Friday, May 18, 2007

It's been exactly a month since my last post, and I've been feeling kind of guilty for not updating. It's not like I haven't been eating.. (though I haven't really been up to anything interesting, either, considering this is all I have to show for a month). One more month and I can get back in the kitchen..

I guess I'll start with breakfast food, and go from there. Orange hazelnut scones, made by Heather, adapted from ExtraVeganZa:



This my look like just a bowl of fruit to you, but it is my favourite fruit salad right now. 1 banana, 4-5 strawberries, 1 red grapefruit (with any excess juice from cutting it up poured in). The strawberry/grapefruit combo is really complementary... and I can't get enough..



Some muffins, made by Matt's mom. The back one is blueberry, the front one is "morning glory" - some delicious combination of bran, carrots, pineapple, I think sunflower seeds, raisins? and who knows what else, but they're yummy.



Vegan junk food. Grilled tofutti "cheese" with fried onions and tomatoes, and breaded seitan chicken fingers. This is a terrible picture, sorry.



Quinoa Pine Nut Pilaf. This originally started as someone else's recipe, but I've changed it so much by now that it's .. no longer even close. I love it, though.



Lentil curry, loosely based on this recipe, on brown basmati rice.



Agave nectar cupcakes (VCTOTW), for mother's day. Pretend they're not in spongebob liners.



I made the blueberry mousse and tried to get fancy with it. The mousse gave me a lot of problems, though.. it was way too runny to begin with, I added 1 1/2 t of xanthan gum to try and gel it up a bit. It got much better, but still didn't quite keep it's shape for very long, and the tops tried to run away shortly after I assembled the cupcakes.. oh well.



Mocha mousse (VCTOTW), with melted chocolate on top. I think I like this recipe more than any of the cupcake recipes in the whole book, which is saying a lot. The texture of this mousse is so good.. I make it to eat by itself, nevermind inside a cupcake.



That's all for now. I promise to return to a normal schedule in July, there's so much stuff I want to make.

5 comments:

Tracy said...

OMG, I must have missed that mousse when I read the cookbook! I have to go look that up and make it, right now!

Chantal said...

Glad you are back, if only for an instant. I missed reading your blog.

Celine said...

we miss you!!! the muffins are making me drool. so's the grilled cheez sandwich.

Country Girl said...

Man that mousse looks yummy! I'm waiting on pins and needles for my copy of the book to get here.

oyadele said...

to thicken your mousse, maybe you could use a bit of agar? it's tasteless from what i can tell, & did wonders for the macaroni & cashew "cheese" i made today . . .