I've been slacking horribly on the picture-taking since I arrived in Nova Scotia, even though I've been "house manager" this week - meaning I'm responsible for all the cooking/budgeting for the 12 people living here.
Which might actually explain why I've been even too busy to take pictures.. and it's a lot harder to make everyone wait for dinner while I photograph it, than when I'm cooking only for myself.

So in no particular order, this is the stuff I *did* remember to take pictures of. I just noticed that it's all basically the same colour.. weird.

Peanut butter bagels (a la Celine):



Even though I'm technically not allowed to buy anything processed, exceptions are sometimes made at the beginning of the program. The local store has vegan rice cheese slices and I got some for myself to try, of the pepper jack variety.. they are so much better than tofutti. oh man. I made a tomato and cheese quesadilla..



Lentil Curry (yum) and rice.



Corn chowder. well, not technically a chowder. But it was really good..



And these cookies, which were good, but I am not so sure about the banana.. I might try using flax seed instead of that as an egg replacer. And chocolate chips were added.

You are probably sick of hearing about how busy I am, but it's the truth. This is what I've managed to squeeze in the past week..

An attempt at "omelettes". In defense of the recipe, I didn't entirely follow it - I was supposed to pour the egg in with the veggies, but that's not my definition of an omelette, so I tried to keep it separate. It ended up more like a veggie filled pancake. Next time I'm going to try my own thing instead, I have some ideas. This was still tasty, just.. not even close to what it was imitating.



Quinoa custard and date-toffee pie, with a quinoa-coconut cream. Though it had been chilling for twice as long as recommended, it wasn't completely set yet when I ate this piece. Lots of unusual flavours mixing in this.. coffee, carob, lemon and lime, coconut milk, banana, soy and rice milk, quinoa, dates, molasses. You can't tell here but there's three layers to the pie. If I made it again, I would leave out the banana, which overpowers everything, and add more coffee.



Some cauliflower curry soup I threw together last night, using whatever I needed to use up in my fridge.



Mocha "vice cream", with a couple of chocolate covered coffee beans on top. Sooo good.

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.

Chickpea spinch curry from VWaV, on brown rice, tahini sauce in the middle. I find it makes this really nice and creamy..



Alongside garlic mashed potatoes and steamed veggies, these are Matt's seitan "ribs" that turned out more like steak this time. I actually had trouble eating this whole thing, partly because it was huge and partly because it reminded me of steak, which I obviously don't care to eat. Though I usually find seitan very tasty..



And now onto easter food.. Matt's family and my family got together for dinner on sunday, which was nice. I was being distracted from doing my schoolwork before the meal due to the huge delicious smelling pies sitting on the counter right behind me.



His mom made us vegan paska! yum yum. I was going to try to veganize my aunt's recipe, and may yet, because I like my paska pretty orangey, and this was not so much (though still very good).



My dinner plate, consisting of (closkwise from top left): roasted onions, asparagus and green beans, tofu roast & stuffing (from La Dolce Vegan) and mashed potatoes with cream corn.



Saskatoon Rhubarb pie. Soo good.