Ode to VEGANOMICON Testing.

During the past year and a half, I was fortunate to be a tester for Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook - even before it had an official name.
As you can imagine, it was a rewarding, exciting, scrumptious, fattening experience, and I'm honored to have been a part of it, even if it had me eating cookies.

I thought I'd take this time to list and link to photos from most (since I probably forgot some) of my favorites from the testing experience. Altogether I think I tested 55, and some I certainly made my than once, and others became regular staples - like the Simple BBQ sauce.
I know there are photos in the book, but here's some more inspiration - along with a list of names linking to my photo from testing. I have *starred* my super favorites!
Enjoy.

Hazelnut Cushions

Smokey Gumbo

Tomato Rice soup with Roasted garlic and Navy beans

Herb Scalloped Potatoes

Spicy tempeh with broccoli and whole wheat pasta

Black bean burger

Corn, edamame & sesame salad

Whole wheat soda bread with millet and currants

And all the rest....

Appetizer and Small Meals:

Blue flannel hash

Diner homefries*

Roasted portabellas

Samosa potatoes (esp. with yams)

Herbed scalloped potatoes*

Spaghetti squash mexicana

BBQ collard and black eyed pea rolls

Savoury Mushroom and potato blintz (with cheezy sauce)

Rustic white beans

Salads:

Caeser salad with roasted garlic croutons (especially + tempeh)*

Corn and edamame salad*

Soups:

Baked potato and greens soup with potato wedge croutons

Creamy tomato soup*

Smokey gumbo (my sister made this)

Tomato rice soup with roasted garlic and navy beans*

more tomato rice

Roasted yellow pepper and corn bisque

Chickpea noodle

Spicy Eggplant, Shallot & Peanut Stew

Pastas:

Eggplant and breadcrumbs fettucine*

La pasta della california

Spicy tempeh and broccoli raab pasta*

Entrees:

Eggplant rollatini

Black bean burgers *(my sister's boyfriend made these)

Tofu florentine* (with nomicon cheesy sauce)

Seitan cutlets*

more cutlets, chopped

Smokey grilled tempeh*

Hot sauce glazed tempeh

Chickpea cutlets*

Romanesco chickpeas

Sauces:

Simple marinara*

Cheezy sauce*

Apricot bbq sauce

Simple bbq sauce*

Five minute mango chutney*

Breads:

Homestyle potato rolls

Carrot pineapple sunshine muffin*

Banana wheat germ muffins

Lower fat banana bread*

Skillet cornbread + jalapenos + corn topping

Whole wheat soda bread with millet and currants*

Cranberry Nut Bread

Desserts:

Fudgy wudgy blueberry brownies

Peanut ginger sesame cookies*

Chocolate chocolate chip cookies*

Hazelnut cushions*

Rumnog pecan*

Raspberry chocolate cookies

Crepes

Coconut crème pie

Smlove Pie (Webly and I made these together)

Mini apple galletes (again with Webly, I think these were the same day?)

This one missed the book, is posted on the PPK forums here.

Crispy salt and pepper tofu

Thanks Isa & Terry!

This post will mess you up.

Hot sauce glazed tempeh, from Veganomicon (which I've been misspelling for the past year as Veganomican, oops). Isa threatened to disown me as a tester if I didn't fix that.
With steamed kale with sea salt and chickpeas with parmesan.


The messing you up part? See below. Half a soy chicken from Fubonn, glazed with a Gai Tod Garlic style sauce and yellow bell pepper. I could NOT eat this, even try it, but Thomas was all about it.



I'm not a big faux meats gal as it is, but this is messed up! I'm not actually exclaiming that, just a little creeped out. It even smelled 'chickeny', though it was literally just molded and frozen into the birdy shape. Would you eat it?



I was really happy with this meal because it was a very 'use what's in the fridge' concoction:
vegetable fried rice with cashews and sesame chili baked tofu. The fried rice has portabella mushroom, cashews, yellow bell pepper, carrots and zucchini.



I ate a meal like this 2 or 3 nights last week:
steamed millet cooked in the rice cooker with veggie buillion, grilled japanese eggplant, tofurkey italian sausage, tofu, olives, parmesan and fresh spinach.



Mac 'n' cheez from What the hell does a vegan eat anyway?
grilled japanese eggplant and reallllllly garlickly sauteed spinach.



This is what I made for myself on soy chicken night:
Peanut soba noodles with pan fried tofu and carrots.. I made the peanut sauce with a lowfat coconut and water base and it was so creamy and good.



Can you see the big ole mason jar in the back? That's the signature drink from "Bye and Bye" - a new vegan bar in NE Portland, along with the BBQ platter. Check out our recent review on Stumptown Vegans. I wish this place was in SE Portland near me!



One last question - can anyone in/familiar with Seattle recommend a somewhere to eat or get delivery from late night? Thanks!