TGI....P!

Yeah!, it's Friday!

There were times this week that this evening just could not come around quickly enough. Man, oh man, it's been...shall we say...'challenging'. However, here we are at last.....and in Massachusetts it is a holiday weekend: Columbus Day! Hurrah.

So, in celebration of having made it to this point in the week, I am making a pizza.

OK, it's a weak excuse, but I'm feeling that way tonight.

Weak.

Burnt out.

And generally tired of it all.

Work, that is.

So what is better, I ask you, than a cozy Friday night in with My Beloved, our pound puppies and a large vegan pizza? Especially as this particular vegan pizza is loaded with diary-free homemade pesto, thinly sliced potato (a la Vegan Joy), onions, jalapenos (well, My Beloved wanted them even though technically I suppose they're not super-compatible with pesto....sigh) and diced chunks of Vegan Dad's buffalo chickenless wings. And, as I type, a smattering of Vegan-rella is melting all over the top.

An aside: evestirs...did you try the Vegan-rella yet??

OK, so I hear the little timer beeping away meaning that the long-awaited pizza MAY be ready. Am off with the camera.....be right back!





And there's the finished product. Pix are hastily taken, but I am too hungry to bother with 'styling'. Let the munching begin!, says I....erm...anyone need a beer???

Oh, and Stay Vegan, Friends!

By Popular Demand...

Last night, for the first time in more than a decade, I ate a.....sausage roll!

Yes, it was a whim that came upon me out of precisely nowhere, but both My beloved and I decided to run with it and see where the craving took us. And this was the destination:



I'll post the recipe as soon as I figured it out properly, but in essence all I did was to take a pack of GimmeLean (sausage-style) and blitz it in the food processor with some 'additions'. I divided the pack into two and to the first half I added freshly roasted garlic and grated Sheese 'blue cheese' and to the other grated onion and sun-dried tomatoes.

Then I mounded the mixture on a piece of pre-made vegan flaky pastry, rolled it into a tube form, scored the tops, brushed with a 
little oil and baked until crispy and the filling was hot inside.




My Beloved made some kalamata olive mashed potatoes and I added some gently simmered savory puy lentils and we ate with gusto!

Stay Vegan, Friends!