My First Pie!

Woo I made my first pie! For my little brother's 18th birthday. It's just raspberries and blackberries. Here it is pre-baking:

And afterwards! It was good too :-D

Oh, and this is the apple "cheese" danish streudel-y thing I made for The Urban Vegan's dessert contest a while ago. I just made it again last night per request. It's all they ever want at work anymore. Here's the recipe.

Well.. back to work!

Tofu, Cake, Apartment!

On Thursday night, Chris came over and helped me make dinner. I had some tofu marinating overnight to make the jerk tofu from the PPK. We cooked it up and then just added broccoli, spinach and zucchini to the same pan. It was pretty awesome! I declare it was the best tofu dish I've made thus far! We both did think it was a bit too spicy though!

This morning I woke up at 5:30 for unknown reasons, so I made this for my sister's apartment-warming party tonight.. I know, she's been living there all summer, but they still hadn't had a party. And they just finished painting all the walls. I got this recipe from Susan.
I didn't use a cast iron skillet (I don't have one..) but I just used a 9-inch cake pan and it worked out fine! Woo.

Oh yeah! And I did this last night. Well see.. Chris and I just got done plastering over and sanding all the holes in my kitchen (yeah.. my landlord didn't do a thing..) so I didn't want to put a shelf in. I velcro'd my spices to the wall! I love it. I can just grab them.
Speaking of which.. I just bought a bunch of these spices the other night.. $35 worth! I almost cried.

Oh and today (since I was up so early) I also went and bought paint, and painted over the holes we covered. Almost can't tell! Heh.
Oh and ALSO I finished the quilt I've been working on for Chris' sister as a housewarming gift! We're helping to move her into her new apartment a week from today. It's not perfect.. it's my first quilt without the help of my Grandma haha, so.. yeah. I hope she likes it!

Updates

It's been a while.. I've been super busy! I'm finally living in my apartment in West Chester full time, and commuting to my job in Philly. I moved out of my sister's apartment last week.. I figured I should get settled in here before school starts. But backing up a bit, a while ago I received a care package from Pensarepink on the PPK. Here's what I got:

After that I finally made a curry that looks like other curries I've seen! I was happy.

Now on to vacation. Christine and I flew to Nebraska to visit my Grandma on the Winnebago reservation and go to pow-wow. Here's me and the reservation's herd of buffalo!

Dad is out in NE.
Then we got dressed for pow-wow and I ran with the buffalos.. well OK.. they're really far off in the distance, but still.
Finally got to pow-wow!
Two little indians.
And again!

Oh yeah, then on the way home our flight got canceled, rescheduled, canceled again, and the airline put us up in a hotel in Omaha!

And that was the end to a crazy trip. I hope to be cooking/baking tons in my apartment now.. so I should be posting again soon! :-D

Have No Fear!

Hey guys! I just wanted to let you know I'm still here. I've been suuuper busy lately. I just got back yesterday from Nebraska, I went for pow-wow (yessss I'm Native American) and to visit family, so maybe I will show you guys some pictures from that soon.
Yes I'm still cookin and baking, don't worry! I'll get back on here as soon as I can!

Dinner and Dessert!

I made a lasagna using zucchini instead of pasta noodles. It would have helped to have a mandoline for this kind of thing. I mixed TVP with some pasta sauce as one of the layers, and some Tofutti cream cheese with soy milk and nutritional yeast for a cheesy layer, there's spinach, summer squash and vegan mozzarella and parmesan cheese. It turned out pretty well!

Then I made these cookies.. roughly based on the gigantoid peanut butter oatmeal recipe from VWaV. I traded out some oil for applesauce and a mini banana.. but I didn't measure anything. There some oil.. some applesauce, peanut butter, soymilk, banana.. and then all the regular stuff. They actually turned out good! Oh yeah I added chocolate chips.

Christine has some cookies in the oven right now. They're accidentally vegan.. she saw them on the food channel, something Giada made. Chocolate cookies with chocolate chips and pine nuts. If they're good maybe I'll put them up later hehe.