Forks Over Knives post 11

We did a whole bunch of recipes this last round. I made some more cookies, but the same day I made them, I made two recipes of muffins. If you care to watch us make them, I took a video of us making them. I was thinking about editing it but I'm not quite sure what to use to do that, or how. If anyone has any suggestions, you can leave suggestions in the comments below this post or in the comments section of the Youtube video. https://youtu.be/89GpYOYJAok

Anyway, we made the Ginger Peach muffins on page 287 and the Whole Wheat Berry Muffins from page 289.
Both of them were made without baking powder or baking soda, so were not as light as if that were added, but were really not too bad as far as that goes. I never use vinegar in my breads so I don't even know what that would be added for. Maybe someone can enlighten me on why that is added to baked goods?
The Ginger Peach muffins called for apple cider vinegar, and maybe I should have added it, but I didn't. Plus it called for ground ginger, but I used fresh and maybe that would have changed the flavor some. Anyway, in our opinion, it was a flop as far as taste goes. No-one liked it at all.

The Whole Wheat Berry Muffins were much better, and were only sweetened with maple syrup and the berries. Pretty good, although I could have left them in a few more minutes. The texture was a bit doughy because of that.


I made a pasta dish using macaroni. The recipe on page 154 called for rigatoni, but I didn't want to buy a different pasta when I already had a bunch. This dish was really good. The kids liked it a lot. I think it could have been creamier, but a handful of cashews in the blender with the cauliflower sauce would remedy that really quickly.

Potato Samosa-stuffed Chard (page 200) is a little bit time consuming. It was pretty good, although I could have baked it little longer because I was using cabbage leaves instead of chard. The chard at the store wasn't that great. I bought some chard this week and will try it again. It's sure to be better. The filling was yummy and the kids liked it so thats a plus. In my house, if the kids don't like it, and mom doesn't like it, it doesn't get made again, because it's hard to deal with leftovers when no-one liked it the first time around.

I wasn't planning on making anything for Sabbath, except we had Pathfinder investiture, so I made a double batch of Hummus from page 139. One of my kids hates Tahini which is usually used in many hummus recipes that I've made in the past. However, he loved this one, because it didn't have it in the ingredients. I think it could have used a little more lemon, because I didn't have enough, but it was good anyway.

I almost forgot, earlier in the week we had macaroni with Lentil Ragu taken from page 158, which actually has spaghetti. We still have leftovers of that because I didn't have enough tomatoes and have too many other leftovers from Sabbath to eat.


Anyway, that's all for now. Let me know in the comments about the vinegar in baked goods, and if anyone has any ideas about how to edit my videos before I put them on Youtube, I would much appreciate hearing them!