Banana muffin morning!

It haven’t made lasagna in awhile.

I felt like baking yesterday and wound up making a batch of big soft orange cranberry oatmeal cookies. I then rode my bike around downtown to deliver half with tea to William and Matt and the rest to other friends.

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup granulated white sugar
• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup softened margerine
• 6 tbsp grapeseed oil or any other plant oil
• 1 tspn vanilla
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup brown whole wheat or brown rice flour
• 1 cup white all purpose flour
• 1 tspn baking soda
• 1/2 tspn salt
• orange zest
• juice from 1/4 medium navel orange
• 1 cup or more of cranberries
• 3 cups uncooked oats

Directions

• Preheat oven to 350F
• Blend the sugar, softened margarine, and oil together until smooth.
• Mix in vanilla, eggs, orange zest, and juice from orange wedge.
• Add in flour, baking soda, and salt.
• Dump the oats and cranberries in and mix it all up.
• I wanted these to be big, so I scooped heaping tablespoons of dough out to make 12 cookies total. 
• Bake for 8 - 15 minutes depending desired amount of softness or crispiness.  

I decided to attempt making a loaf of vegan banana bread this morning. After four days of eating mush because my wisdom teeth were removed I really wanted to eat something that I could chew but wouldn’t mess up my stitches.

Vegan baking is a big mystery to me and this was my first attempt. I just kind of arbitrarily traded out animal products for extra bananas, soy milk, apples, and non-hydrogenated seed oils, so I don’t really know if I did the appropriate proportions for making a vegan loaf work, because it turned out like a really huge soft cookie. It tastes pretty good, but it feels like it missing something, maybe more salt.

Bread and cornmeal pudding with rum. 

When I cook I just throw things together as I see fit so I don’t have accurate recipes. Here’s the ingredient list if you care to figure it out:

• dried whole wheat bread cubes 
• corn meal
• soymilk (enough to cover everything once it’s been soaked up.)
• one egg
• wheat germ
• ground flax seed
• raw brown sugar
• molasses
• vanilla
• rum (put in before ramequins went in the oven.)
• nutmeg
• cinnamon
• ginger
• cloves

Baked at 350 until set. 

I made yeasted pizza dough for the first time. Whole wheat pizzas with aubergine, green peppers, spinach, garlic, onions, olives, mushrooms, and fresh basil under a hearty layer of frauxmage for Mum and I, cheese for Da.