Experiments and other yumminess

Somehow, in my somewhat short lifetime (26 years on Monday!), I have never made pancakes, vegan or otherwise. I've generally been a cereal/oatmeal eater, though on holidays my dad will sometimes make a fancy breakfast. Yesterday, despite it being 80 degrees and atrociously humid at 8:45 AM, I decided I wanted to make pancakes. But I don't have any syrup, I thought... but I do have blueberries from the farmer's market! To be honest, the pancakes were really a vehicle for the blueberries.

This being my first attempt at pancakes, they came out somewhat mediocre. I used the VwaV recipe, and a blueberry sauce recipe from the Joy of Cooking that I recalled a friend making for crepes a while back. Abominably delicious blueberry sauce over lackluster pancakes still = pure joy. And lots of sweat. I don't know what possessed me to cook when it was that gross outside, but this was the result:

Today I had to have blood taken for some tests, and thus was fasting since 8:30 last night... knowing I had extra pancakes and sauce waiting for me in the fridge this morning nearly killed me. If you tell me I can't eat, all I will want to do is EAT. So when I got home, I had pancakes. And then again for dessert tonight!

Earlier in the week I made one of my favorite sauces, which is an altered version of a recipe in the original Uncheese Cookbook (there's a newer "Ultimate Uncheese" out these days, which doesn't include this recipe). I make it all the time when zucchini is in season, as it is a zucchini fontinella sauce. I had more garlic scapes from my CSA, so I threw them in instead of scallions.

I've had so many veggies from my organic CSA already that I can hardly keep up; I've been sharing some of my bounty with Danny's parents, and they've been enjoying that too. Here's some of the best peas I've ever had in my life with some broccoli (all from the CSA) with some mushroom rice pilaf. I generally like my veggies prepared simply - moderately steamed with a little earth balance margarine, and usually some nutritional yeast. This was accompanied by a giant salad (I've been getting 2-3 heads of lettuce per week!).