Holiday Baking/First Winter in NYC;COOKIES,Peanut Butter,Pretzels,Pomegranates,Peppermint JoJos,PBandJ Bars,(sweet)Potato Pecan Blondies,non-P Foods

peanut butter oatmeal cookies with peanut butter filled pretzels and chocolate chips.

name speakers for itself.

doh.

which i made for thanksgiving dinner at dillion's/dan's which liz invited me to at stumptown that morning.

liz's amazing cherry-balsamic brussels.

PB&J Bars.

ridiculously rich and dense.made these when theresa's parents came to help her move in,as a thankyou present.but i saved quite a few.i used raspberry jam.so peanut buttery and just plain buttery.

and then it was theresa's birthday...

being the great friend i am i baked her 6 types of humongous cookies.

and then at 11pm that night i made her 2 more types.hey!

HUGE classic chocolate chip cookies with vegan m&ms/smarties.

chocolate coated almond chip cookies.

classic peanut butter oatmeal cookies.

peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.

all together now...

and...

chewy chocolate mint cookies with chunks o' peppermint jo jos!

chewy chocolate mint cookies with chocolate chips and walnuts.

i ate one of the jo-jo chunk ones hot off the sheet(so did theresa) and i think i've personally overdone it with mint&chocolate,because i can't look at anything mint chocolate without getting nauseous now.

though 2 days before i made the delicious cookies i had this at lula's sweet apothecary:

a scoop o' mint chip ice cream with hot fudge.yeah,for once i got what blythe reccommended.i dunno if she was more surprised or me.

and after theresa left out apartment to providence for winter break,i baked some more for christmas...

sweet potato spice blondies with sweet and sara cinnamon pecan marshmallows.

zomg.these were sooo good.especially warm/hot when the marshmallow was all gooey and melty and hot.

the blondies are the amazing recipe from vegan cookies invade yr cookie jar by isa and terry but with the added awesomeness of sweet and sara cinnamon pecan marshmallows,which are like cinnamon toast crunch but better.and in marshmallow form.

yr wishing we were friends,right?

CHEWY sweet potato cookies,with walnuts.

hooray for non-cake-y sweet potato/squash/punkin baked goods.i've done these with punkin before,but can't wait to try them out with kabocha sqaush.(japanese punkin)

so that was my holiday baking.all the way from thanksgiving to christmas.and don't forget,i made that insane four-layer birthday cake during the period,too.oh,and had school,and finals.

holidays baically alone in the city,since everyone left have been fun and productive,though.albeit a tad lonely.

on christmas i ate my first mango since october 6th,which was my first since august 6th,when previously i had been obsessively eating at least 1,upwards of 3,huge red mexican mangoes a day,until they ruined my digestive tract and i had to go to the ER.it was kind of perfect.also,because it was christmas,i bought myself a christmas present.nice mug,eh?cuz it was christmas.mango and mug.

i've been decorating,too.

and if you recall the peanut butter-ed pomegranate from vegan mofo,i finished this ball point drawing on christmas day,too:

Vegan MoFo Day#10-Peanut Butter,Mango,and Roasted Squash Wrap/Sammich

Peanut Butter,Mango,and Roasted Squash Wrap.

so from late march until early august,as you might know,i was obsessed with fresh mangoes.i would eat at least one a day,some

days upwards of three.and i'm no talking about the little ataulfo,yellow ones.i mean the big,red,mexican(usually) ones.and i would go

out of my way every single day to make sure that i had ripe,ready to eat ones.i was totally obsessed.thinking about it now it's pretty

ridiculous,but i guess i was really into mango?i even had/have a 'mango' set on my flickr.

anyways,i stopped after i had really bad digestive problems in early august and even had to stay the night in the ER, and had to stop

eating all fruits besides bananas for 2 weeks,and mango and watermelon just made my stomach turn so i stopped eating them.and

than last weekend,after exactly 2 months actually,i found an amazingly perfectly ripe mango and just bought it.here in nyc it's not

so hard to find ripe mangoes-every single bodega practically sells them.but w/e.

stringy.

so i made these wraps.with roasted butternut and kabocha squash,mango,and crunchy,salted peanut butter.

everyone thought that this was weirder than the pickles and peanut butter,but surprisingly goes really well.

i ate mango and squash,and often peanut butter,together a lot over the summer,so i knew it would.there's coarse sea salt on these,too to balance out the sweetness of the super ripe mango.anyways,super interesting flavours,and very salty/sweet.

reunited,and it felt so good.

old.

even when i went on trips...(victoria)

i guess my life is now easier that i don't HAVE to carry a knife,container,and fragile mango around all day...

no,blythe doesn't try every sammcich i make,just 93% of them.

olympia!croissants!cookies!mint!peanut butter!mangoes!everything!

i went to olympia on sunday to visit jane and we had a potluck with other ppkers!
i took the bus and it was really crazy and i missed the bus and freaked out and hung out in seattle and had a really great time and got to see great people that i really love and see olypmia.
also,there was delicious food.there wasn't only desserts,but there was A LOT of sugar.

Best cinnamon rolls,ever!


mango scones.
from katie jayne for vwam's potluck.
was it fresh mango?the icing was totally yummy,too!


i made chocolate croissants!


mighty o donuts,fig danishes,strawberry/raspberry danishes,mint chip danishes,croissants and cinnamon rolls.gus brought the donuts!i brought the danishes,too.











chocolate chip mint leaf ice box cookies
testers for isa and terry's upcoming vegan cookie book!
those green flecks are real mint leaves!
very chewy,thin,cispy edges,buttery and well,minty!
they're mint.and by that i mean "mint" as in when something is swell and you say it's "mint" .

was buying a coffee at bean around the world the day i made these and was bringing them to my brother's and this guy darren was sitting outside the shop bugging people for money and i gave him a dollar then went up the street and remembered i had cookies so like 10 minutes later i went back and gave him like 8 or something and he really liked them,then apologized to me for making some rude comment that i apparently missed and then told me all about his ex wife and how he's part of the japanese secret service(?) and then asked for more money,so i left.
anyways,i'd definitley make these again!



peanut butter crumblz "blizzard" with homemade vanilla bean ice cream,peanut butter,and crumblz!
CRUMBLZ! are the BEST!soooo good!i wanna try all the falvours!


peanut butter fudge from whole foods at roosevelt square in seattle.


best mango ever!
i bought it in pike place market that morning.it was so ripe,juicy and perfect and huge!jane agreed.best ever.