Tuesday, December 6, 2011

A Few Eats From The Weekend

Hey there!  I hope everyone is doing well!  I got a surprise in the mail Saturday.  I got my new Everyday Happy Herbivore cookbook....YAY.   I glanced at it Saturday night and saw a lot of yummy simple recipes that I can't wait to try.  The first one that I tried was a breakfast recipe.  Sunday morning I made the Marmalade French Toast on page 40.  The recipe called for apricot marmalade, which I didn't have, so I used orange marmalade.  Tony and I both thought it was great.  I put a little too much maple syrup on mine, so it was a tad to sweet for me.  I had not problem devouring it though.


Saturday night I made HH's Cajun Meatloaf and Brown Gravy.  The brown gravy recipe can be found here on her website.  I'm trying to stay away from wheat for a while, so I used brown rice flower instead of whole wheat pastry flour, and it was just as good...maybe even better.  :o)   I've tried HH's other meatloaf recipes, but hadn't tried the cajun yet, so I thought it was time to give it a try.  I'm so glad that I did, because it was very good.  I also made twice baked potatoes.  I didn't have any vegan sour cream, but  did have some vegan cream cheese, so I used the cream cheese to replace the sour cream.    I thought the cream cheese was great in the potatoes.  In fact, it was so great that I doubt I'll ever use sour cream again.  I topped it with vegan cheddar cheese and imitation bacon bits.  It's been a long time since I've bought imitation bacon bits.  When I opened the jar, I poured some in my hand and threw them into my mouth.  At that moment I had a flash back into my childhood of getting in trouble for eating all the imitation bacon bits as a snack...ha  I had forgotten how much I loved them.


Sunday night I made some potato soup.    This was the first time that I didn't use a recipe.  I totally winged it, and it turned out great.  I cooked my potatoes in just enough water to cook them, then added a can of cream of mushroom soup, about 1 to 1 1/2 cups of vegetable broth, 1/3 container of vegan cream cheese, 1 tsp onion powder, salt, and pepper. The soup is done once you get the cream cheese incorporated into the mixture..  I then topped it with vegan cheddar cheese and imitation bacon bits....YUM!


Last night we made pizza.  Looks good right?  Well, in this case looks are very deceiving!  First off, I was supposed to have gone some where last night, so I hadn't planned on being home to cook.  Yes, Tony was going to have to fend for himself.  My plans fell through though, and I ended up being at home with no idea of what to cook for supper.  We had a can of crescent rolls in the refrigerator, so we decided to make a pizza crust out of it.  Tony rolled it out and put the dough onto our pizza stone.  He then added the sauce and our toppings and  put the pizza into the oven.  I cooked it for about 15 minutes.  I took a big ole bite of my pizza that looked so good and bleh....  The "pizza crust" was all doughy!  With that being said, we will never use crescent rolls for pizza crust again.  It may have been better if we had cooked the crust some before adding everything, but we didn't do that...oh well.  My half of the pizza is the left side, and the stuff that looks like meat is some cajun meatloaf.  The topping part of the pizza was very good.   We sorta turned into kids and ended up just eating the topping off the pizza....ha 


Oh, one more thing about the pizza.  Tony thought he would sit the pizza stone on the stove eye and try to cook the crust a little more. He had the stove eye on a med/high heat.  BIG mistake!  All the sudden I heard a loud pop and what do you know....the pizza stone broke...it broke into three pieces.  I guess the lesson learned here is to never use your pizza stone to cook with on the stove eye!  :o)  Lucky for us we have an extra one that we have never used.  :o)

~Peace~

11 comments:

  1. The gravy was next on my list- thanks :)
    Too bad about your pizza stone- I guess the uneven heat was its undoing. Good thing you had a back-up!
    I'm glad you're enjoying the book as much as I am- what do you think you'll try next?

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  2. i'm sorry your pizza didn't turn out, but the potato soup and twice baked potatoes look awesome!

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  3. That is truly sad about the pizza...also, I had to google "stove eye." New one for me!

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  4. That stinks about the pizza and pizza stone. :( We once got a pizza delivered when we were on one of our trips and the middle wasn't done at all. It was so gross.

    That cajun meatloaf is one of our favorites and everyone at Thanksgiving just loved it, especially one of Mike's brothers. We tried one recipe out of the new HH book so far. I'll post about it soon!

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  5. Wow that marmalade toast looks fabulous! I also love the look of the cajun loaf!

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  6. That marmalade toast, yum! Looks so delicious! Major bummer about the pizza, it was certainly a good idea to try and use the crescent rolls but too bad it didn't turn out :( Bummer about the pizza stone too! That soup looks great too, nice and thick!

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  7. This made me hungry for potato soup. I can't remember the last time I've had those fake bacon bits...I think I might splurge on them!

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  8. Pssst.... Just in case you don't get to my blog for a few days- email me, you won the Throver giveaway! :)

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  9. Wow, what a lesson on that pizza stone! I would not have thought it would have done that. I've made doughy mistakes before too. Eh, live and learn.

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  10. I don't know what stove eye is, either, but I did just get a pizza stone from pampered chef that I'm anxious to start using. Lucky you for winning the Throver!!!

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  11. Your potato soup looks awesome! Were you able to find store-bought vegan cream of mushroom soup or did you make your own? I ask because I just made an asparagus casserole for Christmas and was hoping to find vegan cream of mushroom soup, but alas, could not. I ended up using the Imagine Portobello Mushroom Soup, but still hoping to find a vegan cream of mushroom soup!

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