Elementary, My Dear Vegan: Yorkshire Pudding

Hi everyone! Today’s “Elementary, My Dear Vegan” is from S2E10 (“Tremors”). Watson comes into the kitchen to give Holmes an update and sees that he’s busy.

Watson: You’re making Yorkshire pudding.
Holmes: Well spotted, Watson. Most Americans mistake them for muffins. (slams the tray he’d pulled out of the oven up and down on the stove) When I was younger, our governess would enlist my help in making Yorkshire pudding…. Since then, I’ve found making them to have a calming effect. (goes over to the trash can and dumps out the tray of Yorkshire pudding)
Watson: Yeah, Gregson told me about the hearing. What—?
Holmes: I enjoy making Yorkshire pudding, Watson, not eating it.

I used this recipe, and they came out looking like biscuits, which I guess is close enough, haha! I poured some gravy over them and re-heated some leftover risotto as well; it was a nice and easy dinner and quite tasty, too! 

Here’s a close-up of silly Rogue… 

Peace. :)

Mashed Potato Bowl with Simple Gravy

Hi everyone! I made a simple gravy as part of a mashed potato bowl. I used 1 cup water, ¼ cup flour, 1 ½ tablespoons nutritional yeast, and 1/8 teaspoon each of salt and pepper, whisking the ingredients together over medium heat. It worked out nicely. 

Here’s Rogue, lounging in the kitchen… 

Peace. :)

Bookmarked Recipe: Golden Gravy (VeggieSue’s Veggie Adventures)

Hi everyone! Today I made the golden gravy from VeggieSue’s Veggie Adventures (Vegan MoFo 2014); it was super simple to prepare, and tasty, too! I had it over mashed potatoes with a bit of broccoli and another toasted Ruben. 

Cringer gave my plate an inquisitive sniff before I sat down to eat. 

Peace. :)

Mushroom Gravy

Hi everyone! This week I made mushroom gravy; here’s my recipe... 

Mushroom Gravy

Ingredients:
2 cups sliced mushrooms (I used baby bella)
1 ½ tablespoons canola oil
2 tablespoons whole wheat flour
2 tablespoons nutritional yeast
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
½ cup water
½ teaspoon liquid smoke

Directions:
Saute the mushrooms with the canola oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Once the mushrooms have softened, add the flour, nutritional yeast, salt, and pepper. Stir to combine, then add ¼ cup water, stir, then add the final ¼ cup water. Continue stirring, add the liquid smoke, and then blend the gravy. Makes 1 cup gravy. 

Served over mashed potatoes.

Here are Cringer and Daisy enjoying a restful moment on the packing paper they’ve been playing with recently... 

And Leela, who posed for her picture this morning... 

Peace. :)

Simple Smoky Gravy (VegNews)

Hi everyone! This week I tried the simple smoky gravy from “The Thanksgiving Cookbook,” which was a bonus pullout in the most recent VegNews. My only change was to use all-purpose flour instead of oat flour. It turned out really well; I had a big ladle of it with some mashed potatoes. 

Here are the kitties...

Leela under the bed

Daisy in the sunshine

Cringer being her goofy self

Today marks one month without Buttons. Everything I’ve tried to type here turns rambly and sad, so instead, I’ll share an old sketch. Buttons didn’t get the memo about holding still as a model; she kept rolling around dramatically and then got up before I could finish it, but I still like how it turned out, and I like remembering her so happy & carefree...

Peace. :)

Fish & Chips with Gravy

Hey everyone! Today is the start of Vegan MoFo's Rainbow Week (the round-up for last week can be found here), and the prompt for today is: Monochrome meal – Make some food that is all based around one color only. So I made fish & chips with gravy, using Gardein fishless filets for the "fish" and Imagine vegan mushroom gravy.

YUM!

Here are the sleepy sisters, Cringer and Daisy, resting with their heads together...

Peace. :)