Enough said.

Also, DC! E Street Cinema is debuting the new documentary King Corn on Friday, October 19. I’ll be there and you should be there, too!

Please excuse my lack of creativity.

I don’t like blogging. I’m not creative enough to blog, really. I’m pretty boring, actually.

I’ve been cooking. And even taking pictures of some of it. Some of it’s really beautiful, too. And delicious.

But when it comes to writing about it, I’ve got nothing. C’est la vie.

Little Booth Bakery

If I ever have a bakery, that might be what I name it.

Today I woke up and decided I should make two loaves of bread. So I did. One sweet, one savoury.

Lolo’s Cinnamon Raisin Swirl Bread

My Own Focaccia!

Just a little porn I forgot about.

Most of this is stuff I’ve been to lazy to post. I didn’t make any of these recipes up.

Did I tell you my biggest vegan chef crush, Lolo, is coming out with a cookbook? It’s going to be published the guys over at Herbivore. She has a slew of kids from the ppk forum testing for her. I’ve done a few recipes, but I’ve been lazy for the most part. This is her Crispy Sweet N Sour Tofu. I’ll let you know when the book comes out. It’s going to be killer.

So for my friend’s birthday/last day in town, I felt inspired to stay up all night so she could have the one thing she missed since becoming vegan — a good, homemade cinnamon roll. And thanks to rachaelrayforever’s cinnamon roll recipe, Brit got her cinnamon rolls. Warning: the dough for these rises twice, so you definitely have to have time to dedicate to these guys. But man oh man — they’re totally worth it. There was also a cream cheese icing involved, but they didn’t last long enough to get photos.

More porn after the jump.

I just couldn’t leave…

…so I’m moving back. Here are the pictures from what I thought was going to be my last night in town dinner. I made BBQ tofu, cornbread, quinoa jambalaya, stuffed mushrooms, and brownies. I started cooking a little after 5 and we were ready to eat at 8. There are pictures and info about the food I made after the jump.

People I Love

Way to Go, New York Times!!

Okay, didn’t have time to read all of this (babysitting for one of Bush’s speachwriters tonight — seriously.), but it seems like NYT is covering something with a little more depth today. There’s an article about the Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, NY. Someone read it and tell me how it is.

EDIT: So. The ending of that article was a let-down, huh?

ALSO! The Poplar Springs Animal Sanctuary needs volunteers this weekend. Here’s a thread about it over at the PPK forums. They’re short on volunteers due to the Taking Action for Animals thing going on this weekend.

Way to go, New York Times.

NYT wrote an article about Sticky Fingers Bakery. But it’s not very interesting.

Don’t waste your time, actually.

It wouldn’t make much sense…

Okay, I have some sad news: I’m moving to North Carolina. I’ve decided I want to pursue a degree in Geography, which isn’t offered at AU. I’ll be taking a year off between schools and then hopefully going to UNC. So I suppose it wouldn’t make much sense for me to keep up a blog called Yum, DC! (I’m going to do my best to start one in NC, but we’ll see.)

The good news? This blog will (hopefully) not end! I’m going to pass it on to my friend, Scott Lane who is an experienced vegan here in the District. In fact, he’s been helping me hit up all the vegan places I haven’t experienced in my last two weeks. Here’s what we had at our trip to Great Sage last week…

Scott had a club sandwich.

I had a roasted vegetable sandwich.

We had a vegan sundae.

Seriously.

THE FARM BILL SUCKS.

I could write a ten page paper (oh wait — I did that) on how much I hate this disgusting piece of complicated legislation. Michael Pollan (okay, I know a lot of vegans hate him, but I don’t) wrote a great piece on it a while back in the NYT. I would bitch more about it, but I’m at work. And Michael Pollan’s take on it is probably a way more engaging argument.

 Oh. Here are some brownies I made for my friend Leah who just left for South Africa. The recipe is mine, but it needs some work. I’ll post it once I get a chance to make more brownies. My friends are lying a state of sugar-induced a coma from all the baking I’ve been doing, so it may not be any time soon.

Inspired by Vegan Treats

Back in Action, Quinoa Sushi

Sorry for the time off, guys. I’ve been pretty busy working a 9-5 this summer, so cooking has sadly taken a back seat. But I was pretty busy this weekend.

And I’ve also been experimenting with a wheat-free diet (not gluten-free). I realized I was eating too much bread (a love of mine), so I’ve been mixing things up, trying news grains, etc. It’s been hard, though, because Celine over at Have Cake, Will Travel! is a genius when it comes to cakes and such.

One good thing has sprung out of a lack of time: a love for quinoa. Why didn’t anyone tell me how fast cooking and delicious this stuff is? I made quinoa sushi yesterday and it was fantastic. Basically, you just season the rice the same way you’d season sushi rice. (1 T seasoned rice vinegar; 1 tsp sugar to 1 c quinoa). True, it doesn’t stick together as well as rice does, but it definitely works. Especially if you throw in a bit more water; I used 1/2 quinoa to 1-1/4 c water. And with it being so high in protein, it’s totally worth it.