Nomz

Mix peanut butter with maple syrup and pour it over oatmeal with bananas.

that is all I have to say.

Post soon, gotta recipe/camera

:)

A New Breakfast

 Oat bran has been all over the blogosphere...especially on Heather Eats Almond Butter, so I decided to get some yesterday. I cooked about 1/3 cup with some nutritional yeast, (it was good!) a teaspoon of peanut butter, and toppings were unsweetened coconut and homemade carob walnut granola. Yum!! Like my Tinker Bell spoon?

I have this week off school, so I can actually find some time to blog! I'll just be hanging out with friends, doing an online class, and probably baking...more than usual. :) Speaking of which, I made these Chocolate Thumbprint cookies last weekend for my soccer team. They were so good!

I baked

And made peanut granola. Nomz.

Oatmeal :)

Hello everyone...I have a serious baking bug today. Thats not good.

Lately I've been having a lot of oatmeal. (Yeah, I used chopsticks...uhh) Usually plain-but last night i drizzled some homemade peanut butter and apple chunks on it. Yumm.

Not a whole lot to talk about. If I give in to my baking bug then I will.

Plans for today? Get school supplies for 2nd semester, maybe get a fuzzy sweatshirt. Lazyy sunday. :)

lunch is soo good

just thought I'd brag about my eats today. Especially lunch.
For breakfast, I had millet puffs with a crumbled carrot cake lara bar and a drizzle of maple syrup in soy milk. I did some stuff around the house, walked to trader joes and back, (about 4 miles?) and came home to the yummiest leftovers ever. I made this bean soup with chickpeas and white beans with roasted garlic (VEGAN WITH A VENGEANCE...NOMZ) and topped it with some wasa crackers and hot sauce...with a pink lady apple on the side.
So good. I reccomend it highly :)

Snowed in

If only today was a school day...urrghh....

Hello everyone! I haven't been here in a while...sorry bout that. I've been busy baking for the holidays, I tried some sparkled ginger cookies and they were, uh, interesting. Yummy, but very ugly.

I'll keep trying.

But I did make vegan caramels!! They are so cute! I didn't have any cream, so I made a fake 'cream' from soymilk, cornstarch, and a little powdered sugar to thicken and sweeten it. It worked, but something was weird about them. They tasted a tiny bit too healthy, almost like there was brown rice syrup. But there wasn't!!

We've been busy putting up the tree as well...while I was opening the ornament box to unload them, a certain someone found a nice place to nap.

Ah, Bourbon. The holidays have begun for all of us.

I just sat down to a big bowl of celery and carrots with homemade spicy hummus...when your body craves something like that for breakfast, don't deny it. :) I went through many phases of breakfasts, as you guys can probably see...

The oatmeal phase

The cereal and fruit phase

The granola phase

The waffle phase

The honeycrisp apple phase

The breakfast bread phase

The smoothie in a bowl phase (Thanks, Kath!!)

The muffin phase

Oh wow. Now that that's all typed up, I feel really self consious and indesicive. uhhhh....

Well today I got up at 8, listened to John Mayer, made really good hummus, ate, and blogged. I'm doing homework later, unless we get more snow therefore a snow day. If only....

Kitchen Sin Carne's reincarnation

Hello people of the blogging world :)

Since finding my camera in my couch cushion, I thought it was neccecary to post all the EXTREMELY dated food pics and other stuff...So I'll just let you sit back and look at some random pictures from like, August.

Above was a picture from thanksgiving with the family! I had a great vegan one, with sweet potato lentil stew, steamed carrots and brussel sprouts, wild rice with hazlenuts and cranberries, cranberry sauce, and salad. My tummy was very happy :) But unfortunatley, I had not found my camera yet so I didn't get any pictures...

And yes, I got a haircut.

So enjoy these pictures!

Apple Pie Crumb Cake muffins from Vegan with a Vengeance...SO GOOD.

Homemade soft pretzels. They weren't perfect, but they were alright, just a little too chewy.

Homemade seitan for....

Delicious vegan chili!! NOMNOMNOM

I'll have more to come soon, as I just got my very first bento box and I may just become a bit of a bento blogger...we'll see...

-O

Remember when...

I have a big post coming with tons of pictures and recipes, but I don't have time to upload them all tonight :(

But instead, I spent time today foraging through my computer, and I found some food pics that I have never uploaded before onto my blog. In fact, these were pictures before my blogging days! (shocking!) Enjoy!

(This was the failed matzoh ball soup...you can see why I didn't post it...)

Soon will be recent pictures :D Hope you liked the oldies.

When muffins attack

Muffins have attacked our kitchen! Okay, well not really. It was my choice to make them after all. And seriousley, muffins are the easiest thing to bake in the whole wide world. Not a lot of complex ingredients, easy to modify, dont take too long to bake or cool, and they dont involve kneading or setting in the fridge. And they are soo yummy!! Heres some that I made last night before watching John mayer's live concert on ustream:


MMM! Carrot raisin muffins with cream cheese icing. (VEGAN!) From vegan with a vengeance. I think muffins are great fall treats because of all the yummy spices like cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg.


WAIT: PAUSE.


I absolutely despise ginger. The texture just bugs me, (its stringy!) the taste is super strong, and I cant bring myself to like it. Even when its candied and drenched in sugar, I still hate it! I hate ginger ale too, and that freaking stupid chocolate covered ginger from whole foods. (TRIED SOME: VERDICT-BLEGH)

So why is it that my favorite kind of tofu dish in the entire world is ginger baked tofu? The world will never know...Maybe because its just marinated in ginger and I dont actually have to chew on slimy stringy knobs of weirdness. I added like 1/4 tsp powdered ginger to the muffins, and its not a big taste, I thought it would just be a good flavor enhancer; and I dont mind it. I guess ginger and I have to take our relationship slowly...baking it into yummy comforting dishes (LIKE MUFFINS AND STUFF) and marinating it. Maybe our relationship will never be healed. I guess I can't be best friends with every food. :D (Also included: papayas, wasabi, fresh apricots.)

Moving on to the muffin recipe.


1/2 cup raisins
1 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
pinch salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 cup sugar
1 cup nondairy milk
1/4 cup canola oil
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups grated carrot


Preheat oven to 400'F. Line a muffin tin with cups and spray with cooking spray.

Soak the raisins in a bowl of boiled water and begin prepping the batter. Sift the flour, baking soda and powder, salt, spices, and sugar in a large bowl. In a small bowl, mix the milk, oil, and vanilla, and add it to the dry ingredients. (I added a little molasses to the wet and decreased the amount of sugar a bit in the dry...very yummy.) Mix until just combined. Fold in the grated carrots. Remove raisins from the water and add those too.

Fill the muffin cups 3/4 full, and bake 18-22 minutes. Let cool on a rack, serve with vegan cream cheese frosting!


8 oz tofutti cream cheese
1 cup powdered sugar
1/4 cup vegan margarine
pinch salt
dash vanilla


Cream together, get all the clumps of sugar out, and spread on the muffins! Yum.

These were some banana nut flax ones that I made tonight. Minis! I love mini muffins. So cute. Didn't use a recipe, but roughly the same dry ingredients from the previous recipe above, plus 1 1/2 mashed bananas, 2 handfuls walnuts, and 2 T flax. I think! But it wasn't exact.

Gotta clean a little, get ready for school (5 days!?!?!) and whatnot. I have some cooking coming up after labor day weekend, so stay tuned :D

Rain, rain...

PRETTY PLEASE STAY!

I love rain. It's weird, some days I would rather have a tretcherous downpour than a nice, sunny day. Well, I'd say 75% of the time. I don't know why! It just gets in the way of running and biking, I guess. I love rain.

Anywayzz....

Yesterday was Bourby's (my cat) birthday!! He is now 7 in cat years, which means he's 44 in human years! AAH!! We gave him some cat treats, temptations, on a plate with a candle in the middle. We sang happy birthday, he got scared of the candle, ran away, then walked around the kitchen and ate some of his treats. You know cats...

I painted my nails green with a little sparkly dotAte a large bowl of cereal

Corn puffs, puffins, yellow delicious apple, blackberries, blueberry optimum cereal, a few raw oats, flax, cinnamon, almond milk. YUM!


Love these things. Edible air? Well...

This morning, I headed off to whole foods. On my bike? NO! Flat tire! That hasn't happened in forever. So I walked. I got ingredients to make macadamia blondies with caramel maple topping from vegan with a vengeance. They are for a wedding shower tomorrow, they requested that I make a dessert. YAY! I signed up.

Also, I was looking for a cracker recipe, and instead found a granola recipe in a random cookbook on our shelf. I made it! Who it's for, thats a surprise! But I bought ingredients for that too. When I got home I started on Mr. Granola, and made the blondies in the midst of that. I say when you bake, really take advantage of the opportunity.

Blondie batter!Not really.

Caramel maple macadamia topping.

Out of the oven

Overflowing caramel topping!
MM.

The recipe is here:

Blondies

2 3/4 cups all purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

6 oz firm silken tofu

1/4 cup non dairy milk

1/3 cup canola oil

2 cups sugar

2 tbsp vanilla extract

1 1/4 cup raw macadamias, partially chopped and partially ground (If you pulse them in a food processor for about 30 pulses, this is achieved.)

Topping

1/4 cup earth balance butter

2 tbsp brown sugar or turbinado sugar

1/4 cup maple syrup

1 cup raw macadamias, coarsely chopped

Dough:

In a large bowl, sift the flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder.

In a blender, whiz the tofu with the nondairy milk until smooth. Add the oil, sugar, and vanilla, blend again. Pour the tofu mixture into the flour mixture and use a firm wooden spoon to combine the dough. Fold in the macadamias. The batter will be thick and have a cookie dough consistency. Spread in the baking pan and bake for 25 minutes, meanwhile prepare the topping.

Topping:

In a saucepan over medium heat, combine the margarine, sugar, and maple syrup, heat until the sugar dissolves. Increase t he heat and bring to a boil for 1 minute. Stir in the nuts, remove from heat.

Remove the blondies from the oven when they are ready, and pour the topping over them, return to the oven and bake for 10 minutes more.

Let cool completely before cutting, the topping should be like a hardened caramel (mine wasnt! Just ooey gooey goodness) consistency. I cut mine into very small cubes, because I'm serving them at a party. But 16 squares is ideal.

The granola! Yummy!

This recipe came from Great Good Food by Julee Rosso. Okay...just a big red cookbook I flipped-eed through. I changed it a tiny bit, by the wayy..

Vanilla Granola

2 cups rolled oats

1/3 cup apple juice

2 tbsp melted earth balance

2 tbsp brown sugar

1 tbsp cinnamon

1 cup unsweetened flake coconut

1 tbsp vanilla extract

1 cup slivered almonds

3/4 cup raisins

Preheat the oven to 300'F. In a large bowl, mix the first 5 ingredients together, toss well. Spread the granola on a greased baking pan and bake for 25 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in the coconut, vanilla, and nuts and bake for another 15 minutes, until lightly browned. Stir in the raisins, and pop back in the oven for 5-10 minutes. Let cool completely, so you can let it clump up a bit. Yum!

Even Paula Deen could be vegan, as long as there is you, Earth balance.

NIGHT!!

Meet the muffins family.

What do you get when you add:

and a little oil, almond milk, vanilla, baking soda, and salt?

1. something non vegan

2. something experimental

3. something random
4. apparently something delicious (according to dad)

how could that equal to this?

I also made a version with raspberries, blueberries, peaches, and banana to replace the choco PB.

With an icing that had melted butter, powdered sugar, and strawberry jam.

I'm not going to post a recipe because they are not vegan, and the texture wasn't perfect, but apparently they were still really yummy. I don't even remember exactly what I put in them, but that can be the fun of cooking sometimes, right? :)

These muffins are for my sister and her family, just as a friendly gift. Hope she, her husband, and kids enjoy them!

Now, I will admit that I tasted a bit of the batter. It's not the end of the world, I'll just start over tomorrow. But to tell you the truth, I am not feeling too good. I regret tasting it because my stomach is upset, and I'm not feeling like myself. I learned my lesson, I guess. It's not like it had raw eggs, just a little greek yogurt. But still it's just weird. I'll forgive myself and try to remind myself of the reasons I don't eat dairy, (by no means am I tempted to go back to eating dairy) and remind myself not to do it next time. I learned my lesson :)

What are your thoughts about eating something un vegan/vegetarian either on purpose or accidentaly?

Thanks for reading loves :)