June 16, 2008
· Filed under berries, fruit, pasta, salad, soy · Tagged blueberries, diptera, empidoids, fennugreek sprouts, grapes, lunch, oatmeal, packed lunch, pasta salad, raspberries, soy yogurt, watercress, yoso
Empidoids! Mmm dried flies… Just kidding. The only time I consume flies is when I accidentally inhale them (some of the specimens are quite small; I have to mount them under a microscope).
Clockwise from upper left corner: steelcut oats with apple and raisin, red grapes, honey dew melon, cold pasta salad (vegetable confetti pasta, fenugreek sprouts, watercress, sweet yellow pepper, white onion, cucumber and capers), raspberries and blueberries and Yoso blueberry soy yogurt.
The above photo is a somewhat typical example of the kind of packed lunch I bring to work. I usually eat the oatmeal and grapes in the morning, and the berries and soy yogurt in the afternoon. The cold pasta salad is not really typical of my packed lunches as I usually do not have time to make such a thing in the morning.
- Aly
PS The Granola Girl Cafe Project is back from the summer hiatus!
June 9, 2008
· Filed under baked goods, berries, fruit, vegan · Tagged berries, crisco, desserts, math, pi, pie
Despite 23 years of real-world (and kitchen) experience, I admit that I just recently looked up what Crisco actually is. I’ve long suspected that it was something I couldn’t eat, made from animal souls or something of that nature. But apparently this is not only a vegan but also a kosher product. Quelle suprise!
These pictures come from Tasmia out at McGill in Montreal, who baked a vegan pie for her household (incl a vegan roomate) back on March 14 (3.14)—Pi day! And what better type of pie to make than a Pi Pie.
Truly artistic and imaginative… far beyond anything I could ever put together (although I long to jump on the VCTOTW bandwagon and paint pretty cupcakes). The recipes come from Crisco itself and can be found here (crust) and here (filling). Thanks Tasmia for the pics, and for uniting math and food!
-Maureen
June 1, 2008
· Filed under berries, fruit, smoothies · Tagged blender drinks, fruit, smoothies, soy milk
Sorry for the delay in posting. We went to Toronto for my BFF’s birthday party. Toronto (my hometown) is the best—and as far as I can tell, the only—city in Canada, and everything about it is 1,000,000 X superior to Ottawa, mostly because the entire city (Ottawa) supports the wrong hockey team!! That’s right, I said it. It is also probably the centre of the universe. I knew I was home when we nearly got killed on the 401 highway by a Scarborough driver who decided to displace our car by veering into it without signalling or even checking his mirrors. Oh, Toronto.
But just to backtrack a couple days, we had celebratory smoothies on Tuesday. The celebration?? A new blender!!
You may recall in my last post, I made falafels and using an electric mixer instead of a blender. Life really isn’t so hard without a blender, with two exceptions: hummus and smoothies. I eat buckets of the former so we eventually caved and put $15 down at the ol’ Wal Mart on a blender.
Ingredients: frozen berries, bananas, Earthshake Soy and Oat beverage, cocoa powder, and Dutch chocolate vodka
I got those little umbrellas at the dollar store. Cute, no?
-Maureen
May 18, 2008
· Filed under berries · Tagged berries, oats
Steel-cut oats have emerged from obsurity to land on your suburban grocer’s shelf. These oats take longer to cook but have a satisfyingly chewy texture. They also have a high satiety factor, and I found that if I mixed in soy yogurt to a bowl of steel-cut oats, I was full until lunchtime. As with every foodstuff (in my opinion), steel-cuts oats are best served with berries.
-Maureen
Aly
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