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I spent the weekend (or at least a good few hours) watching online vegan cooking shows. There is no cable TV in my house, and even if there was, I don’t know of any vegan cooking shows. So I like to watch them online. I found a great website, EverydayDish.com, which has a number of fantastic cooking episodes with a few different hosts. Great stuff with totally yummy food.

So about this peanut sauce. There was a great episode with a very easy and tasty sounding recipe that you can find here. I made a few changes, like using rice noodles, cauliflower, carrots and peas. This is my lunch for the week, and first day conclusion: delicious!

Bonus photo: Doc, my love.

I’ve never had chili (that I can remember) in my life. Ever. It always just seemed gross to me, chunks of meat and tomatoes and oily sauce, never seemed very appetizing to me. Plus, I was a super picky eater growing up, so even if it was amazing, I’d never try it. Truth is, my mom was a pretty good cook and usually found a way to make something I would eat.

Today, I have to do my own cooking, so whatever possessed me to want to make a dish I’ve never actually eaten, I don’t know. Maybe because it was cold for a few days and felt like Fall, a time to make warm soups and bread and comfort foods all snuggled up on the couch.

So I happened upon a recipe that looked promising and thought “why not?” and got the ingredients. Everything in the chili I liked (or at least LIKE when mixed together), and it turned out quite well. I mean, I have nothing to compare it to, but the fact that I ate it says something.

I used this recipe as a starter, and also added some peppers, cherry tomatoes and quinoa to make it my own. The quinoa made it thicker, which I really liked (rice would probably also work), and the pepper and cherry tomatoes were used because I have a plethora in my garden I wanted to use them fresh.

I took it to work last week and ate with crackers. It was really good! For my first attempt at chili, I’d say it wasn’t too shabby.

No animals were harmed in the making of these pancakes, not even me!

I was flipping through my catalog of recipes, looking for tofu scramble, and came upon this recipe. Now, I haven’t made pancakes in (probably) years, so whatever possessed me to whip this up be beyond me. Well, I tried it and I CONQUERED IT!

Batter:

Making the first pancake…

Yes, even the FIRST pancake turned out edible.

My stack, with pure maple syrup… YUM YUM YUM. 

The “after” shot. 

This recipe made 6 very descent sized pancakes, so I’m saving the other 4 for breakfast (and maybe lunch, or a treat for Doc) for tomorrow, maybe with some sliced banana on top. Yeah, that sounds good.

Oh, and I still need to find that tofu scramble recipe…