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.

Well, I know I've been absent for a while. School is quite literally consuming all my time and cooking will not be a priority again until I'm done at the end of june. On top of that, I have been unable to get my desktop computer to recognize my boot drive for the past week, and my photo-editing software did not work with my laptop, so unless anyone was interested in desktop-sized pictures of food, posting was not an option. I've installed a newer version now, so it's all good..

Anyway, here is some stuff I've been eating lately. Matt's been cooking for me due to my complete lack of time. And doing a pretty good job, might I add.

Spanikopita from VWaV:


Veggies, noodles, and Sweet and Sour Seitan, Lolo-style:



Macaroni and Uncheese:



And just because, the biggest strawberry I've ever seen:



That's all for now. I'll try not to neglect this too much, but I make no promises until school is done.

Matt thinks it's funny that my mind went straight from "hmm, someone gave me a pineapple" to "pineapple upside down cake!". There was no other reason for a cake, I just didn't feel like eating a whole pineapple by itself..



Recipe here, I added half water and half soymilk instead of the syrup/juice because a) I figured this was going to be sweet enough and b) I used a fresh pineapple, and didn't feel like opening a box of juice when I didn't really have to. This was really fantastic, with a scoop of vanilla soy ice cream; it's not quite the same without it.

I also got a bunch of fresh organic herbs for free (connections are a good thing to have), so I've been making whatever I can think of that uses what's there, and giving the rest away, as usual.



Lots of basil = pesto pizza with Basil Tofu Ricotta (VWAV). Adapted Best-O Pesto from The Everyday Vegan, and yeast-free crust from How It All Vegan, plus mushrooms, olives, tomatoes and red onion.


Fresh mint = minty fruit salad, with whipped topping, because I'm addicted to it, ok?




I leave tomorrow for 9 days in Oklahoma, visiting one of my best friends. There may or may not be updates in the meantime, but I wouldn't count on it. See you when I get back :)