New Blog Design

Whoa, changes!! I have been playing around with layouts and designs, and like this new book-background one so far. It brightened up the blog a lot and I'll stick with it until I find an awesome coconut image to use as a background.

Hopefully I'll be back to posting more regularly because there are a lot of things I want to make and also a lot of restaurants I want to try out in the coming months.

Quinoa, Broccoli, Potato and Tofu with Curry Sauce

This was dinner for today.

I boiled some russet potatoes that I cut up into smaller pieces to cook faster, and while those cooked I made some quinoa and marinated tofu that I cut into cubes. I marinated in a sauce I made: soy sauce, dijon mustard, hoisin sauce, pickle juice, hot sauce. I then sauteed onions and garlic until soft, then set aside and started to pan-fry the tofu cubes.

At this point I started steaming the broccoli.

The quinoa was about done, as were the potatoes. I put potatoes aside, and then boiled water to dissolve a bouillon cube and curry paste in for the "sauce".

After the tofu was done to my liking, I set it aside, rinsed the pan out and then started to reheat the onions and garlic. Once it was getting hot, I added the potatoes, quinoa and broccoli, then stirred everything together. I added the curry sauce and heated until some of the liquid absorbed into the potatoes and quinoa.

I served in bowls with the tofu on top, a few shakes of sesame seeds to finish it off.

Indulgent Dessert: So Delicious Coconut Ice Cream Bowl with Toppings

This is a bowl of 2 flavors of So Delicious Coconut Milk Ice Cream, my hands-down favorite vegan ice cream. The flavors of "ice cream" are: Cookie Dough and Mocha Almond Fudge.

I cracked a sugar cone over the ice cream, and then some chopped cashews. Finally, I covered the whole mess in Hershey's Hard Shell Chocolate Topping. This stuff turns into a hard chocolate shell in a few seconds once it makes contact with cold items, like ice cream.

Needless to say, this was delicious and indulgent and awesome.

4th of July 2011

Not a food photo, though I did make some grilled food for 4th of July. I also played a lot of chess outside with Mr. Coconut.

I grilled up marinated tofu inside a foil packet, we also grilled veggie dogs and potato/onion/garlic foil packets.

I failed to photograph any of this, but at least there is a photo of one of the chess games.