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Archive for February, 2007
February 28, 2007 at 7:15 pm · Filed under Condiments, Easy Peasy, Just Alright, Veg Family CB
I made Soba, Tomato and Tofu from Veg Family last night. It was just alright. I overcooked the soba a bit leaving it a tad slimy. I think it might have been better with regular pasta. It has a fab curry/soy/sugar/sesame oil sauce though. I was able to chow it, but will definitely give it my own twist next time. I like to make a recipe just like it says the first time, I guess to give it a chance, then if I think it deserves another shot I can mess it up just how I like it.
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On another note, this is one of my absolute favorite olive oils, there in the back, Lucini. Man I could drink this shit! It’s a bit on the spendy side, but all you have to do is get some rockin’ crunchy bread, dip a corner in this nectar, close your eyes and you are in a tiny villa in Italy. It’s that good.
February 28, 2007 at 9:01 am · Filed under Random, VCTOtW
Me: Did you see I brought you a cupcake?
Pete: Yeah I did and I’m a little scared
Me: eh?
Pete: Well they’re so fucking good I think they might just take over the world
February 27, 2007 at 1:34 am · Filed under Uncategorized
I find it easy to talk about food. And I have been enjoying taking photo’s of what I make. I don’t mean to ignore this blog, but I fell off the inspired wagon, and stopped taking a photo a day. Maybe I am less embarrassed over at my food blog, like it is proof I’m not just sitting on my ass doing nothing. I am busy adding padding to my ass. So take a peak over there too, seeing as I am hanging out there more.
FOOD
February 27, 2007 at 12:33 am · Filed under Cupcakes, Success, Sweets, VCTOtW
And the conclusion is that these cupcakes could possibly take over the world. Domination is near. Today was a rough day, August (aka Fuss) was living up to his alias. How did I manage to make cupcakes? I really don’t know, I almost didn’t make dinner let alone cupcakes. It didn’t help that I ran out of vanilla and Pete had to stop and grab some on the way home. DAMMIT! I was JUST at the store yesterday! Don’t you hate that? Anyway, hell or high water, cupcakes got made (albeit with the soothing sound of screaming in the background). I am still keeping it simple. I wanted to test out my new pastry bag and tip. The pastry bag I got is a bit too big I think, but it worked ok, it was just hard to clean. I think it is meant for cakes, where you are doing a lot of icing. I bought 5 tips, the one I used tonight I believe is a No. 22 (it’s not in front of me so don’t hold me to it and I am not about to get my ass out of bed to check). It was marvelous fun to swirl luscious mounds of heart stopping butter cream frosting on lovely little chocolate cakes. I found some bunny baking cups, but I think they will be better served with a light colored cupcake, the darkness of the chocolate made the design disappear. They really are precious little things, cupcakes. I even gave them some sprinkles, you know, to give them some bling.
So 3 different attempts (so far) and all are absolutely de-fucking-licious. Now the bad, the cookbook drives me insane. It is a sweet little cookbook and the design and photo’s are awesome, BUT…FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! WHY? do authors/publishers of some cookbooks wrap the recipes around to the next page. It is a GIANT pet peeve of mine. So absolutely irritating to have to flip the page. Almost all the recipes in Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World wrap around. If I were an editor of cookbooks I would avoid this at all costs. The recipes only take 2 pages in this book so it would have been easy to have them all on facing pages. Maybe the revised edition will address this annoyance.
February 22, 2007 at 10:39 pm · Filed under Easy Peasy, Success
I marinated 2 blocks of extra firm tofu in tamari, dark sesame oil, rice vinegar, maple syrup, pineapple juice (from the can of pineapple), and fresh ginger. Fry it up…
meanwhile cook 2 cups of Jasmine rice, have to love the ricemaker, can’t beat perfect rice every time.
Once the rice is done , toss it in with the tofu adding a bit more tamari, sesame oil, large can of pineapple, cup of shelled edamame, and anything else you want. Stir-fry this until it’s heated through 
Eat, unless you think it’s gross.
February 21, 2007 at 10:57 pm · Filed under FebPhoto-a-Day
Linda and Riley came over today. The boys are funny. Owen takes on a bit of a bully attitude, it’s strange for me to see him like that because he is shy at toddler group. He doesn’t do anything terribly crazy, just the occasional ball kick into Riley. Riley is a champ though, he just hollers at him and then takes something away from Owen. It all evens out I suppose. I took this picture today, it is a tad blurry and I seriously messed with it in Lightroom, but there is something I really like about it. The blurriness works for me somehow. It sort of captures the way they are together.
Sorry I am lagging on the photo a day challenge…
February 19, 2007 at 11:54 pm · Filed under Cupcakes, Success, Sweets, VCTOtW
I thought I would try another batch of cupcakes. You know, for the blog, I have to test them so you all know which recipes work….right?
I thought I would make the same vanilla cupcakes (from Vegan Cupcakes) but try the chocolate ganache topping this time. I certainly don’t make the prettiest cupcakes on the block and so far they all seem to resemble cupcakes that people like to poo on, but they are fucking yummy. I am going to get a set of tips for a pastry bag. These cupcakes deserve to be pretty. Not sure what the next ones will be, maybe the Chai Latte Cupcakes.
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