Monkey Monday: extra-rambly edition. 23 November 2009 10:21 am
Posted by Tracy in : baking,books,breakfast,cookies,cooking,fangirl,geekery,milk,monkeys,random,vegan , trackbackBecause I expect everyone will have better things to do over the long weekend than read my blog, and because I have been unable to decide on a regular posting schedule for months now, which might mean not writing anything else postable this week, today’s post is extra-bonus long. There’s lots of Post-Punk Kitchen fangirling, odds and ends about stuff I cooked, upcoming events, and more. Here we go…
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Yay for book review comics! Here’s one for Vegan With a Vengeance. So cute! So awesome! And speaking of that book, I made Isa’s Tempeh Helper for dinner last night, and it was comfort food-alicious (bear in mind, however that I don’t think I’ve ever eaten Hamburger Helper in my life, so I have almost no frame of reference here). Because I had to cut some gnarly-looking bits off the tempeh, I made up the weight difference in cremini mushrooms, which made the end result taste more than a little like the Seitan-Portobello Stroganoff from VWaV, but that’s just another way of saying it was very tasty indeed.
Speaking of The Post-Punk Kitchen, Isa and Terry are having a signing party for their latest book, Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar at MooShoes tomorrow (Tuesday) night at 7 PM. Suffice it to say that this is way more exciting to me than Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World but still not as awesome as Vegan Brunch, which I will probably finally give in and buy if I make it to the fun on Tuesday night (because I do love me some autographed cookbooks, I really do).
Speaking of vegan brunch (and back to VWaV again), this weekend I bastardized the lemon-corn waffles recipe from Vegan With a Vengeance because there are few things lemony baked goods love more than buttermilk (sorry, Isa!) and this was weirdzo nonfat buttermilk so I figured it would be a pretty good match for a mix of nondairy milk and nondairy yogurt — which, by the way, is a completely brilliant buttermilk substitution, way better than the lame-o “sour some milk with lemon juice and cider vinegar” trick that fails me so often.
BUT! On Friday I finally figured out why the make-your-own sour milk trick fails me, and the answer is ultrapasteurization. Dang it, Organic Valley! Clearly, this is the universe’s way of telling me to buy only the really super-hippie stuff — which is okay, because Milk Thistle‘s cow squeezings are super-delicious, and also because getting to the farmers market to buy them is inconvenient enough that it will force me to use milk sparingly, but very well indeed.
Anyway, the other cool thing happening on Tuesday night is a Food, Inc. screening and swap meet, 6:30 PM in room 802 of the Kimmel Center at NYU. It’s free, open to the public, and includes dinner! All you have to do to go is email oxfam.america.club@nyu.edu to RSVP. I suppose I could drop off a bag of stuff and continue south to vegan cookiefest…. ok, that’s silly. And besides, by that time I should be up to my elbows in Thanksgiving prep for T-day dinner #1, a Very Special Wednesday Night at Greg’s. (Dinner #2 will be chez my parents in NJ on Friday, and should provide ample excuses to avoid death by shopping.)
Finally, because this week’s Thank You Thursday is a holiday which I hope everybody spends doing something delicious with loved ones, I’ll end here with a quick Thank You shout out to Derek Denckla of The Greenest blog, whom I met at the Food Systems Network NYC open meeting on November 10. Thanks for writing a post about the Glynwood Harvest Award winners’ panel which I was so curious about a few weeks back, Derek!
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