Sweet Soy-vegan blog

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!

Again, made those darn delicious chickpea cutlets last night from Veganomicon.
They are a serious staple. I always pair them with a faux mac and cheez and a big old squirt of curry ketchup.
To make your own curry ketchup, stir about 1 tsp. curry powder in 1/4 c. organic ketchup.
Sometimes I will just dump a ton of curry powder into the ketchup and it will be very strong.

Tonight I am going to make a vegan brown gravy to pour over my cutlets. I will see how it turns out. I haven't had authentic brown gravy since I used to eat mashed potatoes, and even then I would tell them to hold the gravy. But I did prefer brown to white gravy on my taters.
Stumbled upon this photo by leibovitz. ironic because i am listening to the cold mtn. soundtrack which has jack white on it. i love his old timey singing best.

today was a fun filled day of daunie no-workie!
We took a winter hike with Iggy and went to the library. I got a ton of cookbooks (candle cafe, moosewood desserts, anatomy of dessert, dirty south/bandito zine-like cookbook....) And an astrology book. I also got 2 copies of my vegan zine, cake walk!
For the afternoon, we baked the pumpkin crumb cake from veganomicon. We pulled a double. Made 2 round cakes, a loaf, and 6 muffins. We topped them with pecan pieces and blackberries and blueberries instead of streusel topping. they were marvelous.
then we had quiet reading time.
we just finished a dinner of leftover mac daddy and we made a double recipe of chickpea cutlets, fried em this time.
now we are going to lay in bed and daunie is going to fall asleep and we is watchin 'mccabe & mrs. miller' again.
tomorrow we is delivering scrumptious half cakes to friends.

So yesterday daunie worked all day and i layed my body about the house. watching gilmore girls and falling asleep...updating my blog...but Then! she came home and we ran to the library and sought out movies. We got 'McCabe & Mrs. Miller' and lasted through 25 mins. of it and then snoozed.
The best part of last night was the fixin's! Of course!
We made Chickpea Cutlets and Mac Daddy from Veganomicon. I made the mac and daunie made the cutlets (new favorite food word). The saucey was made in a huge pot and I doubled it, as a result, it was not very thick, but it was tasty in the end. The cutlets looked like big flat chicken patties. We steamed some broccoli also.
I cannot even describe to you good people how tasty those cutlets were.
Wow. They reminded me of a salmon patty crossed with a chicken patty, it was the single most amazing thing I/we have ever baked. It was glorious, let's say that.
So if you own Veganomicon, go and make those damn chickpea cutlets and share them with friends. Sprinkle the neighborhood with cutlets. They will appreciate.

I had a full day of walking yesterday! took iggy a walk around the neighborhood, bagged his poo...daunie came home for a while and then she dropped me off at the mall and i walked about and then over to the movie theatre. I saw Milk (goooooooood) and walked over to B-foods after the movie.
I enjoyed an apple and a small cup of delicious peanut butter.
We took back Ghost Town and rented Hellboy II.
I made the "snobby joes" from veganomicon while daun showered the food smells off her. we then had a short health lesson of pooping. the right way to do it.
I still don't know what my plans are today. I suppose I will walk Iggy again after while and I am penniless, so I don't know where else to go!
By the way, here is the snobby joe reciept.

1 cup uncooked lentils
4 cups water

1 tablespoon olive oil
1 medium yellow onion, diced small
1 green pepper, diced small
2 cloves garlic, minced
3 Tablespoons chili powder
2 teaspoons oregano
1 teaspoon salt
8 oz can tomato sauce (small small can)
1/4 cup tomato paste
3 tablespoons maple syrup
1 tablespoon yellow mustard (wet mustard)

4 to 6 rudi's whole wheat buns

Directions
Put the lentils in a small sauce pot and pour in 4 cups water. Cover and bring to a boil. Once boiling, lower heat and simmer for about 20 minutes, until lentils are soft. Drain and set aside.

About 10 minutes before the lentils are done boiling, preheat a medium soup pot over medium heat. Saute the onion and pepper in the oil for about 7 minutes, until softened. Add the garlic and saute a minute more.

Add the cooked lentils, the chili powder, oregano and salt and mix. Add the tomato sauce and tomato paste. Cook for about 10 minutes. Add the maple syrup and mustard and heat through.

Turn the heat off and let sit for about 10 minutes, so that the flavors can meld, or go ahead and eat immediately if you can't wait. I like to serve these open faced, with a scoop of snobby joe on each slice of the bun.

Had such a lovely night! Adree and I drove down to stay with Daunie (Faerie Tart) and we planned to make the black bean burgers from The Veganomicon. So we did just that! They were like little vegan white castles! but we lacked pickles. They were delishious. We also watched Hellboy and yelled 'woo' when new years arrived. The next morning Daunie made her freakin famous biscuits. oh my land. they should be named angel biscuits. light as a cloud and fluffy like marshmallow creme. we ate them with bonne maman damson! plum preserves. how fancy it all was. and daun fried up some Gimme Lean! sausage patties for her and adri. i had some of my smart bran nature's path fiber cereal. rabbit pellets. and we did a little winter hike and met dogs at the dog park. and we shopped at b-foods. oh how wonderful it all was.
I guess I'll just have to go buy Veganomicon. Everyone surrounding me already owns it. and they aren't vegan.