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By jen | May 16, 2009
I’ve been on a baking frenzy, which means a fridge full of sweets and an ever-expanding waist line. This week’s menu included a lemon tart, pumpkin cheesecake, mushroom pasta, asparagus with sweet tomato dressing and strawberry shortcake.
I like my lemon tarts tart! I adapted the lemon bar recipe from The Joy of Vegan Baking to make tart and served it with a sweet raspberry sauce on the side.
Pumpkin is normally a fall food, I know, but I just love this cheesecake from Fat Free Vegan (and cheesecake in general) so much! As you can see, I only thought about taking a photo after I already began cutting into it.
Jesse’s friends came over for dinner last night and I decided to try a couple recipes from one of the vegetarian cookbooks I recently received for my birthday. The mushroom pasta and asparagus dishes both come from The Vegetarian Bible: Fresh from the Garden. The recipes are quick and easy, and most all of them are vegan or easily veganized.
The asparagus and sweet tomato dressing recipe consisted of broiled asparagus topped with chopped tomato, balsamic vinegar, pine nuts and Parmesan cheese (which I omitted). Simple, but delicious!
The mushroom pasta with port recipe called for spaghetti, butter, shallots, white mushrooms, heavy cream, port, sun dried tomatoes, nutmeg and fresh parsley. I used whole wheat spaghetti and substituted the butter with Earth Balance, heavy cream with soy creamer and port with white wine. Again, this dish was surprisingly simple but tasty.
And last, but my favorite - dessert! I didn’t have a whole lot of time, so I opted for something I could make in less than 30 minutes. I adapted Alton Brown’s shortcake recipe, which turned out great. I used Soyatoo! soy whip instead of making my own whipped topping due to the time factors and because I’d been curious about it for a while. It tasted just like the the whipped cream from a can I’d eaten as a kid - light, airy and just slightly sweet.
The best and worst part about making all this food is that I have so many leftovers to eat. If I’m going to fit into the bridesmaid dress I’m supposed to wear next month, I think I’d better take it easy with the sweets these next couple weeks!
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