Cast Party Cooking Storm

leads to too many dishes!!

Tonight the menu included:

Pizza with white sauce, mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes and spinach with asiago and mozzarella cheese - for my own dinner. (Shared with the current shows stage manager with enough left over for breakfast)

- Artichoke dip with green chilies.  It is too thick and cheesy for me.  I think I will add some milk and maybe some herbed olive oil before I serve it tomorrow.

- vegan blondies with chocolate chips.  These are sooo good and I make them all the time.  In fact the recipe I use just has the ingrediants on it and a large oil stain in the middle so the ink is smeared and hard to read. I am glad I have it mostly memorized.

For fun here is the recipe that I use for the blondies.  It is Isa's (from PPK) recipe.


1 1/4 c. flour
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt


a vanilla soy yogurt
a bit more then a 1/4 c. canola oil
1 Tbsp vanilla
2 Tbsp molasses

a bit more then 1 c. sugar

3/4 c. chocolate chips

Mix the dry ingredients together.
Mix the wet ingredients together.
Add the sugar to the wet ingredients.
Mix the dry stuff into the wet.
Add chocolate chips.
Bake in a 8x8 pan (I line it with parchment first)
350 deg. for 30 - 35 minutes.

Done and delicious.

Sleep eluding me

I bake

Mind reeling, 

Body restless and numb

I cook dinners, 2 -3 at a time

ready to assemble when 

I am not willing my eyes to close.

Sugar and flour

and more almond milk then you would expect

Heated kitchen and hotter oven

by the time the timer shrieks,

I can barely keep my eyes open

Cookies out,

gravies thickened

muffins spilling over their cups

I am ready to dream

of the luscious breakfast

that awaits me in the morning.

Vegan Blueberry Nutmeg breakfast muffins

I found a new cookbook and have decided that I must own it.  Vegan Diner has good recipes with standard ingredients.  It supplied the recipe for these (as well as a great vegan country gravy that was pretty close to the standard meat version. Buy the book. Try it out. You won't be sorry.)

Now on to the muffins.


These were pretty quick to make.  I woke up at 6:30 and didn't feel like going to work so early so I decided to bake up some breakfast.  Flax meal is the only non-standard ingredient in them.  The recipe called for a cup of berries and I had a package with more, so I just threw them all in them. They ended up being more berry then muffin. Still delicious, if you like berries, and if not, why make these?


I am adding them to my everyday recipes - meaning that I will make them again and probably pretty frequently.