Vegan Bake Sale! January 31, 2010

Now if I was a sensible young lady, there would be lots of pictures of all the goodies Shane and I bought at yesterday’s vegan bake sale for Haiti.  But since it’s me, I ate everything except one muffin before I could take pictures:

But it’s a damn fine muffin!  It’s a cranberry almond muffin and it’s moist and delicious   We also got a gluten free coconut lime cupcake, a green tea cupcake, zucchini bread, and two kinds of cookies.  Hey, I had to stuff my face, it was for a good cause!  The bake sale was at the Animal Rights Coalition in Minneapolis and they raised $580 for the animals of Haiti, yay!

-Kala

Apple Butter and Banana Pudding January 29, 2010

Not together though, because that would be gross!  First, apple butter:

Delicious homemade jarred apple butter, nothin’ better!  This was a gift from a friend, I’ve never canned anything and am kind of scared to try, I’m lucky to have such talented friends!  Today I had it on an english muffin on top of a bit of peanut butter and it was yum-tastic.

And now banana pudding:

It’s not really pretty, but it sure is tasty, and I don’t even usually like banana pudding!  I used this recipe from the Affectionknit blog, a vegan food/crafty blog that I love.  The only change I made was that I mashed the banana right into the pudding instead of having them sliced at the bottom.  Super easy and makes just enough for 2 small servings or one large serving.

-Kala

Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies January 26, 2010

Cookies from a mix! I’ve never made cookies from in a mix in my entire life, but I wanted to try this gluten free mix from Bob’s Red Mill so there so you. First warning, do not, I repeat DO NOT taste the dough before you bake it, trust me! One of the main ingredients is garbanzo bean flour which I think tastes like pure evil before it’s baked. I made the mistake of tasting the dough and almost tossed the whole mess in the trash. Luckily I didn’t though because they are super yummy once baked! For sure not as good as totally homemade cookies, but good in a pinch

-Kala

Spicy BBQ and Cornbread December 30, 2009

Hmmm, we haven’t posted here in a while, December has been pretty busy!  But last night’s dinner was yummy enough for me to grab a camera so here we go.  All I knew last night was that I wanted cornbread, so I build dinner around that idea   I came up with yummy spicy bbq beans, onions, and seitan and it was delicious.  And went well with the cornbread!  There isn’t really a recipe for the sauce, there’s some tomato paste, ketchup, lots of chipotle peppers, maple syrup, and pepper.   

-Kala

Chocolaty Crinkle Cookies December 9, 2009

Yum:

Crinkle cookies are on of those things that we really only make around the holidays so that makes them extra special   This year, I tried the recipe from Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar and they came out super awesome!  The only change I made to the recipe was that I subbed some Ener-G for the flax seeds because we never have flax around.  We even shared some with the neighbors ’cause we’re sweet like that

-Kala

Unfit for Santa December 5, 2009

Professional cookie decorators we are not:

They may look like we made them with our feet but they sure are yummy!  They’re also really fun to make, baking and decorating gingerbread men is one of my favorite Christmas activities   We always use this awesome recipe from the ppk, love it, and we make at least 2 batches a season because they’re so good! 

-Kala

Sushi, lunch of awesomeness! December 1, 2009

I think sushi just might be my favorite thing to have for lunch, especially when it’s homemade:

Plus it’s so fun to make even if we don’t make the most gorgeous rolls in the world

-Kala

Chocolate Coconut Bars November 24, 2009

AMAZING:

These beauties are the Magical Coconut Cookie Bars from Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar.  There are about five million cookies I want to try from that book, but these are the first and they are so good!  I’m not sure what I want to try next but if Shane has anything to say about it, I think it’ll be the Peanut Butter Chocolate Pillows.  So do any of you guys have this book?  What have you made out of it?

-Kala

Oatmeal Almond Cookies! November 21, 2009

Aaaaaaand, we’re back!  And we have cookies

I made these babies last night, they’re oatmeal almond cookies,  a slight twist on my standard oatmeal cookies.  We didn’t have quite enough canola oil so I added in just a bit of olive oil and hoped that it wouldn’t be gross.  It was quite a yummy sub actually!  I also added a ton of slivered almonds and forgot to add in the cinnamon and nutmeg.  So they really taste like completely different cookies, but in a very good way

-Kala

Happy Halloween!!! October 31, 2009

 

Happy Halloween everyone, I hope you’re all having a spooktacular day!!!  I know we haven’t posted much this month, October has been crazy busy!  Shane and I ran our very first 5K today, the Monster Dash in Minneapolis – it was awesome, so much fun and so many great costumes to look at   Have fun tonight everyone!!!

 

-Kala