I’m finding that I schedule too much food in my meal plans, so I’ve decided to make a little more room for left-overs. This is a good thing, really, because I love left-overs! They mean that something is already delicious and tasty and waiting for me to eat it.
Monday : Left-over Eggplant Parmigiana, a test recipe for Celine & Joni that I ended up finally making last night. So yummy. We’ll also be enjoying some roasted butternut squash.
Tuesday : Lemon Herb Coconut Tofu with Udon from 500 Vegan Recipes.
Wednesday : Left-overs.
Thursday : Baked Asparagus with Mushroom sauce (tester), served with a big green salad and veggie patties.
Friday : TBA. Saturday will be Guppy’s big birthday party she’ll be co-hosting with her friend. We’re expecting some 25 kids (because you can’t leave out little brothers and sisters) so I’ll be spending much of the afternoon preparing goodies for the fun. I’m not sure what’s going to happen dinner-wise yet, perhaps take-out?
Cupcake Wednesday mentioned last week was fun and here’s what I baked :
Buttery Vanilla cupcakes with speculoos icing. The buttery flavour comes from the coconut milk I used, and the icing is just speculoos spread melted to liquid, and then the cupcakes are dipped a few times to get a nice, shiny coating. The speculoos spread is a relatively new find, but because it has a lot of oil in it it’s not something I buy very often. I would like to make my own, but I can’t find vegan speculoos cookies in my area.
Speculoos spread + baguette = yummy snack.
When Aparna mentioned she’d make some cupcakes on Twitter not so long ago, I found myself craving some, too. We decided to make cupcakes together on Cupcake Wednesday, just for fun. It worked out just great as I had Guppy and her friends for lunch that day, and wanted to make them something fun for dessert.
So why speculoos icing? Simply put, buttercream frostings, or frostings in general don’t go over very big here in France. Even most children find it too sweet/rich. I would be happy to leave my cupcakes naked, but Guppy just loves sprinkles, and icing is the “glue”, right? This was just perfect because it wasn’t too sweet, just a nice, think icing lending just the right amout of “hey, look at me, I’m frosting” without being too much. The kids just loved them!
Aparna also made some delicious looking cuppers and you should go take a look! I love that Twitter allowed us to “hang out” together making cupcakes, despite the thousands of kilometers that seperate us.
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