Another sunny day 🙂 I think spring might be here to stay, yes?
My camera spazzed out, and the photo evidence of my work eats are nowhere to be found. So all I have is dinner and dessert for ya. Ok? Here’s the day starting at 7:45 pm (give or take a few minutes).
With the new season, comes a new chapter in Terry Walters’ cookbook. I love Clean Food. It’s my go-to book for ideas. They are simple but delicious. After the hummus heavy day I had, I definitely wanted a lighter dinner…and the (vegan) Caesar salad immediately caught my eye.
First I made the dressing, which was silken tofu based (sorry I can’t give you more ingreds, but I’m pretty sure Terry would want you to buy the book, as opposed to having me show you the recipe here online).
I did make a few additions to the recipe though (extra firm tofu and tomatoes).
Side note: I’m sooo excited for the latest produce that’s starting to come with spring (corn, tomatoes, etc.). Next thing you know summer will be here with all it’s stone fruit and melon glory!!!
I then turned this toasted piece of bread into croutons. In case you were wondering, knife + toast = mess. In the future (when I’m more patient and not as lazy), I will cut the bread first and then toast it in the oven. But for now, this is what it looked like all together.
Plus dressing…
Delicious.
For dessert all I knew was that I wanted chocolate, but that’s as far as the planning went in my head…
Here’s what I ended up with. Chocolate tofu pudding topped with a mix of carob chips, pepitas, sunflower seeds, and raisins.
Best. Dessert. Ever.
So, anyways, I was going to talk about this article (forwarded to me by a friend), but it appears as though the entire blogging world has already read it. In case you live under a rock haven’t seen it on one of the 8 million other blogs that cited it, check it out – it’s a fun and interesting read for anyone curious about how/why people started taking pictures of their food.
And in more fun blog-worthy news, tomorrow I will be hosting a giveaway, so be sure to check back in for that!!
Ummm, well, I guess I “live under a rock” because I haven’t seen/heard of that article yet, so thanks for the link! I will check it out.
I love big dinner salads that double as full meals–I had one myself last night (and just about every night, lol)! Did you sprinkle nutritional yeast on top of your salad?? That is a MUST in my opinion 🙂
Courtney
I live under a rock too, I guess, because I haven’t seen that article yet either.
Side note: if you cut the bread first, you also get more surface space for crispiness! 😉
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I must live under a rock, I hadn’t read that article yet. Thanks for posting the link! I may have to check out this cookbook the next time I’m at Barnes & Noble.
Glad you posted the link because I hadn’t read it 🙂
I can’t wait for corn either! Summer can’t come soon enough 🙂
Spring is here to stay, and summer’s coming soon!
i hadn’t seen that article, so i am clearly the slow one here 🙂
terry is a queen. i LOVE that cookbook.
That salad looks bananas-good. And thank you for sharing that link – I must live under a rock too!!
I’m addicted to Ezekiel croutons. I can’t have a salad without them. I stick them in the oven at 350, sprayed with cooking spray, garlic salt, cracked black, bake them for about 6 minutes, flip and bake them for 5 more minutes. I stick them in before I start chopping up stuff for my salad and when my salad is ready, so are they!!!
oh! that is a clever way, albeit messy, to make croutons! looks good. HAH i know, i linked that article the other night and now its on every blog!
mmm caesar salad. one of life’s greatest pleasures! i’m going to jack that idea for croutons, crunchy/starchy things are always welcome in my greens.
While I was stoked NYT wrote about food blogging, I thought there were so many angles that are left uncovered. What makes a good food blog? What about the predominance of female food bloggers? What are the reader demographics like? What about the unspoken blog world rules (never talk bad about another blogger, never write about sex/money/politics/religion)? Hell, maybe I need to pitch NYT a little something.
Anywayyyyy, that salad looks delish. It would be perfect in the San Franciscan sunlight.
I totally live under a rock… and am behind on my blog reading clearly! So thanks for that article link, obviously a good one can never be passed around too many times.
And I think I need that cookbook!
Yes I live under a rock so thanks for linking to the article! Love your salad. Great idea to use bread for croutons. Why did I not think of something so simple haha.
Haha- 3 people have sent me that article! My aunt was all excited that she knows the person in it (Nora). Lol. To non-bloggers, we must seem such a strange breed…
I am interested in trying dressing made from tofu- the one I had at Candle Cafe was out of this world. Is that whole cookbook vegan?
I’m 10 years behind, as usual, but just caught up with your news that you’re CA-bound! I’m sad for myself but happy for you–I’m sure it’s going to make all the difference in your life. 🙂 And I can’t blame you! Just visited my parents’ new digs near SF and it was pretty flippin sweet.
Now off to check out the NYT article, which I saw but didn’t read – thanks for the reminder!
That healthified version of the regular “Caeser Salad” looks divine, girl!
Yummy-looking dessert, btw 🙂
Have a great Thursday!
Brazilian XOXO´s,
Gabriela
Thanks for posting the link to the article, very interesting.
Love love love your photos! It is tiempo para comprar a fancy schmancy camera fa sho! Let’s put together an album of straight up food close ups! I bet it would be a good coffee table book. =)
What’s that? Pudding, you say? Do you follow a specific recipe? 🙂 I bought some silken tofu that’s just waiting to be made into a creamy dessert!
YUM that salad looks so good!! i love experimenting with different dressings and ingrdients in salads!! it can be a whole new experience each time!!
love that article 🙂
Oh my word, that dessert looks phenomenal. I have all ingredients except for the tofu…looks like I’ll be making a run to the store tonight. Lookout for a copy cat dessert in my future..
Mmm that dressing looks deliciously creamy–I might have to invest in a copy of Clean Food!
hey girl…in case you didnt see my response in the latest post, it was silken tofu, cocoa powder, and stevia. i didnt measure just added to the magic bullet ’til i liked the consistency. hope you try it!
yes, it basically is. its not advertised as vegan, but they pretty much are. she discusses substitutions you could do with meat/fish/etc though. its one of my fave cookbooks bc it is organized by seasons.
you make some very legit points. you should (in all your spare time, ha!) write a story and pitch it to them…those topics are all things i would be very interested in reading about.
I added it to the dressing, so yes, it was in there!