Pakora Pancakes: Deconstructed

My new lover, lavash you better watch out! (although you'll always have a place in my thumping aortas!) ^.^ ChickPea Pancakes filled with zucchini, mushrooms, onions, scallions, paprika, sea salt, black pepper, indian spice( am saturated with sleep, will change to proper name in the mornin")

A wave of vegetables, a sea of eats!

Simple, Crunchy, Fresh. Lately, I've had an inclination towards minimally seasoned foods. I just savor the natural flavors (not the mysterious and ambiguous kinds you read about :P!). I stir-fried some zucchini, green beans, portabellas, baby buttons, edamame, onions, and garlic together. That's it! That's it?! I also couldn't resist the ever enticing Hummus :$, I'd smother it all over my body if I could. You know what, I technically can, it's a matter of want. Anyone want to persuade me, wrap me up in a big pita pocket while we're at it ;-) ohoho, i'd better just let the food do the talking from now on! :D



Here is a Kale Stir-fry (yes, I've been cheating on my bok choy with this darker, leafier green ;-) Don't think about blackmailing me, the mushrooms already know! Excuse the photo quality. I used my other camera that may or may not have been reduced to one setting after a mysterious incident involving a hoof and aloofness... Also starring: Toasted Sesame seeds powdered atop a raw pickled carrot salad!

Winter Revival!

Let the sitzkrieg begin! Please forgive me for neglecting you my virtual mistress, I had no intention to let you collect dead skin cells and bits of fluff. I must keep you in pristine condition, my precious, you are a reflection of me, a piece of my beating and bloody heart! I have been unfettered from the shackles of school work and now begin a month of much needed relaxation. (how long will it take for my epidermis to fuse to the couch fibers, anyone want to start a pool? (always bet on me ;-)) How shall we commence the winter vacation but with a revival?! Okay, so since September I have been officially Gluten-Free and since October I've been Sugar-free! ( no processed sugar nor natural sweeteners like agave, etc. )The only sugar I consume is from the actual source, like fruits!( this practice baffles so many people, it's about achieving a state of purity though!) I've been naughty :(; yesterday I gorged myself on some vegan pizza. It fit my qualifications, except I thought I had completely eschewed processed foods(yes, I used the infamous vegan cheese D:). Alas, my overwhelming urges to submit to my desires brought me down like a rotting vine on a molding brick house. Weak in the knees, my eyes glazed over at the sight of a gluten free crust lifelessly perched on a self conveniently placed at my hands level; I vacillated for a good while, grasping it in my dry, cracked hands and running my fingers over the plastic. So delicate I was with it, like a naive lover, reluctant to reveal his want for touch. This crust had no home for a moment in time, like divorced parents battling over their child, my baby was in the cart or on the shelf. I couldn't abandon it, the orphaned crust was begging for a permanent residence. Well, digesting isn't so permanent, but I did offer it a luxury stay with a 5 star rated stomach, and a tongue massage! ;-) I concluded that during the school term I had been too self-restricting, that if I wanted to feel some sort of warmth and happiness, it would only be achieved through acting on my desires. I was tangoing with this streetcar for a while, seduced by the possible fantasies, I eagerly and ravenously grabbed the crust and laid it in my cart as if it were a Faberge egg made of dessicated mango strips. Then, I headed to the soy cheese aisle, for me it is the biggest challenge to consume a processed item, a rock in my lentils, certainly! The thoughts of it impurifying the body, oh, but these visions were fleeting, and I knocked them off the curb as images of bubbly toppings and seared crusts floated around in edible bubbles. It was my reward, and for the first time in months, did I succumb to gluttony with no apparent guilt or shame! It shall only happen bi-annually though, perhaps this will motivate me to take summer classes in order to fit in one more round! But this has certainly affirmed my beliefs, I won't be craving this sassy soy thang again until AH, enough of this right. Let's get to the pornography! :
The crust is gluten-free Millet and Flax from Sami's Bakery ( the ones who make my beloved lavash!!!) The sauce was homemade, a blend of fire-roasted crushed tomatoes, and some tomato puree! All with onions, garlic, basil oil, garlic oil, and herbs herbs herbs!


I hadn't eaten, save an apple, for the entire day. I was ravenous, which also has to do with my impulse buying sometimes... haha. Plus, I had just moved out of my dorm. I live on the 3rd floor, and the stairs are like climbing Mt.Everest. Think Bear Grylls would want to hike it? Oh, he'd certainly have a reward at the top, with better accommodations than a hollowed out camel that he pissed a circle around, or a poor murdered sheep that he stuffed himself in D:. ERrr, moving away from my personal conflictions with old Bear... I felt like I had reached my exhaustion threshold after several trips, homegirl's got a lot of shit(had to take home all my food after all!), I'm now ripped like a marble statue! I thought I would collapse on the stairwell though, the feeling was like being constipated(never happens with the gargantuan amount of fiber I consume!), putting all this effort, coating your body in an eager sweat, but all your straining and lifting seems futile! I'm not sure where I was going with that comparison, and I'm certain it's a bad idea to say the C word in a food blog! :P .... Before I digressed....

Since this was going to be my only meal, I felt it was dire that I included some sort of vegetables, so ahoy, delicately arranged on top are Mushrooms, Broccoli, and even more Garlic?!



I promise to lavish you in delicious food posts from here to eden, my sweet pea.

No 'Fu?

Oh my sweet precious musings, how I have neglected ye, so very unintentional though. Please forgive me, I shall make it up to you with a delicious cornucopia of vegan goodies that would satisfy the Greek gods(and you know what a tough crowd that is to impress, the consequences for failing are quite fatal and cruel as well)! what I have at tofu stake! Golly, how long it's been since I've united my fingertips with the smooth lettered tiles(with accumulating sticky remnants of fruit too juicy to stay on my skin ;-)) of the keyboard to write about things other than collagen diseases and foodservice topics. Ugh, I lost you at collagen diseases right? The winter vacation is nearing and I shall bid a fond farewell to my fall semester by this Friday. I have found my exhaustion threshold and with the toilsome work I've finally completed with a knock out punch, am left but a scaffold of bones and a bag of skin! I will lavish you in food, bloggy, you will be adorned with orgasmic and tantalizing edible delights. You will trigger tastebuds and glaze eyes, you shall be my trophy wife! This week I've set up a challenge: No Tofu. Often times, I am too dependent on the old block of beancurd. It really is my preferred choice of protein. But this week, after discussing those lascivious lentils with a fellow V-gal, have decided to embrace them in my warm belly. I've never been quite fond of lentils, but then I've never had a dish tasty enough to convince me that I would be an empty corn husk without them in my life. There has never been a dish to persuade me, even their red, yellow, and green tints could not seduce me. (confess it, some of you just eat things based on their colors! :p) Let us see what this week has in store!