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.

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.

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

Congratulations, Brittany!

My friend (from the Pumpernickel’s post) just graduated college! Here’s the carrot cake with (tofutti better than) cream cheese icing I made her! I used the Vegan With A Vengeance carrot cake (replaced macadamia’s with walnuts, omitted coconut) recipe and just experimented with the icing. It was great (even though her mom bought 3 cakes from Sticky Fingers bakery.)

By the way, I used some kind of all-natural food coloring for the “green” icing, but it looks terrible, I know. Oh well.

End of the School Year

Reasons to celebrate:
By the end of today, I will no longer be a freshman at American University.
By the end of the week, my sister will no longer be an undergraduate.

Ways to Celebrate:

Pumpkin, Oatmeal, Walnut, Chocolate Chip Clusters

Lemon Poppyseed Cookies with Dried Cranberries

Recipes after the jump!

Baking For Others…

…is quite possibly my favorite way to procrastinate.

In my writing class, we all had to pick semester topics to write like six papers on. So I wrote on alternative nutrition & health. I covered things like acupuncture, the corruption in the FDA, and of course, veganism. Since we had to do so much discussing about our topics, I think I got the reputation for being the annoying, pushy vegan (which I’m not at all. I’m not even 100% vegan). So I asked my teacher if it would be okay if I actually brought in some vegan muffins on the last day of class; she said that would be wonderful. So this is the return of the graham cracker muffin.

Blueberry

Chocolate Chip

I also participated in a cookie exchange through The Post Punk Kitchen forums. This is what I sent to my partner, Susie Tofu Monster.

Those are the wonderful pumpkin chocolate chip bars & homemade vegan chocolates!

Rough Day Donuts

I have been totally stressed out and kind of crazy lately, so tonight I decided that I needed to do something happy. And it doesn’t get much happier than these donut holes. I think I’ll take these to my Bio partners tomorrow morning.

I used the legendary Lolo’s mini donut test kitchen recipe. I halfed it and used a chocolate mold to make the little shapes. They’re, at most, one inch in diameter. Too cute.

Another reason I love radio

You know, I have my first exam of the semester tomorrow; I have over 30 pages of writing due in the next 2 weeks; I have writer’s block. So what am I doing at 10:58 pm when I should be sleeping or writing or registering for the next semester?

…Okay, so I’m making roasted red pepper hummus. BUT! I am also listening to my new infatuations: Mat & Dave.

These Canadian guys host an adorable vegan podcast called “Lets Get Baked With Mat & Dave.” Each week they make a recipe with a featured guest (generally a band or something), play catchy music & make me hungry & inspired. I suggest you subscribe and fail all your finals like me. (I hope that feed works; if it doesn’t, just go to the website.)

Oh! There’s also a backlog on their website of all the episodes that feature a ton of yummy recipes.

And vegan baking boys are so cute.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bars

I have nothing to say about these. The pictures speak for themselves.

Recipe: theppk.com