Onion Garlic Sicilian Pizza

Thick honey crust, roasted garlic, and onion. A nice accompaniment to this citrus salad.

Bread and Soup

If that's what prisoners would get in prisons, people would commit crimes just to get in :)

Despite the fact that our oven is standing in the middle of the kitchen again, Mark baked this delicious loaf of bread, and we ate it with a hot soup loaded with vegetables: onion, celery, potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, and corn. It was good on a night with below-freezing temperatures!

Dulce de Leche Cupcakes

We still don't have a kitchen (but we're almost there!), yet I had to bake some cupcakes for Vanessa's birthday. I decided to go with the Dulce sin Leche cupcakes, from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World, of course, because the have some brown sugar in them (yum!), but the lack of kitchen sink and dishes forced me to make them with real dulce de leche. Everything else is vegan. The came out very cute with their little swirls of milky caramel:


But I covered them with some more dulce de leche, and topped with some crushed toasted walnuts:


The girls in the office loved them, but they weren't Mark's favorites.

Yeast Cake

For my birthday I requested an Yeast Cake filled with meringue. Yeast Cake is the literal translation of the Hebrew term for sweet breads.


Since it's shaped like roses, we call specifically call this type of sweet bread "rose cake".
It is very good. The only problem is, the instructions I gave Mark weren't very good. I have no real idea how to make something like that. I assumed it would be just like making cinnamon rolls, but instead of cinnamon, put meringue inside. Turned out the dough rose while baking and pushed all the filling out. :) It was still good. I think that next time I will ask my sister how she does it, though.

Vegan Potato Pizza

If you can't see why it's called a potato pizza, it's because the potatoes are inside the crust - that's right - just like potato bread! Yummy crust. Yummy toppings too: roasted garlic, corn kernels, broccoli, mushrooms, onion, and a little bit of rosemary. Vegan cheddar - not so yummy.
We found it at Sunflower Farmers Market for sale - Vegan Rella - it's discontinued - and figured we should try. We didn't like it at all - it doesn't have much flavor and it is best in sticking to every single part of your mouth.
Oh well, it was an interesting experience :)

Another Whey Bread

This time with whole wheat and sunflower seeds.

MMMYUM!

Whey Better

Making cheese like ricotta or paneer leaves you with about a gallon of whey. We heard that substituting it for water in bread recipes results in delicious, soft bread. It is very true!



Don't they look lovely?