Sweet Potato-Chickpea Coconut Curry

equal parts negligence and a busy work/school schedule. Both of my photographer roommates have been super busy lately, with one of them actually being out of the country, so unfortunately, the photo accompanying this recipe isn’t nearly as beautiful as some of my more recent past entries.

Admittedly, this Thai-inspired coconut curry is not very authentic. I would have liked to have busted out the lemongrass, galangal, kaffir lime leaves, and red chillis for this recipe, but I’m supremely broke right now and watching nearly every penny, so I tried to stick to things I already had in my pantry. Which really wasn’t such a bad idea, because it still turned out pretty delicious, using everyday ingredients that you don’t have to search very hard for.

Ingredients:
3 tablespoons canola oil
1 cup onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons ginger, finely grated or minced
2 carrots, peeled and sliced diagonally into coins


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Pumpkin-Spiced Sweet Biscuits

Once again, it’s been a while since I’ve posted something on here, so I thought I’d share a seasonally festive little treat with you all. I was originally trying to make a cake-y sugar cookie of some sort with this recipe, but they turned out way more like a biscuit. The first time I made them, I had kneaded the dough too much and they turned out a bit too chewy and tough, so I’d suggest mixing the wet and dry ingredients together until just combined. Also, I used a starch-based egg replacer for this recipe. The one I use, which is pretty much the only one around where I live, is made by PaneRiso. I got it at a health food store, but I think you can find it in most Metro supermarkets too. I’m also familiar with the one made by Ener-G, but I think it’s only available in the States, because I’ve never seen it up here in Ontario-land.

Ingredients:
3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup canned pumpkin puree
1/4 cup Earth Balance, near room temperature (or other vegan butter)
Egg replacer enough for 2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 tablespoons soy or rice milk

Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, and salt. Stir together until well mixed.
2. Using an electric mixer (or a food processor or a whisk) cream together the sugar, pumpkin puree, and Earth Balance. Mix in the egg replacer, vanilla, and soy or rice milk.
3. Add the creamed sugar mixture to the dry ingredients and stir together just until dough forms. Don’t knead the dough. Form pieces of the dough into balls about the size of a small golf ball and flatten into a cookie. Lightly grease a baking tray (or line one with parchment paper) and bake for about 7 to 10 minutes, depending on how hot your oven is.
Makes: about 20 biscuits

For Glaze:
1 cup powdered sugar
1 tablespoon soy or rice milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
A few drops of food colouring of your choice

Whisk everything together. Add more sugar if it’s too thin, add more soy or rice milk if it’s too thick.

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Curried Sweet Potato and Peanut Soup

Well, it’s Christmas time once again at the Corder residence. Thus far, it has proven to be another merry one, complete with my mother having baked five batches of shortbread, six hundred butter tarts of varying fruit flavours, and eight different kinds of crumble for our three family members. Moreover, my father had once again complained twice on Christmas morning of receiving too many gifts, yet quickly and firmly protested my casual suggestion of returning them all for a full refund before he had the chance to unwrap any of them. It’s Boxing Day as I write this and I had toyed earlier with the idea of leaving the warm comforts of my parents’ home and traveling to a shopping mall to bask in the glory of a veritable consumer hell; a place where the moral universe is turned upside down as the ugly free-for-all leaves the courteous and weak trampled beneath the boots of the stalwart deal shoppers a mere thirty-six hours after the Christmas spirit saw both parties side-by-side at midnight mass wishing each other peace in goodwill. While it seems exactly like the type of spectacle I would love to behold, I’ve decided to stay in and watch movies with my mom. I think I made the right choice.

Happy holidays, friends.

Ingredients:
2 tablespoons canola oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
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