Cheap Ass Parathas

I made some parathas last night to officially complete the cheapest meal that tastes good in the world. Curried lentils: red lentils, onion, oil, spices, water. Parathas: flour, water, oil, earth balance. Rice: rice. Parathas are triangle layered fried Indian bread. You make the dough, separate into balls, roll a ball into a very thin circle, spread with marge (or ghee if you are cooler), fold in half, spread again, then fold over into a triangle. Roll again til thin. Fry them twice, and you'll be so proud. If you do them right, they whistle Bollywood songs in the pan.

Russian Banana Fingerling Curry

Ok, Russian Banana Fingerlings are actually potatoes! Booooorrrring. It was pretty good. I got some free Vindaloo sauce in a can that ended up being tasty. The curry also contains tomatoes, zucchini, and red bell peppers. It is being modeled here by a hungry and injured skaterdude, being watched by a champion, award winning golden retreiver. Also went on a picnic lasterday with sister in the quaint little touristy town of Nashville, Indiana. That place hypnotizes me so much that I almost spent $6 on a kitchen towel that said "Count Your Blessings."

Old Nachos & New Morels

These broccoli nachos are from a while ago. I can't remember how long it's been. They are still sitting on my counter. Just kidding. I like nachos because you can just put down a layer of chips, pile anything on top, and call it nachos. These have broccoli and are "taco salad" style. Wow, I am getting pretty desperate. I've been very busy with college and am looking forward to doing some crazy bakin' when my break happens. Busyness has not, however, kept me from one of my top five favorite activities, mushroom hunting (yes, i am pretty wild). So far this year I've found 7.

My yearly quiz post.

Survey from my sis.
1. What was the most recent tea you drank?
I drank approximately one million cups of Tibetan tea (peh-cha) yesterday.

2. What vegan forms do you post/lurk on?
I like to stalk my sister at Sweet Soy vegan blog.

3. You have to have tofu for dinner, and it has be an Italian dish. What comes to mind first?
Balsamic tofu w/ green olives and panko. not v. Italian though.

4. How many vegan blogs do you read on an average day?
on average, .5

5. Besides your own, what is the most recent one you’ve read?
cake wrecks, womanimalistic

6. If you could hang out with a vegan blogger that you haven’t met, who would it be, and what would you do?
i want to hang out with those girls from that new york vegan bakery, have too many frosting shots and tell them how pretty they are.

7. If you had to base your dinners for a week around one of the holy trilogy – tofu, seitan or tempeh, which would it be?
Tofu, then hope I don't get kidney stones.

8. If you had to use one in a fight, which would it be? dried out seitan

10. What’s a recipe in vegan blogland that you’ve been eyeing?
i always eye my sister's fancy pizza recipe.

11. Do you own any clothing with vegan messages/brands on them? i used to have a shirt that had a picture of GW Bush with a gun to his head, and a little rainbow on the bottom. that's pretty vegan.

12. Have you made your pilgrimage to the ‘vegan mecca’ yet? (Portland, duh) i've been there but the only vegan thing i remember ingesting was basil infused vodka at the Delta.

13. What age did you first go vegan? Did it stick?
i was vegan once for two weeks.
then brie and sardines lured me back with the green foggy stench they put off.

14. What is the worst vegan meal you’ve had? Who cooked it?
i think it's kind of gross when vegans make vegan versions of real things.
like twinkies and baby deer.

15. What made you decide to blog?
my sister forced me with her big tempeh stick.

16. What are three of your favorite meals to make?
i love to make biscuits, big indian curries, and pad thai.

17. What dish would you bring to a vegan Thanksgiving-themed potluck?
some kind of savory sweet potatoes probably.

18. Where is your favorite vegan meal at a restaurant?
i do love laughing planet's veggie burgers, but i have to say BRUNCH at the Chicago diner is my favorite. Also Shalimar in Broad Ripple has killer Vegetable Biryani.

19. What do you think the best chain to dine as a vegan is?
my house. i just bought the franchise.

20. My kitchen needs a………
paint job! and cuisinart food processor.

21. This vegetable is not allowed in my kitchen…..!
All veg is welcome in my kitchen. Raisins, on the other hand......

22. What’s for dinner tonight?
Potato coconut curry

23.What’s your favourite cookie cutter?
last year i received a set of three dog bone cookie cutters.

Frenchy Quiches

This morning I pulled the French Sheep's Milk Feta chunk I've been saving out of the fridge and put it to bon use. Instead of just eggs and fixins in a crust, I took the advice of an old hippy cookbook and made a crème anglaise style filling instead. Yes. Adding some half n half n flour, then putting into the magical modern cauldron which is called KitchenAid, the custard quiches turned out to be a little bit transporting. While they were baking I did the dishes, and everyone knows a meal tastes better when the dishes are done. Thanks to my quiche picture model. Un bon oeuf.