Homemade Pasta!

Nik and I received a KitchenAid Stand Mixer with the pasta-making attachments as a very super-generous wedding gift (I do have some posts about my wedding last month coming up in the next week or so! Waiting for official photos!)  recently, so you can imagine my excitement to dig in and play around with them. I went simple for the first time, using Vegan Dad's recipe for homemade pasta, and it worked wonderfully. Seriously, this was so easy. I thought it would be this time-consuming thing that should only be reserved for Sunday dinners or special occasions, but no, this was way easy. I took my time and it was still under 45 minutes, prolly half hour now that I know what I'm doing. Woo! I don't have a pasta drying rack, so I just laid them out on a tea towel and that worked fine. So pretty! I made a simple lemon-garlic-butter sauce and lightly sautéed some asparagus and scallions to mix in. Delicious.

I can't wait to try some flavored pastas, like spinach or sun-dried tomato. And lasagna!

VeganMoFo Day 2: Breakfast as Dinner

I'd like to give a shoutout to my mom, for wholeheartedly endorsing breakfast for dinner during my childhood. Go with what's good, and what isn't good about breakfast?!? There's been an explosion of posts lately about the vegweb recipe, the Egg McVegan, and I had to jump on the bandwagon, and make it the star of my dinner. I read the comments and mostly went with them in changing it up; rice vinegar and garlic powder for the tofu, plus some sea salt and black pepper and a tiiiiiny shake of turmeric. I used the Ultimate Uncheese Cookbook's gooey grilled cheese recipe for the cheese (and I would DRAMATICALLY cut the tahini used next time, as that was all that I tasted, even after tripling the nooch) and some storebought fakin' bakon on some generic english muffins. Totally yummy. I haven't been to McDonalds in at least a decade, but I do have sentimental memories of going there for breakfast super-early in the morning, with my family, the mornings that we would leave for our annual family drive all the way down to Florida for vacation. Ahh long car drives with family.

My favorite breakfast that my Mom used to make us for dinner was her heart-shaped waffles. I shall walk down memory lane soon and make that too!