Weekend Eats and Treats

Happy Monday!  I hope you had a great weekend.  My thoughts and prayers are going out to all the people who have been affected by the tornadoes over the weekend.  It's so sad to see all the devastation that the tornadoes have caused.  The weather has been so crazy this year!

Friday, I picked Maggie up from the vet.  It was her spa day.  I was going to take her picture and send it to Tony telling him that his daughter was on her way home.  This is the sassy pose I got from her...lol



Yesterday we stayed home and watched movies and relaxed. I actually got some cooking/baking time in also.  I finally got around to making some hummus, so I can have some wraps for lunch this week.  I used the hummus recipe out of my Veganomicon cookbook this time.  The only thing that I did different to the recipe was that I added a roasted red pepper, because I love...love...love roasted red pepper hummus!

Around noon on Sunday we were trying to figure out what in the world we were going to do for lunch.  Neither one of us wanted to leave the house, so Tony came up with the idea to make our own personal baked spaghetti's again.  We used a store bought mushroom pasta sauce to speed up the process, cause we were starvin! We used whole wheat spaghetti, and I added some asparagus to mine before putting it into the oven. I topped mine with vegan mozzarella, and Tony used the real stuff.  Turns out my hubby had a great idea for lunch.  :o)

Yesterday afternoon I pulled out my Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World cookbook and made the Simple Vanilla and Agave Nectar Cupcakes.  Tony loves vanilla cupcakes, so I thought these would be a great starting place for my first go at making vegan cupcakes.  It's hard to believe that I have been a vegan for almost 15 months and this is my first time to make vegan cupcakes.   I made a simple strawberry icing to go on top, but my strawberries were all mushy from being in the freezer, so it made the frosting thinner than what it normally is.  The cupcakes were awesome though!  They were so awesome that Tony ate 3.  :o)

Oh, I'm going to skip around here, because I was about to leave out breakfast.  Have you ever used this pancake/waffle mix?  It's not bad.  You just add soy milk and a mashed banana to the mix to make the batter.  I did add some cinnamon and pecans to the batter though.   They turned out pretty tasty.  They aren't as good as when you make them from scratch though, but still good.

It made 4 full size waffles and a partial 5th one.   There's a waffle missing from the plate though, because I was so hungry that I added some maple syrup to the waffle and ate it before I even thought about taking a picture. 

Ok, so now I'm skipping on to the later part of yesterday which would mean supper time.  I made the Herbed Home Fries from The Happy Herbivore.  These were delicious!  They were so full of flavor.  These would be perfect with some tofu scramble.   Also on the menu was sweet corn out of the freezer, black eyed peas, and  some bok choy that I got at the Farmers Market Saturday morning.  I used this recipe for the bok choy, and man was it ever so tasty.  I really liked the addition of the ginger.

~Peace~Love~Happiness~