Mom, what are all these cars doing in my house?!?

I made Sweet Chickpea Curry Casserole from Vive Le Vegan that Joanna had blogged about. Very very delicious and really easy. Thanks, Joanna, for blogging about it.


Just chop stuff up, dump some cans of stuff in and toss it in the oven. I'm sure you're wondering how such a lazy dish could ever be good. Well, it is more than good. It's amazing. Bow down to the kitchen queen that is Dreena.

Here is what I did differently:

1. If you use full fat coconut milk, only use 1/2 can + water.
2. I added in about a cup of leftover mashed squash, it made it really creamy and thick.
3. you gotta add some hot sauce or jalapenos unless you like 0 stars.


I also made some brown basmati rice that I cooked with some cardamom pods (about 3 of them for 4 people's worth of rice). When it was almost done, I added in some frozen peas.


Now you have 2 bloggers that give this the thumbs up, so get out there and make some.

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Just a smiley gingerbread cupcake from where else, Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World. Do I have to mention that it was really good or have we all figured out that cupcakes from this book are always yummy?


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My mother sent me a ton of these wind up toys in my xmas box. The cats really don't know what to think.

It's party time when we wind them up. Even the sleepiest cat will get up to join in.

Peepa is contemplating a smack down. This car goes in circles and apparently it deserves extra smacks when it goes around something, like this tripod leg.

Faline is ready to spring into action.

And here is her big move -- sniff the boat that goes around in circles.

Curry Wrap Supreme and Cats in a Box

I made the Tomato Chickpea Curry in Eggplant Shells from The New Vegan cookbook. I sort of messed it up by adding too much curry powder. To fix it, I added in some pumpkin puree, which made it taste really really good. The shredded coconut in this curry gives it a really special flavor.

When I scooped out the roasted eggplant to add to the curry, I realized that I had over roasted them because they flattened out. So no stuffing the eggplant shells for me. I also added in some roasted zucchini.

Here are the leftovers on a sundried tomato wrap before I added salsa and Teese. I've been in wrap mode lately for some reason.


In this sequence of pics from before Scoatt moved to VT, it appears that Scoatt is taking over the box from Chippy. I don't think that is the case, I think he was trying to share the box with Chippy. Poor Chippy, everybody loves him way too much :)

VeganMoFo day #20 - Curry Stir Fry

I'm on a kick w/ using my neglected cookbooks now. I broke out the Vegan Gourmet and made some Tempeh with Curry Peanut Sauce. You can check out this recipe on Amazon. Click on Look Inside and go to page 186.

The main components were carrots, celery, tempeh, onions, sauce & spices on top of rice noodles with soy sauce (instead of kasha). I also put a banana on there thinking it would be good. Not so much. They taste good w/ a coconut curry, but not this one because it had tempeh in it ;-).



I'll definitely make this again. It was easy to prepare and the results were good. Some changes I'd make would be:

• double the amount of peanut sauce because it was really good.
• fry up the tempeh in a teriyaki glaze. 8 oz of tempeh was a lot of tempeh and the flavor of the curry didn't soak in enough.

Here is Faline mid-yawn. I used to think that she had hair spots stuck to her tongue, but it's just the color of her tongue.