Sweet Soy-vegan blog

party tomorrow night! visited the store and bought goodies...sparkling red grape juice...soy vanilla ice cream, ben & jerry's cherry garcia ice cream ($1) for those people who just enjoy b&j's. and i enjoy buying it..i love the containers. my favorite b&j was Dublin Mudslide....and going to be having lovely dark chocolate truffles tomorrow night and a sticky toffee pudding. saw many signs at kroger that the party was coming....kirsten dunst on the cover of harper's bazaar...and "i want candy" playing on the radio. cheers.

found a recipe last night for gingerbread in one of my grandpa's foxfire books. it is a really olde timey recipe, says it is over 100 years old. i don't know why, but i got the hankering for gingerbread. i don't even know if i have ever had a proper gingerbread before. i know i have had gingerbread cookies, they are dashing. the gingerbread is in the oven right now....so i shall write again and with pictures when it is done!

~mmm the gingerbread is very moist and molasses sweet. i simply adore it. it doesn't need peanut butter, shown on my fork, but i just love it with everything! i am going to cut it into little squares and take it to work to share with all the carnivorous meat eaters. a taste of veganism!
the moon is bright tonight and the coyotes are a-howling. tis an exciting night indeed.

I really want to bake up a loaf of gingerbread cake. But it is late and I must awaken early from my slumber. I may bake one tomorrow night after workin's. I am finally going to get my zine printed off and distributed to friends and family. I am really excited about it, I have had it done since May! Some recipes I am not so sure about, I felt like i was rushing on them...like the honey graham cupcakes. But most all of the recipes are delish. Really simply because I cannot cook and use all those herbs and heating temperatures just confuse me. It is called CakeWalk if you happen upon it somewhere.
Also, I am wanting to cook up some tofu grilled "cheese" sandwiches for dinner, with tomatoes and onions. YUMMMMs. (Yummo was actually said by Jennifer Patterson first, not Rachel bleeking Ray) And I also think I have just created a truffle recipe of my own using endangered species chocolate, coconut milk (is goood) and cinnamon. I shall have to try it out soon. Here is a picture of one of my zine pages......

adree and i made a cake today in a tart pan. and drizzled it with frosting and put a ring of strawberry jam around it. the white thing in the middle is a miniature cake that is frosted. and we made vegan sloppy joes that were tasty on toast.
here's the cake recipe....
1-1/2 c flour, 1 c turbinado sugar, 1 tsp baking soda, 1/2 t salt, 1 c soymilk, 1/3 c oil, 2 t vanilla, 1/2 t white vinegar (i used 1 tsp and it had a faintly vinegar taste, so try it with 1/2 and see how it weeerks).
preheat oven to 350f. mix dry in large bowl, add wet, vinegar last. combine. pour into greased cake pan(s) and bake 20-25 mins. cool and frost.

my smoothie last night....
pineapple strawberry
"the pink lady"

1-6 oz. container strawberry soy yogurt
1 ripe banana
1 cup frozen strawberries
1 cup frozen pineapple chunks
1/2 cup ricemilk, plain

watched
"my blueberry nights" this evening. it wasn't all that bad. my favorite scenes were the beginning and the very end with the kiss. the leftover vanilla ice cream lips kiss. and jude law's british-ness. and i've been wanted to do a series of photographs with love & food....so it was inspiring. and i loved natalie portman...and rachel weisz strangely reminded me of marilyn monroe. had a smoothie tonight as well.
will post a picture tomorrow along with recipe.
the smoothie was a banana, pineapple, strawberry, ricemilk, strawberry soy yogurt smoovie.
tomorrow is my outing with mom!!

this picture is from the woods of tennessee. oh i miss it! we went on a long hike and i took pictures along the way. this is a broken tree.
i love the dense moist woods. i want to live there by the stream where mermaids come up to sing and collect their smooth rocks they retrieve from under the currents. they stash them under bigger rocks next to the water.

watched 'say anything' last night. and going to work pretty soon, i sort apples! this weekend mom and i are going to indy and shopping and eating. then we are stopping at kroger to get groceries for our -vegan- sticky toffee pudding we'll be making when we get home!!!

Papaw's Birthday was on Saturday! I baked him a little vegan cake! It was a moist banana cake from www.veganvisitor.wordpress.com...Very good cake I may add, and so easy! Then I paired it with a thick, sugary caramel sauce from www.theppk.com (isa!) It was delicious! Everyone loved it. Granny ate it with non-vegan vanilla ice cream...ha. i don't think she gets veganism. Definitely love love love the banana cake. The sauce was super rich and I halved the recipe because it was so darn sweet! Here is a picture of the cake, and my Papaw! Also, I have the banana cake recipe, but rememeber it is from vegan visitor! My cake took about 30-35 mins. to cook in a small square glass pan. I omited the chocolate pieces, and did not toast my pecans. For my egg replacer, I mixed 2 TBS. flaxseed meal with 3 TBS. water in a cup. The cake looks like sticky toffee pudding! But doesn't taste like that wonderful Brit dessert!

EGGLESS BANANA CAKE

3 Ripe Bananas
1/4 Cup Vegetable Oil
1/2 Cup Brown Sugar, packed
1 teaspoon Salt
Replacer equal to one egg (+ water to package direction)
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 1/2 Cup Soft Whole Wheat Flour
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
1/2 Cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Pieces
1/2 Cup Broken, Toasted Pecans (optional)

Method

Preheat the oven to 350ºF.

In a large mixer, cream the bananas with the oil, sugar and vanilla.

Prepare the egg replacer as to the package directions and add it and the salt to the banana mixture.

Once well combined, add the baking powder and soda, followed by the flour, adding it in batches.

Stir in chocolate pieces and nuts, if using.

Oil and dust a 8″ round pan with flour. Pour in the batter and bake on the centre rack for about 40 -45 minutes.

Check bounce at the centre of the cake or insert and remove a toothpick. The cake is moist but it should come out fairly clean.

Allow to cool slightly and dust with confectioners sugar.

This recipe will also make a great loaf (55 - 65 minutes), 12 muffins(18-20 minutes) or 24 mini muffins (about 13 - 15 minutes).