Posts Tagged ‘The Brit’

One a penny, two a penny

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
First off, *thank you* to everyone who got excited with me over The Brit’s conversion! I’m still so stoked about it! We’re working on finding a non-dairy milk he likes right now. Soy was a no-go, rice was a definite no-go, as was almond… oat seems to be okay so far. Anyone have any other suggestions?

I hope everyone had a good Zombie Jesus Day! On Good Friday I made Hot Cross Buns. Except… I left off the crosses due to laziness. I tried to make pseudo-crosses by cutting an “X” in the top of each bun, but when they baked they ended up looking more like little horns. I guess I should have called them Blasphemous Buns instead.



I made another tester for Bianca’s cookbook! This time it was Buttermilk Biscuits - a southern staple. She hit the nail on the head again with this awesome recipe! They were light, fluffy, AND 100% whole wheat. I cut them into hearts because it’s cute.

And what would southern-style biscuits be without gravy? Bianca’s creamy Sausage-Sage Gravy made this an awesome breakfast.


This baked lemon-herb tofu didn’t turn out as fabulous as I’d hoped, but it was still tasty enough to eat! Mashed gold potatoes can make up for anything less than stellar, anyway.



There was nothing less than stellar about this pizza, though! I made apple-sage sausages to grill at my parents’ house on Saturday, and this was the perfect way to use the leftovers. 


This was the first pizza I’ve ever made 100% from scratch. The ‘ricotta’ and pesto were inspired by the Isa Pizza in VwaV, but I didn’t have the right ingredients so I fudged it. Homemade: pizza dough, roasted red pepper sauce (no tomatoes - The Brit isn’t a tomato fan), tofu ‘ricotta’, spinach pesto (I didn’t have any fresh basil), apple-sage sausages and caramelized onions. This pizza was AMAZING.

And the best part? I still have half the pizza dough leftover, wrapped up in my freezer. I foresee much more homemade pizza in my future!

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Did hell just freeze over?

Friday, April 10th, 2009

The Brit… has decided… to become… vegan.



If you need me - I’ll be here, dying of shock and glee.

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Stacked food tastes better

Friday, March 6th, 2009
It’s pretty late so I’ll keep this entry short. It’s about time I updated though since it’s been a couple of days.

Tuesday was The Brit’s birthday so we had planned ahead of time to go out to eat for lunch (we didn’t go out last week for that very reason). We headed out to his favorite Indian place Golden India. It was awesome as always! 

We had planned on just having sandwiches for dinner, but my parents offered to buy us dinner at a restaurant of The Brit’s choosing to celebrate, and we couldn’t really pass up a free meal, now could we? He picked P.F. Chang’s, and it was really good too.

Because of eating out twice in one day(!), I don’t have any pictures from Tuesday. I do have a couple of old ones that I never posted though. I’ll share them now.

Behold, tofu scramble:


 

And here’s one of some spinach pesto pasta. I made this before our trip to Texas in an effort to use up a bag of spinach that was going to go off. It’s mostly spinach, a little fresh basil, pine nuts, garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper. I decided at the end to blend in some soft silken tofu to make it creamy. It certainly did! This was rich and yummy.


I did end up using the leftover tempeh from my last post in sandwiches. It was much better like this than on it’s own, by far.


And last but not least, yesterday was my one year veganniversary! To celebrate I made some stacked food. Pan-fried polenta topped with walnut white bean puree and mushrooms sauteed in white wine, served with garlicky spinach. Yum!


Peace out, yo!

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Counting down the hours…

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

No pictures today, children. I’ve been much too busy the last couple of days to bother with taking pictures of food. What has kept me so busy, you ask? My upcoming trip to NYC, of course!


That’s right, tomorrow morning The Brit and I are getting on a plane and flying north for four days, three nights in Manhattan. The occasion is our ninth anniversary (on Thursday) and I couldn’t be more excited! We have taken many trips together over the years, but NEVER one that didn’t involve visiting family of some sort. This is our first trip just for the two of us.

I have our itinerary pretty much planned for each day, which of course includes food! One of the things I’m most excited about is that we somehow managed to score last-minute tickets to a taping of The Late Show with David Letterman on Thursday - so be sure to watch and see if you can catch a glimpse of me in the audience!

I may not have an opportunity to get online much while we’re gone, so there’s a very good chance I won’t be able to update until Sunday at the earliest. I will be sure to take plenty of pictures of everything though, especially all the yummy food I plan to eat!

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I’m back

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Here’s a quick run-down of my life since my last update:


Sunday, August 3rd, I attended a total health seminar which was pretty awesome. Vaughan payed me to make vegan food for about 20 people. I made spicy tempeh sushi, mushroom walnut pâté with crostini, hummus with bell peppers, mango summer rolls with peanut dipping sauce and pistachio sesame halvah cookies. I took pictures, but they’re gone (see below).

Tuesday, August 5th, my hard drive crashed, and I lost everything on my computer. All of my emails, my photos, my sketches, my templates… everything. I had a not-too-recent backup of my contracts and cake outlines which has literally saved my ass. I have learned a very valuable lesson about backing up.

Wednesday, August 6th, I contacted the Apple Store for an appointment with their “Genius Bar”. I was told it would be a week before I could get an appointment. Great.

Friday, August 8th, I spent the day making icing and 100+ orange and black fondant flowers.

Saturday, August 9th, I made, decorated and delivered 100 vegan cupcakes for a wedding downtown (pictures to come). The Brit’s uncle died.

Monday, August 11th, The Brit booked a plane ticket to England so he can attend his uncle’s funeral. He will leave on the 17th and return on September 1st.

Wednesday, August 13th, I made a shit-ton of vegan food for a catering job thanks to Vaughan. It was for the Memphis Chamber of Commerce and fed 40 people. I don’t have any pictures, but I made spicy tempeh sushi rolls, four types of canapés, mushroom walnut pâté in pastry shells, pistachio sesame halvah cookies and chocolate peanut butter no-bake cookies. 

The Brit took my computer to its appointment with the “Genius Bar” at the Apple Store, and was told that they would have to send it off for the hard drive replacement and it would take 7-10 days. He said no thanks, and also fuck you for not being willing to tell us that a week ago, instead of insisting on us showing up to some stupid appointment with your ”Genius Bar” just to be told they would have to send it off. Some geniuses they are if they can’t even switch out a fucking hard drive in store.

Thursday, August 14th, I made 10 spicy tempeh sushi rolls for someone I met through Vaughan. He’s getting me a lot of catering work these days. We took my computer to a friend of the family who is an independent Mac consultant, who we should have gone to in the first place but we didn’t realize he was licensed to do warranty work. He told me he would have it ready by the next day.

Friday, August 15th, my computer was ready and I was finally able to reconnect with the rest of the world.

Tomorrow, August 17th, The Brit will leave for England and won’t be back for two weeks.

The End.

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