Phyo's recipes, like her chocolate myllk shake, save-the-salmon patties, and strawberry macaroons!
here is a smoothie i just whipped up.
banana, dates, and water.

brownies, mandy, and the civil war.

2009-04-26T07:37:00.000-07:00

Attended civil war day yesterday in a dress and moccasins. mandy was there! talked to mr. haywood, frink, and tova. got a sunburn. took tons of neat black and whites for my class!
then we traveled down the road a few miles to Mandy's house. I baked her some gooey fudgey brownies, the first official tasty vegan fudge goo brownie! I found the recipe on martha stewart, in the healthy section. It has sweet potato puree, but I substituted canned pumpkin.
Here is the luscious-ness in text form.

Makes 12

4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) vegan margarine (e.b.)
2/3 cup natural unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup whole-wheat pastry flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup sweet-potato puree (I used pumpkin)
1 large egg (I used 2 TBS. flaxmeal & 3 TBS. water)
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon instant coffee powder (omit)

Directions

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Butter an 8-inch square pan; set aside. In a medium saucepan over low heat, melt butter. Remove pan from heat, and stir in cocoa. Let cool slightly.
Meanwhile, in a small bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt.
Stir in sugar and sweet-potato puree, then egg. In a small bowl, stir together vanilla and coffee until coffee is dissolved; add to cocoa mixture.
Add flour mixture to cocoa mixture and stir until no traces of flour remain. Spoon into prepared pan; smooth the top. Bake until surface of brownies looks barely dry and an inserted knife comes out with a few moist crumbs, about 20 minutes. Cool to room temperature before serving.

recipe card

2009-04-25T09:19:00.000-07:00

I absolutely love these virtual recipe cards! Made one just now for my chocolate chip cookie sandwiches, from keyingredient.com
Coming later, Mandy & brownies!

Dried cherry chocolate chip cookie sandwiches

The cookies are adapted from Wolffie's coconut chocolate chip ...

See Dried cherry chocolate chip cookie sandwiches on Key Ingredient.

the spiral & pink strawberry cupcakes.

2009-04-24T17:35:00.000-07:00

Adree made the strawberry agave cupcakes & I made the strawberry frosting! We went on over to Sam's house and delivered the mess of treats (including the frosted banana bread I made with cinnamon-vanilla frost)
Sam shoveled one into his mouth, we topped 2 with whole strawberries just for Sam.
We sat on a plastic picnic table and yawned. We stayed about an hour and a half and left pretty quickly. enjoyable though. i want to bake them some brownies next week!

Up next: Mandy & brownies!

Dandelion Banana Bread.

2009-04-24T09:18:00.000-07:00

I wanted to make some banana bread because I had two huge ripe bananas. I got this recipe off of "The Baking Bird" blog, it is for Veganomicon's Lower-Fat Banana Bread.
I also wanted to frost some banana bread with the cinnamon-vanilla frosting I found from az central, they are actually frosting shots.
Here is da recipe!
2 LG bananas
1/4 cup applesaue (I used apple buttah')
1/4 cup oil
1/2 cup turbinado sugar
2 T molasses
2 c whole wheat white flour
3/4 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
(I left out the 1/4 tsp nutmeg. ick.)
350F. grease loaf pan. in large bowl, mash bananas with mashy the egg man, add apple butter, oil, sugar, and molasses and whisk. Sift in flour, soda, cinnamon and salt. Use a wooden spoon to mix wet and dry together until just combined. Spread in pan and bake 45-50 mins. Let cool completely.
WOW. this banana bread, sliced up and spread with the cinnamon vanilla frosting is so scrumptious. wowsers. this is something i will bake when i am a grandma.

Here is the frosting so you can just bake up the bread & frosting at once!
1/4 cup tofutti cream cheese
2 Tbs. veg. marg.
1/2 tsp cinnamon (the good vietnamese kind)
pinch salt
1 tsp pure vanilla
2-1/4 c. powdered sugar
In a large bowl, combine cream cheese, butter, cinnamon, salt and vanilla. Use an electric mixer with the whisk attachment on high to beat until well mixed. Add the powdered sugar and mix on low until just incorporated.

Increase speed to high and beat until thick and smooth. (Frosting can be refrigerated. Allow 10 to 15 minutes after removing from refrigerator before proceeding.)

Up next.....vegan strawberry/strawberry cupcakes & "the spiral"(my friends band) again!

"They'll be drinking aged mead!"

2009-04-23T13:56:00.000-07:00

drove down to brown co. today with noodles hooked in the front seat and had a pic-a-nic with my dear sister. we met in front of the daily grind with our pups and feasted on barbequed tempeh sandwiches, veggie booty, apples, dates, and spicy chinese noodles with chopsticks and placemats to boot. and some movie snackin's, sesame sticks.
enjoyable in the mud and we tied our dogs around trees and laughed away and farted and blamed the dogs. and we threw our apples under our bench and laughed while prancing away in our $1000 high heels.
daun is holding the prize winning cinnamon bread bought for mum.

lemme on!

2009-04-21T12:35:00.000-07:00

coming soon....homemade Nutella!
i want back on the nutella wagon!

*~*
Made the homemade nutella last night!
the recipe came from the Los Angeles Times. It is thicker and less silky than the normal Nutella, but still so satisfactory and addicting. Here is the recipe for you to try!
2 c. hazelnuts, roasted at 400F at about 6 mins...until they darken and are aromatic! (rub skins off in a towel)
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 cup powdered sugar
1/8 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. vanilla
3-5 T oil (or hazelnut oil, moneybags)

after roasting nuts, blend in food processor with about 3 T oil. add in the rest of the ingredients and blend. if not smooth, and like the consistency of peanut butter, add more oil.
Refrigerate and then top on EVERYTHING.
Here are Nutella recommendations:
PUT IT ON:
muffins, cookies, bananas, pbj's, waffles/pancakes, your body, toast, english muffins, ice cream, brownies, cake, banana bread (wow that sounds most amazing!)

sleeps with butterflies party. april 17. 09. 5-11pm.

2009-04-17T22:42:00.000-07:00

Successful party!
johnathon, adree, mandy, taylor, and kodie!
and tylea and rashad came later on around 9....
we played some badminton and everyone dove into the frosting shots at the beginning. wow. what a party starter.
the team, "oon-gah-wa" (consisting of kodie, adri, and I) dominated in badminton. what a badass team.
then we all jumped on the trampoline and showed the boys how to do proper steamrollers.
we then were forced into the cake fight, and locked the boys outside. we changed our clothes and put on our war paint and did not dominate.
they had water. we had cake.
we planned to get them later with the red velvet cake that we hid, but we didn't.
we played hide-n-seek instead, with kodie on the shed roof! and taylor in the thicket. adree and i just wanted to dance!!! hehee... star star star.
we showed rashad how to play spoons and we played some penny game that johnathon taught us.
good party.
foods were- adri's turbans (the little 'sacks' filled with veggies & nutritonal yeast). raspberry & blueberry scones. oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. fruit mountain! old tyme pretzels. vanilla-cinnamon frosting shots. fudge-cocoa frosting shots. mini cadbury eggs! and mixed berry-ice cream popsicles (that didn't debut until later, and they wouldn't come out!)

party preppin'.

2009-04-16T19:05:00.000-07:00

these are some really raw photos. just for you. eye candy before bedtime.
raw red velvet (very unvegan) cake batter & my famous scones featuring the saucey blueberry and the raunchy raspberry.
i ended up making my scones today, oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, mixed berry-ice cream pops, a red velvet dirty cake for the cake fight tomorrow....I think that's all.
Tomorrow I have to whip up my frosting shots (fudge-cocoa & cinnamon-vanilla frostings) and pipe them in shot glasses. I have to bake my other cake fight cake, a white vanilla cake.
Party starts at 5!

survey. of FUN.

2009-04-14T14:17:00.000-07:00

Survey from unhealthy vegan.

1. What was the most recent tea you drank?
I had a sip of adree's jasmine flower-something last thursday.

2. What vegan forms do you post/lurk on? If so, what is your username? Spill!
i don't post or lurk anywhere but my home on blogspot!

3. You have to have tofu for dinner, and it has be an Italian dish. What comes to mind first?
adrees date night spaghetti with little hard tofu chunks in it

4. How many vegan blogs do you read on an average day?
i usually search recipes on blogs, i visit about 4 different blogs a week maybe.

5. Besides your own, what is the most recent one you’ve read?

i was just on pamela cooks, got the recipe for fancy macs (faux big macs)

6. If you could hang out with a vegan blogger that you haven’t met, who would it be, and what would you do?

i think i'd like to hangout with the girl from 'bjorked off' MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF VEGAN DESSERTS. i think we would go and just eat some sweets all day long.

7. If you had to base your dinners for a week around one of the holy trilogy – tofu, seitan or tempeh, which would it be?

i do love seitan, but don't make it as often as i do tofu dishes...i think i would choose seitan because i would love to make it more...it's so delish. my favorite is bbq-ed seitan.

8. If you had to use one in a fight, which would it be?
tempeh. long. scary.and brown

9. Name 3 meals you’d realistically make with that tough protein of choice!
tempeh ribz. tamari tempeh with fried rice. and a tempeh burger.

10. What’s a recipe in vegan blogland that you’ve been eyeing?
i've really been wanting to bake dreena's homestyle choc. chip cookies from the blog, could it be.....seitan? Maple syrup & molasses in choc. chip cookies?!

11. Do you own any clothing with vegan messages/brands on them?
nope.

12. Have you made your pilgrimage to the ‘vegan mecca’ yet? (Portland, duh)
no! and yes i understood it was portland. nope but would love to. and also attend the faerieworlds festival when i was out there.

13. What age did you first go vegan? Did it stick?
yeah it stuck! and i was 16 i'm pretty sure.

14. What is the worst vegan meal you’ve had? Who cooked it?
i have probably put it out of my mind...so i don't quite remember.

i always remember the worst dinner ever...greens, soy mac and chz and potato balls from long ago on 25th st. we pushed the greens off our plates and back into the garden

15. What made you decide to blog?
i was baking all these luscious new things and not sharing them at'all! my first post was june 9th, 2007. the vctotow sexy low fat vanilla cupcakes.

16. What are three of your favorite meals to make?
i make faux mac & cheez (uncheese ckbk. amazing mac and chz sauce) quite often, with chickpea cutlets (veganomicon), and oatmeal chocolate chip cookies (maureen's from garden of vegan)

17. What dish would you bring to a vegan Thanksgiving-themed potluck?
wolffie's pumpkin pie from la dolce vegan!!!

18. Where is your favorite vegan meal at a restaurant? How many times have you ordered it?
the veggie burger from laughing planet...i have probably had about 20 of them burgers (full of beans, quinoa, lentils....god of veggie burgers)

19. What do you think the best chain to dine as a vegan is?
chain? hmmmm subway i guess. but i don't really like it. sloppy vegetable mustard sub. blek.

20. My kitchen needs a………

juicer!

21. This vegetable is not allowed in my kitchen…..!
YUCK cucumber. nasty cukes.

22. What’s for dinner tonight?
leftover faux mac and chz with peas from last night! and maybe chickpea cutlets too...see told ya! i love to make them!

23. What’s your favourite cookie cutter?
i tell everyone, my kangaroo!!!!
my camel comes in a close second.

mac & yeast & peas.

2009-04-14T07:35:00.000-07:00

again with the faux mac and chz that i live from.
quick easy and lasts me for days.
i added smelly peas from a can (peas in a can pie)
and dossled it with curry ketchup. strong curry!
i also baked up some ugly flat cookies that tasted good. they were cocoa peanut butter chocolate chip. tasted like brownies.
i came home from school early and finished spidermen III and watched van helsing.
getting ready to go to target to buy party goods and services.
and stop by appleworks & the lye-bary.

easter bean burgers.

2009-04-12T12:00:00.000-07:00

Easter Sunday!
I found a recipe for black bean burgers from Martha magazine so I decided to make those. Despite being poor of onion and red pepper, they were very delicious. They were spiced with cumin, turmeric and I added curry (<3).
father shared in their tastefulness.

i am so excited! this friday night i am having a party!!!

easter. easter bunny. easter candy. eye candy. (aka Pecan Sandies & baby bunny)

2009-04-11T20:01:00.000-07:00

Today was such a loverly day!
adree picked me up about 11 and i had made pecan sandies for the easter celebration at her aunts house. we colored eggs and made up easter baskets for a name we drew. i got her aunt theresa, and adri stuck a cigarette in it and i put it in the stuffed bunnies bow. she loved it! hehehe.
i chowed on guac and spree candy.
sugar headache!
then i rode my bike to mandys and watched Prince Caspian (ooh hoo hooo! ben barnes!) with taylor, on the couch eating peanut butter out of a trough jar and eating crackers. we also played with her new bunny Pippin! cutest little scraggly bunny i've ever seen. he would bite the skin on my fingers and yank! then he lounged in the sunlight. too much cuteness. mandy got home and we talke-ed and listened to rasputina and lay on her bed.
magical!
Here is the recipe for the Pecan Sandies. veganized from martha stewart.

1/2 cup earth balance, room temperature
1/2 cup packed light-brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup whole wheat white flour (spooned and leveled)
1 cup pecans, coarsely chopped

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees, with racks in upper and lower thirds. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat "butter" and sugar until light and fluffy; beat in vanilla and salt. With mixer on low, gradually add flour, beating just until combined. Fold in pecans.
Roll dough into 1 1/2-inch balls, and place on two baking sheets, 2 inches apart. With the dampened bottom of a glass, lightly flatten each ball.
Bake until cookies are golden brown, 15 to 17 minutes, rotating sheets halfway through. Transfer to wire racks, and let cool.

chocolate chip cookie sandwiches & The Spiral.

2009-04-10T19:02:00.000-07:00

tonight adree and i drove to m-town, elm st. and watched our friends band practice in the garage. a rainy, chilly, windy night. full of amazing-ness. her mom baked up some chocolate chip cookies, veganized, and i made my famous, smear on everything fudge cocoa frosting for the middles and we made cookie sandwiches for the band. yeah we tried to fatted them up. and take over their instruments like daun said. (cookies sandwiches are my new love.
these cookies are from foodnetwork.com

Bev's Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients

3/4 cup rolled oats
1 cup whole-wheat flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup butter, softened (or 2 tbsp. veg marg & 2 tbsp. peanut butter)
1/4 cup canola oil
1/3 cup brown sugar
1 large egg (USE flax & water...2 tbsp. flaxseed meal & 3 tbsp. water)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup chocolate chips
1/3 cup granulated sugar

1/2 cup walnuts is good also, add in with chocolate chips.

Directions

Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat 2 baking sheets with cooking spray.

Grind oats in a blender or food processor. Transfer to a medium bowl and stir in flour, baking soda and salt. Beat butter in a large bowl with an electric mixer until fluffy. Add oil, granulated sugar, brown sugar, egg and vanilla; beat until smooth and creamy. With the mixer running, add the dry ingredients, beating on low speed until just combined. Stir in chocolate chips.

Drop the dough by heaping teaspoonfuls, at least 1 inch apart, onto the prepared baking sheets. Bake cookies, 1 sheet at a time, until firm around the edges and golden on top, about 15 minutes. Cool the cookies for 2 minutes on the baking sheets, then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.

pumpkin cake & Babycakes.

2009-04-07T15:04:00.000-07:00

TyLea's birthday is on Saturday and she told me months ago to bake her up the pumpkin crumb cake from Veganomicon. I added raisins on her request. It baked up a big round cake and 4 muffins. really this cake is spectacticle.

i also really love babycakes bakery nyc today...i can't wait for the cookbook to come out on may 5th. party with adri! speaking of parties...my first party this year will be april 18th!
scones, veggie booty, cookies, ice cream berry popsicles, fruit, and frosting shots!

pad thai. take two.

2009-04-06T17:20:00.000-07:00

So i attempted the luscious, addictive pad thai recipe last night.
it turned out a bit bland. not enough sugar i believe.
it was still palatable, of course, only when i smothered it all over with ketchup.
i bathed it in the godly red sauce and ate the sticky orange mess with my chopsticks.
this is the ketchup pad thai i speak of that daun introduced me to and we made a party out of watching "monster camp".
i watched australia.
this weekend at dauns we will be preparing for our civil war re-enactment (hopes) by eating hardtack and eating beans out of the cans they came out of! how'dya like that?

cake wreck & Revolutionary Road.

2009-03-31T19:45:00.000-07:00

i baked adri up a nice cake wreck.
a funfetti cake...with a doll leg and a bird.
"Happy 'Bitrdhay' Watson. U live 17 yrs."
And I baked up 'decadent brownies' from the garden of vegan.
they were more like little squares of moist chocolate cake.
scrum-diddly-umptious with my fudge frosting.
we went and saw Revolutionary Road for a buck. and the tom-tom took us to yet another strange place...not a country club, but someones house in an addition.
oh what will the little irish hamster do next?

Monster camp & ketchup pad thai.

2009-03-29T09:54:00.000-07:00

stayed at daun dauns over the weekend.
we bought pirates veggie booty for our party and consumed the entirety. we rented "monster camp" a documentary about nero seattle,people who participate in a live action role playing game, or the act of larping. We made a huge batch of ketchup pad thai with tofu, bean sprouts, and green onions.
mmmm lovely in bed.
later that night we had a batman + ice cream party. vegan vanilla and turtle trails ice creammmm and watched the dark knight.

Muffins & Marc.

2009-03-27T16:31:00.001-07:00

Adree invited me to go shopping tonight! I baked up some strawberry-cornmeal muffins(recipe from a free magazine at whole foods) and we shopped at the mall. I got the new vegan Victoria's Secret Pink lotion (shea butter which smells like dairy queen vanilla ice cream and the citrus mint) and 'bare' lip balm.
I got adree's birthday presents, the Marc Jacobs daisy solid perfume ring and a giant swirly lollipop.
I am fixing jasmine rice now for dinner and going to finish watching SPACED. the most awesome tv show.

incestual dessert time is spring time.

2009-03-26T11:27:00.000-07:00

daunie visited little ol me today and we made whoopie (pies!)
she made dainty little treats of them. miniature banana whoopers. and we ran out of veg marg so no frosting making.
i tried one with my choco frosting....gaaaaah!!!
They are just absolutely tasteful.
The whoppy pie to the right is very tiny, it is sitting on a postcard!
For the recipe, go to Martha Stewart and search "banana whoopie pies" and just veganize it, baby.!

cookie sandwiches. featuring mandy.

2009-03-22T19:49:00.001-07:00

homemade vegan dried cherry-choc. chip sandwich cookies with my fudge cocoa frosting in the middle.
a hit!
"you would sacrifice a cookie sandwich for matt?" to adree.
i combined the 'coconut chocolate chip cookies' recipe from la dolce vegan, kept out the coconut and added dried cherries and then in the middle of the cookies i spread my fudge cocoa frosting (the best frosting this side of the sea)

food at adree's and spring flowers.

2009-03-21T16:10:00.000-07:00

the cheez on my benoit was brie cheese!
wow it was tasty. tasted swell in fort collins.
stayed at adree's last night, i am the new adree because
she wasn't there half the time. working and then all day saturday
she was at a track meet. so i hungout with her mom. friday night her mom and i
made her favourite orzo (with mini bowtie pasta) and watched about 2 hours of "Giada's weekend getaways" on food network <3.
today the plumber man was at the house fixing the water. he has a girlfriend with legs up to here and is going to buy her a pair of gladiator sandals. we made really green guacamole and her mom grilled some pineapple with a lime zest-honey glaze.
it was really amazing and juicy juicy.
my mini daffodils have bloomed, and so have mom's purple crocus'.
mmmm food and flowers and springtime.

THE grilled pineapple with honey-lime zest.

1 large ripe pineapple
1 lime
Vegetable oil or cooking spray, to coat grill
4 tbsp. honey

Preheat grill or grill pan. Cut ends off the pineapple. Stand it upright and cut off the skin in strips. Quarter the pineapple lengthwise and cut out the core. Cut each quarter into 3 spears. Zest the lime and reserve. Cut the lime in half and squeeze the juice over the spears. Brush the grill pan or outdoor grill with vegetable oil or cooking spray. Grill pineapple until evenly marked all over, 5 minutes. Garnish spears with lime zest and drizzled honey.

the benoit.

2009-03-19T22:51:00.000-07:00

a vegan sandwich at 'mugs coffee lounge' in fort collins, colorado.
bunch of irish dudes. made me a 'benoit.'
simply delish
tempeh, spinach, tomato, avocado, and some kind of cheez (vegan or not...damn damn tasty)
and a gingerstar smoothie.
ginger, cranberry juice, mango, soya milka.
4 stars.

homemade maple syrup. pioneer style

2009-03-13T06:47:00.001-07:00

Papaw brought me some syrup last night!
it was slightly smokey tasting from boiling it outside with firewood 'neath it. it was the sweetest thing i have ever tasted. i put one spoonful into my oatmeal and it is a blast.
I saw Mandy's play last night. "The Pajame Game!" Mandy was Babe. Magnifico! I took a whole roll of color pictures.
I had a packet of nature's path flax plus oatmeal with the homemade syrup. amazing. add some fancy cinnamon, big tablespoon of homemade syrup and soymilk.

Please use my monkey.

2009-03-08T17:27:00.000-07:00

Weekend at daunie's= laughing planet vegan burgers with soy cheez, pear-apple juice, la torre veggie chimichangas, and daunie's biscuits for breakfast.
the vegan burgers were delicious and pastel. the pear apple juice was refreshing in the wind, the chimmys made my tummy hurt at the opera, and the biscuits were butter biscuits.
fooooooooooooooooooood. is what this blog is about. so i am cramming it down your throat.
We also fancied at the opera and shared a mini bar of Green & Black's Organic Maya Gold dark chocolate.

ghost buckwheat pancakes & tappin's.

2009-03-05T18:40:00.000-08:00

Oh the future to come of the birth of these pancakes with my homemade organic maple syrup. I tapped maple trees with TyLea and my papaw today. amazing.
so old fashioned, we did not buy a single thing to get the job done. we got about 14 gallons in 5 hours. We dripped about 12 trees. Tomorrow we are going to drip even more.
The pancakes I have decided to make to pair with the syrup is going to be "Marna's good griddle cakes" from the farm cookbook. a combination of cornmeal and buckwheat flour in the pancakes. oh man. how much more pioneer can you get?

When we arrived home after a full day out in the wind and drinking some of the liquid from the trees, I cooked a huge kettle of my chili, baked cornbread, and made strawberry malt shakes. It was Survivor night with TyLea & Mom. I fed em up good.

the once and future spaghetti king

2009-03-03T13:36:00.000-08:00

X-men trilogy & spaghetti.
actually this is a new thing called 'ultimate spaghetti'.
top your spaghetti with tomato sauce, nutritional yeast sauce, bean balls, and cold tofu chicken. it really is crazy.
then watch all 3 x-men movies.

pita. pita.

2009-03-01T10:00:00.000-08:00

I got a whole bundle of goodies at the library yesterday, including three movies.
Yesterday was my last weekend day and I watched "Elizabeth: the Golden Age" and "Brideshead Revisited." During the first movie, I ate my lunch. Mom had went to Trader Joe's and Whole Foods on Friday with some of her work buddies and bought me a pack of Trader Joe's soy pita pockets. They were delicious, very soft. I enjoyed it while enjoying hunky Clive Owen as Walter Raleigh. Tan...mustache...sweaty.
Today I am going to watch "Flushed Away", my third movie choice.
I am very hungry, just did 5 miles so I need another pita pocket.
Also Mom made some hummus today and here is the recipe. It is quite tasty!!!

Olive Hummus. from allrecipes.com

1-15.5 oz can garbanzo beans, drained
1/3 cup pitted green olives
1 tsp minced garlic
3 tbsp. olive oil
2 tbsp. lemon juice
1-1/2 tsp. chopped fresh basil/dried
1 tsp cilantro leaves
salt & pepper to taste

Place beans, olives and garlic in food processor and puree. Add oil and lemon juice and puree again. Then add the basil, cilantro and salt and peeper. Puree until smooth. Refrigerate.
Great on pita pocket and indian naan bread.

cat + cat = leftover pizza.

2009-02-27T14:11:00.000-08:00

So I have decided to revamp my food blog. Along with my food photo and writings, I am going to include a picture of something fashionable or otherwise that I like that day. Today I had leftover pizza and watched "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" with TyLea. Hence, the photo. I loved Paul Newman! And Elizabeth Taylor has a body that just doesn't quit.

the 10 lb. pizza night.

2009-02-27T05:56:00.000-08:00

Pizza night! TyLea spent the night and Mom brought home T.R's Pizza from shelbyville. I made my own pizza since T.R's puts butter on their crust, but boy is it good though.
I made the yeast pizza crust from la dolce vegan and topped my pizza with a can of organic pizza sauce, wolffie's nutritional yeast sauce, fresh mushrooms, diced canned tomatoes, boca crumbles, chili powder, and "needs a little extra spice" also from la dolce vegan.
It probaby weighed 10 lbs. It baked about an hour and I enjoyed it while we all watched Survivor! It has been forever since I have made a big homemade pizza. It was delectable and quite palatable of course. The picture makes it look real dirty. Mom is holding the T.R's pizza. with all of TyLea's favorite toppings! (pepperoni, black olives, mushrooms and green peppers)