Weekend baking

Salt bagels from Vegan Dad:

Snickerdoodles from Recipe Zaar:

And cinnamon buns from Vegan Brunch:

Christmas Dinner

Mom does a big spread with traditional brown sugar glazed ham (faux lunchmeat ham for the vegetarians.) The rolls are from Ethical Pizza and are amazing!

New Loom

One of my weaving friends has an extra loom she’s loaning me. Before the break we got it mostly set up, but I forgot to ever hit post on these pictures:

Christmas weaving

I made my brother and his wife scarves for Christmas, so I couldn’t show them before now. They’re cotton warp and Habu bamboo weft both in 2/2 twill.

My brother also let me take another pic of his birthday scarf:

New Year’s Day Tradition

In my neck of the woods it’s pork and sauerkraut (something about rooting ahead and money). Mom made me seitan.

How I dish it up:

How I eat it:

Tea Time

My mom and I get together with one of her friends for tea and knitting each holiday season. This year we hosted. We started with a salad with a homemade dressing. Mom cut out cute little stars for the salad out of some local farmer’s cheese. The soup was Tunisian Chickpea from The Vegan Mediterranean Kitchen. (Many thanks to Rick for scanning and emailing me the recipe from my apartment.) We had two kinds of tea sandwiches: egg salad on a multigrain bread and hummus with tomato and cucumber on rye and pumpernickel. We had two kinds of scones too: a plain one and a lavender one which was a recipe from a murder mystery. We had lemon curd and a homemade clotted cream for the scones as well as some raspberries. For dessert we had pastries from Vegan Treats and Earl Grey Tea Cookies.

Sassy’s first Christmas

It didn’t even occur to me that this would be Sassy’s first Christmas with me until last night. Thankfully Sassy’s grandma had more foresight than I.

Merry Christmas!

Those pop open Pillsbury cinnamon rolls have been a Christmas morning tradition in my family for as long as I can remember. I think I just started a new one:

Cinnamon rolls from Vegan Brunch.

Merry Christmas to me!

I commissioned a quilt from my friend Alissa. I <3 it so! Go see better pictures at her blog. I’m going to use mine as an excuse to post pet pictures

I also hung my ornaments.

Thanksgiving

Rick came home with me for Thanksgiving and thus was given the initiation rite task of assembling the relish plate. He knocked it out of the park. Most people fumble a bit thinking to themselves, ok, where’s the relish and why would I put out relish at Thanksgiving and why on a plate. But not Rick, he responded immediately with, “OK! How do I do that?” See the thing is that in our family (and apparently others in the area of Ohio where my parents grew up, but not at all in any family of any non-relative that I’ve ever met) a relish plate is synonymous with a vegetable platter. Specifically carrots, celery and olives.

Mom made poultry seasoning and flour dredged seitan again this year, my favorite! And my brother and his wife added the portabello mushrooms back in to tradition. I am super thankful to have such an awesome and supportive family that also happens to be full of such good cooks!