November 30, 2007
whoo!
yellow rose recipes now has an amazon page! this is great news!
i urge everyone to still order directly from herbivore rather than from amazon, but amazon reviews and ratings will definitely get the word out, and it's nice that when people search for vegan cookbooks there, they will see mine in the mix. very exciting!
i have also decided that i'm going to try my hardest to sign every single book that is preordered. since preordering closes down early next week, if that's incentive for you to head over there and buy your copy and your gift copies now, please do so. i plan to walk the baby down to herbivore on the day that the book comes in and signing until my hand cramps up.
(that's right, i'm now placing my vote on baby before book. i kind of have to, or i'd lose my mind.)
posted by joanna @ 9:10 PM
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November 27, 2007
thanksgiving and pear crisp
oh internet, did you think that i had forgotten about you, just because my last post was a week ago? no, i could never do that. i've just spent the last week cooking, keeping busy, getting out of the house as much as humanly possible, and putting all of my mental and emotional energy into ejecting coaxing my sweet child from out the womb.
then i decided to take a wee little internet break because i was haunting my parenting forums (what else do i have to do?) and reading about women who had been having one hour apart contractions for four solid days and still hadn't progressed, and i was getting a little freaked out. but i'm back! although i'm still not going to read those forums until the baby is here. shudder.
here's what went on last week:
we had a very low key thanksgiving day. i did end up spacing the cooking over a couple of days, so we had several smaller thanksgiving-ish meals. here was our lunch on the day of:

the key players here are the fat free vegan green bean casserole with slight modifications; my miso mashed (purple!) potatoes with gravy (both sort of standard recipes that i haven't bothered to ever write down but, who knows, might make the next cookbook); and the vegan family cookbook's vegan turkey, which i basted with earth balance, soy sauce, and liquid smoke. the vegan turkey was stellar and i strongly recommend it to replace your processed tofurkys and unturkeys! brian mccarthy really has a way with seitan recipesthere is no kneading, no fretting over water temperature, and it came out with the perfect texture and flavor. i loved it.
i loved it so much that i made at least three leftover sandwiches with it this weekend:

(also pictured there are my roasted roots from the cookbook.)
then yesterday evening, i made pear crisp.
if you're like me, crisps are a dessert borne out of necessity rather than to fulfill a craving. i throw together a crisp whenever i'm in the: "what the hell am i going to do with all this damn fruit?" situation. i've made them with apples and cherrieseven a pluot crisp once after a regrettable end-of-summer pluot madness sale. (that one was especially delicious.)
well, i had two weeks' worth of CSA pears that we hadn't managed to eat, and my thoughts turned to crisps.
i've never followed a recipe before, because crisps are basically just sugar and fruit and spices topped with oatmeal cookie dough. but last night, i decided to try the ppk recipe. i subbed pears for apples (bonus: you don't have to peel pears!) and dried cranberries for raisins.
here are the pears after being sliced:

and the final crisp an hour later, after we had already taken out our portions:

yum. a thousand times yum.
matt wants you to know at this point that he still would have preferred apple crisp. i guess that is because he is insane. (apples are my least favorite fruit by far and i see them only as vehicles for peanut butter or vegan nutella when they're raw, or to be turned into spiced applesauce.) but i also told him that if he wanted to peel and core the apples himself, i would make an apple crisp the next time we have a surplus. and that's what we call compromise.
now i'm going to go eat some pear crisp for breakfast.
posted by joanna @ 8:02 AM
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November 20, 2007
thanksgiving in bits and pieces
i've decided that rather than prepare a four or five course meal for two people on thursday, i'll just make a lot of autumn-y dishes this week and we can have leftovers all week long! i'm giddy just thinking about a thanksgiving without the oppressively huge midday meal and subsequent food coma.
you might remember from my thanksgiving post that i'm not a fan of the processed fauxturkeys, but i will be making the tofurkey seitan from brian mccarthy's vegan family cookbook so that matt and i can make leftover sandwiches. you know leftover sandwiches: fauxturkey and vegenaise and gravy on one side, cranberry sauce on the other? why is that sandwich so good? more importantly, why don't more people put fruit on their sandwiches all year long? we definitely do it here at my house. sliced apples and pears make the best sandwich fixins!
is it that obvious that i'm 38 weeks pregnant and need some distraction before i pull my hair out? week-long thanksgiving, hurrah!
posted by joanna @ 10:17 AM
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November 18, 2007
love is in the mail!
guess what arrived in my mailbox yesterday?
that's right. the newest anthropologie catalog. tell me, how much of a moron do you have to be to pay $250 for a sweater than looks it was a crocheted by a deadhead in the back of a van who then exchanged it for a dime bag? hmmm? you'd have to be a giant moron, but apparently there are a lot of giant morons, since that store does so well.
wait, i meant that what i really got in the mail was vegan cookzines! papa tofu from kittee and DEOTS #2 from katie! hot damn! i was especially excited to see that papa tofu comes with kittee's kitteekake tutorial and most (all?) of her cake recipes, which is awesome since what i do now is unplug the laptop and cart it into the kitchen with me, which is just generally a bad idea. no more! now i can just bring the zine in there. hot. damn.
now i'm going to take myself a little nap before i need to make the green bean casserole for a thanksgiving potluck that we're going to this evening.
posted by joanna @ 3:24 PM
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November 16, 2007
the danger of the vegan mini-mall and macaroni and cheese #3
did you know that there is a vegan mini-mall that just opened 8 short blocks from my house? yes. it houses: herbivore clothing, food fight grocery, scapegoat tattoo and (soon) sweetpea bakery. all vegan businesses.
now, this is stone cold awesome for several reasons. one is: VEGAN MINI-MALL. another is that my good friends run herbivore, so i'll be able to walk the kid down on a regular basis and annoy them. score. another is that food fight and sweetpea are now blissfully close for all of our craving fulfillment.
like last night, when matt said, "i want stroopwaffel." stroopwaffel, if you don't know, are these german cookies that taste like miniature waffles drenched in maple syrup. they're kind of absurd, and i can't handle them, but matt loves them. so i said: "go get some!" and he realized that he could, so he ran to food fight and was back within 10 minutes.
and he was carrying a box of mighty-o donuts.
so this was my breakfast this morning:

the pink one is some sort of gingerbready spice cake with raspberry glaze and the other one was also spicy, possibly pumpkiny? who cares. delicious.
then for dinner, i made the mac daddy from veganomicon:

i added shredded swiss chard and topped it with my own vegan parmesan to give it a little bit of a crunchy crust. then i ate two heaping servings of it. acid reflux be damned!
posted by joanna @ 11:03 PM
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November 15, 2007
mmm
tonight i made the bean and leek cassoulet from veganomicon for dinner, except i left off the biscuit topping because we're going to freeze most of the leftovers. so i never transferred it to the oven, just let the stew continue to cook on the stovetop. it was delicious comfort food! like the inside of a pot pie. i look forward to making it again with the biscuits, because i'm betting that the full shebang is the perfect winter fight-the-chills dinner.
just a short entry tonight. i'll make up for it tomorrow.
posted by joanna @ 6:24 PM
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November 14, 2007
mac and cheese #2: vegan fusion world cuisine's menehune's macaroni and cheez

you know what this tastes exactly like? road's end mac and chreese. from what i remember, because i haven't had the stuff in at least two years, but i used to buy it fairly often when i was a baby vegan because i was still so excited by the novelty that i could buy food in a box and eat it, just like before i went vegan, when i was a lazy vegetarian! (i got over that, luckily.)
anyway, this recipe scores right down the middle taste-wise, but as far as ease of preparation? nothing could be simpler. five minutes of prep, ten minutes of cooking, and not even vigilant cooking. i was in the other room watching a law and order criminal intent rerun. and i did really like the idea of using ground up oatmeal as the thickener instead of cornstarch or arrowroot powder.
posted by joanna @ 2:45 PM
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November 12, 2007
carb loading
did you know that in the last two weeks before your due date, pregnant woman are supposed to carbo load, like they're training for a marathon? yes, it's true. something like 60% of your calories are supposed to come from carbs.
i have been looking forward to this for nine months, people. how often in your life do you get a free pass to eat a lot of carbs? never. so here comes my chance! right around the bend!
however, no one told me that during this period, my stomach would be the size of a cell phone and shoved way up into my ribs, right under my lungs. the thought of eating a bowl of multigrain pasta or a couple of slices of toast makes me a little nauseated.
in conclusion: i declare BULLCRAP on the "you get to eat all the carbs you want!" carrot dangled in the face of pregnant women everywhere.
in other news: tonight, matthew and i met some other PPKers at it's a beautiful pizza and i ate two slices of pizza and now i kind of want to die, even though i had very little else today. which may have influenced this entry.
posted by joanna @ 9:04 PM
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kittee appreciation entry
do you know how awesome my pal kittee is? she's so awesome that while you were napping or watching tv, she was making ravioli from scratch. good luck topping that, you lazy jerk.
this weekend, i made kittee's crispy crunchy stuffed tofu! i subbed kale for the spinach (because we had it) and roasted squash for peas (because peas and i do not get along) and matt and i have been munching on it ever since and finished it up for dinner tonight. so delicious!
my goal for this week is to make a new recipe every weekday. today i made two:
- amaya's egoless egg free salad from the blossoming lotus cookbook (i know), which tasted exactly like every other tofu "egg" salad i've ever made. that's not really a complaint, just saying.
- veganomicon's baby bok choy with crispy shallots and sesame seeds, which i made with regular-sized bok choy and it was tasty. my favorite part was the shallots, and matt left his shallots on his plate, so. more for me!
no pictures because i can't find my stupid memory card. um. hopefully i'll find it before i go into labor? if i went into labor tonight, someone would bring me a memory card to the hospital, right? these are the kinds of things that worry me these days!
posted by joanna @ 7:20 PM
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November 10, 2007
mac and cheese #1: ann gentry's real food daily mac and cheese

without reservation, this is the best vegan mac and cheese that i've ever tried. i almost feel like stopping the whole shebang right here because i can't imagine anything topping this.
if you're looking for a vegan mac and cheese that will resemble kraft or stouffer's, look elsewhere. there are recipes that do thatsort ofbut this isn't it.
creamy, nutty, mild, and rich, this mac and cheese tastes borderline gourmet, and i think it's because the cheese sauce itself tastes much closer to smoked gouda than to cheddar.
matt and i weren't wild about the topping, but that's really my fault. i used dave's killer good seed bread because it's what i had, and while that bread is, well, killer for sandwiches and toast, a crusty french bread should really be utilized for breadcrumb toppings on baked pasta dishes. i take full blame here. otherwise, the taste was sensational, and it will take all of my willpower to freeze the leftovers instead of polishing them off in the next few days.
next on the mac and cheese chopping block is the blossoming lotus "insert rasta hippie name here mac and cheese," which thankfully only makes two servings! i might need to halve all of these recipes from here on out to spare myself and matt.
posted by joanna @ 2:03 PM
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November 09, 2007
sweet
you know what's an awesome feeling? when you think you're out of chocolate chips, and you find a big bag of them in your pantry.
i think that's a sign that it's time to veganize these bad boys, don't you?
no, i don't think this qualifies as an entry.
posted by joanna @ 12:06 PM
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November 08, 2007
planning your meals
i am about to reveal a side of myself to you that very few people have seen. that is how close i feel we are. this is how ready i am to share myself with you.
i am seriously organized about food.
every week, on thursday or friday, i look at my produce delivery from that week and i see if there is any vegetable or fruit that i have in abundance that needs to be cooked soon, like within days. leeks, say, or kale. i run through a mental list of favorite recipes that include that ingredientor if i want to try something new, i open my favorite cookbooks to the index and look for something i haven't made yet that sounds particularly delicious.
then i think about recipes that i've been craving but haven't made recently. i start making a shopping list in backpackit and putting stickies in my cookbook as i do so.
but i'm also extremely frugal! so if the cream sauce that i'm making calls for fresh sage, i'll look up some other recipes that call for fresh sage so i can use up the sage before it goes bad.
after i've gathered together 6-10 recipes and i've made a list of all the grocery items that i would need, i nix the recipes that have the most "niche" ingredientsingredients that i would have to buy for that recipe alone, that might be kind of costly, and i won't get a ton of use out of them in the near future. will i eventually make these? probably, but it might be for a special occasion rather than everyday eating.
hopefully what i'm left with is 3-4 recipes' worth of ingredients that tally up to under $30 or so. then i copy this list to paper (what i really need is this planner); i add our staples to the grocery list; i go grocery shopping within the next two days, and i slowly start working my way through those recipes over the course of the week. there are only two of us, so with leftovers (and my recent penchant for freezing), when thursday rolls around, i'm ready to think about grocery shopping again.
how does it work at your casa?
posted by joanna @ 6:10 PM
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November 07, 2007
freezing
i lied yesterday about the waffle porn. i did make waffles today! they were the ginger pear waffles from vwav, and i subbed apple cider for juice and soy nog for soymilk so they were like holiday ginger pear waffles. so delicious, and appropriate since i froze most of them to be eaten in a month or so when my parents are in town. but i didn't take any pictures because my waffles are just ugly. they taste fine but i can't get them to have to clean corners that everyone else can.
regarding freezing, i may have gone a little overboard. to the best of my recollection, here's some of what is in my freezer right now:
- my spinach lasagna
- autumn minestrone
- vwav curried split pea soup
- a kale cream sauce for pasta
- broccoli cheese soup
- my black bean soup
- my raisin bran muffins
- veganomican sunshine happy happy muffins
- vwav raspberry chocolate chip blondies
- my pumpkin bread
- matzo ball soup
- candle cafe potato leek soup
- my northwest meets southwest chili
- veganomican tomato and rice soup
- and now: ginger pear waffles
there might be some more, but that's all i can remember. and my freezer is so tiny, you guys, that it's a feat that there is this much in there. it helps that the soups are mostly in freezer bags rather than hard-sided containers, because they take up less space.
and i'm not even done! i hope to get some pumpkin waffles, another lasagna, and a ton of mac and cheese in there over the next couple of weeks. my goal is to not have to cook at all for the first two weeks that the baby is here. do you think i can do it?
posted by joanna @ 3:53 PM
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November 06, 2007
geeking out about food
is there anything better than having fellow food geeks as friends? no, no there isn't. here's the latest example.
the other night, i was emailing back and forth with my pal josh, who said he'd be making my baked wontons recipe that week. so i said:
"hey if you or michelle need company going to the asian market for the vegan wonton wrappers, drop me a line because i seriously need to head out there. i'm making the real food daily cashew cheddar cheese soon and that shit calls for a whole cup of agar. that's like, what, $10 at new seasons? F that."
minutes later, i got an email from michelle:
"that cheese rucking focks, for one thing. BUT, you can use the agar powder which is 90 cents from the asian market and not the agar flakes. it's all about the weight. so it's actually super cheap! i think she had a comment about that in the book, but you might not have that info. so i use one little package of agar powder and it's perfect for the recipe. i even have several of them, and would be happy to drop one off for you!"
and then a minute after that, i got a reply from josh:
"michelle just spent a few minutes very animatedly telling me what she just emailed you. arms waving, making measurement signs with her hands. agar. who would have thought it'd bring out the mime in my wife."
food geeks, i love you so much!
back tomorrow with some waffle porn!
posted by joanna @ 7:00 PM
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November 05, 2007
i'm coming over to your house! i'm bringing food!
i was thinking about what my favorite dish is to bring to a potluck, but i have so many, and they vary according to theme and time of year, so instead i'm just going to write about potluck dos and don'ts.
as i see it, you have a few major considerations when it comes to potlucks: allergies, tricky ingredients, and kid-friendliness.
as far as allergies go, unless you specifically know that one of your friends can't eat something, it's their responsibility to make sure that they can eat your food without, you know, dying. i like to bring an index card with my dishes that lists all the ingredients and then put it next to my food item so no one has to wonder. but if i have a choice between a dish with a well-known allergen and one without, i go with the one without.
(briefly, while we're on this subject, preparing gluten-free dishes for potlucks will likely bring you the starry-eyed devotion of at least one attendee. wheat allergies are a nasty business, and i like to think of gluten-free folks, diabetics, and vegans as all being in the same boat, and that boat is named: "we can't eat a single thing you've prepared for dinner, so we're filling up on celery sticks and olives out of the can.")
when i say "tricky ingredients," i mean those controversial foods that people either love or hate. like cilantro. three of the people that i love most in the world are confirmed cilantro-haters, and while this is killing me very slowly and painfully, i am considerate of their tastes when i'm preparing dishes for events where i know they'll be in attendance. if the recipe calls for cilantro, i sub parsley, or i (gasp!) leave it all together, if it's just a tablespoon or so. it's the considerate thing to do.
finally, even if i'm pretty sure that there aren't going to be kids attending, i try to make something that is pleasing to all palates. that doesn't mean blandgive kids some credit. i just mean that no matter how much i like my nachos to be drowning in jalapeno slices or my curry to burn like the texas sun on a black top basketball court, i scale it way back when i'm cooking for a large and assorted group of people.
after all that is factored in, i make something that:
- is very portable - can feed a lot of people - doesn't require any special equipment or serving dish (in other words, if you're bringing soup or vegan ice cream, make sure you bring bowls for everyone, too.) - doesn't necessitate that the host of the event do anything (don't be that person who shows up to the potluck with a half-baked casserole that has to be in the oven at 375 for 10 more minutes, because maybe your host already has something in the oven, or maybe she doesn't want to babysit your food while you sip cocktails in the other room, so don't put her out.) - is able to sit out without going bad - uses seasonal ingredients, because i cook seasonally. you do, too, right? - and tastes stupendous. but don't worry too much about this one. if you like it enough to share it, other people will like it, too.
what are your favorite foods to bring to a potluck?
posted by joanna @ 2:18 PM
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November 04, 2007
hi there
my pal katie has released the second issue of her zine, so you need to buy it. like right now. or i'll know, and i'll shake my head very slowly at you in sadness and disbelief. if you don't believe me, just try it.
i actually wasn't going to write a blog entry today, because i kinda sorta wrote one last night, even though it was just a plea for recipes. but also because i wasn't in the mood because i spent most of today feeling pretty grouchy.
judging by traffic to the site, i'm guessing that a lot of you are coming here wondering if i'm going to post anything about the fact that lolo backed out of her book deal just before going to press. since i'm also (or, rather, still) publishing my book with herbivore, you probably suspected that i have opinions about this, and you are right. however, what happened between the two of them is none of my business, and it's none of yours, either. i am extremely sad for my friends, because i know how much energy and money had already been invested in this project, neither of which will now be recouped, and that is a real shame.
what i really want for you to know is that my experience with herbivore has been nothing short of idyllic. for an unpublished writer such as myself to be able to put out a cookbook where i had so much creative control is completely unprecedented. not a single word of my writing was changed, other than for spelling or grammar; my thoughts and ideas were truly valued and incorporated; i hand-picked the person who would be illustrating my book; i said, "i'd really love for there to be a photo for the majority of the recipes in the book," and instead of replying, "how about the best 15 recipes?" he said, "how about all of them? and how about full color?"
the world of publishing doesn't often take risks with vegetarian cookbooks, and the few publishing companies out there that do put out a lot of veg cookbooks... well, let's just say that they leave a lot to be desired. if you'd like to run over to your bookshelf and pull out your vegan cookbooks, let me know how many of them are well-designed, with beautiful typography, and are in full color with over 40 food photos. actually, let me know how many of them are actually attractive at all to look at. i know that most of the ones on my shelf are dead ugly, and when i cook from them, i have to guess at what the finished result of the recipe will look like. i wanted more for my book, and so did herbivore, and the result is that when i hold my cookbook in my hands in a few weeks, i will be truly proud of all the work that went into it, and i will know that i didn't have to compromise myself or my recipes to get what i wanted. that is an awesome feeling!
i'm sorry if this entry didn't contain more fodder for gossip but i do hope that it will encourage you to support businesses like herbivore, where they truly care more about putting out quality products and supporting our fledgling community than they do about the bottom line or the extra dollar to line their pockets. they are a rarity and deserve your respect, and your dough! i feel honored just to be associated with them, and to have had them put so much faith in me and my food.
posted by joanna @ 8:35 PM
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November 03, 2007
stupid %#$(%^# blog
the reports are in that some of my your blog readers still can't find the blog feed, but bloglines is getting it just fine, so i have no way to test this! patience, my sweets. i will solve this, i swear!
the feed URL is http://www.yellowroserecipes.com/atom.xml. if you use that URL and don't get any updates, please let me know and i'll troubleshoot some more.
since i'm already in here, i thought i'd announce a little mini-mofo challenge for myself. i'm looking for the best-tasting vegan mac and cheese recipe which isn't too nutritional yeastybut doesn't use prepackaged vegan cheeze, either. (i fully own up to the fact that only three of the over one hundred recipes in my own cookbook call for packaged crap, and my mac and cheese is one of them because i loathe sauces that STINK of nooch.)
i'm starting with ann gentry's real food daily mac and cheese, which requires making her cashew cheddar cheese recipe first, which calls for a whole whopping cup of agar flakes. ouch! time to hit up the asian market.
to make this as scientific as possible, i'll be employing another taster (matt, of course), and i'll draw up a chart that rates the various important factors of mac and cheese, such as creaminess and overall flavor.
please tell me your favorite mac and cheese recipes in the commentsno need to reproduce the recipe if it's from a cookbook and not online somewhere. isa's mac daddy from veganomican and the farm's mac and cheese are already on the list, so no need to add those.
posted by joanna @ 9:15 PM
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thanksgiving
what's on your thanksgiving menu this year?
thanksgiving is a week before my estimated due date, so this year, if i'm not in labor, i'll be taking it easy at home with my honey. by "taking it easy," i mean that i'm making only five dishes, not ten.
i'm definitely making: - green bean casserole - roasted garlic mashed potatoes and roasted roots from my cookbook - ciabatta or focaccia bread - a green salad with a maple walnut dressing, candied walnuts, dried cranberries, and figs
i haven't decided yet what to make for dessert, but i bet it will involve pumpkin.
i might also make my friend julie hasson's delicious smoky pumpkin hummus with crostini as an appetizer, which she demo'ed today at the vegan holiday festival.
no turkey-shaped fake meat product shall ever darken my door. no thanks. i don't know a single vegetarian who misses turkey at the holidays. let's be honest: it's the most boring thing on the thanksgiving table. i'd rather prepare something mindblowingly delicious, wouldn't you?
portland pals of mine, feel free to come over! there will be lots of food.
what are you serving? include links if you can (or pimp cookbooks! that's awesome, too!) and someone, tell me the dessert i absolutely have to make!
posted by joanna @ 4:46 PM
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November 02, 2007
simple pleasures
business first: i updated my RSS feed, so if you haven't been getting the updates from my website in your RSS reader, it probably works now.
okay so! guess what i had for lunch? a peanut butter and jam sandwich, but not just any peanut butter and jam sandwich. the bread was dave's killer bread, lightly toasted, the peanut butter was the organic wild oats stuff, and the jam was jam on hawthorne's pear chai jam. oh and i added perfectly ripe banana slices. guess what? it was exquisite. it was a total party in my mouth. if i had made you one, your eyes would have rolled back in your head, and you would have tried to say, "thank you so much" with a sticky peanut butter mouth.
i was going to write about this in my cookbook and never got around to it. (maybe it will be in the next one.) if i had to name my five favorite meals in the world, almost all of them have less than five ingredients and can be prepared in a half hour (or less). does a peanut butter and jam sandwich make the list? i'm not sure, but cinnamon toast might. chips and guacamole definitely does. fresh blueberries with coconut sorbet. multigrain pasta with pesto. a warm crusty bagel with tofutti's better than cream cheese. skillet potatoes with rosemary. olives! just a handful of olives. these are all contenders!
what are your favorite simple pleasures?
posted by joanna @ 3:22 PM
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November 01, 2007
veganmofo (and soup!)
this month, several vegan food bloggers will be doing our own version of nanowrimo, except instead of working on a novel every day in the month of november, we're going to write about food. the vegan month of food, aka veganmofo.
i'm starting this month of food blogging off with paean to soup.

(the above is an illustration from my cookbook, artwork by amanda chronister)
soup is my favorite food, no question. it's the ultimate guilt-free comfort food! when you finish a bowl of soup, you feel warm and satedand healthier. when i'm sick, i still crave creamy tomato soup and a grilled cheeze sandwich, just like i have since i was a child.
my two favorite soup recipes are my own: the lentil soup and black bean soup recipes that will be in my cookbook. i'm not trying to toot my own horn, here. they're my favorites because i joannafied the ingredients to suit my exact tastes. isn't that why any of us starts cooking in the first placeto make the foods that we most want to eat? if others want to eat my food when i'm done, that's just a bonus, not the goal.
my favorite soup recipes of others are the cheeze please soup in the ultimate uncheese cookbook, which i always prepare as broccoli cheese soup, and the spicy peanut and eggplant soup from veganomican.
currently, i'm making 2-3 soups a week at home. matt and i eat a few bowls a piece, and then i freeze the rest in freezer bags to be defrosted and eaten during the first few weeks that the baby is here, when we'll be too busy and sleepy to cook food for ourselves.
today i made the tomato rice soup with roasted garlic and navy beans from veganomican, with a few minor adjustments. a note if you're planning to make this recipe: it makes a boatload! i only used half the recommended amount of water because i wanted it to be thick, and it was still so much soup that it almost overflowed out of my pot when i added the beans at the end. tomato base + starch thickener + white beans + garlic = rustic italian soup me, and that's always a winning combo.
posted by joanna @ 2:07 PM
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