Today's vegan bites include:
1.) 16oz soy chocolate, dark chocolate mocha
2.) Fresh-baked vegan peanut butter cookies (2)
3.) Israeli couscous & a southwest quinoa salad
4.) Strawberries & blueberries (3 cups)
5.) Amy's veggie cheeseburger w/curry sauce
6.) Tofutti cutie &strawberries (2 cups)
What I'm finding, what I think is kinda cool is that I have a lot of fun with a dark mocha and the fresh-baked vegan peanut butter cookie I pick up at Whole Foods' bakery!! It's fun for me - just like how a french pastry and a mocha is fun for me!!
Yay! That makes me so happy. Because I love french pastries, particularly, the pain aux raisin and pain au chocolat - my two perfect little manifestations of heaven. Paired with a mocha or cappuccino or even a latte...I am the happiest living creature on the planet. Go ahead...go ahead and just leave me to my happy, silly, 4-year old self.
Unfortunately, french pastries are not exactly vegan. Not only are they not vegan, they're on the entirely opposite end of veganism. Think 16oz. medium-rare ribeye with a side of bacon and creamed corn, and that's what a french pastry is, just the butter, egg & milk version of that meal. That's how un-vegan a french pastry is. I haven't craved the buttery, flakey goodness - probably because I've allowed myself to have as many pastries and cookies and donuts and cakes and frozen pies as I want so long as they were vegan (and that has helped because if I don't feel deprived, I am all good), but in the back of my mind, I have been kind of thinking about what to do about one of my simplest pleasures and how I could re-create everything about my french pastry and cappuccino experience, except without the french pastry.
And I see it can be done, with the fresh-baked vegan peanut butter cookie. And I'm thinking, it can be done with ANY yummy, fresh-baked pastry. So, what I thought was exclusive to the pain au chocolat and pain aux raisins, really isn't.
Whew! Good. Good for me. Very good for me.
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