Earlier today I made a strawberry pie using this recipe from Vegan Visitor. It was really easy and turned out super pretty. Observe:
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Cookie dough: why even bake it?
12 MayLast night I made Cookie Dough Scoops from Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar. Isa Chandra Moskowitz is a genius. Check out Post Punk Kitchen if you haven’t for some very good ideas for vegan deliciousness.
One of the many perks to being vegan (other than a feeling of moral superiority and general awesomeness) is that you completely cut out your risk of contracting a Salmonella infection from raw eggs. So you can eat as much raw cookie dough as you want. Within reason. At some point you will still get a tummy ache, Salmonella infection or not. I speak from experience.
After I scooped the cookie dough on to the plate, I added some walnuts for crunch and decoration.
Lazy cupcakes
6 May
Last night I was craving cupcakes but I didn’t feel like making them from scratch. Luckily we live in a magical time when even vegans can be lazy and make baked goods right out of a box!
I picked up some mixes at Whole Foods by Cherrybrook Kitchen and they were delicious. The chocolate cake mix even had chocolate chips in it. Well played, Cherrybrook.
I like to roll my freshly-frosted cupcakes in toppings to make them look fancier and add a little texture. I used coconut and sprinkles. You could use almost anything to dress up cupcakes. Try crushed up cookies, ground nuts, or chocolate shavings.
Bright jeans and sunny days
3 May
Shirley and I celebrated Earth Day at a festival in Oak Cliff. I wore bright jeans of an indeterminate color. What is that? Orangey pink-red? Coral-ish? Maybe I shouldn’t try to label them and just appreciate them for what they are. (I went to a women’s college. I’m very accepting.)
These are some hippie bracelets someone was hawking.
The fedora is from Urban Outfitters, the necklace was a gift from my mom, the pearl snap shirt is Target, and the jeans are Gap. The hair is mine.
This is from an urban archaeology project where people excavate things from local dumps. Which is kind of disgusting, but also cool.
I tried those Sally Hansen stick-on nails and I am IN LOVE. They are super easy to apply and they stay on FOREVER. In fact, they’re still peeling off my nails as I type this. I applied them over three weeks ago. And yes, I am super lazy about changing my nail polish. Chipped is in though, right? RIGHT?
This was my delicious vegan lumberjack breakfast Spiral Diner. So good. My brightly colored jeans are glad that Spiral isn’t that convenient for me to get to because otherwise they would grow snug and never get to see the light of day.
Brunettes and breakfast food
8 MarThis one’s for you, Ron.
Pancakes. Are. Delicious. There’s simply no arguing with that fact. These pancakes were so good they inspired me to write a haiku:
Pancakes are fluffy
and yummy and so tasty.
Add berries to them.
Alright, so maybe poetry isn’t my strong suit. But I do make one heck of a pancake.
Pancakes are surprisingly easy to make vegan; basically they’re just flour, water, soymilk (or whatever milk substitute you want to use), sugar, vegetable oil, and whatever goodies you want to toss in there. Here’s a more specific but still super-basic recipe.
Go make some now. You know you want to.
