puppy stuffs.

I like this line of pet dishes form Wetnoz.


Carlton has been needing a bigger water bowl, and this scoop bowl would be perfect. Of course if he gets a new water bowl, he needs matching food bowl right? (he is spoiled but not $80 for a water dish spoiled)

a new project.

i am starting a new project in the form of a blog.

this came about for two reasons:

1) there is no lack of vegan food blogs out there on the the interwebs, but very few have appealing photography.

2) once people learn that i don't eat meat, dairy, eggs or honey, their first response is "then, what do you eat?". that is a really hard question to answer, because i eat such a variety of foods. i thought it would be easiest to show people what i eat.

my food photography isn't the greatest, but i am hoping that this project will give me a chance to learn and improve. also to share recipes and yummy food with all of you, weather or not you are vegan. the first few posts are stolen from this blog, but i am taking a bunch of pictures of foods i have cooked, foods friends have prepared, and restaurant food too. so there is lots more to come.

go check out no animals no secretions and let me know what you think!

soul food

sweet potatoes, collard greens and corn bread.

collard greens are "citrus collards with raisins" from Veagan Soul Kitchen. we are really liking this book at my house and the author lives here in oakland (although originally from the east cost). You can watch a cooking video of the collards recipe here.

carlton

jsut for fun.

olive oil and magic loaf.

this is my favorite new kitchen gadget. it is an oil sprayer. you use it like you would pam but you can put whatever oil that you like in it. Less wasteful then buying spray oil at the store, and more fun too.

cooking up veggies for the loaf: carrot, celery, onion + garlic

i wanted to write about "magic loaf", but i never took pictures of the actual loaf.

it is really fun to make up recipes based of what you have in the house. i have made 3 different loafs so far, and they were all really good. i like to use lots of veggies and herbs, and i have tried both black beans and lintels. i also add tomato sauce as the "liquid", because i had it around, and i like tomato flavor.

brussles sprouts cooking with garlic for a side dish.

magic loaf is a good way to use up odds and ends of things you have around the house. the down side is that in addition to cooking for 45min to an hour, it calls for cooked beans. if you don't have leftover beans/lintels then it would take a few hours to make dinner.

The start of a mushroom gravy for the loaf, I also made dill mashed potatoes this night

I cook up big pots of black beans and then freeze them in small portions. That way I always have beans on hand and dry beans are much more cost effective then buying can beans.

tuesdays are for knitting: baby leg warmmies

I finished these a while back, and just now got around to photographing them.

Baby legwarmmies are fast and fun to knit, so i cast on another pair, in a bamboo yarn.

cloth napkins

not too exciting but i made some napkins from some fabric scraps that i had. i swear that it takes me longer to remember how to thread the machine then it does to actually make these. hopefully i will be doing more sewing before i forget how the sewing machine works again.

peanutbutter chocolate pillow cookies

I made cookies. The recipe is peanutbutter chocolate pillow cookies. mine didn't turn out as "pillow-like" as in the picture, but they are really tasty.

here are the peanutbutter middles before they got covered in chocolate cookie.