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food
wed 13 jan 2010 |
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For my tofu squares, I slice up a block of tofu, put some "stuff" on the tofu and then broil them on both sides. The "stuff" involves whatever I feel like throwing in there. Last weekend I poured on some canola oil, some tomato juice and a bit of lemon juice. From the spice shelf, I sprinkled on some dried parsley and then I reached for the salt. When I went to sprinkle that on I thought "What the heck am I doing? I don't want salt!" Instead of lifting the salt away, my hand jerked. So my tofu squares taste like salt. Sighs: it's pretty much 100% kitchen disaster whenever I attempt to cook food. I'm used to it. I put my tofu squares on bread for the sandwich I eat at the day job. Today I tried an experiment, thinking if I combined the salty with something sweet, that might be good. I put Four Berry Preserves on my tofu sandwich. It was eatable: it tasted almost exactly like peanut butter and jelly. (or maybe soy nut butter and jelly.) Which would be okay, except PB&J is my normal "fall back" sandwich, and I've eaten it so much I'm sick of it! heh. Happily and Joyfully, my Significant Other bought me some Yumm! sauce today. Yumm! sauce can make anything taste good, so my sandwiches have been saved. :) |
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bread machine
sun 24 jan 2010 |
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I just love our bread machine, given to us by SO's mom, many many years ago. I eat sandwiches at work, and make a loaf of bread about every weekend.
rift's vegan, wheat sandwich bread!
2 cups wheat flour dumped into the bread container
In a separate container, letting the previous "soak"
for a few minutes: I hand wash my measuring cups and spoons, and when I'm done the machine has finished it's slow stir cycle and is on to it's fast stir cycle. I get my spatula out and make sure I've got a perfect ball of dough, adding warm water or flour if I don't. Then I go do other things for 3.5 hours! The "wheat bread" setting just adds a few minutes at the beginning of the cycle to let the wheat soak. It's not necessary, the way I do my first steps! When the bread is done, it's important to take it out of the bread machine quickly. Our machine stays on and keeps the bread warm, but I've found it really drys the crust out. The bread will just slide right out of it's container, I just dump it on one of the stove burners (um, turned off, of course!). After the loaf has cooled, I cut it in half and put each half into a ziplock. These go into the freezer. When I need bread, I pull one out, slice it up while it's still frozen (easier to cut straight!) and then put it in the fridge. I've never had my bread get moldy: most of the bread gets eaten pretty quickly, sometimes I leave the heels because they are small but even they last for weeks and weeks! Oh. And the prep time is less than 15 minutes... and this includes clean-up time! Sometimes I can do it in 10!
Update! Bread Success at Vegan Wheekers!!!! Yay! |
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vegan cupcakes
fri 5 mar 2010 |
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They've actually been in town for a while, selling their vegan cupcakes to our natural foods grocery stores. But they've just opened a shop... and they gave out free cupcakes to everyone who stopped by today. Their whole store is certified vegan! And their whole store is within a bike ride of the tiny townhouse that I live in! YAY! Anyway! I got a Green Tea cupcake (Green Frosting!!!), and Significant Other got a Gingersnap cupcake. They were so very yummy. Ordering a few dozen for the day job? heck, yeah, how soon! *laugh* |
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