September 7, 2007: Route Trip Cookies

Team Cookie yesteryear a teammate of basketballin' Brilynn from choc-chip cookie recipe, both inwards the ingredient listing as well as the quantities: the major differences are that chopped almonds are replaced yesteryear crunchy peanut butter, as well as the rolled oats stay whole (instead of beingness soil to a powder). I was looking frontwards to that peanut butter sense of savor as well as chew, but it was a much milder component than I expected - I mightiness experiment alongside increasing it (even reducing the butter) side yesteryear side time. I was to a greater extent than skeptical most the whole oats, but they did lend an agreeable chew; I'm undecided whether I prefer them pulverised or not. I likewise cooked these a piddling longer than I should bring - none of them burned, but they were all really crunchy from the 2d they were cool.

Regardless, these were really pop all round. We polished off a lunchbox total of them on our weekend, as well as when nosotros met upwards alongside Beth as well as Ryan (more nutrient fun alongside them coming up!), I filled a noodle-style gift box alongside them for their ain impending route trip along the Great Ocean Road to Adelaide. My workmates happily demolished roughly other entire lunchbox-full for afternoon tea a few days later. Can you lot believe that all the same left roughly other dozen for Michael as well as I, dorsum at home?

Road trip cookies

1 loving cup peanut butter (gotta endure crunchy, surely!)
1 loving cup butter, softened
1 loving cup castor sugar
1 loving cup brownish sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups oats
2 cups evidently flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
250g bundle nighttime chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C.

Beat together the peanut butter as well as butter, thence add together the sugars as well as proceed beating until fluffy. Beat inwards the eggs i at a time, as well as thence the vanilla.

Sift the flour as well as baking soda, stir inwards the oats, as well as thence stir these dry out ingredients into the sweetness butter mixture. Finally stir inwards the chocolate chips.

Brilynn suggests that if the dough is actually mucilaginous you lot tin add together to a greater extent than flour here. My mixture was quite mucilaginous but I powered on without whatever to a greater extent than filler! Use 2 teaspoons to drib the dough onto an ungreased baking tray. The front end cookie pictured to a higher identify was done similar this - the neater, rounder i behind came from gently rolling the dough inwards my hands.

Bake for 10 minutes until lightly browned. I'll echo Brilynn's emphasis on non overcooking these: inwards fact, I mightiness alone bake mine for 8-10 minutes side yesteryear side fourth dimension for a chewier cookie.

September 8, 2007: A Vege Barbeque

meatless barbeque spider web log event (watch out for the seafood, beau vegos!). Do you lot convey whatsoever other meat-free barbeque favourites?

September 9, 2007: Mock Tuna Salad

enjoying quite a few recipes from Organic Wholefoods, I constitute simply the ingredients to brand this mock tuna salad inward all its vegan glory. Lindyloo raved virtually it, together with I'll heartily bring together her chorus: "this is a damn expert recipe". (Huh, ordinarily her raves are much sexier than that... I was certain I'd last singing something virtually rubbing this all over cookies inward our pack, it was the hope of a mock tuna sandwich at the elevation that propelled me upwards Mt Oberon. In fact, this materials is so expert that fifty-fifty our non-veg companions said, "Hey, this materials is genuinely pretty good".

Hmmm, I want I'd finished on a slightly to a greater extent than effusive greenback than that.

This materials ROCKS! GET INTO IT!! And seriously regard doubling the recipe.

Given that we're welcoming leap inward this role of the world, mightiness I recommend that you lot couple it alongside about fresh asparagus?

Lindyloo credits this recipe to as photographed past times Lindyloo), or perhaps alongside about excitingly fresh asparagus.

September 9, 2007: Orangish Roughy

Rather than forcefulness our vegetarian lifestyle on Jack in addition to Em for the whole weekend, nosotros researched a few places inwards the full general vicinity of Yanakie that would supply a tasty dinner. Unfortunately the Waratah Park Country House was closed, but luckily Orange Roughy were doing Lord's Day dinners fifty-fifty inwards the off-season. Although, if nosotros hadn't called them to book, I'm non certain that they would accept bothered opening - nosotros were the alone people inwards the identify all night. Lesson: September Lord's Day nights inwards the Prom surface area are quiet. Very quiet.

Even so, the lady running the exhibit for the eve didn't seem equally good bothered. She cheerfully welcomed us, ran through the specials in addition to chatted happily to us spell nosotros settled in. The especial bargain for the eve was a starter in addition to primary combo for $19.50. There were a dyad of vegetarian mains in addition to a arrive at of meat in addition to fish options for our non-veg companions. Entree-wise at that spot was soup, garlic bread, bruschetta in addition to or in addition to then non-veg boundary rolls. I opted for the soup, which was leek in addition to potato, spell Cindy went for garlic bread. In all honesty, nosotros could accept but shared the soup - it came alongside 2 overnice pieces of toast in addition to was thick, tasty in addition to total of leek-y bits. Having said that, Cindy's garlic staff of life was delicious - but hold back at how much at that spot was! Craziness.

For mains, Cindy went for a spinach, parmesan in addition to basil pasta, spell I couldn't grapple the vegie pizza. Again, both were huge - the pizza dotted alongside mushrooms, pumpkin, feta, spinach in addition to pesto. It was tremendously impressive - a handful of kalamata olives in addition to it would accept been perfect. I had no gamble of getting through it all afterward polishing off the soup, in addition to then I made it through one-half in addition to saved the residuum for our dejeuner on the means home.

Cindy's pasta was rich in addition to creamy - sprinkled alongside cheese smothered inwards a creamy pesto sauce. There was a liberal smattering of pino nuts in addition to the pesto flavour actually shone through. Again though, at that spot was no means Cindy could complete it off (and she didn't fifty-fifty larn through her entire entree) in addition to nosotros departed alongside leftovers inwards tow.

Orange Roughy was a practiced uncovering - it was alone 10kms upward the route from our accommodation (listen to me, alone 10kms - inwards our commons carless Melbourne world, 10kms mightiness equally good last a dissimilar state) in addition to the nutrient was delicious in addition to ridiculously generously sized. The service was superb - friendly in addition to helpful, but, despite the empty restaurant, non intrusive at all. It looks similar the form of identify that would last chock total of happy diners on summertime evenings in addition to was impressively well-suited to vegos (there was fifty-fifty a vegie burger on the dejeuner menu!). Highly recommended.

Address: 2 Old Waratah Road, Fish Creek
Ph: 5683 2207
Price: $19.50 for a primary in addition to entree combo
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