I had such a great culinary weekend!  My belly is nice and round from all the great vegan food I ate the past few days.  It makes my head shake at the poor folks who think that vegans only eat twigs and berries.  I eat so much better, and more varied, now that I’m vegan than I ever did.

And it’s good.  Here’s my food porn for today:

This is Roasted Butternut Squash soup, served alongside a Tomato Fennel scone.  Lately, I’ve really been into roasting vegetables and running them through my food processor.  The weather here is cold and it’s really great to have a huge steamy pot of goodness to grub on.  And the scones?  I modified the Tomato Rosemary Scones from Vegan Brunch.  These had a nice crisp top, gooey insides and a lovely fennel taste.  Perfect with the soup.

I took a break from my kitchen one night to go have a date night.  We ate at one of our local Thai places, a favorite of mine.  We ordered two dishes and shared each.  I could eat Thai food for a month solid and never get bored with it.  If you’ve never experienced the goodness of a curry dish, you simply must.  It’s sweet, hot, savory and spicy, all in one.  If you don’t have a Thai restaurant around you, make it at home.  There are spice packets that you can buy and mix with coconut milk, making cooking Thai at home a breeze.  I highly recommend it!

Our coffee and oolong tea, served with a side of coconut milk for a bit of cream.

Then it’s on to the Yellow Curry (beans, potatoes, steamed tofu, bamboo, and onions steeped in a rich yellow curry sauce)…

And our Siam Curry (broccoli, baby corn, onions, fried tofu, carrots and bamboo steeped in a spicy red curry sauce)…perfection!

I also attempted to make a fat free pumpkin muffin.  Those were an epic FAIL.  I’ve never made them before, I googled a recipe 5 minutes before I started baking.  At first I thought that they might actually be good, because they smelled amazing cooking.  But they stuck to the muffin paper and became hard like rocks.  They were pretty little boulders in pink and green muffin papers.  It’s the first time ever that the muffins I made days ago are still in the house, with no hope of having anyone touch them.  So, yeah.  Never again.

And to round out my weekend, I had a fantastic brunch with some new vegan friends.  It’s the first time that I’ve had the pleasure of cooking (at my home) for other vegans.  I have mentioned it before, but I didn’t know any vegans who lived near me.  I met my guests at the Farm Sanctuary’s Walk for Farm Animals, and I’m so glad.  My guests even brought vegan food (another first, a guest that brings vegan food to share?! Awesome!)!  We had homemade bread (my guests contribution), the best mushroom soup ever (another guest contribution), super spooky and delicious skull cookies (again, guest contribution), cherry sage faux sausages, roasted root vegetables (turnips, parsnips, carrots, and beets) with a maple glaze, and a leek mushroom frittata.  I wish I could show you some pictures but, well, I forgot to take them.  I was super excited about having vegan guests and just lost my head.  Maybe next time.

So, what did you eat this weekend?