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poppy-rock

Posted in recipes, tagged , on April 21, 2010 | 7 Comments »

In preparation for the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale (ours benefiting Try Vegan PDX/Vegan Iron Chef), I’ve been messin’ about with tasty experiments. Along with the cinnamon sugar cookies I wanted to take poppy seed cake, but you can’t easily sell slices, what with the poppy seed filling squishing out. What to do? Here’s what I did. Experiment #1: [...]

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it’s cinnaminny

Posted in recipes, tagged , on April 12, 2010 | 4 Comments »

They’re Mrs. Fields cinnamon sugar cookies, twice removed. A friend of mine sent me a copycat recipe she found, knowing it would be easy to veganize. Sure was. I’ve never had the original cookie so I can’t tell you how close it is, but it was crazy good. The texture is light and fluffy yet has [...]

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more trial and error and success

Posted in recipes, tagged , , on February 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »

  Of my two experiments the other night, this is the one that worked. It’s chocolate chips, hempseed, and unsweetened shredded coconut, sprinkled with a little bit o’ turbinado. It tasted as good as it looks. The one that didn’t work so swell was the Daiya cheddar; it tasted great but the one tablespoon of shreds [...]

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happy belated x-mas

Posted in recipes, tagged , on December 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »

As evidenced by my holiday decorations (see the X-mas mushroom above), I don’t do much deckin’ the halls. We did, however, have a surprise quicky feast with an old friend. Luckily one grocery store was open so we could do more than Tofurky franks. A bit predictable, sure, but still good. Tofurky roast, mashed potatoes, [...]

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snap crackle kakow

Posted in general, tagged , on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Look, Mom, just like normal kids! I just whipped me up a batch of Rice Krispies treats using Dandies vegan marshmallows. At first, I’d resigned myself to a tiny, relatively expensive treat, seeing as my $5+ bag o’ Dandies was about half the size of nonvegan marshmallows, but then I noticed the weight on the package. [...]

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cakes of the cup variety

Posted in eatin' out/in, tagged , , on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A funny thing happened while I was running errands: I accidentally went to the cupcake shop. Saint Cupcake isn’t strictly a vegan cupcake shop, but they do have vegan versions of at least chocolate, vanilla, and an additional rotating flavor available every day. Not having been there before, I walked in and asked for “one of each [...]

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just like mom

Posted in general, tagged , , on October 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »

How idyllic, an apple pie cooling on the windowsill. Are you kidding me? If I so much as blinked, this thing would have been devoured by my cat. But there it is, my rustic crust (that means squish-crimped as opposed to pretty, fork-pressed or crimping-tooled) Mom’s Apple Pie. This is the first one I’ve made since [...]

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i’m glad i spent it with you

Posted in eatin' out/in, tagged , , on October 12, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Sappy, I know. Tom and I just marked 13 years together. We’re not quite sure of the exact day (it was an accident) so we picked one and wrote it on the calendar…and if we happen to look at the calendar close to that day, we remember to eat cake or something. Well, we saw [...]

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chicago, part 3: the food!

Posted in eatin' out/in, tagged , , , , on August 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Just a word before I get into my dinin’ out over a week in Cheese-n-bratland. I visited a friend’s place on the North Side and saw this on the front door of his building. (OK, it was the wrong building—he lived next door—but we thought it was his building so while we waited for him [...]

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ground control to major flavor

Posted in recipes, tagged , on June 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Rocket pops! I don’t think I’ll do so many different flavors at once again—the blending and clean-up between batches wouldn’t normally be worth it—but this was a special maiden voyage experiment. And they were all awesome. From left to right they are: • Black raspberry juice and frozen red raspberries • Orange juice, agave nectar, [...]

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