Author: laura

It’s kind of hard to think about comforting winter soups when it’s going to be near 70 degrees today. But it looks like winter temps are headed our way again, at least for night, so I can go ahead and plot my next soup. This week I made Lentils and Pastina Soup from Vegan Italiano. It had all the standard ingredients you’d expect to find in your basic lentil soup. I used orzo for the small pasta and it adds a nice texture difference in your mouth when slurping it down.

Thought I’d better get a shot of this banana bread before it disappears. As you can see, that’ll be really soon. I have bounced around and tried many different banana bread recipes. Usually making banana bread is spur of the moment. (oh shit, those bananas are about to liquify. guess i’m not going to eat them. time for banana bread!) So, which recipe I use is generally dependant on ingredients I have on hand. This one is from How It All Vegan and is probably one of the best I’ve made. It’s moist on the inside, browned on the outside. No spices involved so it really focuses on the banans. The recipe called for dates but I used walnuts instead. And it includes wheat germ which doesn’t hippy it up at all…you don’t even notice it after it’s baked.