I’m sorry I’ve been so terrible at updating this thing, but I have good reasons I promise!
1. I don’t get home until 6:30 most nights, which makes it impossible for me to take good pictures with natural light.
2. My job, while immensely wonderful, is a bit emotionally draining (I work with refugee children).
3. I seem to have lost the USB cord for my camera.
4. I’m lazy. I’ve made all sorts of interesting things and then don’t feel like cleaning up to take pictures.
Enough excuses! One of my resolutions this year is to update this food blog (with PICTURES, so this doesn’t count) at least twice per month. I am going to try my damndest to do this. I figure twice per month isn’t asking too much, since that means I can take the pictures during the weekend.
Here’s to another year of delicious vegan food!!! The new year signifies for me the one year mark since going vegan, so I am stoked.
I know, I stink. I’ve not updated in over a month – a friend of mine recently pointed it out. The combination of the heat and the new job has made it such that I haven’t been making anything fancy. Plus, I just keep forgetting to take pictures of stuff. I’m afraid the few people who were checking out my blog are probably long gone now that I’ve been so sporadic in posting. Oh well.
Anyway, to make up for my hot and cold posting, I have lots of pictures to share!
Black bean vegetable soup, plus jalapeno corn bread, both from Veganomicon. For some reason I tend not to be into super beany soups, but this one is fantastic, especially with some fresh avocado sliced in.
Latkes with dill horseradish sauce. OMG AMAZING. These were so incredibly delicious. Although I think I ended up putting in about twice as much horseradish as the recipe called for because, surprisingly, fresh horseradish is actually not nearly as piquant as the bottle variety.
This is an adapted version of Ancient Greens on Grains salad, from Vegan Planet. I couldn’t find kamut, so I used farro instead. I also just used all the veggies I had on hand in it, and added in some marinated baked curry tofu in there. This is quite possibly my new favorite thing ever. I love the contrast with the quinoa and farro, all the veggies, and then the delicious balsamic vinaigrette.
“Helloooo? Can I get some service please???” Of course Tati had to check out what I was doing. The bubbly green stuff is Jones Green Apple Soda, which may as well be crack. I stopped buying the chemicaly crap with high fructose corn syrup back in January. However, Jones doesn’t use that crap, it’s delicious, and it’s been on sale! I still try to keep myself from buying it a lot because I don’t want to get back into a pop fueled craze like the one that basically single handedly got me through graduate school.
Oh, and those are the pear tomatoes from my garden in the salad. It really thrills me.
Nara contemplates the cupcake. But that is no regular cupcake – it’s a chocolate coconut cupcake with coffee buttercream. Nom nom nom. Have I mentioned how much I love Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World? I made these since we were having friends over and they were snarfed down.
And now a gardening update!
After months and months of watching, watering, and waiting, my pink brandywine tomato plant is FINALLY producing a tomato. YAY!!!!! There are a number of flowers on the plant too, so I’m hoping to one day actually be able to make a beautiful tomato basil salad, all from my garden.
My basil plant has been doing really well. I really need to make some pesto before it all goes bad.
Two jalapenos are ripening on the plant as we speak. Can you spot them both?
My pear tomato plant has been fantastically prolific. I can’t wait for next summer because I’m going to plant more vegetables (and maybe even a couple fruits?) and I definitely plan to plant at least 3 of these babies.
How has your gardening been doing?
My awesome friend Crystal gave me a subdomain on her vegan pr0n website. Now it must be appropriately used to take over the world post pictures of vegan food porn. I have approximately a bajillion pictures of delicious meals I’ve made in the last few weeks that need to be shown to the world, so this should be happenin’ quite soon.