Squirrel’s Vegan Kitchen

Where’s the time going?

Wow, I am behind on everything. Firstly, I’m several posts behind on responding to your comments. For that, I apologize. I will catch up.

As I’m sure many of you are experiencing, it’s that crazy, busy time of year. I’m in the middle of several holiday projects that are keeping me on my toes, and I’m up to my ears at Herbivore. It’s actually rather fun, between holiday shopping and several new designs we have, I’ve been flooded with orders, but it’s really fun packing them up, because I’m like Santa Claus. Except for the elves. And the sleigh. But I have a red hoodie and I’m pretty darn jolly this time of year!

My shortbread recipe is up on my recipes page. Enjoy! They are great for planning ahead, you can make the dough even several days ahead of time, refrigerate it and then you just have to slice and bake.

A few items from this week:

Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Walnut cookies from an issue of Martha Stewart Living a few months ago. They were really tasty and were ridiculously easy to veganize, one of those recipes where you look at it and wonder why it wasn’t vegan to begin with. It was like banana chocolate chip bread in cookie form. Yum.

These are the Peanuttiest Blondies that Crystal posted about, that she got from Vegan Diva. I made them with chunk peanut butter and didn’t add the extra peanuts. Man, they were great. I sent the cookies and the bars to work with Jim, so the guys there got a (secretly) vegan treat and then I wouldn’t be tempted to eat them all.

BTW, Jim isn’t secretly a vegan at work, he just works primarily with pretty average guys and he just doesn’t like to be singled out as the weird guy, because in his industry you don’t really want to make yourself the center of attention for being “weird”. If someone asks, though, he talks openly about it and has vegan-related bumper stickers on his car, etc.

This was my mini-bulk cooking this week, a throw-together Indian stew with some a saffron jasmine and quinoa blend. The stew was basically some sauteed onion, a large can of roasted tomatoes, some diced potatoes and carrots, lentils, water and garam masala. Very fragrant and hearty and a nice change up from eating so much soup!

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