idle prattle plus
vegan sweet potato quesadilla (recipe here, but i added adzuki beans and didn’t use sundried tomatoes, but rather canned and diced)
* butternut squash and apple soup
* vegan burgers on wheat buns
* sooooooooooooo many salads
* hummus dressing
* mashed potatoes with mashed cauliflower, topped with baked kale crumbles and nutritional yeast (twice)
* stirfry with my own peanut-butter-based sauce
* apple cider
* roasted veggies (thrice)
* bagel sandwiches with grilled tofu and homemade ketchup
* toasted bagels with peanut butter
* numerous batches of stove-popped corn with baked kale crumbles and nutritional yeast
* vegan pumpkin banana bread
* banana “ice cream” (numerous batches with different nuts—our favorite was with peanuts!)
need to use up our apples so i’m going to make some apple sauce later?
made a deal with sham-i-am that i would keep the list of things i will not eat and do not like under five items.
1. animal products, e.g. eggs, dairy, and meat, including tuna and fish*
2. horse radish anything
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* I know I’m stretching by lumping this all into one category, but because it’s defined by vegan and thus one-overarching dietary restriction, LAWYERED.
sham’s away bouldering for the long weekend.
translation: stove-popped corn with nutritional yeast and dulse flakes for dindin!
jaykay! (but only if you happen to read this.)
The perfection that is Carbon’s tilapia burrito (Taken with instagram)
Bodhi Thai in Berwyn wins (Taken with instagram)
Shrove Tuesday! Pancakes: it’s what’s for dinner. (Taken with instagram)
one of my best edible discoveries of this month may very well be wildwood plain soyogurt with agave nectar added to it. EPIC! my bones concur. PLUS? it’s made in grinnell, iowa! to do: add granola into the mix!
but i’m going to tell you to start following a non-tumblr blog, and you’re going to be So Glad i did.
if you love food—reading about it, looking at it, talking about it—then check out my sister’s blog, hannalamode.
Let’s focus on my success for now: Laurie [Colwin]’s applesauce recipe annoyed me at first. In her own words, applesauce is “so simple to make that it almost does not require a recipe.”from soups to granola to bombes and more, if you like honest, practical, tasty, hilarious, adventurous, and inspiring food blogs, not just saying it, but definitely add this one to your list of reads asap. it’ll make you want to cook! it’s even worked for our mother. (trust that this is a truly shocking reveal.)
I once tried to make cookies without a recipe, and I now firmly believe there are some things that you cannot wing. As a first timer, I didn’t appreciate Laurie’s relaxed attitude. “Any number of apples”? WTF, Laurie? I need answers.” — A is for Applesauce
