Sweet Soy-vegan blog

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.

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!"

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.

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.