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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
