MY FIRST VEGAN BURGER

Earlier this week I made my first vegan bean burger. Consisting of lentils, black beans, bread crumbs and some spices. . . . very yummy.

I got the recipe online hmm can't remember where but it's pretty easy to make.
two posts in one day? wow as appose to the ONE last month eh?

Ok so it has been a while since there has been some kinda postage. I'd like to say I've been SUPER busy but that would be lying . Julz off living and loving the european backpackers life. Extremely jealous but here in sometimes rainy sometimes sunny Vancouver.

anywho my mom visited and I made a BIG pizza and of course it was goood.

also took a crack at making my own granola instead of buying store bought. cause saving money is cool!

Oh look crafts! This is a mothers day card I made for my . . . well mother.

It was also my sister's birthday at the beginning of the month (may 5th) and she's going into audio engineering which is sooo awesome and I am SOO proud of her for getting into a school in montreal and that is the cassette tape reference in a sense.

ON a side note. Remember that 2010 book I made? well I've come to terms with the fact that it will be IMPOSSIBLE to fulfill those goals this year sooo I am not giving myself a time limit for that. We'll see

I think its about time . . .

for another post. don't you? anywho this is yet another food post BUT there is arts and crafts coming soon. The two of us have been busy with friends visiting from Edmonton and Julz getting ready for Europe! three months without Julz?! HOW WILL I LIVE! I guess I will manage. I DO believe this will put a dent in our blog goals for posting at least once a week.

ok . . . .

I tried making a creamy avocado and broccoli pasta sauce it was too creamy i don't like creamy sauce.

Friday me and Julz had dinner and a movie (Sense and Sensibility) I made pizza with pesto sauce, sauteed mushrooms and onions, yellow orange and green bell peppers, black beans and corn it was really good. The dinner was a success but the movie wasn't . . . we both fell asleep

Yesterday we went out for my sister's birthday and I made her chocolate cupcakes with icing for someone with a sweet tooth she said it was too sweet . . .

Well thats about it for a lame attempt . . . .but I just wanted to post SOMETHING.

I am in the middle of making cards

Easter Weekend

So I spent most of my weekend at my friend (Tanisha) house. Had a blasty blast. Saturday morning met up went to her place. Its awesome. It was gonna be a night of movies, food and fun. And it was. For lunch she made a vegan spinach quiche (actually everything she made was vegan and I was so touched cause everyone else says I'm being difficult becoming vegan)

yummy . . .

next came vietnamese spring rolls. . . i ate four and they weren't small. soo good.

Dinner came around and she made falafels ( that i couldnt eat cause I can't eat chickpeas) and homemade pita bread (which was better than store bought) she also made Baba Ganoush

Roasted Kale. crunchy. . .

Curried peas with tofu

HMMM. . . we decided that we were going to make "space" brownies and watch funny movies (super troopers which i fell asleep for- I swear I was asleep for 5 seconds but I opened my eyes and the movie was done and I was apparently snoring . . . oops)

Sunday morning after waking up with what felt like a hangover. I came downstairs to find Tanisha cooking up another storm. Scrambled tofu . . . . with left over curried peas, roti and my fave

apple cinnamon pancakes . . .
it was a marvelous easter weekend.

Something Different

So I like avocados and I wanted to see what I could make with em. Mashed potatoes? oh yes. and they were good. though I made them the DAY after St. Patty's which i TOTALLY forgot about which is sooo weird because I adore the Irish ( . . .boys . . .what?) anyways they turned out great.

Next? and a few days later uh . . this weekend actually. Chocolate and Avocado Muffins! mmmm.
let me tell you its hard to mash avocados with a fork.
so i added the other ingredients and then blended it (I love my blender) this batter tasted pretty good just as it is right here. Even though it doesn't look too appealing.
before baking . . .
the finished product. I actually was scared they weren't going to get any bigger. But they did and they taste great. A few of my friends/co-workers aren't use to it and pretend they like what I bake but make faces and blah blah blah. They don't have to have any. I had one warmed up with a side of (rice milk) ice cream and it was quite tasty if I do say so myself.
That night for dinner i tried quinoa for the first time. I like it and there's asparagus and carrots and black beans. I mixed the quinoa and black beans in left over pesto sauce. It was an eventful weekend (not really)
This is how I spend my weekends these days . . . exciting ain't it? no wonder I'm still single . . . I'm not complaining (ok maybe I am)

ok I'm done. I'm done

Last Few days

. . . Saturday night we went out for my birthday and a few people met at my house before hand which gave me the opportunity to test out some more vegan recipes one of which is pumpkin bread (from The Kind Diet) . . . ok well it didn't turn out THAT great it TASTED undercooked actually people only tried the one on the right but the one with almonds on top actually doesn't taste that bad .

I also made sangria. I put strawberries and black berries (1st bowl), peaches and pears (2nd bowl) and lemon and limes (3rd bowl) I REALLY wanted to put pomegranate in it too but you have know idea how hard it is to find it on Fraser Street but I did have pomegranate TEA and I steeped that for a bit and added it in . . . lame I know. Then I added 7up or was it sprite (one of the two)

TONIGHT I decided to try making my own pesto sauce. I gotta say it was pretty successful, fun and fast. I used basil leaves, pine nuts, a little bit of almond nuts, salt, pepper, and garlic.


I then scooped out some mushrooms added some pesto . . . .
topped it off with some veggie meat . . .
put them in the oven for a bit and added it to a bowl of barley. They are filling mushrooms. It was fun . . . and I'm done.

I realized I need to do some ACTUAL crafts as fun as all this cooking is . . .i need to getting my hands on some paper, glue, pens . . . artsy fartsy stuff.

The Cake in Pictures.