Elementary, My Dear Vegan: Pancakes

Hi everyone! Today’s “Elementary, My Dear Vegan” was a clue in S1E5 (“Lesser Evils”)…

Holmes: You didn’t happen to cut up his food for him this morning, did you?
Jacqueline: Oh, the pancake? No, it was like that when I got there. Why?
…
Holmes: (once outside, to Watson) Whoever cut up Trent Kelty’s breakfast came back after Jacqueline left and killed him. We may have a much bigger problem on our hands than this morning’s homicide.
Watson: Because of pancakes?

I used the farm pancakes recipe from Eat Like You Give a Damn, and I think these were the best pancakes I’ve made so far!  

Look at that nice stack!

Served cut up, and with maple syrup.

Rogue decided to supervise the making of pancakes this morning… 

Peace. :)

Elementary, My Dear Vegan: Kale Salad with Dressing

Hi everyone! The food for today’s “Elementary, My Dear Vegan” is one that didn’t end well for the person who ate it in S1E4 (“The Rat Race”)…

Holmes: I think there’s a good chance Peter Talbott was murdered.
…
Gregson: You think someone dosed his salad dressing?
Holmes: I think it’s worth exploring.

When the salad was briefly shown on screen, it looked like it might be kale, so I made the only-kale-can-save-us-now salad from Eat Like You Give a Damn. The dressing was amazing and super easy to prepare. I enjoyed the salad even though I’m not the biggest fan of raw kale; if I make it again, I might steam the kale a bit first.

Bonus quote from the episode:
Fowkes: We’d like to hire you and your, uh, associate.
Holmes: Bodyguard.

Here’s a close-up of Cringer… 

Peace. :)

Squash Casserole, Tofu Scramble, Bagels, and More

Hi everyone! I tried two new recipes this week and lots of other good food as well. First up was the squash casserole from Vegan Crunk; I made it on the stovetop and mixed in crushed Ritz crackers instead of topping with breadcrumbs and baking it. It turned out really well – I used two big yellow crookneck squashes from my garden – and the leftovers were awesome, too. I had it with a vegan chickenless patty from Aldi, which was really good. 

On Tuesday, my sister Alena visited and we did a lot of cooking together, including the second new recipe, which was the herbivore’s tofu scramble from Eat Like You Give a Damn. It was super simple and quite tasty, paired with a hashbrown (also from Aldi). 

We also made nachos with Tostitos scoops and Daiya pepperjack shreds for a snack (not pictured), and then we dug out my bread machine to make bagels, which turned out quite nicely due to Alena’s bagel-forming skills! 

Dinner was a bagel with pasta.

Yesterday I threw together a random lunch because I’d harvested more corn and wanted to have some; it was great! 

Hashbrown, black bean burger, corn, and carrot sticks with Daiya ranch.

And I also tried these blackberry sorbet bars that Zach picked out; he said he had to get them because of the name…

Yum!

Here are a couple fruit sketches I did this week…

gooseberries (original photo)

ground cherry (original photo)

And here’s Leela with her toy mice in the background…

P.S. The themes & prompts have been announced for this year's Vegan Month of Food (Vegan MoFo), which will be taking place in September, and sign-ups are open until August 24. I haven't decided what specifically I'm going to do (I'm debating the idea of creating my own theme this year), but I know I'll be participating -- will you?

Peace. :)