bleh.

I haven't been in the mood to cook AT ALL lately. I've been living on a steady diet of Amy's burritos and ramen noodles; I'm not particularly proud of this. But, good news. I did make a trip to the grocery store today to load up on a lot of produce. More good news, my mom finished planting her garden today which means I shall have fresh basil, red peppers, cucumbers, and squash viddy viddy soon!

Since my last post, I've made another General Tao tofu plate, served over rice this time, and some VWAV mashed potatoes with punk rock chickpea gravy. Comfort food, glorious comfort food! I chopped up some kale and mashed it in with the potatoes, too. I also had to spell out k-a-l-e for the cashier at the grocery store so he could ring me up. Oh, Huntington and its inhabitants.

Loose leaf tea! And, a hearty breakfast.

So, Dave and I are proud tea fanatics. Really, we're passionate about caffeine, in general. It's easy to support this addiction because I work at Starbucks, which entitles me to either a free pound of coffee a week or a pack of Tazo brand tea, either of my choosing, of course. Because, there's always such an abundance of both at the apartment, we very rarely try other kinds of teas, let alone superior loose leaf.















For about $30, we got like, 6 tin cans of loose leaf tea from Adagio. Each small tin is good for about 10 cups of tea. We got the green tea starter package, which came with the tea steeper thing and four kinds of green tea: gunpowder, citron green, genmai cha, and hojicha.
And, damn. So good. This thing is so easy to use and I'm pretty mad that I didn't manage to conjure up this simple design.
















Dave and I also ordered two extra sample size tea cans. I'm a huge Earl Grey junkie and Dave's been wanting to try darjeeling tea. There ya' have it.
















Along with our starter set, Earl Grey sampler, and darjeeling sampler, we got complimentary stuff, too! Because I entered in my date of birth when setting up my account, they sent me Scorpio tea. I guess they have a line of astrological or horoscope teas. I have no idea what it is, really, but it smells fantastic. I know that there is real dark chocolate in it, but I don't know if it contains dairy. I still need to email Adagio and find out. Along with it, we got one of those weaved flowers that blooms in your tea water. Talk about clever fuckin' marketing. They send me one of those, but not the pretty transparent tea pot to make it in. Alright, Adagio, you got me.





















And, above you see it in action. Setting atop your tea mug pushes something up that makes space for the liquid to come out but not the loose leaf tea. And, that mug- it rules. It was one of Dave's birfthday presents and it have the actual molecule for caffeine on it. How perfect.















And, this morning I made brunch which is probably the best meal of the day. I think I've assigned myself this recipe as my signature tofu scramble recipe. It's kind of an adaptation of Julie Hasson's and the one I posted from It Ain't Meat Babe. It was accompanied by some tempeh bacon from VWAV, which I wasn't very happy with. Abrupt post ending, commence.

Lord, Have Mercy!

After the Easter feast you saw in my previous post, I dragged my stuffed self home to further stuff myself with these. Here are some basic chocolate cupcakes with exceptional peanut butter cream frosting from VWAV. kljfklgdjgfj. So good. Surprisingly, I've been able to restrain myself. I've limited myself to one of these bad boys a day and sent Dave with a few of them to his coworkers.
Needless to say, they were enjoyed.

Classic Blueberry Scones

In case you haven't looked at my blog in, oh, a month or so, you might not have realized that I discovered the joys of baking. To fully convey my intense love for baking I've acquired, I'm pretty much looking for any excuse to have a bake sale at this point. I've even been taking orders at work from my associates of what to whip up next. I'm simply hooked.

Anyway. this morning, I was hungry. Reeeeeaaaaaal hungry. I had no cereal for a quick breakfast fix and no maple syrup for a heaping pile of pancakes. With my cupboards bare and my tummy growling, I decided to whip these bad boys up. Simple, sweet, and tasty.

Brooklyn Pad Thai

I used the recipe from VWAV. Nom Nom Nom. I deviated from the recipe a whole lot, mainly because I didn't have a lot of the ingredients it called for. I didn't add lime juice, added sesame seeds, no red onions, etc. Again, nom nom nom. I was only cooking for two so I had to cut everything in half. In doing so, I eliminated about a 1/2 tbs. of the sugar. Still retardedly sweet. Place a bowl of this in my hands, set me up with a creeptastic 80's horror movie movie starring Joe Spinell, and I'm set!