Lovin' My Time in the Kitchen!

I have been cookin' up a storm lately! :)

Super Bowl Meal (from top left clockwise)
* King Cake (recipe)
* Popeye's style biscuits - recipe from Spencer
* Red Beans (FatFreeVegan recipe)
* Tofu Jambalaya (FatFreeVegan recipe)




Chinese New Year dinner (Bryanna Clark Grogan recipe)
I used the seitan recipe from the orange sauce recipe in the previous post.




Birthday breakfast: Pancakes (recipe), hash browns, smoothies with soymilk, bananas, strawberries, and raspberries. I got the pancake mold from Michael's.




Birthday dinner: Indian samosas and spiced potatoes, brocolli, and peas. Both are from the Williams Sonoma's Essentials of Asian Cooking cookbook.




Birthday cake: Giant cupcake!! Chocolate base (recipe), Vanilla top & frosting mix (recipe), Pan from Michael's (link)




Birthday gift from the roomie was a donut pan, a mini donut pan, and a book about donuts. Of course, I had to use them! So I made donuts for the NWIS meeting.
Donuts (VeganYumYum recipe) and Pans (link)

2010 Continues

I realized I didn't post my New Year's Resolutions. Since they all relate to food, I figured it's important to log it here.
(1) No microwaving plastic - accomplished by buying Pyrex glass 17 piece kit. :)
(2) Use KitchenAid to bake once a month.
(3) Make one new recipe per week.
(4) 100% vegan :)

Tofu with Asian Marinade from Vegan with a Vengenance -- Used the marinade to flavor the potatoes that I mashed with the KitchenAid. Nom nom nom.




Delicious Black-Eyed Pea Masala (FatFreeVegan recipe)




Excellent Baked Seitan with Orange Sauce (FatFreeVegan recipe)
Steven liked the sauce over his chicken breasts.




*Mediocre* Mexican casserole (Inspired by this FatFreeVegan recipe)
Flavor of the layers was great, but the corn tortillas didn't crisp. Perhaps because I stored them in the frdige. Layers included sauteed onion, red and green bell peppers, mini yellow sweet peppers, Poblano pepper, tomato slices with the seeds removed, refried beans, black beans, cumin, chili pepper.




Super Bowl Sunday is coming up. Since the Saints are playing, I am baking a King Cake since I actually found the right colored sugar sprinkles and cooking red beans and rice. But I'm debating on the other dish: tofu jambalaya, chickpea gumbo, or fried tofu po'boys... I'm leaning towards the po'boy but we'll see what I decide on by Saturday...