9.05.2008

butterscotch pecan cookies.  


have been craving chocolate chip cookies! recipe from havecakewilltravel.com...go make them! they are little flat chewy cookies that are very tasty. a bit too sugary for me, but still yummy! my mum likes them without chocolate chips! i only put a few pecans, but would put more next time!
Here is the recipe from havecakewilltravel.com

makes 6 cookies:

preheat oven to 350F. line your cookie sheets with parchment paper or a Silpat.

in a saucepan or in your microwave, melt:

2 1/2 T vegan margarine

in a medium bowl, stir together with the melted margarine:

6 T Sucanat

add & stir:

1/2 t Ener-g egg replacer powder
1 T unsweetened almond milk [or whatever you have]
1/2 t pure vanilla extract
2 1/2 T pecan bits
tiny pinch fine sea salt

in a separate bowl, sift:

1/2 cup light spelt flour [lightly spooned and leveled]
1/4 t baking powder
1/16 t baking soda

throw flour mix into wet ingredients, stir until well combined.
divide into 6 equal portions, plop cookie dough onto cookie sheet. no need to flatten them, but leave at least an inch between the cookies as they will spread while baking.

press into divided cookie dough:

a few semisweet chocolate chips per cookie

bake for 9 minutes, let cool on sheet.

9.04.2008

faux eggs bennie, perhaps?  

had a lovely day at ye olde orchard. sprayed theresa with the hose and almost made her fall. good gosh. picked up some free glazed apple cookies for mandy, taylor, and adree! And 2 caramel apples for mandy & taylor to share, and one for adree. can't wait until saturday, the hearntut festival with adree, mandy, and taylor too!
I had a bit of endangered species chocolate today at work, sarah gave me 2 bars of dark chocolate. i ate about 4 or 5 pieces of the dark and then flew through that last tote of honey crisp apples.
no matter, onto dinner! fixed up a lovely skillet of scrambled tofu (which i never thought i would like, it seemed that every vegan cookbook had a different recipe for scrambled tofu. but daunie and i made it topped with nutritional yeast sauce and it was magnificent) so i made that with tomatoes and asparagus, put it on a toasted english muffin and topped it with a spoonful of nutritional yeast sauce from la dolce vegan.
Here is the "cheese" sauce recipe...great on wheat noodles as well!
Wolffie's Nutritonal yeast sauce.
1/2 cup nutritional yeast flakes, 2 tbsp. flour, 1/2 tsp. salt, 1 c water, 1-1/2 tsp tamari, 1-1/2 tsp dijon mustard
Whisk all ingredients in a small saucepan and heat over low heat until it begins to thicken, whisk and heat until desired thickness. Remove from heat and let it thicken even more. Then serve on noodles, or on a burrito, or on scrambled tofu...to make a sort of vegan eggs benedict.

9.03.2008

party cakes.  

The lovely picture of these cupcakes comes from, well I don't remember who, but they are Babycakes cupcakes I do believe.

Nevertheless, they are quite lovely and cute. Here is my recipe for vanilla frosting. It really is truly delectable and simple.

3 cups organic powdered sugar,
1/4 cup coconut milk,
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract.

Whip all the ingredients together and spread on cupcakes. If too runny, add more sugar of course!
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Also, for the tinted frostings, I have heard around town of various things you can use. For yellow, use stale turmeric, a tiny tiny bit! For pink, use POM juice or pureed raspberries, for the mint green color, use parsley juice (put parsley through a juicer i suppose). There ya have it. Whip up some cupcakes and this frosting and then throw them at party guests and knock their socks off.

what are you doing???  

this is a statment! i am going to officially post more recipes. what are you poor visitors doing at my blog anyway, with the number of recipes i post? there are really absolutely none! I must post some extra special ones to get you to keep coming back. like my title quote says, "throw lovely food at them!" and you have no lovely food to throw! or witty conversation to go along with it....so let me just go skuddle in there and pick up a nice recipe for you. i will be back with a post!

9.02.2008

dinner in a package.  


I am waiting for Mother to get home so I can eat some dinner. I am really craving more bbq seitan, but i don't feel like making it. So I'm going to just heat up a new Amy's burrito that I've never tried. Daunie said it is her favorite, it is the breakfast burrito made with tofu. I am going to eat it with hummus and my favorite salsa ever, Newman's tequila lime (so hard to find! I have to go to Indy to get it).....bon appetit!

9.01.2008

another lovely pic from daunies brunch clothing swap party..a little pic of adree next to the pita smeared with tofutti cream cheese, hummus, cucumber, and pbj pitas!

Vegan survey!  

1. Favorite non-dairy milk? Silk very vanilla soymilk is just delicious. But I drink ricemilk most often, plain Rice Dream brand. Hemp milk is good with Apple-Hemp Muffins (from Dreena Burton and featured in VegNews magazine)

2. What are the top 3 dishes/recipes you are planning to cook? I am planning to cook scrambled tofu again, topped with nutritional yeast gravy on a toasted English muffin very fuhncy). Also, homemade ketchup from How It all Vegan!, and more of my good bbq seitan, which I am craving. I top it with curry ketchup on a piece of hot toast.

3. Topping of choice for popcorn? I don't like poppincorn!

4. Most disastrous recipe/meal failure? Hmmmm....the only one I can think of is when Adree was making homemade olive oil butter, and it called for 1/4 c. olive and oil and 1/4 tsp. salt, we both read it as 1/4 cup of each, so it was terribly salty and hilarious.

5. Favorite pickled item? Pickled banana peppers! I use to make the boys at Subway put handfuls on my veggie sub.

6. How do you organize your recipes? I took apart my 3" english binder and morphed it into a giant recipe book. I write my recipes on magazine pages and then slip them in little page protectors in my binder! very homemade and pretty.

7. Compost, trash, or garbage disposal? I like compost but we don't have one. That is an odd little question.

8. If you were stranded on an island and could only bring 3 foods…what would they be (don’t worry about how you’ll cook them)? Kroger crunchy natural peanut butter, rudi's colorado cracked wheat bread, and organic bananas...(i guess i would be having pbb's!)


9. Fondest food memory from your childhood?
I used to eat chili with my Mamaw, and she would slice raw onions and eat them with her chili. And her blackberry cobbler was divine, and her pumpkin pie. I also used to eat Frosted Flakes & Fruit Loops mixed...that is probably the fondest. I never helped bake as a child.

10. Favorite vegan ice cream? Homemade carob ice bean from the farm cookbook.

11. Most loved kitchen appliance? my food processor! i have used it so many times!

12. Spice/herb you would die without? dried basil!!!!!!!!!!!!!

13. Cookbook you have owned for the longest time?
Um probably my "alpha bakery" that my mom sent in for me when I was little

14. Favorite flavor of jam/jelly? Blackberry jam!!! and black raspberry...oh so sweet and delish.

15. Favorite vegan recipe to serve to an omni friend? Hmmm...I love to give them oatmeal chocolate chip cookies from the garden of vegan, they are the best cookies i have ever had!

16. Seitan, tofu, or tempeh?
i love tofu the best, i like it raw and extra firm! but seitan is amazing with bbq and boiled in stock to taste like chicken. i don't really fancy tempeh.

17. Favorite meal to cook (or time of day to cook)? i like to cook in the late afternoon hours i guess...anytime really. But i find myself cooking around 4...

18. What is sitting on top of your refrigerator? some ky bbq chips(moms) and a glass cake container...and jars of metal cookie cutters.


19. Name 3 items in your freezer without looking.
ground flaxseed meal, rudi's english muffins, lima beans

20. What’s on your grocery list? earth balance, ricemilk, box of cereal, crunchy p.b., apple cider vinegar...

21. Favorite grocery store? Bloomingfoods! Kroger. Super Target


22. Name a recipe you’d love to veganize, but haven’t yet.
Um I don't know a specific recipe, but I would love to see vegan angel food cake...and vegan whipping cream (for bakers sake!)

23. Food blog you read the most. hmmm I love veganvisitor

24. Favorite vegan candy/chocolate? endangered species chocolate bars.

25. Most extravagant food item purchased lately? OOH! I love love! purchasing new extravagant foods when you have a little extra greens! I purchased figs a couple weeks ago and felt naughty.


26. Veganaise or Nayonaise?
Haven't had either, but i don't really like the idea of mayo


27. What is one recipe or ingredient or cooking technique that you’ve become familiar with in the last year that you can’t imagine you ever lived without?
I can't see myself not making this luscious soft oatmeal bread, b/c i absolutely love bread...but probably vegan mac and cheese. I missed mac and cheese so much and now I have the best vegan cheese sauce to go on wheat rotini.

28. What are your plans for Thanksgiving? making another pumpkin pie, we cook at home and my sister and i make vegan food...and we will probably make bbq seitan this year and have a big salad.

29.What is one really weird food that you enjoy, and probably no one else does? I was just eating a bbq seitan sandwich last night, and i ate a piece of it without any seitan on it, just bbq sauce on cold toast, and it was so good. So mine is bbq sauce on cold toast.


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Another food survey! I just love these...take a gander..

Food Favorites

Name:: ally.
Age:: 18.
Cake:: carrot cake from monon coffee company.
Cookie:: oatmeal chocolate chip from the garden of vegan. adri's lemon cookies are also very luscious, but so dainty that they should be eaten with tea or at a special party!
Pie:: pumpkin! (wolffie's from la dolce vegan)...the tastiest vegan pumpkin pie i have had. before, i loved chris' grandmas pump pie.
Ice Cream:: homemade carob ice bean-recipe from The farm, a commune in TN.
Pudding:: chocolate! i am hooked on it right now. i just made some carob pudding with pb and banana. tasty too, but adree and i's pudding we made while watching jamie at home was good!
Gelatin:: no! sheep hooves
Muffin:: soma's buckwheat blueberry, although i haven't tasted one in so long.
Other Desserts:: i consider pbj's a dessert.
Granola bar:: um...i don't really eat them. but i like larabars sometimes.
Candy bar:: The only candy bar i eat is endangered species dark chocolate...72%, with the chimp on the front!
Fruity candy:: no candy
Chocolate candy:: endangered species! i also love the mint bar, with the rainforest scene on the package.
Fruits:: apples! bananas, red raspberries, fresh pineapple
Veggies:: peas!!! i love mushy canned peas right outta the tin. and i also love garlic, onions and avocado
Meats:: faux meats please! (my bbq seitan!!)
Nut:: peanut b/c they produce peanut butter, but i love pistachios and almonds plain
Bean:: pinto beans, edamame beans!
Fast-food restraunt:: nope!
Sit-in restraunt:: laughing planet (veg burger!) and bazbeaux pizza
Mexican:: burritos! (amy's frozen burritos...bean & rice)
Chinese:: um i don't really eat chinese food..i suppose just steamed rice with soy sauce (swimming! hehe...not anymore)
Italian:: wheat spaghetti with homemade marinara is divine..
Pizza Topping:: at bazbeaux i love to get mushrooms, basil, green olives, and extra sauce.
Sandwhich:: pbj's, bbq seitan sandwiches covered in bbq sauce and curry ketchup, veg burger sandwiches! i used to love mustard & cheese sandwiches
Soup:: no likey the soup
Salad and salad dressing:: i like a dark leaf lettuce salad with little tibet's ginger dressing!
Rice:: brown rice...and also white sticky rice
Pasta:: wheat rotini!
Bread:: homemade soft oatmeal bread (in my bread machine now, working away!)
Roll/Biscuit/Breadstick:: i like baking powder biscuits with basil from la dolce vegan
Breakfast cereal:: b-foods maple flakes and kashi 7 whole grain flakes, my absolute favorite is barbara's bakery organic grain shop cereal.
Hot cereal:: oatmeal with maple syrup and cinnamon, really stiff, not much liquid.
Chips:: organic yellow corn tortilla chips!!! gaah!
Crackers:: late july brand classic 'buttery' crackers...mmmmm new fave.
Potato:: little red potatoes with the skins!
Juice:: apple-orange juice
Milk:: ricemilk...& SILK very vanilla soymilk tastes like melted vanilla ice cream
Soda:: nope
Coffee:: no
Tea:: eeeh
Cheese:: no, i don't even eat vegan cheese
Yogurt:: soy yogurt in raspberry flavor
Alcoholic Beverage:: no
Popsicle:: i want to make homemade carob pops and fruit pops with soy yogurt
Condiment:: curry ketchup! and 10 different kinds of mustards
Breakfast Food:: cereal with ricemilk
Gravy:: eh
Chip dip:: newmans tequila lime salsa (hard to get!) and daun's guac & hummus
Hot dog:: no
Donut:: eh
Savory spice:: curry
Sweet spice:: cinnamon
Thing to put on toast:: blackberry jam from appleworks!!

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