Vegan Lasagna

I made vegan lasagna for the first time. I used the recipe from vegetariantimes.com, "Ultimate Vegan Lasagna". It could say "vegetarian". Anyway, I followed it pretty closely. My pan was not big enough though and I used another pan for a tiny lasagna. I don't think I layered my pasta right. I should have used more per layer. I only used 4 oz of spinach instead of 10 oz.

It came out delicious and messy. I hope there are enough noodles in the big pan. I'm sharing it at a Halloween party tonight. I'm definitely making this again. I am going to track how much it is next time.

Peace Street Bakery Pumpkin Bar

I'm so lucky there are multiple places that have vegan baked goods.

They don't have a storefront, but you can get them from Park+Vine and Clifton Natural.

This Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bar was perfectly moist and nicely pumpkin flavored.

Words of Wisdom

Halloween No No's!

I was pretty excited about the chocolate pumpkin, but I was really happy about the orange, yellow and white no no's. It's nice that vegans get to be more and more festive. They still taste like sixlets and I still love them.

Pumpkin Carving Party

I was lucky to get some vegan chili at my friend's party this year. It was so good. I mean the chili flavor is well-balanced and it reminds me of traditional chili. I also brought Rivertown's pumpkin ale which was kind of tame but I appreciated it because I remember last year not liking any pumpkin beers. The best one was Schlafly's though.

Sticky Fingers Cookies!

Just got these Sticky Fingers cookies from my Whole Foods Bakersfield's sister was having her birthday shindig and the cake wasn't vegan so I asked if we could pick up dessert for me. Ha, I just couldn't go without!

Sticky Fingers is a vegan bakery in Washington DC. They won a cupcake wars contest on tv!

The double chocolate chip cookies were crunchy and yet kind of soft. Very chocolatey and the chips were big. I would definitely get them again. The cookies were stuck together but I didn't mind. There were four for $4.99.

Meatball Sub from Native Foods!

Native Foods is a 100% plant based restaurant in Chicago and I got to go while I was on a trip to Fermilab. This meatball sub was really great. The meatballs were especially tasty.

Wotd is meson.

More Candy!

Now I'm really excited because it's the day I get to buy some of this candy.

I have two hours to finish my physics homework. Then off to hot yoga. And hopefully some running.

I get to go to Fermilab tomorrow. Too bad we don't get to go to Chicago.

Mmm. Chocolate.

Premium Chocolates-Chocolate Pumpkin Ghost!

I need this right now!

Green Juice from Off the Vine

Veg Out is my favorite juice from Off the Vine juicebar. It has only veggies in it and I needed it to revive myself after a late night of vegan wine drinking.

Wotd: Fourier Series. It will probably haunt me the rest of my days.

More Brunch at Park+Vine

I had the N'eggs Benedict. It comes with grilled tofu, vegan quinoa goetta, and hollandaise sauce on a split ciabatta roll. All the flavors merge nicely.

Vegan Brunch at Home after Wine Night

So after a night of wine drinking with friends I woke up and decided that I must have brunch. I used Field Roast's Breafast Links, Vegg powder, potatoes cut up and laid out on parchment paper. Put oven 350 and you get nice oil free fries. Scramble didn't turn out as well as I would have liked. I needed to drain more water off of it. I am looking forward to use this in other "eggy" recipes like quiche. I might need to go to Park+Vine tomorrow for brunch. Mmmm. 

Coco Gogo Energy Elixir & My Favorite Vegan Blogs

I've quit coffee for almost 4 weeks now. And it has been surprisingly great for me. My focus is better on homework. And I can stay on task longer. I do still get tired when I don't get enough sleep like last night (which makes sense) and at 4pm today I grabbed a green tea and put 2 raw sugar packets in it. Not good. It made me feel nauseous. 

I ran out of my coffee substitute, Teeccino and then it was on backorder so I grabbed this can of hot cocoa mix. It had 20mg of caffeine per 2 tablespoons and since a cup of coffee is almost 5 times that I bought it. It also is made of simple ingredients like coconut sugar, lucuma powder, mesquite powder, and cacao powder. It's not too sweet so I added agave and a jumbo Dandies marshmallow. It really curbed my craving for coffee. Plus there are not many products for vegans that are specifically hot cocoa mixes so this is nice. Califia creamer is best with it. I heard Califia has pumpkin spice latte! I bet it has lots of caffeine. 

My favorite blogs right now are Vegan Crunk, Spooky Vegan, and Bonzai Aphrodite. 

Wotd is nilpotent. It's when matrix A^k equals zero. 

Stir-fry with Forbidden Rice

Just a regular stir-fry with mixed veggies for lunch.

I am excited to buy some pumpkin flavored/ halloween food soon. I saw on Spooky Vegan's page that there are pumpkin rolls at Trader Joe's!

Chips

I found these at my local vegan shop Park+Vine. With only 12 grams of fat per bag, I let myself eat half the bag. ;)

Lots of homework today. I have to try to fit a run in somewhere. 4 or 5 miles!

Homemade Indian Food

I actually like my own indian food at home more than takeout because I don't add any extra oil. The flavor is bland sometimes so I think I am missing an ingredient. I use garlic, onion, random veggies, coconut milk and curry powder. Maybe I should get that vegan Indian cookbook. Yeah, probably.

Kitchen Factory in Northside

I got pizza the day before my birthday. There aren't many places that have a vegan cheese for their pizza except Mac's, Kitchen Factory and Mellow Mushroom that I know of.

On this one we got bbq tofu, green peppers and mushrooms. The bbq tofu was really great. Not too soft and not too crispy. It was a thinner crust and I was glad to save the calories. An 18" was  19.99. I thought it was a good deal.

You can also order sandwiches. Almost all the sandwiches are vegan. And on some days you can order at their takeout window unti 3am!

S'mores

So yesterday Bakersfield threw a surprise birthday party for me. I have the sweetest partner ever. Makes me feel all squishy. :)
He got me a cake from Happy Chicks Bakery, the all vegan bakery with a storefront in Cincinnati. I got chocolate chocolate and it tasted extra good this time for some reason. I mean the other times are good but I don't know... stepping up their game I suppose.
But this picture is of s'mores because I bought this for our dessert but then there was a surprise party and I had cake. So today I laid around the house watching izombie and eating these. Failed at not watching tv. Ugh. The stress is getting to me. I'm just going to have to keep on trucking. Tomorrow I'm supposed to go to GRE bootcamp but I can't. Just thinking about it makes me nauseous.

Vegan s'mores!-grateful grahams (vegan company), Chocolove extra dark chocolate and Dandies fabulous marshmallows. Back in the day Dandies marshmallows didn't have this perfect shape. Mmm. They're even better now.

Lotus Foods Ramen

I tried this Jade Pearl Rice Ramen for the first time. It was ok. I forgot I don't really like the taste of Miso Soup so I will probably get a different flavor next time. I really like the texture of the noodles though. 

So I turned 30 yesterday! I got some vegan pizza. And it was delicious. More squabbles between me and B. Sigh. I'm too sensitive about animals' welfare. 

I'm going running today. And I picked up a copy of Driftwood but I haven't scoured through it yet. 

Sichuan Chili: More Vegan Than I Thought

I watched my boss's pets while he was away on vacation and to repay me he took me to this awesome chinese restaurant.

There was so much food! And everything tasted great. I had the Mapo Tofu, Green Beans, homestyle tofu and a peanut noodle dish. My favorite was the homestyle tofu and green beans. The tofu was fried up into little triangles. I'm definitely going back as soon as I can.