Snickerdoodles and leisurely walks

Vegan Dad posted about making snickerdoodles the other day and the recipe was so easy that I decided to whip up a batch yesterday. Holy snickerdoodles! Are these things every addictive. We both followed the recipe posted over at the Have Cake, Will Travel blog. I doubled the recipe because I wanted a little bit more than just seven cookies. With a nice glass of soy milk it was a very nice dessert indeed.

For dinner I just threw together some seitan I had in the freezer with some roasted asparagus and mashed potatoes. Again it was another comforting dinner. I just used store bought bbq sauce thinned out with some soy sauce and water to glaze the seitan. Unfortunately, the pictures of this meal didn't turn out too stellar. A fault of the photographer and not the camera (note to self: must learn how to use digital camera in poor lighting conditions).

Before all this cooking, Ayla and I went out on a leisurely walk yesterday on a new trail beside my house. The trail isn't really new it's just new to us. We got a couple of mosquito bites and ended up taking another route home but it was lovely all the same.

Table for two

Dinner over the last 3 days. All new recipes that were very welcome and very tasty. Although, we did decide that we're not big fans of seitan. I have yet to find a recipe that I love. I'll keep trying though in hopes that it's out there. Well I know it's out there since eating at Buddha's Veggie in Calgary but I have yet to figure out how they actually make it. I actually ordered a vegan Chinese cookbook so hopefully there will be some ideas in there. More updates on that when I actually receive it.

Olive Oyl Pasta with Walnut-Pecan balls from Eat, Drink and Be Vegan by Dreena Burton. The Walnut-Pecan balls are actually from the Food Network Canada website. Dreena now has a selection of completely vegan recipes that can be found at foodtv.ca. I'm so mad this came out blurry but really it was so amazing I can't say enough good things about this dish. It was divine.

Sautéed Seitan with Mushrooms and Spinach from Veganomicon by Isa and Terry with a side of baked potato.

Green Pea and Lemon Risotto with Roasted Red Peppers from Veganomicon. I actually used edamame instead of the green peas because I wanted to up the protein content without having to make an entirely separate dish.

TGIF

Well thank goodness it is Friday again but unfortunately I still do not find myself with anything interesting to report. So what do I do? Ignore blogger and will something interesting or thought provoking to come into my life. Of which nothing does of course. I'll just update with some of the great food I've been indulging in all week for all you food porn fanatics out there (you know who you are!). And do I even need to mention that they're all from Vegan with a Vengeance? I think we all know I have what some might call an unhealthy obsession with it at the moment.

Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies
Maple Walnut Cookies (You might be inclined to ask why I have two admittedly large batches of cookies on here in one week. And the honest answer is that I ate off single handedly the first batch of cookies in about 3 days. Yes I'm very ashamed... So ashamed in fact that the second batch has almost gone the way of the first...)
Ethiopian Seitan and Peppers
Green Thai Curry (admittedly not very green)
Brooklyn Pad Thai (Last night's dinner)
Pictures of delicious cupcakes I would like to make from my wonderful cookbook Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World. It finally arrived in the mail! Unfortunately Chapters forgot to put my other book in the same box so that will be arriving next week. I can't wait!

And last but not least, if you take a look in the picture above you'll see a ball of yarn and part of my current project. I'm knitting a scarf. It's taking awhile as I'm a very slow knitter but it's coming along great. I can't wait to finish it. I got it from this pattern. Easy enough for a beginner, I didn't want to waste good money on yarn in case I didn't finish it or it turned out like crap not unlike my many other knitting projects so this yarn is cheap stuff from Wal-Mart. I'll need two skeins though so I wonder if I'm really saving... Sorry for the blurry pictures, you know how lazy I can really get.