i've been kinda quiet over here. honestly there are two reasons for this:
1. i've been getting busy in the studio lately...and,
2. i've had some not so successful cooking situations lately
and, some of my meals have included fish...for e. and okay i won't lie for me too. i'm not vegan (yet)...i'm just trying to be more veganlike.
let me see if i can recap my diet of the last week....
for our anniversary i made him some "un-fried" fried catfish, cajun rice, and cornbread....
ahh, that's when my current obsession with cornbread started.
then let's, see...on yeah, i tried to veganize a pound cake recipe for the second time, this time adding oreo crumbles to the batter. this failed...again. i really miss pound cake, but i don't really wanna eat eggs, at least not if i don't have to. i guess if i want pound cake without tofu, i'm going to have to eat eggs.
i didn't take a picture of the "cake" just insert a picture of a crumbled up mess. smile. e said it taste good though. i wouldn't let him eat it...on principle. it just didn't look good.
we also had our family favorite as of late, the old standby...breakfast for dinner. i don't know if i was present when the other three members of my family decided that we would have that at least one night a week. i'm not saying that i would of disagreed..i'd just have liked to be present.
and, we had cajun shrimp and rice and of course cornbread...
the other nights...i can't remember...however...
i made a really nice vegan sunday dinner...
we had:
red beans and rice
macaroni and "cheese"
cornbread
edamame (kids)
and a peach cobbler (that was borderline successful)
here are some pictures...
it was sooooo...good!
vegan soul food!
peach cobbler pie
no that's not an oxymoron...you see i've learned that cobbler is a desert where there is fruit on the bottom with a cake/crust like topping baked on top of that. as a child i knew peach cobbler as a pie, with the same thick peach filling inside as a cobbler. so now i'll just call it a peach cobbler pie...lol.
ironic thing is that this looks more like a cobbler than a pie..let me tell you why.
a second ago i said that this was a bit unsuccessful, well...i tried (for the first time) to make my pie crust in my new food processor. let's just say...i won't do that again.
it didn't work for me...i'll stick to doing it by hand.
the processor super processed the ingredients with only half of the water...even though i was pulsing. this made the crust waaay too flaky/crumbly...and the taste was...bland. anyway, when i went to put the top crust on top of the hot filling...it
completely and utterly fell apart...a huge crumbled up mess of
dough...i just laughed and decided to call it peach cobbler pie...i couldn't get past the taste of the dough, plus me and e were so full from dinner that we didn't save much room for pie...actually i didn't save much room besides a taste...he ate a huge piece...though he said he was full. men?
on another sweet note. i'm working on perfecting cornbread. when i was younger i always had the job of making the cornbread, and once i had my hand in it, i decided to depart from what grandma served up. see grandma is a traditional southern cook, and doesn't believe that cornbread should be sweet or cooked in any other pan besides her cast iron skillet.
now don't get me wrong, i love cooking cornbread in a cast iron skillet, the texture can't be beat. but um...can we sweeten it a bit...make that a lot?
so as a child i would heavily pour the sugar in, so much so that i would get a sticky glaze on top of the cornbread when it cooked up. no one ever complained...so hey, i stuck to it. (grandma would though...i never cook at grandma's house...she wouldn't have of it)
now without the eggs and the extra sugar, i'm getting a more gummy texture that i'm trying to fix. don't get me wrong, the taste is dead on...but the egg replacer and the sugar i think is altering the texture a bit...so i'm working with different ratios of flour and cornmeal to get it just right.
okay i'm rambling on too much. i'll post the recipes sometime soon...
i should have some sweet things to share in the next few days...being that chocolate love day is tommorrow and my birthday is saturday...
e already promised to make me a chocolate ding dong cake like he did for my 29th b-day...i can't wait!
i hope you've had a peaceful week...full of good eats!
paz,
ki