Cookies

So damn tired. My b/f, friend and I went bike riding for more than 4 hours along bike trails. Holy Fudge!! My bum hurts like a bitch. We went down hill on a rocky, dirt rode. I hit a tree at full speed and I went flying across the path. Awesome...bruised my pelvic bone when I hit the metal rod on the bike that is between the legs. I need to go out more hahahh fudging loser :3 Anyways enough ranting.

Berry Stoned Pome Smoothie

Laced it with calcium powder and protein powder in attempt to get all the needed nutrients. It does taste more like a power shake since it's does have a slight powdery gritty texture from the soy protein. You can do without it but hey you're not getting that calcium and protein even though it's not as much as a glass of soy milk. It has more protein than a regular soy milk smoothie.

Recipe Yields 3 cups/ 144 Cal, 11.7% Dv Calcium, 6g og Protein
1 Med-Large/195g Apple
1/138g Nectarine, White
1 Cup/250g Raspberries, Unsweetened Frozen
1 Tbsp Agave Nectar
2 Tbsp Soy Powder (Now Brand)
1/2 Tsp Calcium Powder (Now Brand)
1 cup/237 mL Soy milk, plain

• Pit and chop the apple and nectarine into 1/2 inch cubes.
  
• Throw in the raspberries, apples and nectarine into the blender (hence the name of the smoothie).
• Top it off with the soy powder, calcium powder and agave nectar.
• Pour in the soy milk and blend!
  

It's really sweet from the apple yum!

Graham Cracker Raisin Cookies!!

Whoopdie doo! Need to get rid of my graham cracker. Use vegan graham cracker so watch out for em honey!! I need to perfect this cookie. My mom thinks it's sweet but I think it's fine. I think it's a bit too soft and chewy but my mom thinks it's nice soft and chewy. Hard to please so eh...

Recipe Yields 18 Cookies
1/2 Cup of Sugar
1/4 Cup Soy Butter
1 Egg Substitute (I used the rice egg)
1/3 Vanilla
1/4 Tsp Cinnamon, Grounded
8 Large/125g Graham Crackers
1 Tbsp Baking Powder
Pinch of Baking Soda
1/4 Tsp Salt

• Place the crackers into the food processor and process it until the crackers become powdered graham crackers. (Not crumb, POWDER!!)
• Cream together the sugar and the butter in a large bowl until the mixture is all nice and creamy.
• Cream the egg substitute into the creamed sugar mixture until everything is combined. (If you are using flax egg or the rice egg, let it cool down first or it will melt your creamed butter mixture)
• Put in the vanilla extract the grounded cinnamon and cream it all together.
• Preheat the oven to 350 F.
  
• Sift the graham cracker powder, baking powder baking soda and salt into the creamed mixture.
  
• Mix the dough together until everything is combined.
  
• Form into 18 balls of dough and bake it on the cookie sheets for 12 minutes @350 F.
  

Italy Grape


Can someone please tell me what exactly are they? They were labeled Italy Grapes but I googled it and there were just listing of wine grapes. The chinese name for it is also Italy Grapes so I don't know. They are about 3/4 inches in diameter. The skin is also quite thick and the flesh is a bit tart but also has a hint of grape/plum flavor. I don't know please do inform me of this odd fruit.


Tempeh mixed Veggie Sandwich


Mixed veggies...You can tell me about it. Yes that is bokchoy. I dont even know what kind of sandwich it is hahah. Fried tempeh with soy sauce, Bokchoy, pan fried tomato with sweet relish and dijon mustard on pumpernickel. Que? Asian stuff with some non Asian stuff hahah yay!! It tasted pretty good though. Muahahah oddball

Using up lacto ovo vegetarian food.

I was suppose 2 upload this post last week but I was so caught up with school, work and everything else. I had a huge midterm this week so I haven't really made anything at all but I've been trying to finish all my lacto ovo vegetarian food. I've finished a majority of them with the exception of the cream cheese, butter, chocolate chip, chocolate candy, graham cracker, condensed milk and bread crumb and morning star. Oh dear god never finish my choco candy! Too much!


Dragon Fruit

I bought some from the market the day before yesterday. It was only 3.29 /lb in comparison to the usual of 6.99/lb. I just bought two and it was almost two lb. Crazy! I haven't eaten these in a while. The one I purchased was the one with the white flesh, not the one with the red/pink flesh. The one with the white flesh are mild in taste and it is not very sweet. In fact you can say it's lacking. Both the white flesh and the pink/red flesh one contains seeds that looks similar to black sesame seed. It's quite obvious there are a lot of different species of dragon fruits. There are at least 5 different species for the dragon fruit with the red/pink and the white flesh one. There is one special species where the dragon fruit is golden yellow!! I think I'll make some dragon fruit agar agar jelly from one of the thai food blogs. Hm...These dragon fruits remind me of the exotic fruit mangosteen. I miss those. I had them when I was in China. They don't sell them here. T.T If they were too, it probably cost so much.


Choco Coffee TeaBread
Anyways I've tried using up all my sour cream by making these sour cream cookies but I modified it so that it taste like chocolate and coffee and contains no eggs but it ended up like cake/bread! where's' the chewy or the crispiness?! It goes well with tea though. Dip dip :3




Baklava

Made some baklava from PamelaCooks! The agave has finally came and the phyllo dough was also waiting for me in the freezer. I think we overcooked it because the phyllo dough wouldn't golden. There was also a proud with our measurement of the nutmeg and the allspice. We added tooo much. There was a huge nutmeg/allspice flavor. It was a bit too flakey too because the syrup cooled down by the time the baklava came out of the oven. All problems on my b/f and my behalf. Other than that, the bakalava tasted awesome. I think Ill make it again!

My mom grew a lot of cucumbers in the yard and my granny gave us a lot of her home grown cucumbers as well so we need to eat some. I also need to rid myself of the sour cream, cream cheese and my wilting scallions. I've lost the sheet of paper to the ingredients I've used so I dont have the weight of each other either. Sorry.

Cucumber Sandwich (Lacto Vegetarian)

Recipe Serves 2 or 1 hungry person/279.5 cal/serving

1/2 Large Cumber, Sliced
2 oz Cream Cheese =*
2 Tbsp Sour Cream*
1/3 Scallion, Finely Chopped
2 Small Stalk of Celery, Finely Chopped (A stalk from the middle/inner bunch of celery. It's about 4 in long.)
1 1/2 Tbsp/1 Freshly squeezed Lime Juice
4 Slices of bread
Salt & Pepper to taste

• Combine the cream cheese and sour cream together.
  
• Pour the lime juice and mix well
• Then stir in the scallion and celery
• Season the spread with salt and pepper.
  
• Spread the cream cheese mixture onto one side of both the bread.
  
• Placed the sliced cucumbers on top of the cream cheese mixture of one slice of the bread and place the other slice on top of the cucumbers.
  

If you have left over cucumbers you can just eat it as it is. Hm...
* You can use vegan version of these. You can use tofutti brand cream cheese and sour cream.

Black Bean Patties


I have had these tucked away in my freezer for months. I've used a recipe from vegweb.com It tasted delicious with dijon mustard and sweet relish. I have had so many sandwiches this past week that I'm so sick and tired of it.

Spinach Pasta


I was quite proud of this recipe since I didn't modify or use a recipe :3 Yay but apparently I forgot how much of each ingredients I placed in it. Lost the paper where I wrote everything.