I tend to get fixated on particular recipes from time to time. For most of last year I was obsessed with the Gingerbread Cut-Out Cookies from La Dolce Vegan. I made them for work, uni, christmas, family, etc. The choc-chips are awesome and they remind me of m & ms. Tasteeeeee!
Hope everyone's well. Life isn't that exciting around here at the moment. We're pretty much still in disbelief over last Saturday night. Did it really happen? Are the 11 years of JWH really over? Are people starting to actually care about things OTHER than money? Time will tell.... Peace out - go hug an animal for me!
This isn't a rather late Halloween special post (we don't celebrate Halloween in Australia). A friend of mine (from work) is going on maternity leave tomorrow, so I made Gingerbread men (she's having a boy). She also loves Horror movies. So I made Zombies!
The Zombie army, ready to take over work tomorrow:
Mwahahahahahahahaha! My evil plan is almost at fruition!
Cam got into medicine. Woo hoo!
I made these brownies for Saturday night's election returns watching party. Suffice to say the brownies were awesome and I screamed like a teenage girl at a Beatles concert (circa 1965).
They're Pumpkin Pie Brownies! Recipe is from Isa's old blog. You of course check her new blog on an hourly basis.
I've been enjoying my free time of late. I've been reminiscing while watching seasons one and two of Buffy and I think we're up to season five of the X-Files (yes, I was a geeky dork in high school - all the cool people were). I've also bought a flash new pushbike. It's silver and oh so rad. I'll see if I can get Cam to take a picture of me riding it on the weekend (if I'm not too busy making cupcakes for our next cooking lesson on Sunday).
We've got backlogged pics from VCON (of course). But I'm lazy and have to get up for work in eight hours.
Enjoy your newfound freedom people!
Howdy! So I've been free for four days now - I'm enjoying my freedom with a Mount Gay Rum and Coke (slightly tipsy = good!). Hopefully this will be the last catch up post. I want to post more regularly for the next few months before the insanity of uni starts back up for Cam and I (that's if he gets into Medicine - fingers crossed).
Okey dokey......
On Sunday we went to another Malaysian Vegetarian Cooking lesson! 'Twas fun. We're going to play around with the recipes a bit before we post them. In the meantime:
Vegetables and Vegetarian Ham in Black Pepper Sauce
I'm fairly "anti" pepper, but this was really mild (you toast the pepper, so I'm guessing the cooking removes some of the pepperiness?). Veggie Ham is available from Asian grocers - but apparently there is only one brand of vegan ham. We're going on a hunt soon, so we'll have pics, etc for our Aussie friends!
Veggie Cake
This one's pretty easy - the veggies are carrot, cabbage, broccoli and ginger. Yum!
Fragrant Vegetarian Goose/Geese
I don't remember having this dish @ ID Cafe when it was open, but dang, it's tasty! It's pretty much tofu with tofu sauce deep fried. What more could a vegan want?
I finally got the courage to try the Tempeh Wings from Don't Eat Off The Sidewalk. Boiling the tempeh to soften it up reminded me of a quote from Aqua Teen Hunger Force:
Young Carl: (flashback to when Carl was a child and received carpet as a Christmas present) Hey! Look at my magic flying carpet. I'm flying around in Egypt land! Carl's Dad: Don't get too attached there, Aladdin. Pretty soon it's gonna be magic flying dinner. Young Carl: You cant eat carpet, silly daddy. Carl's Dad: No, not like that. you gotta boil it, so the glue gets soft!
But I digress:
And I made doner kebabs (we normally use "chicken" nuggets or felafel, but I had tempeh to use up):
Yummy.
Cam found these at the supermarket:
So we had them with gravy and mashed potatoes
And with silverbeet (that'd be swiss chard to non-Aussies) and baked potatoes. Potatoes are topped with Tofutti Sour Cream and Joni's Bakin Bits. Why did it take me so long to try these?
I made pie on Monday for lunch (my last day of freedom). Asparagus and Mushroom with gravy. Ridiculously easy. Fry mushroom and asparagus with vegan marg. Add tsp of stock powder and about 3 tsp gravy powder. Add about 50ml of water and stir until like this:
Put in pastry
Bake and eat!
The burgers we ate before going to see Bad Religion and Strung Out. They rocked, and so do these burgers! There's fried Sanitarium Luncheon in there - I nicknamed it fried crack!
Lastly, this was the view from my study on Sunday arvo. Isn't it purdy?
Okay, so I'm planning to post tomorrow or Saturday. Is anyone interested in a step by step recipe for the tastiest miso ever? Or is that just silly?
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