My summer is one-third over and I have very few pictures to show for it. I have hopped on the Green Monster bandwagon and now am slightly obsessed. While I am waiting for my paycheck to go in, I have been making little lists of all the fancy ingredients that would make for suped-up, dazzling versions of my current Green Monster. I don't have any pictures of the ones I have made, but that's okay because you all know what GM's look like anyway. Just imagine a bright green smoothie and we're good.
Ever since I tried the Maple-Pecan Sticky Blondies from Eat, Drink & Be Vegan, blondies have been my favorite dessert to make -- yes, even before our beloved VeggieGirl made vegan blondies famous.
For this batch of good old fashioned Chocolate Chip Blondies, I adapted Nicole's adaptation of the VG recipe. VeggieGirl's recipe calls for non-dairy yogurt, which is expensive and not commonly in my fridge, but Nicole, in quite genius fashion, just substitutes a mix of non-dairy milk and apple cider vinegar for the yogurt.
In standard Eat Live Run fashion, I hastily froze the hot-outta-the-oven blondie batch and had yummy frozen blondie squares to filch from the freezer all week long. Glorious!
I went on a last minute trip last weekend and was finally able to get my hands on a pint of hemp milk ice cream -- Mint Chip to be precise, of the Tempt line by Living Harvest. 'Twas fab, but Purely Decadent's (with coconut milk) Mint Chip wins the mint award, over Tempt and over Mint Galactica by the Coconut Bliss people; however, I am confident that I shall find true love when I try the chocolate and coffee flavors of Tempt.
My thoughts on Tempt? It starts off tasting like "normal" dairy mint ice cream, but the finish and aftertaste sweetens up and is very unique. I think this is when the hemp comes through. I wish this were sweetened with agave instead of sugar, and I also would have liked the chocolate bits to be bigger. Big fat chocolate cookie bits mixed in would have been nice too, but then again, the name of the ice cream is mint chip, not mint chocolate cookie bit, so it's not like cookie tidbits were promised or anything.
Hmmm, maybe I should start taking pictures of my real food? Or maybe I should start eating things that are actually interesting? Or maybe I have been notorious lately for being lazy and eating my meals from the Whole Foods salad bar and being too scared to whip out my camera in their seating area? I have been working 6 days a week, so that is one of my excuses... And soon I shall reveal what exactly I am doing at my place of employment, so stay tuned - I won't be straying too far from blogworld this time!
Have a fabulous Thursday!
23 comments:
Mmmmmm, the blondies look fabulous! I've made the blondies with soy yogurt and the milk/cider mixture and I think they come out equally delicious!
As usual, your baking recipes are amazing!
I've never tried blondies, but I think I'll have to now! I take it they're called that because they're like non-chocolate brownies? (I've only just worked that one out... :) )
All of your food is interesting!
Mmm, I've got to try those blondies again. I made them once and ate them too quickly! haha
I too LOVE my blondies frozen.
I've got to find that ice cream, how yummy!
wow, great blondies! they look really delicious and dense. warm ones are the best!
Those blondies look great! I haven't yet made Veggie Girl's blondies, but I don't know why because blondies are one my favorites treats.
yes, please don't leave us for too long again! :)
i can't believe i've never made the maple pecan sticky blondies before. now i really want to!
and we'd love to see more pics, but don't stress out about it--enjoy summer and relax!
SO jealous of your Tempt IC...I can't find it anywhere!
I love blondies! They're my favorite dessert.
And I have yet to try that vegan ice cream. It's so expensive!
Wow.... non-dairy milk and apple cider vinegar as a yogurt sub?!?!? THANKS for the great idea!!
-A
It was good to see you last weekend...too bad I didn't get to share the hemp ice cream! The vanilla flavor is pretty tasty too.
Why didn't you mail me a blondie?! Hehe :) They look awesome!
I wish I could find that Tempt ice cream around here! I wanna try it...and I also want one of those blondies!
ooh those blondies look yum, i haven't made that recipe yet!
My mom used to make blondies all the time when I was little. Who knew they'd come back with such a vengeance?
That ice cream looks good, I'll have to search for it sometime.
I tried the Vanilla Bean Tempt & thought it was pretty good. Yummy blondies!
im going to have to find that tempt stuff...but i hope there are other flavors bc i dont like mint.
you (and nicole) are brills with the substitutions!
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i miss mint ice cream a lot..that one sounds really good with the hemp! :)
this cracked me up!:
"I have a proposition... Maybe our veggie food would be pleasing to you, if you would agree to eat it?"
haha, and i am so glad you didn't call that sketchy guy back lol
haha, no your food is always interesting, at least to people with good taste (blondies, iced treats, and all the breakfast awesome!). I love that you know exactly how you'd like your ice cream improved, too, it shows a coinnosseur. :D
Okay, can you bake for me...TO YUMMY!
I like the superfood as well, but not every day (that's too boring for me!) Next week, I am giving away amazing meal and this week raw food bars...
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I really want some mint ice cream and a big blondie right about now. I am seriously sitting her PMSing, drinking vino and eating chocolove. :) I'd rather be eating a blondie, drinking vino and eating mint choco ice cream out of the carton. Next time. :)
I've had a version of Tempt--the vanilla?--and I thought it WAS made with agave. Maybe I was wrong...
Mmmmm, delish!
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