Birthday Cakes

I believe I’ve mentioned that we’ve had some birthdays around here. It’s becoming a tradition that Sara requests this chocolate peanut butter cake every year. It’s a sour cream chocolate cake topped with peanut butter cream cheese frosting, and a chocolate peanut butter glaze.  This cake just wins. Our dear friend, Angela, also had a [...]

Weekly Food: Barley, Mushroom, & Asparagus Salad and Mole Skillet Pie

Yikes! How did I get behind on blogging over spring break? I blame it partially on homework and midterms due over this alleged break, partially on my job, partially on a plethora of Aries birthdays, and more substantially on my recent discovery of Ru Paul’s Drag Race. Rest assured, we did eat last week in [...]

Weekly Food: Falafel and Pho

The much-anticipated festivities for Sara’s birthday begin this week. It’s a pretty big deal, so we chose two dishes that don’t take a lot of time to make. Up first: falafel Falafel is one thing I refuse to make from a box/mix, because it’s so easy and tastes so much better homemade. I’ve been trying [...]

Weekly Food: Samosa Filling and Mango Ginger Tofu Sandwiches

This week we’re eating two recipes from Isa Chandra Moskowitz’s Vegan With A Vengeance, plus some extras. Meal number one is my all-time favorite food ever: samosa filling. The recipe is actually for samosas, but after making them a couple of times I figured why bother with cutting out dough when I can just skip [...]

Weekly Food: Greens & Quinoa Pie and Yakisoba

This is probably obvious by now, but I don’t eat meat. My wife eats meat, but not at home because I don’t cook it and she won’t cook it (it’s a level of cutting-board consciousness that I don’t think either of us is up for). People often inquire about how we get along, but as [...]