Thanksgiving and then some.

Last weekend was thanksgiving in Canada. I actually remembered to take some pictures. Generally I haven't been eating anything fancy and therefore I don't bother.. even some of these are things I've probably posted before. But, it's comfort food, and I like it.

The homemade tofu roast, from La Dolce Vegan, with roasted onions on the ends. There were some skeptics before it was made, but everyone loved it in the end..



Stuffed spaghetti squash (sauteed onions and mushrooms for stuffing)..



My dinner plate, roast & stuffing, squash, mashed potatoes and roasted carrots (it was a very roasty sort of day.)



Pumpkin pie and tofu chocolate silk pie, which was a lot better than it looks.



And now on to non-thanksgiving food.. baked tofu and vegetables:



Mozzarella mac n cheese:



My favouritist french toast ever, from VwaV:



aand last but absolutely not least, "Heavenly Brownie Torte" from Sinfully Vegan.



As a side note, the delicious scones from the potluck that everyone wanted a recipe for? VwaV recipe, with some spices added in to taste and vegan cheese. Go figure.

Avocado, berries, and cake.

As the title suggests.. this post has a few themes. The garden is full of delicious fresh raspberries, every day I go out and pick a huge bowl (larger than the one pictured here):

So good. On top of VwaV "fronch toast" and nutriwhip..

Freshly made spinach pasta from Delucas, with pesto and avocado..

My favourite thing to snack on lately, a bowl of guacamole with multigrain waffle pretzels. Simple but satisfying.

I baked some cakes for Matt's parents' wedding this weekend, though not traditional "wedding" cakes..

Raspeberry Blackout Cake (VwaV) - every bit as delicious as I had hoped it to be.

Due to the surplus of fruit in my house, I also made an almond trifle. Some of you might remember the last trifle I made, this was similar but with (obviously) an infusion of almond, and different fruit - strawberries, cherries, raspberry, blueberries, mango, and nectarines.

Even the hardest-to-please omnivores enjoyed it.. I can't complain about that.

Favourite meal of the day, by far: breakfast
Days off means an excuse to make something special (ie not cold cereal, cream of wheat or oatmeal). Today I finished off that loaf of no-knead bread as "fronch toast", VWAV-style.



Luckily for us, a local store has no-name brand canned dairy-free "whipped topping" that's vegan. I had never actually tried it before, but caved today and sent matt out to get some. Soyatoo can suck it (I am not willing to pay $8 for a temperamental can of beany foam).


Blue came over to do some cupcake-baking last night. Flipped through VCTOTW, and settled on chocolate cherry creme cupcakes. I decided to wing the cherry sauce, as I had a bag of frozen cherries that was half-finished, unlabeled to begin with, and I had no idea how much 10 ounces was, anyway. For someone who's really good at math, conversions sure confuse the hell out of me..



We just put a saucy cherry from the leftovers on top. Blue gets credit for piping the icing on. And I don't know why there's a quarter beside the plate..

In my cupcake back-post, I forgot the orange pudding cupcakes. They were yummy. Pictured here with chocolate ganache and orange quins: