Am I in Wonderland...

I love food, all food.  And I've found that by reading Omni Blogs and cookbooks and watching Omni shows I get really good ideas for flavor profiles that will work well in Veg food.  In other words I'm a Food Network junkie.  But I've noticed, the food network chefs are starting to have more and more vegetarian shows.  Last Sunday I dvr'd an episode of Sandra's Money Saving Meals, she has good tips and trick regaurdless of what you eat.  The WHOLE episode was vegetarian.  She was talking about how easy it was to make hearty meals with no meat and that by removing meat from just two meals a week would save you lots of money.  Wow, what did I hear that right?  Sandra Lee on Food Networks was esentially promoting Meat-out Monday with out even talking about Meat-out Monday.  And the recipies looked good.  I'm trying one this week.  Some were vegetarian, but a few were vegan.  And all could easily be changed to vegan.  The black bean burgers look awesome and just need a flax seed "egg" to replace the real egg.  I'm making the Rigatoni with Grilled Veggies for dinner this week.  It was wonderful to see, but I have to admit I starting wondering if I went down the rabbit hole this week...

Confessions of an Anglophile

Hello, my name is Anna and I'm an anglophile. I love all things England, but especially the food. Yeah I know, England is NOT known for their food, but have you ever had a perfectly made scone? Flaky, yummy and oh so hard to eat just one.




Traditional scones are made with loads of butter and heavy cream and they are most defiantly not vegan. And I miss them! Clotted cream and lemon curds, traditionally served with scones, I can live without. But not my scones! A few days ago I was checking the new posts on my favorite blogs when I came upon this at Annie's Eats. OMG, SCONES!!!! Not traditional, but they looked good. So I decided to veganize them for Sunday morning breakfast. WOW, they were flaky and yummy and a little chewy too. I had one as soon as it came out of the oven because they smelled like heaven. And here they are for you...



Vegan Raspberry Oatmeal Scones

1/3 c. applesauce

1c. buttermilk (1cup soymilk + 1 T vinegar)

1 2/3 c. all purpose flour

1 1/3 c. old fashioned oats

1/3 c. sugar

1 T. baking powder

½ t. baking soda

½ t. salt

pinch of ground cloves

10T. margarine, chilled

3/4 c. frozen raspberries

1-2 T. raw sugar



Preheat the oven to 400

Cut the margarine into very small pieces or grate chill.

Make the buttermilk; allow to sit for at least five min. Add the applesauce and mix until incorporated. Set aside.

In a large bowl add the all of the dry ingredient except for the raw sugar. Mix well.

Add the butter to the flour mixture and use either a fork or a pastry cutter to "cut in" the butter. It should look like little pebbles when the butter is fully cut in.

Add the milk mixture, gently mix until just incorporated. Be careful not to over mix or your scones will be hard.

Fold in the raspberries.

On a parchment lined baking sheet drop the scone mixture, sprinkle the raw sugar on top.

This should make 8-12 scones.

Bake for 20 min.

Or, if you're a scone whore like me, you can make 6 massive scones.

Bake for 25 min.

Bad Blogger, Bad

This is my official Mea Culpa for not posting, life kinda fell apart and I'm just getting it back together.  Plus this is my senior year in college.  In accounting!  So I have no life, and not much time to cook, blog, anything.  Poor Vore is stuck having plain salads (green leaf lettuce, carrots, fat free ranch dressing) for lunch everyday!  There is a glimmer of hope, next week is spring break, so I might actually have time to cook and take pictures!

On the to do list is trying to veganize the Irish Car Bomb cupcake. Guinness is NOT vegan from my research, and I'm a geek so research is what I do. Guinness and many other beers use isinglass, a fish, to filter their beers. So what's a girl to do when she can't make the Guinness chocolate cake?  Well accourding to this site, Breckenridge Brewery is vegan.  This makes me happy because is from my home town, Denver, and right across from Coors Field! They have awesome beer and a Vanilla Porter I think would work well as a sub for the Guinness. Or the Oatmeal Stout. Hmmm beer tasting anyone???

Until I can sucessfully veganize the Irish Car Bombs, here is some food porn provided from my fav omni blog, Annie's Eats.  I have sucsessfully veganized a few of her recipies and WOW.  I promise I'll try to post them soon!