Sweet Soy-vegan blog

i am baking 'the best damned cookies on the planet' because adree is coming over! and because i happened to have maple syrup, a luxury in a bottle that i haven't had for a couple months. i just ate a ton of the dough and now they are in their oven, baking. adree and i are having a photo shoot and then we are going to go run! And eat cookies for dinner and make Jamie Oliver's 'quick tomato sauce' with spaghetti! mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm. tomorrow i have the day off, so i am doing a shoot with mandy & kodie! i love having all these photo shoots booked! i need new customers as well! anyways...here's the recipe for the best damned cookies (aka maureen's oatmeal chocolate chip cookies from the garden of vegan)
3/4 c flour, 2 c oats, 1/2 c sugar, 1/2 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp baking soda, 1/2 tsp salt
Mix dry...then in a blender, blend....
1/2 a very ripe banana, 1 tbsp. pure vanilla extract, 1/3 c oil, 1/2 c pure maple syrup
Pour blended mixture into flour mixture along with 3/4 c semisweet chocolate chips (i use ghiradelli semisweet chips) and mix them up.
Bake at 350F for 12-15 mins, or until edges are browned.


After the photo shoot we took Noodles for a walk down the road. (avoiding the strange man that was at the house talking to dad.) Then we went inside and made Jamie's tomato sauce and paired it with Barilla spaghetti. We tossed it together in my huge flower mixing bowl and we ventured outside with a lantern and sat at the top of the hill with a blanket and ate our spaghetti from the huge bowl. we had a night picnic with spaghetti! it was so much fun. the spaghetti was so flavorful and yummy tomatoey.
Today I have the day off, and Mandy has a half day. I think I am going over there to take some pictures later on. For now, it is cold and my tummy feels unwell from too many cookies before bedtime.

I am bored...here is the vegan's 100 list....I bolded the items i have eaten....and put an 'x' next to the things i would never consider.

1. Natto
2. Green Smoothie
3. Tofu Scramble
4. Haggis
5. Mangosteen
6. Creme brulee
7. Fondue
8. Marmite/Vegamite
9. Borsht
10. Baba Ganoush
11. Nachos
12. Authentic soba noodles
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo Gobi
15. Taco from a street car
16. Boba tea
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Gyoza
20. Vanilla ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Cevishe
24. Rice and beans
25. Knish
26. Raw scotch bonnet pepper (ha! scotch bonnet! thats on two fat ladies)
27. Dulce de Leche
28. Caviar 'x'
29. Baklava
30. Pate
31. Wasabi peas
32. Chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Mango lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Mulled cider
37. Scones with buttery spread and jam
38. Vodka jelly
39. Gumbo
40. Fast food french fries
41. Raw brownies
42. Fresh Garbanzo Beans
43. Dahl
44. Homemade soymilk
45. Wine from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Stroopwafle
47. Samosas
48. Vegetable Sushi
49. Glazed doughnut
50. Seaweed
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Tofurkey
54. Sheese
55. Cotton candy
56. Gnocchi
57. Piña colada
58. Birch beer
59. Scrapple 'x' why would a vegan eat scrapple?
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Soy curls
63. Chickpea cutlets
64. Curry
65. Durian
66. Homemade sausages
67. Churros, elephant ears, or funnel cake
68. Smoked tofu
69. Fried plantain
70. Mochi
71. Gazpacho
72. Warm chocolate chip cookies
73. Absinthe
74. Corn on the cob
75. Whipped cream, straight from the can
76. Pomegranate
77. Fauxstess Cupcake (adree and i are planning to bake them!)
78. Mashed potatoes with gravy
79. Jerky
80. Croissants
81. French onion soup
82. Savory crepes
83. Tings (?)
84. A meal at Candle 79
85. Moussaka
86. Sprouted grains or seeds
87. Macaroni and “cheese”
88. Flowers
89. Matzoh ball soup 'x' moth ball soup?
90. White chocolate
91. Seitan
92. Kimchi (daun loves it)
93. Butterscotch chips
94. Yellow watermelon
95. Chili with chocolate (recipe in my vegtimes)
96. Bagel and tofutti (yucky tofutti)
97. Potato milk
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Raw cookie dough

from: http://bittersweetblog.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/the-vegans-hundred/

I am going to make my own now, for you to fill out!

worked at the annual highlander festival at my work, an apple orchard, on sunday. it was very excitement filled. i served shepherd's pie all day long, very unvegan, and mary served hot dogs and bbq sandwiches (which we ran out of first!)
so the day was filled with the music of "Highland Reign"....and i served one of the cute guitarists some sweet ol' shepherd's pah'. tomorrow adri is coming over to model for me and i am baking her the "best damned cookies on the planet"...oatmeal chocolate chip (from the garden of vegan...'maureen's oatmeal chocolate chip cookies') whoop.

spent the night in bloomington last night. daunie came up to get me and we went shopping in nashville. i made her a plate of cheese & crackers, a pb smeared cracker, and some apple jacks for garnish. and a big daisy which she inserted in her hair. For dinner that night we had a big salad with 2 different dressings and some big crusty warm bread. then we went out and saw 'burn after reading' and daun & chris dined on popcorn and smelly garlic sticks. the end. next weekend is the renaissance faire! and there will be pictures of giant turkeys legs.

got back from seeing 'vicky cristina barcelona'. i would give it 3.5 stars. i did enjoy it immensely. it definitely needed penelope cruz, it was a movie that started quickly then slowed. then penelope arrived. i now like javier bardem. i had only seen him before in 'before night falls' the johnny depp-as-a-woman-prostitute-movie. (but i did enjoy the rest.) so along with the food theme, i had a salad before i went.

made some really delicious pasta today. i was craving it! and some tomatoes. so i just sauteed onions and garlic, and a pepper from the garden in some olive oil, added some mushrooms and mashed up fresh tomatoes from the garden. mixed it in my wheat rotini with some salty pasta water. really really gooooood. and watched mystic river.

got the day off today from grading apples because of my back. i had a delish fruit smoothie for breaky, then decided i wanted some vegan french toast from 'the farm' cookbook. so i am consuming that at this moment. it is so good.
here's the receipt. (i halved it)
mix together with a whisk:
1 c. soymilk/water, 2 tbsp. nutritional yeast flakes, 2 tbsp. flour, 2 tsp. sugar, 1/2 tsp. salt.
dip slices of bread one at a time into the mixture until it soaks through but is not soggy. then fry the slices in margarine over medium heat until golden brown and crispy on both sides. serve hot with cinnamon and sugar or syrup.

ordered vegan a go go this morning from amazon.com i can't wait until it comes in! i have checked 2 bookstores and they don't carry it. YAY more cute vegan cookbooks. food update....been doing detox/raw...makes me feel grrrreat..smoothies for breaky...lots of apples...pbjs on ezekiel and salads. but i do eat some wheat bread. squishy that i roll into balls. delish.

great weekend with my adree! saturday we went to an outdoor antique show at this olde farmhouse. i bought and apron and adree got a hand drawn card for her penpal. then we cashed my check and had our pasta at her house while watching ace of cakes. (turducken!)
sunday we went irish festing and this picture is adree's pbj on the way home from the festivities. it was delish.
here is a recipe for a good lavish pbj.
Take two slices of aunt millie's hearth whole wheat bread (real fresh and squishy) and spread one slice with about 3/4 tbsp. chunky kroger natural peanut butter. then spread about 1-1/2 tbsp. blackberry preserves on top of peanut butter. Then close it up with the other slice of wheat bread. oh so delish on the road.