Our Weekly Bread

Of course I made bread this weekend. This week’s bread is a simple, non-sourdough, perfect for everyday whole wheat bread. I added some ground flax for some flair (and because I still have a huge tub of it).

I ground the whole flax-seeds in my coffee grinder, so they were not completely uniform, and you can [...]

Brent Makes Mayonnaise

Brent likes mayonnaise. I do not. The texture kind of grosses me out to be honest. It has nothing to do with the taste, purely a texture thing. But moving onto why we made home-made mayonnaise in the first place. I receive a bunch of older cooking magazines from a co-worker at work, and one [...]

Sexy Birthday Cupcakes!

A co-worker of mine had a birthday this week, and as the designated office baker, I was in charge of making the treats! I was thinking cookies at first, but then I remembered that I hadn’t really used my Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World cookbook much, so I turned to that.
My co-worker and I [...]

Nutty Oatmeal Bread

Yesterday I made some bread inspired by a variety of sources. I once made Honey Oatmeal Bread that I found on the back of a Bob’s Red Mill bag and it was pretty delicious, so I thought about making that again, but I also had a lot of other stuff just laying around waiting to [...]

Last week in Food

Here is a brief photo essay of some things I made and ate last week:

More Sourdough Honey Whole Wheat Bread
More yummy pesto bagels
Moby’s Vegan Chili, courtesy of Tessa and Greg. I can’t find the recipe online anywhere, but it was delicious, and my first time using seitan.
Fish Masala, based loosely on this recipe.
Banana-Pecan [...]

Playing Catch-Up

Here is some of what you missed in my absence:
THE VAN BUREN POPCORN FESTIVAL
My husband is from a small town in northeastish Indiana called Van Buren. As of 2006, the town had a population of 887, according to Wikipedia (which I consider the most accurate of all sources). As someone who has been a visitor [...]

Absence makes the heart grow fonder?

I apologize for this long overdue post. We had an unfortunate incident that ultimately led to the untimely demise of my beloved iBook. Someone, ahem… Brent, chose to sit in my place on the couch, and completely oblivious to the glass of water I had placed upon the side table, carelessly flung himself onto the [...]

Hibernation

It’s been a while since I have posted. I’ve made a few things, but for the most part I’ve been living in Olympics-induced hibernation. A girl’s still got to eat though. Out of necessity, I’ve Tivo-ed some of the Olympics and gone into the kitchen.
I love breakfast food. Well, I love things like french toast [...]

Oh Honey, Honey

For our bread needs this week, I wanted to make a regular old sandwich loaf, for Brent to eat with his eggs every morning. Yes, we live in a land of constant exotic variety here in the Monroe household. When I was looking through my mostly empty fridge and saw my sourdough starter sitting there [...]

Pizza, Pizza!!

When I was younger, a very exciting thing to me was going to the Little Caesar’s for pizza, back when they still had the giant place with the huge jungle gym and art area inside. All the ones I’ve seen nowadays are just little take out places, but back in the day, Little Caesar’s was [...]