Saturday, June 13, 2009

oh so busy.

Sorry, sorry. I've got a lot going on this month, so I haven't really been putting a much effort into cooking. And I don't expect my time to open up this month either, as I'm putting together a Vegan Bake Sale, then traveling to Portland, OR for the Let Live Conference!

But here's what I've been up to in the kitchen lately:

A couple more tester recipes from the upcoming Vegan Latina. Potato Pancakes with Peanut Sauce

potato pancakes with peanut sauce

And some arepas stuffed with a tempeh and avocado filling:

stuffed arepas

Here's a little hand pie I made using a basic biscuit recipe. The filling is some kind of weird but tasty concoction I made using Soy Curls, nutritional yeast sauce, and spinach. I like savory breakfasts, and these were great for a few mornings' worth of meals.

little pie2

We finally had a chance to try the new Dandies vegan marshmallows. After eating a few straight from the bag, I proceeded to make cereal treats using a vegan HFS version of Cocoa Puffs. Pretty tasty!

cereal bar

Now, this lovely little Pyrex teacup is filled with vegan vanilla ice cream. We bought a copy of The Vegan Scoop, and we are thrilled with the ice cream recipes so far. This soy-based vanilla was smooth, creamy, and pretty much perfect. We also tried the Rocky Road ice cream, and it was crazy good.

homemade vanilla ice cream

That's a homemade ladyfinger sticking out of the ice cream, too. The last chapter of The Vegan Scoop is filled with some amazing sounding baked goods. I'm sorry to say that the recipe for Ladyfingers didn't work out for me at all. In fact, they sucked something awful. I was expecting a light, spongy little cake, but instead got a hard, crusty, dense little cake. Not sure what happened there, but my perfect ladyfinger recipe search continues. But don't take this as a bad review for the book, because it really is an ice cream book and the ice cream recipes really deliver! I'm excited to try more frozen treats from this title very soon.

Alright. I will leave you with a pitiful picture of little Miles. Sleeping is the only time he's being good.

miles is pitiful

3 comments:

Jes said...

Wait wait wait, **biscuit** hand pies?! Seriously the best idea ever!

laura said...

the potato pancakes make my mouth water.

also, that pic of miles makes me want to grab his fat pad. i'm sure i'd lose an arm if i did. :-)

Leigh said...

He's sooo cute and sooo dangerous!