Wednesday, June 27, 2007

two very good things.

First up is a wild mushroom curry. This concoction has chickpeas, cabbage, tomato, wild mushrooms, curry seitan and homemade curry spices. so good.we had it with garlic basil couscous and sesame pita bread.
curry pic 1
wild mushroom and seitan curry
curry pic 2
curry plate
we had the curry plate with a ginger vanilla chai iced tea...in mushroom glasses of course!
ginger vanilla chai iced tea in mushroom glass
Next up, Soyrizo black bean breakfast patties with a cheezy verde sauce. that is a mouthful eh?
i love having breakfast for dinner, and with the added bonus of scoring a waffle maker for my birthday(thanks Lynn!), no we can really seal the deal. here we have the patties, the sauce with nutritional yeast, spices and verde sauce. fresh tomatoes, homemade waffles and pineapple.
quite a feast!
soyrizo and black bean breakfast patties
curry skills are now awesome. waffle skills are still coming along. i am much too impatient for that waffle maker.......
i will be working on putting together all these recipes in text for anyone interested. my recipe writing down skills obviously need improvment. hopefully i will be posting more lolo porn too...hehe.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

testing and other stuff

these are so good. lolo lolois amazing. be on the look out for her book, it will be awesome.
Lolo's Jalepeno Poppers
pepper poppers
more poppers
pepper poppers
thanks lolo!

also, we went on a mini vacation this month and i picked up some culinary lavender at a local farmers market on the coast! i can't wait to try it out, please send your lavender recipes my way :)
here are some roses i spotted on our trip(after we ate lunch, i forgot to take pics of the food!)
cambria

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Coffee cake is delicious!

so we decided to have tacos for dinner the other night. really simple, but really really good. we had these awesome avocados and my tacos were loaded with a traditional style guac. yum. the tacos were also filled with tomatoes, cilantro, fresh cabbage, and vegan taco filling. a nice fruit salad(peaches,nectarines,pineapple,banana,and grapes with agave) on the side and a great white beer from lost coast brewery and we are chillin.
here we go:
tacos with fruit salad
tacos and fruit salad
While we were at the grocery store buying a few things and getting stuff to make tacos, we saw a box mix of coffee cake. we thought this looked great. so, after we had tacos i made
a version of this coffee cake. It was so good! I only took one picture of it though...which really doesn't do this enough justice. I did make a few adjustments in the egg replacer department and it turned out wonderful. our new favorite dessert. here it is
coffee cake
coffee cake
And also, while i was making the cake i caught these too little buggers hanging out together.
how cute
Bijou and Sadie
cuties