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Pancakes for Breakfast

Here’s another lazy post…I didn’t even cook these. Kevin made pancakes for breakfast Sunday morning. I think he said he used this recipe. We dressed them up with Earth Balance, pecans and maple syrup. The apple is just there to kind of pretend like this is healthy. They were really nice. Good fluff, not too thick, nice taste. A winner! I think Kevin is going to be in charge of pancake making from now on. Hey, it’s morning, where’s my breakfast??? 🙂

Oh, and also, I imported all the VeganMoFo feeds into my rss reader. Wow, that’s a lot of vegan food blogging. My productivity at work just took a major hit.

Cheezy Soy Curls and Broccoli Pasta

I’m not very good at throw together dinners unless it’s something like veggies, fake meat & mashed potatoes. Every week, I go through my cookbooks, pick things to make, make a list, go to the farmer’s market once and call it good. Kevin is a lot more free-form when it comes to cooking at home. I usually handle those details, but last night Kevin brought over some Soy Curls and Chik-Style Seasoning and said “I want to use these.”

Hmm…okay. I had planned a pasta with beets and I didn’t think the Soy Curls would go very well. So we switched things up. Kevin was in charge of the Soy Curls. He followed the directions for using the Chik seasoning with them. I remembered seeing a cheezy sauce I wanted to try so made that up. And then I boiled up the tri-color rotini I had along with some frozen broccoli. It all came together fairly quickly and turned out super yummy! And bonus, I now have cheezy sauce powder that I can mix up quickly at some future date. Yay!

Kevin always makes his food look better on the plate than I do. And you know, we both augmented the drizzled cheezy sauce with piled on cheezy sauce. Yum!

Whoopie Pies

Lately I’ve been experimenting with whoopie pies. And judging from the reactions to these, they are definitely a keeper. Sorry, no recipe on these. We’re trying to start a bakery up over here, okay? Can’t give away all our secrets. That said, there are recipes online. See, here’s one for Pumpkin Whoopie Pies. It’s similar to what I did and I’m sure you’ll have great results.

Oh yeah, there were also oatmeal whoopie pies with cinnamon filling. I’m sure I’ll get around to making standard chocolate ones sometime soon. I wonder, are whoopie pies the new cupcake?

What I did with my Soyrizo

Friday, I bought a package of Soyrizo on a whim with no particular plan of what to do with it. Then I remembered this old Vegetarian Times recipe for Stuffed Poblano Chilies with Garlic Mashed Potatoes. Perfect! So I loosely followed this recipe from memory. I mean, it isn’t exactly complicated.

But, to incorporate the Soyrizo, I sautéed half the package with half an onion until the onion was soft and the Soyrizo started to brown.

Then I just mixed that in with the mashed potatoes before stuffing the peppers. I also mixed a little Teese in with the mashed potatoes and sprinkled it all over the top. Since I didn’t go by a recipe or measure anything, there was extra mashed potato mixture. So I put it down in the casserole, then plopped the stuffed peppers on top.

We ate it with a side of refried beans. Hey, the chili was green, that counts, right?

Pumpkin Bundt with Maple Glaze

A couple of weeks ago we had a big ‘ol vegan Thanksgiving to send off a friend to Ghana since she was going to miss it. We had all the appropriate goodies like Tofurky, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, etc. It was a huge carbfest! The best part is that we get to do it all again when real Thanksgiving rolls around. Woo hoo! I brought an apple pie and this Pumpkin Bundt with Maple Glaze.

It’s a veganized version of this recipe. I used flax seeds for a couple of the eggs and vegan sour cream for another couple. Then I just added a bit more soy milk to make up for the 1 less egg’s worth of eggy sort of stuff. And subbed maple syrup for the honey in the glaze.

So I’m going to try and participate in VeganMofo this year. That’s a post about vegan food every weekday for the entire month of October. Oy. We’ll see how that goes.