Friday, March 25, 2011

A dinner party for queens





So we have a new apartment and last night i had a dinner party for some of my girlies! 
the menu 
-sweet corn chowder 
-spinach canneloni w garlic bread 
-trifle! 

yum yum yum! 

the sweet corn chowder is something I've.never made but i used a recipe from my mums cookbook! i was worried about it tasting a bit like soy cos its a fairly creamy soup but it was divine! 

the canneloni was pretty straight forward but tasted yummo. my sister in law taught me how to make it- pre made canneloni tubes from the supermarket is the first step. then mix a soft tofu with a whole lot of spinach and some nutritional yeast, stock powder, pepper n salt to taste! fill canneloni tubes and put your fave pasta sauce on top with a bit of water in the bottom of a oven dish. cook in a moderate oven for about an hour then eat! yummy! 
the trifle is one of my favourite vegan things! i layer a homemade butter cake either jam then put a vegan red jelly on!(i use the cottees cold set jelly in port wine flavour). then put banana and homemade custard then my special family recipe of vegan cream!

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

My married mission

I got married on the 12th of march and it was amazing! loved every moment of it 
If you don't follow my blog it is www.wonderland-days.com

Anyway I have decided that because i am cooking dinner every night i should make it a bit of fun. Hence i propose a twist on 
the julie & Julia project! For those of you that have seen/heard 
about the movie/true story of a girl name Julie that decided she was going to cook every recipe from a Julia Child book, she blogged about the whole process and there was a movie made about it, i loved the movie and recommend it!

So my twist is to try 365 new recipes for the year starting on Monday the 28th of March, 2011. Now they will obviously be all vegan which should be a whole lot of fun! 

Here is my food wish list so far...

Corn Chowder - From the Skinny Bitch Cookbook
Coffee Date Cake with Coconut Irish Cream Sauce - The Conscious Cook 
Avocado & Coconut Icecream - TBA
Peanut Butter Ice cream!
Ravioli of some sort!

So yeah my list so far is more desserts than anything else but once i find some good vegan recipes everything will be alright!
wish me luck!