A pictorial Thanksgiving

Pictorial is a weird word, right?  I’m not sure how I feel about it, but I decided to throw it in to switch things up a bit.  What I’m trying to say is, I have a lot of pictures.  So let’s get to it.

I managed to put together my vegan apple pie using a combination of these recipes.  I basically used Kim O’Donnel’s crust and filling and then the crumb topping from the Scranton Times, subbing Earth Balance for butter.  I even bought vegan sugar and soy vanilla ice cream from Trader Joe’s.  Hardcore, my friends.

The pie turned out awesome.  Really.  The vegans, however, didn’t eat it.

I don’t want to talk about it.

apple pie filling

 

crumb topping

in the oven

half eaten

I was so careful to document every step of the way, and then wouldn’t you know, I totally forget to take a picture of the finished pie.  Probably because I was stuffing my face.  Or drinking mimosas:

I am thankful that mimosas allow you to drink before noon

We also had turkey and stuffing and all of the other amazing things that go with Thanksgiving dinner:

Have I mentioned how much I love stuffing?  Because I do.  I wait for it all year.  I don’t even care if it’s been inside a turkey and that’s kind of gross, I still love it and I would eat it every day if I could.  My mom makes unbelievable stuffing, but this one was really good, too. In fact, it seems that our friends Rachel and Justin are very good cooks, something I was not aware of.  Chris and I might start showing up on their doorstep for scraps.

Anyway, there was also homemade salsa:

And vegan chocolate chip cookies:

Along with lots of other things that I didn’t get pictures of.  Actually, that’s kind of a lie.  I didn’t get pictures of anything.  All of these were taken by my friend Chelsea, who should maybe start her own food blog because she is clearly way better at it than me.

And finally, proof that even dogs get turkey comas:

Or maybe he was just tired from all the dancing.

 

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Mexican pizza, take two

It was better last time, sadly.  But, I did make my own crust this time, using an amazingly easy recipe out of this Sara Moulton cookbook.  She’s my hero.  Well, she was my hero before because I’d worship anyone who was or is or might be on the Food Network, but I like her even more now because the pizza crust recipe was really good and very easy to work with it.

Oh yeah, and I’m back on the cheese.  This was a celebration.

Anyway, I’d post the recipe, but it wasn’t that good (I used refried black beans this time, and we didn’t have any cilantro) so refer to the last one if you want good Mexican pizza and not just okay Mexican pizza.

The rest of my life has been rather hectic and I’m sorry but I just haven’t had time to post as much as I used to.  I have been doing things like working and eating Sun Chips.  But I did find some time to catch up on The Hills with Jack the other day:

I know our apartment is a mess in this picture, but check out how enthralled he is.  He hates that Spencer Pratt as much as the next guy.

And, let’s see, what else?  Chris and I are staying in New York for Thanksgiving because it’s too much trouble to do anything else.  We are going over to a friend’s house and I promised I would make an apple pie and crab dip.  For the crab dip I plan on incorporating lots of things like cheese and mayonnaise (Mom, can you send me that recipe with the cheese and the mayonnaise?) but I am supposed to make the apple pie vegan and I’m a little stumped because as far as I know, butter is what makes pie crust so good.  So if you have a good vegan apple pie recipe, and you’d like to send it my way, I would love to steal it.  I promise to show pictures of the final product.

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