Mmm, yummy

As I said, I did quite a bit of cooking last night. Crazy me, I even turned on my oven to make sweet potato fries. I adapted a recipe from Vegan with a Vengeance and used ginger and paprika, instead of coriander and cumin, for a tasty difference. I also made the Moroccan Chickpea Patties from Vive Le Vegan! but they did not hold together in the pan. It didn't look like I would be able to get a good picture, so I didn't take one. Hey, I'm just a gal who likes to cook, not a caterer or food stylist. But it was certainly good. I used a dab of the gravy I made for yesterday's "chicken-fried seitan," but amazingly, it works, it works, so I will not only be sure to make all these recipes again, but make the gravy to go with it. The gravy is best for "Southern-style" cooking--mashed taters and biscuits and fried seitan or tofu. If the heat index goes below 100-degrees sometime this week, I may just make some "buttermilk" biscuits. You know how nonvegans can make buttermilk by adding a teaspoon of vinegar or lemon juice to a cup of cows' milk? Well, it works the exact same way with soy milk.

I hope everyone can stay cool 'cause it's hot pretty much all over the US and probably Canada, too. Drink lots of water, stay indoors, and remember a tepid shower does wonders at cooling you off. In fact, I think I'll go have mine now.