The week in (food) pictures

It's Sunday night. It's late. I'm tired. But there are so many food pics on my camera, I had to post! These are random, sequentially, but I suppose that doesn't matter to anyone except me.

A quick waldorf salad, using what we had around.


Some Jonagold apples, raisins, walnuts, cinnamon and vanilla soy yogurt. This was great for breakfast or with lunch. It's so easy to throw together, I'm not sure why I don't do it more often.

A lasagna I made the other night.


I used those no-cook style noodles and they worked really well. It was layered with Real Food Daily ricotta, zucchini, mushrooms and black olives. Served with a veggie roll from Wild Oats (only at the Fremont one, Portland folks).

I finally found a TJ's near us that carries their meatless meatballs.


I swear they aren't Nate's brand, they taste firmer and more flavorful. Jim felt like he was coming down with a cold today, so he got to make the call on dinner tonight, so we had meatball subs, baked beans drenched in barbeque sauce and a salad.

This morning was brunch day, so I made the raspberry lime variation on Isa's basic pancake recipe in VwaV. They were lovely. Inspired by Leslie's recent post, I ran some frozen mangos and mixed berries through the food processor.


The result was more of a chutney than a puree. It was delicious and Jim even ate some! He's strickly a maple syrup boy, where as I only use maple syrup if there is no fruit whatsoever in the house. I also made the Tempeh Sausage Crumbles from VWaV for the first time and wow! Have we been missing out! I like tempeh, but I've never liked the ways I've been able to make it at home, but this was fantastic.

The other night we had calzones.


Ready to bake pizza dough from the grocery store along with artichokes, mushrooms, black olives and some slices of Tofutti mozzerella that have been living in our fridge.

Dinner a few nights ago, inspired by Jess.

I had the new, super firm tofu they've been carrying at TJ's in the fridge and when she mentioned baking it in the Soy Vay marinade I knew I'd be making it soon. I used the Soy Vay teriyaki, along with a splash of toasted sesame seed oil. We had roasted veggies on the side: potatoes, carrots, onions and our new friend, parsnips. Who knew something with such an unfortunate appearance and name would be so good? Lesson learned.

Baked for the store this weekend: Cherry Almond Shortbread.


I usually make the shortbread and press a dried cherry and some almond slices into the top of each cookie, but I was too tired to do that, so I subbed out some of the flour for almond meal and finely chopped up the cherries and added them to the mix.

From midweek, Eggnog Muffins from La Dolce Vegan. I used the Hollynog which had been living in my fridge for about a week. It is no comparison to the Chocolate Peppermint soy milk that Vitasoy is making right now.


I haven't always had the best of luck baking from Sarah's book, but these muffins were great. I topped each one with a sprinkling of cinnamon sugar. Simple, very low sugar and festive.