Archive for June, 2008
Chocolate Peanut Banana Flapjacks & Vegan Ham Powder?
By Monica on June 19th, 2008
Feeling ambitious last weekend, I woke up early to make pancakes with the aging bananas on my kitchen counter.
Half way into mixing, I thought I’d add some peanut butter and chocolate chips to really spruce them up. I could not have imagined that peanut butter would be so amazing inside pancakes! What could be better than a fluffer-nutter in pancake form?
Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Flapjacks
1 1/2 cups flour
2t baking powder
1 overripe banana, mashed
1 cup non-dairy milk
4T creamy peanut butter
1 cup chocolate chips
vegetable oil
Whisk together the flour and baking powder. Then add all remaining ingredients and mix well. Put your cast iron pan or skillet over medium-high heat and coat lightly with vegetable oil. When hot, spoon in the batter. (I made mini-pancakes which were about 2T of batter each.) Cook until golden brown on each side. Makes about 12 mini-pancakes.
And secondly, I’m bringing you the first installment of Bizarre Search Terms people have used to arrive at my blog. Some of them are so wacky I googled the terms myself to see if my page really turned up in the results. These terms confirm my suspicions that the world is insane. (My responses are in parenthesis.)
“swastika mason jars” (a collector’s item for sure!)
“cooked testicles” (not vegan!)
“tapioca poisoning” (first tomatoes this week, now tapioca?)
“squirt dairy cream in the ass porn” (I fear this person was gravely disappointed when arriving at my blog.)
“i hate bloomington-normal” (me too!)
“baked silly putty” (maybe vegan?)
“dairy goat software” (for extra smart goats)
“massive wieners”
“great white shark pets and fish tickles” (Does one need a special permit to have a pet great white, or to tickle fish?)
“cat helmet sundae”
“creating a bonsai by digging a tree”
“wet french fries” (ewwww!)
“ass farmer” (The world has enough asses, I don’t think we need to grow more!)
“pictures of foods that are bad for you” (err, thanks?)
“people dressed in pizza” (Best Halloween costume ever, though probably messy.)
“vegan ham powder” (please tell me this doesn’t exist!)
Hot Hot Hot !!!
By Monica on June 12th, 2008
It’s said that Illinois has two seasons: winter and construction. I’m adding a third season, which follows a never-ending winter, and that season is “Blast Furnace”. We’ve gone immediately from below freezing into muggy, humid, clothes-sticking-to-you high 90’s. And I am not a summer person… So my kitchen has stopped churning out breads and baked goods and has instead focused on foods which are quick and do not require turning the oven on.
I think I am officially the last blogger remaining who hadn’t tried V’Con Chickpea Cutlets yet, so let’s start there. I definitely appreciated the easy alternative to seitan, I tried them on the 2nd day (as recommended by other bloggers), and I didn’t have any trouble making the cutlets. I don’t think I’ll make them again, they were just kind of mediocre for me - but I did enjoy the innovative recipe.
Like most, I’ve been eating a lot of veggie burgers lately too, especially since Ray recently got himself a big ole’ griddle pan. Now the notorious Rayburger has been upgraded to Grilled Rayburger, ooooo, ahhh!
SusanV’s Cherry-Chocolate Mousse Pie, perfect not only because it’s tasty as can be, but also because it requires no baking or heat whatsoever. I even phoned this in with a store-bought graham cracker crust, shame on me.
And lastly, Rootbeer Floats. You know you want one.
P.S. - If I have any readers in the Raleigh, NC area, please email me. I have a few questions for the locals. Thanks!