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

curry pic 2

we had the curry plate with a ginger vanilla chai iced tea...in mushroom glasses of course!

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!

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.

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

more 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!)

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

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

And also, while i was making the cake i caught these too little buggers hanging out together.
how cute
Bijou and Sadie

pasta, veggies and frozen patties.

Take that Rachel Ray.

i hate rachel ray. heck, who doesn't. anyway, why does she put freakin frozen chicken and what not in everything. yuck. so when i got home tonight and decided that instead of a chicken sandwich i would have my frozen delight with a nice pasta and fresh tomato sauce with fresh garlic and basil...i thought, hah take that rachel ray.
i don't know why. i just did. so, this is what was for dinner. pasta and skinny green beans, with a fresh chunky tomato and basil sauce. topped with fried vegan chikn patties touched with a bit of nutritional yeast. oh and some cracked black pepper.
freaking yummo.

cupcake fun

Falafel and Tabouleh

Yum. So the last time we went out for falafel, which is quite a rare thing because we have to drive kinda far...i bought a few things in the restaurants' little shop area. i bought a box of falafel mix, some tahini, and some pickled turnips. last night i decided to try out the falafel mix. It was delicious. I had it with a bed of mixed greens, pickled turnips and tahini sauce. did i already say yum? yum. Served the falafel salad up with some tabouleh..(also from a box..shhhh.) and some spicy black bean hummus(not pictured). really really good. Also, there is still over half a box left of the stuff and i made 12 good size falafel balls. These pickled turnips are amazing. They are colored red/pink from beets. so good.

Falafel plate with Tabouleh

chimichangas and gazpacho salad

behold the chimichanga. i love fried burritos. i don't make them too often, but boy do i like 'em. This time with the filling i went an unusual route for me. potatoes. it was a good route to choose. i fired up some organic red potatoes, added some homemade refried beans and dumped a jar of this melty pizza cheese. Then it all got wrapped in a whole wheat tortilla and fried. mmm. they turned out really good. i made some chunky gazpacho salad to go with it. yum. they were also really filling, but somehow i managed to get down two. of these suckers...

potato chimichanga with chunky gazpacho salad

also, i have made these cookies twice. once to share with my in laws and band practice and once for a birthday present. (37 in that box!) they are delicious. not sure about posting the recipe, but i got it from herbivore magazine. well, both times i have made these i have forgotten to take pictures once they are out of the oven! so here is what i have....