Friday, November 2, 2007

Links

I've added a few more of my favorite blogs/sites to the links section. I blame these awesome blogs, in part, for my lack of posting, as they just make it too easy to spend all my time there instead of here. This salad really makes me miss summer and getting buckets of fresh organic produce homegrown by my parents. This salad is topped with cheezy croutons, and by cheezy I mean nutritional yeasty. I mixed the sourdough bread with yeast, oil olive, salt and pepper and baked them in the over.

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Seattle & Fall Foods

One delicious chocolate cinnamon donut from Mighty-O. So cakey, and so good.

We also had awesome burgers at Hillside Quickies, biscuits and gravy at The Globe, and a filled pancake at the Wayward Cafe. Walking or taking the bus to the resturants was a fun way to see the city.
Fresh tomato soup, fresh bread, and a watercress salad.
Red wine poached pears. Such a good way to use up leftover old red wine.

Mashed chickpea salad with veganaise, celery, and onion.
Tofu, potato, and swiss chard scramble with lemon juice and olives. This was really good. Wraps with Yves Ground Round, lettuce, tomatoes, avocado, and tofu chipotle aioli

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Back to School and Back to the Blog

I've been very bad about updating this recently, but as I've returned to school, I am hoping I'll get back on track. Being back in school also means being home more, which means more time to get back to cooking and baking!
Chickpea curry, which I have found is much better when I blend up the garlic, ginger, onion, spices, and tomatoes before cooking them, and dijon green beans.
Refried beans (Amy's Organics), iceberg lettuce (which I consider a 'treat'!), salsa made in the processor, and topped with an attempt at a cheezy sauce which was a bit too runny. Delicious and filing.
Oven roasted potatotes and tofu scramble, which was served with the lemon cornmeal waffles with blueberries (from the PPK) which are pictured below. I made this for brunch when I had my dad and brother over.

Mixed vegetable salad with toaster croutons (bread double toasted and chopped into small pieces), which is perfect for when I'm feeling really lazy or hungry! More salad, which cooked beets and chopped basil.
I visited Seattle over Labour Day weekend and checked out some great little resturants. I'll post more on that in my next post.

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Summer in the Kitchen

Pesto made with my parent's homegrown basil.
Focaccia with olive tapenade on the top. Its been too long since I've made bread. My first taste of Vegenaise. I'm not sure what I think.
Tonight's dinner: tempeh with bar-b-q sauce, coucous salad, potato salad, and yellow wax bean and chickpea salad with a basil dressing. Prefect for a hot summer night. Raspberry bars - an oat, spelt, and sucanat bottom crust, fresh raspberries mixed with sugar and cornstarch, coconut, white flour, and lemon peel topping. I should have written down the recipe as this was delicious!

Sunday, July 8, 2007

Back with Pictures to Show

Home made radish fridge pickles - a result of buying a huge bag of radishes for a dollar.
Green Cuisine herbed tofu steam cooked with a bit of soy sauce and salab olek - yum!
Rice, pinto beans, and bok choy with a seasame miso sauce. A bit of a strange combination, maybe next time I'll use spinach instead.
Springform strawberry rhubard pie (taken at night for it looks even more odd!).
Jerk tofu from PPK (baked in the marinade) and coconut mashed yams (5 yams boiled, then mashed with salt, pepper and half a can of coconut milk).
Chickpea Rice Casserole

1 cup of brown rice cooked, then mashed, then pressed into a 8 by 13 baking dish

Several cups of baked or sauted veggies (I used mushrooms and redpeppers) spread on top of the rice base with some chopped parsley sprinkled on top

Chickpea Sauce

- 1 Tbsp miso, 1 tsp soy sauce, 1/2 tsp cider vinegar, 1/2 tsp vegetable stock, 1 cup of water (more as needed) mixed together and brought to a boil
- 2 Tbsp flour (I used spelt) dissolved in 1/4 of water and added to the miso mixture, then simmered until thickened
- 2 cups of cooked chickpeas added to mix and mashed with a potato masher until chunky, cooked for about 10 more minutes, stirring regularly
-chickpea mixture is poured on top of the rice and vegetables and baked in at 350 F about 20 minutes or until firm on the top

Cauliflower with cheeze sauce, watercress salad, and black bean burgers from Rebar.
Rice bowl with bok choy, avocado, and raw sunflower sauce (blended raw sunflower seeds, miso or salt, pepper, water, lemon juice).
Steamed pre-maninaded tempeh, bok choy, and potato wedges (boiled first).


Raw apple, date, and ground nut balls under saran rap.

Saturday, May 26, 2007

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Desert

This morning's breakfast - veggie hash with tofu.
Lunch last weekend - corn tortilla salad. Next time I'll try this with a creamy dressing.
Oven curry. Standard curry ingredients mixed together and baked, so easy! This one involved potatoes, eggplant, tofu and spinach added at the end in coconut milk and spices.
Lentil soup from PPK. I love lentil soup for it is good to have a number of versions on hand.
Chai latte cupcakes from PPK. Yum, even thought I think I over mixed them - they had
some large holes in them!

Sunday, May 6, 2007

Everyday Meals

Tempeh sausage crumbles from the Post Punk Kitchen (http://www.theppk.com/recipes/) on rice with fresh tomato and green beans. Such a tasty way of cooking tempeh. I had this two nights in a row. Vyes Chicken Veggie Tenders with pasta and brocolli. I bought these because I found a pack of them on sale for 99 cents. Generally I don't eat faux meats with the exceptions of veggie dogs, which was perhaps why they tasted too meaty for my liking. However, there is 21 grams of protein in half a pack, which is about how much there is on my plate.

Kale sauted with gralic and hot sauce and pasta with raw cashew sauce. Yum.

Big oatmeal peanut butter cookies from PPK which stayed nice and soft even though I thought I had overbaked them. Not overpoweringly peanut buttery like some cookies.

Friday, April 27, 2007

Casserole and Lemon Tofu

Now that my last paper has been handed in I'm ready for a summer of cooking (and working too)!
Chickpea, basmati rice and broccoli casserole with cheese sauce from http://letsgetsconed.blogspot.com/. Very tasty but maybe a little yeasty for me, though it had mellowed out when I ate it the next day for leftovers.

I'm pretty excited to have made tofu that has a really nice lemony flavour as some of my previous efforts didn't fare so well. I think the trick was that although the tofu didn't soak in the marinade, it was baked in a lemon juice, olive oil, gralic, thyme marinade. Yum! Served with millet with parsely and some accidentally over roasted mushrooms.

Monday, April 23, 2007

Busy with the Studying

As I've been busy studying for exams I haven't been cooking anything much blog-worthy.
Lots of coffee made with a stove top espresso maker. The quintessential vegan dish - tofu scramble.

Friday, April 6, 2007

One Hit and Two Misses

Eggplant Bharta from La Dolce Vegan which unfortunately had too much spices (not spicyness) for my taste. Topped with tofu raita with cilantro and cucumber.
I though I would try a roasted potato salad but unfortunately the tofu mayo took away from the nice roasted taste of the potatoes. I'm thinking a nut based creamy dressing might have been better.
A weekend lunch salad topped with warm roasted root vegetables (sweet potatoes, carrots, beets, and potatoes) topped with a creamy sunflower seed dressing. Delicious.

The camera has taken a little trip down to mexcio so there won't be any food pictures for a bit.

Saturday, March 24, 2007

Muffins and Stews

Blueberry banana muffins from La Dolce Vegan, made with half whole wheat flour.
Tabouli salad, made for lunches this week.
Not pretty looking but very tasty; kashmir vegetable soup from Fresh at Home, which is thickened with a spelt flour roux.
Moroccan style tempeh and vegetable tagine with millet from the Modern Vegetarin Kitchen. The tempeh was very strongely flavored but balanced out by the tagine and millet. Cinnamon soy milk granita, made to deal with my ice cream craving.