baked Tag

29 Sep

Posted at 08:16h in Baked Goods & Desserts, Breakfast, Gluten Free by
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Plantain Chai Nut Bread (gluten-free) I had a little too many plantains at once, so I decided I needed to somehow put them to use. If you can use extra ripe bananas up and make banana bread, why couldn't you do the same with plantains and make some plantain bread? Well, I got to it, and succeeded! I was able to create this delicious gluten-free plantain chai nut bread that I am sharing with you today. Plantain Chai Nut Bread (gluten-free) More often than not, the guests who I have over when I am ripening plantains freak out over the "rotten bananas" I have on my counter."Oh my goodness, why are you bananas so rotten!?" Plantains ripen in a whole different way than bananas. Instead of waiting for brown spots and a yellow color as in regular conventional bananas, plantains come green, have a thick skin, and reach their ripest when fully black.
Plantains Bananas
  • Starchy
  • Most commonly used as a vegetable
  • Longer than bananas
  • Thick skin
  • Resemble green bananas, but may be green, yellow or black
  • Black when fully ripe
  • Sweet
  • Eaten as a fruit
  • Shorter than plantains
  • Thin skin
  • Color is green when not fully ripe, yellow with brown spots when ripe

09 Sep

Posted at 08:15h in Baked Goods & Desserts, Breakfast, Dessert by
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Orange-Zested Chocolate Chip Vegan Scones I posted these scones long ago when I first started my Instagram account, and when I came across the photos in my computer last week, I remembered how delicious these scones were and just had to share the recipe. I used to make a lot of treats like these when I first went vegan, and I really enjoyed (and still do enjoy) baking. I was living in a dorm room in Davis at the time, so weekends in Berkeley with my brother at his apartment were the only times that I was actually able to cook and bake in a comfortable kitchen. The dorms had a community kitchen, but it wasn't the same. When cooking and baking with a time constraint and, more often than not, in a kitchen full of people I did not even know, I wasn't able to get in the zone if you feel me. I have realized that cooking is very therapeutic for me, and if any of my readers have not spent time, alone, in the kitchen for a few hours on a saturday afternoon, I suggest you do so. It doesn't matter if you're a professional or amateur, the satisfaction of being able to create and enjoy something YOURSELF is an experience that never gets old. Use the time to mute out all of the stress and commotion in your life at the current moment and relax.

28 Aug

Posted at 20:56h in Snack by
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Pesto Kale Chips -- sweetsimplevegan.comI finally got around to making pesto kale chips! After my family and I had a pizza night, we were left with extra pesto to use up. I have been making this pesto so often that I almost just opted to throwing it out. My mom, being a mom, took it and stuck in the freezer instead (thank you mom, this recipe would not be here without you!). So one day, when scouring through the freezer for some frozen fruit for an afternoon snack smoothie, I found a jar filled with something green. I had no idea what it was and to my pleasant surprise it was the pesto that was left over from pizza night. This gave me an idea to make a new snack that I had never made before, and these chips were born! Pesto Kale Chips -- sweetsimplevegan.comI grabbed some kale from the garden, washed it, removed the stems and tore it into medium sized pieces. I dumped the pesto over it and massaged massaged massaged until the kale was soft and the pesto was well incorporated. I pre-heated the oven, lined my baking sheets, and baked the kale until crispy. This was actually the first time I have ever made kale chips with oil and salt. I know it may be shocking to most as kale chips traditionally use oil to make them light and crispy, but think again! I have made numerous flavors of kale chips without oil and I usually use my green salt in place of normal salt. One of my favorites is my Spicy Cheezy Kale Chips, which was actually the first recipe I ever posted on my blog. Let me tell you that salt or no salt, oil or no oil, all the homemade healthy kale chips you will make will turn out equally as delicious.