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Nutty Protein-Packed Homemade Granola! So Easy!

December 9, 2014
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    How many of you bake during the winter months just to make the house warmer? Here in London, it’s more of a necessity than a quirky activity. They didn’t get the memo on windows here so there’s like a good centimeter of separation between windows and frames. Cold air blows in all the time and you’re like, man alive turn on the oven or something. 
    But cookies? Those jerks only take 10 minutes or less in the oven. PASS! Cakes? Who am I making cakes for? Muffins are just bread with sugar and I’d rather eat my bread without sugar (and with hummus). Kale chips? Am I the only vegan who prefers kale raw (or any other way) to chippified? What can I make that’s feasible and that takes a long time so I have maximum oven usage? GRANOLA!
      Yes, granola is the easiest, best way to run your oven for at least an hour. Also, you actually want to eat the final product. And it’s healthy! This version I made uses nut butters as its main wet ingredient, and it works great as a binder. Add chia seeds, hemp seeds, and protein powder, you’ve got a power-giving snack that’s perfect for any time of day. I liked using unflavored rice protein in this recipe, mostly because it is too pasty to use in my smoothies. Also, I used puffed millet as my cereal. It’s great because the puffs are teeny tiny, almost like puffed quinoa. So just make sure you choose a cereal that’s on the small side. You don’t want huge puffed buckwheat or something that’s going to be significantly bigger than an oat. 
     Ingredients on the small side plus a superb wet ingredient mix based in nut butter will ensure that you get lots of big crunchy clusters instead of sad granola-flavored crumbs. As with all granola recipes, this is really more of a guide that you can play around with to suit to your preferences. Add chocolate chips! Or cocoa powder! Or use chocolate-hazelnut spread! Or add something non-chocolate. But that seems like a move in the wrong direction. 
POWER PUNCH GRANOLA

      I love mixing different nut butters with date syrup for the main binder. Date syrup adds a dark, deep flavor that you don’t get when you use regular liquid sweeteners alone. Try half the amount of molasses if you don’t have date syrup. 

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 generous cup peanut butter
  • 1/3 cup almond butter
  • 2 tablespoons date syrup (or other dark syrup)
  • 1/4 cup agave syrup (or maple syrup, but what are you made of money?)
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla paste 
  • 2 tablespoons unflavored rice/pea/hemp protein powder (or protein powder of choice)
  • 2 tablespoons ground flax seed
  • 16g chia seeds (you know I don’t know grams, but I used two ‘Chia Shots’ which are 8g each. Just use 2 tablespoons or something)
  • 1/4 cup dried fruit of choice
  • 1/2 cup hemp seeds
  • 1/4 cup unsweetened coconut flakes
  • 1 + 1/2 cups rolled oats
  • 1 + 1/2 cups puffed cereal 

Directions:

  1. Preheat the oven to 140 degrees Celsius which I have to use now. It’s just under 300 Fahrenheit. 
  2. In a large bowl, mix the wet ingredients together. If, like me, you store your nut butters in the fridge, you might need a generous splash of water to help blend that well. If your nut butters are runny, you’ll prob be okay. 
  3. Add the dry ingredients one by one, and mix everything with all your might. Save the oats and cereal for last. That’s why I wrote them last! 
  4. Drop onto a parchment-lined baking sheet and distribute evenly. It shouldn’t be one cohesive square like you’re making bars or anything, but keep big pieces together so you’ll have clusters.
  5. Bake for an hour! Check on it every so often to make sure it’s not burning. If it is, your oven is probably too hot. You might see in other recipes that you should toss your granola halfway through, but letting it lie untouched is the best way to get big clusters. 
  6. After an hour, turn off the oven and let it sit in there for another hour. This way, every time you check on it and steal bits, you get a wave of heat. 
  7. Cool completely and store in an airtight container. People love showing their granola stored in fancy oversized mason jars that have those swingy clips. If you’d like to see mine in such a container, please buy me one. 
  8. Wheee!!! 
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Nut butter plus syrups. So pretty
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It’s like an add for superfoods!
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It’s a veritable thing-with-a-lot-of-clusters-that-I’ve-decided-against-saying-because-I’m-a-lady!
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Rosewater Baklava Hamantaschen for Purim: Helping Purim Beat Halloween From Here On Out

March 13, 2014
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PictureThe hamantasch uncooked; see below for cooked

I don’t even know guys. This might be the best thing ever. A random and fortuitous amalgam of happenings brought forth this little miracle unto our lives. Such happenings include: Purim being this weekend; my having recently acquired rosewater; my dislike of Halloween; my pint of poppy seeds, intended for my hamantaschen filling, having gone rancid. So lucky! Such fortuitous. 

       So, yeah, almost Purim! Purim is to Halloween what Hannukah is to Christmas. They aren’t reeeeally substitutes, but they get passed off to impressionable, sad children as replacements. (Jews don’t like Halloween ostensibly because it’s super pagan (no worship of idols!) and Catholic in its origins, but I think it’s because they don’t want their children to eat so much candy that they’d get cavities and need to see the dentist who is the son of that yenta from synagogue who brags about her son being a dentist.) It’s about when King Ahasuerus got super drunk and ordered all the young ladies to line up so he could pick his favorite to be his wife, and he picked Esther, a Jew who didn’t let on that she was a Jew, who had been raised by her uncle Mordechai, which is a name that you always have to say with the required Yiddy question mark at the end. So the king’s Jafar, named Haman, decides to kill all the Jews, but then Esther tells her hubsking, ‘Hey I’m Jewish! You can’t kill the Jews!’ and the King is all ‘Oh man you are right! Jafar Haman get thee gone! You are evil! We are going to celebrate this holiday by making delicious cookies in the shape of your three-cornered hat! I don’t know why the celebratory traditional food should be in the villain’s honor, but there we are!’ So that is Purim.
I was planning on making regular traditional poppy seed filling for my hamantaschen, but my poppy seeds were rancid. Boo and hiss! But it turned out to be $3 well wasted, because I was forced to try something new and much more interesting. I recently bought but have never used rosewater, so this was the time. The time was now. I dove into my nut drawer and came to the surface with almonds, cashews, and pistachios. Perfect! I had a sudden vision of a Middle Eastern marketplace, like a live-action version of the “Sugar dates! Sugar dates & figs! Sugar dates & pistachios!” scene from “Aladdin”, with men offering me baklava that I would have to turn down because of the honey. (I know baklava is Greek but it is also found in central and southwest Asia so BACK OFF.) I have really weird visions. So I wanted the nuts chopped roughly and cooked in a syrup. I decided to use my very old very on-the-brink Magic Bullet to chop them because I figured it was too weak and senile to do much damage. However, by some Purim miracle, the little machine suddenly got its groove back and pulverized my nuts before I could stop it. So cray. I was left with ground nuts…which actually turned out to be even better! I can’t wait to make actual baklava using this; it is RIDICULOUS.
I kind of dislike crispy or crunchy cookies; I am all about the chewy (with few exceptions). To have chewy more than crispy dough here, I had to make decisions that led to poofy dough when cooked, spreading wildly like a badass hamantasch. It’s delicious and I suggest you try it!
HAMANTASCHEN DOUGH
Ingredients:

  • 4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 cups minus 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons cornstarch
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup canola oil
  • 1 cup + 2 tablespoons unsweetened almond milk
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
  • 1/4 teaspoon lemon extract

Directions: 

  1. Mix the dry ingredients in a large bowl.
  2. Mix the wet ingredients in a separate bowl or in a measuring cup. Try not to drop the full cup onto the floor as I did.
  3. Mix the dry & wet together well, and knead for a few minutes until forms a nice ball.
  4. Split in half and wrap each half in Saran wrap/clingfilm.
  5. Refrigerate for an hour.

BAKLAVA FILLING
Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup raw almonds
  • 1/4 cup raw pistachios
  • 1/4 cup raw cashews
  • 1/4 cup agave plus more if needed
  • 1.5 tablespoons rosewater
  • 4 tablespoons water
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or paste

Directions:

  1. Grind the nuts in a food processor. It can be a little chunky.
  2. In a heavy-bottomed pan, mix all ingredients over medium heat.
  3. Cook, stirring, for about 10 minutes. Let it lightly boil, and turn down if it is boiling too heavily. It should reduce greatly after 10 or so minutes and become a paste.

ASSEMBLY

  1. Take the refrigerated dough out of the fridge and let thaw for at least 30 minutes.
  2. Flour a clean surface and roll out each dough section until as thin as you can get it without it becoming flimsy. I went to about 1/4 inch thick, which is probably on the thicker side and probably why mine got so pouffy. That’s just science. The thinner you roll it, the less pouffy it will get, so decide how you want your cookies.
  3. Take a 4-5 inch circular thing, like a jar lid or a mug (or a circle cookie cutter if you are the freaking queen of England or something) and press into the dough multiple times. Like, you know how to do this.
  4. Take a tablespoon of filling and place in the middle of each circle.
  5. Fold the sides up so they meet at a point at the top, and then fold the bottom up. We are making triangles, p.s.
  6. Preheat the oven to 350F while you are folding the hats.
  7. Bake for about 15 minutes, until golden but not browning.
  8. Enjoyyy! Don’t eat 8 before they cool off like I did because you will not feel nice.

I hope you decide to try these! Happy Purim!

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I love my pretty new colorful equipment! That’s all.

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If you run out of Saran wrap like I did, use a big Ziplock!

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Sometimes you feel like a ground up nuts.

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There’s thread on the PPK about what cool things people have found at TJ Maxx & similar places. I only get cooking supplies there, like these! Vanilla paste and rosewater for a few dollahs? Hollahhh.

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“My hat is has 3 corners, 3 corners has my hat. And if it’d not 3 corners, it would not be my hat!” That’s a song of Haman’s that we learned as small jews.

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Pre cookery. The few jelly-filled ones at the back are actually filled with an Earl Grey Apricot jam, courtesy of my friend Stephanie from Swell Baked Goods in Memphis. It is sooo delicious, as is everything she makes.

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See they got pretty puffy but I like that! This is the cool way to do it. Happy day!
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Hell Yeah Veganism: “Challenge Accepted”

October 11, 2013
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     Hi everyone! I’m going to be away for about a week (unless I am able to blog on the road!), but in the meantime I have a request for you. My next TV-related posts (to appear concurrently with Veganizing “Friends” and others) will be a Barney Stinson-inspired “Challenge Accepted” series! 
     While the actual food made on “How I Met Your Mother” will be for a different project (which I will be able to announce soon!), this project will cover any food (or drink!) that you want me to veganize. I’m really only saying it’s HIMYM-related so I can use “Challenge Accepted” gifs like it’s my job. Give me your crazy, your interesting, your memories, whatever you want, and I will veganize it. For example, my aunt expressed her desire for chocolate-covered bacon (gross!) and fried Oreos (at least the Oreos are already vegan!). I guess I need to buy a deep-fryer! 
     Comment below with what you want to see, or just say hi, and I’ll see you in a bit! 
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