xmas feastival

I will write a food processor review soon, maybe after this one is done. First things first though...
I am recently returned from stuffing my face for two weeks at my parents' house. I am a few pounds heavier and a few delicious meals happier.

Oh wait... I can't get to xmas feasting until I talk about the olive potluck! Yes, an olive themed vegan potluck. I made tapenade (with my new food processor, incidentally). There were several olive containing salads, this tasty looking one contained kale, my cruciferous pal. There was a "quiche" made with olives and tofu, olive bread and olive-on-crackers appetizers. Yumz0rs!

A snow delayed, 12 hour long journey to Edmonton later I was in a different food-land all together. It is really nice that my mom is vegetarian now though. Cooking for more than just myself is really nice.

Both my brother and dad have birthdays around xmas so there were a variety of delicious feasts. Here is my Dec-25th dinner. I made tomato sauce and raw nut pesto pasta which Dom and I had made for a dinner at her place and once again it was rich, creamy, tomato-y and drool worthy. There were 3 veggies at the dinner, my mom, Shaun and myself, so we got a tofurkey and made delicious mushroom gravy. Really tofurkey isn't much iwth out the mushroom gravy. My mom also made stuffin' muffin's and made me a couple vegan versions with out the egg knowing my true, unabashed love of stuffing that hasn't been er... stuffed.

There were lots of people to fill lots of chairs. My parents were really all out on the dinner parties this year.


My final Edmonton holiday eating experience I would like to share with you was breakfast made on New Years Day in Dave's kitchen after an unsucesfull attempt to go out and have other people make breakfast for us. We bought some supplies and I whipped up a tofu scramble, Jessica made a batch of Vegan with a Vengence pancakes (sooo good!), Dave made hashbrowns with veggie sausages in maple syrup. Oh yeah, and Jamie made delicious, soft, moist, chewy vegan cinnamon buns in the upstairs kitchen. Best breakfast ever!

Emily Out!