I got a message on Flickr from a person asking me to approve one of my photos for use on this new user submitted news site – I didn’t look around much because i’m pretty tired, but if you go here and click on the ’7 more’ link under the pictures, there’s an amusing picture that Brian took of me on our anniversary. The title of the picture is something I actually said to Brian while we were eating, because I was slurping my tea and he takes the biggest bites of food known to man. Good times, good times.
Monthly Archive for July, 2007
Don’t get too excited, i’m just talking about food porn.
This is all from the past 3-4 days. I’ve been busy. Are you ready?
Man, being vegan sucks. You’re so deprived, living on twigs and berries…and uh…um. Hey there, sexy. What’s your name? Come closer, you say?
Okay, okay. I take it back. I’m sorry, i’ll never doubt you again. So uh…can I see you again sometime?
(I ate that whole stack. Barely. Fronch Toast from Vegan with A Vengeance.)
Here is the bread I made the fronch toast from – Coconut Pecan Swirl, tester for Celine.
Getting ready to roll it up.
I cooked mine for a touch too long, which is why it was perfect for fronch toast.
I made a tester polenta for Joanna, and decided to pour it into muffin tins to make teeny tiny cakes.
I pan fried it the next day and ate it with Joanna’s braised cauliflower. Yes, I put ketchup on them. Don’t judge me!
My husband asked for pizza, so while the dough was rising, I got out the trusty grill pan and grilled some veggies for my pizza. Zucchini, summer squash, onions, and tomatoes.
It was pretty damn good.
Close up on the onion action. I didn’t put enough on!
Yesterday, I made cookies for Kelly and my husbands co-workers (no photos, I was in a hurry!), and when dinner rolled around I was pretty beat. So I made what I lovingly dubbed Farts In A Bowl, aka chili mac. I still have gas. God damn. I didn’t have a lot of pasta, so it’s mostly seasoned TVP, leftover seasoned nooch, and a can of chili beans. I added some sun chips and a garnish for class.
Muffins! I still have a ton of strawberries and blueberries, so I made two kinds. I wrote down the recipe for the Red, White, and Blueberry (y’see how I was clever there?) Muffins, i’ll blog it later. I didn’t write down a recipe for the grape muffins, but it goes something like this:
Use 1/2 cup grape jelly to replace part of the sugar of a basic muffin recipe. Fold on about a cup of black seedless grapes, sliced in half. Ta da.
They baked fast. I set my timer for 15 minutes, and when I came back they were already done and quite brown. They taste much better fully cooled, in my opinion.
Inside shot. I think next time I would add a little grape juice to the batter, because the jelly made it purple but it doesn’t really show after they’re baked except for a faint hue on top. And then maybe they’d taste a little more grapey, I really can’t tell that the jelly is in there.
And that’s it!
I am very angry at everything computer related right now. I can’t upload photos from my camera, because when I try it says it’s already in use. No it’s not! I’m trying to print out labels for another big batch of zine mailing, and it won’t print! No errors, it’s just not doing it.
Also, i’ve started getting spam at my email addresses. I have several email addresses: One that I use for things that I know i’m going to get spam for, one for ebay and paypal, and one for personal use that I don’t post anywhere public. I’ve had these emails for five years and have never gotten spam, and now i’m getting penis enlargement offers.
The last time I had a spam problem on a private email, it was because the hosting company had sold all of their email accounts. Hmmm.
