FUDGE

Fudge is so good.And Rich.And nurtionally deficient.and delicious.and really really good.I made this for the EarthSave potluck on Sunday night.I won another book.cool.


Chocolate Fudge
1/3 cup vanilla soymilk
1 1/4 cup organic sugar
2 tablespoons non hydrogenated vegetable shortening
1 cup dark choclate chips
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon chocolate extract

Heat sugar and soymilk over high heat, stirring constantly until boiling.After mixture has been over heat for 7 minutes and has already started to boil, remove from heat and stir in shortening,chocolate chips,and extracts.Stir intensely until smooth and thicker.Pour inot a greased pan.I've made it in 8x8 inch pan,9x4 inch pan and muffin pans.Put in fridge and allow to cool atleast an hour before cutting up and eating.Doesn't need to be refridgerated.
Also,try using different exrtacts.Mint fudge is really good.

we ARE muffins.

Banana Bread Muffins.

Best banana bread/banana bread muffs.
I'll mimmick Isa's super old post on the ppk food porn thread
and say
"This is basically the ppk recipe with oil instead of margarine and with ginger instead of cinnamon. I had some chocolate covered crystallized ginger left over so I threw it in, you should try that someday, it's yumpers."


The PPK Banana Bread(muffins!)
Ingredients
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cups white sugar
1/2 cup margarine, at room temp
3 very ripe bananas, mashed well
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 cup vanilla soy milk, mixed with 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon allspice
1/2 teaspoon salt

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 F. Spray a 8x4 bread pan with non stick cooking spray, or lightly coat with margarine.

Sift together flour, baking soda, salt and spices.

Cream together the margarine and sugars. Add bananas, soy milk and vanilla.

Add the wet ingredients to the dry. Mix well. Pour batter into pan. Bake for an hour to an hour 10 minutes.

*For jumbo muffins,follow all directions,but bake for 31-33 minutes,until toothpick comes out clean and they're moist but not squishy and wet.Makes 6 jumbo muffins.

California pt.1

Two weeks ago I migrated back to my "real home";Southern California.I went to Coachella for the 4th year in a row and did a lot of other crazy things.But here's vegan food stuffs first:

Cafe M;
no honey,eggs,dairy,gelatin,refined sugar,nothin....but fish...
incredible food,nonetheless
maple squash salad


spicy peanut kale salad


garden and seitan sushi


Anthony and I taught Manal how to use chopsticks


success!


Anthony and I/Liz capturing "the world"


Liz pretending to enjoy the monstrous tempeh wrap I bought her




Real Food Daily;
best restaurant I've ever been to?
"the club" and caesar salad.Cate had a caesar wrap.and potato salad(ewww!)








Native(Palm Springs;
now I've been to all of the Native Foods!I can't believe it's been over 3 years since I first went there.Crazy.




key lime parfait and iced chai latte


Shara was crazy.After this at the hotel I accidentally threw/dropped the ice bucket on her head.It was empty but she had a panic attack.really.




Later when Greg was drunk he bought like 1/4 of the carrot cake slice for $5.He also spent like $200 on beer at the festival alone.


cute little plastic case.yeah. p.s best carrot cake ever.vegan or not.


more on California to come!

Cookie Madness!!!

Lots of cookies.In California last week,I got to enjoy awesome vegan cookies everywhere and whenever.Uncle Eddies,Liz Lovely,ABC,SunFlour and the Trader Joes Vegan cookies.But now I must revert back to making them myself.Oh well,they're just as good.

Chocolate Chunk-Oatmeal-Peanut Butter
These are like taking the 3 standard 'classic' cookies(choc chip,peanut butter,oatmeal) and making them into one.




Chocolate Thumbprint
Though I prefer to call them 'jam dots'.Cuz it's dirty sounding.Like a swear.I guess you could also call them 'birdsnest',but that's just lame.The recipe is from VWAV.I've had many jamdots before,but never chocolate ones.They're delish.Like a brownie.Filled with raspberry and blood orange.






Molasses
Big,soft,chewy,delicious.My all time favourite packaged vegan cookie is Uncle Eddies molasses cookies.I wanted to recreate them.These rule.Chris's dog Sonoma ate the bag I was planning on bringing home with me.Bisque.Went into my backpack and everything.