I Was A Teenage Vegan CookBlog

We had one hell of a party at my place the other night, full or music, merriment, and molasses to honor the memory of an historic boston tragedy. To celebrate, I constructed what must be one the more absurd desserts in the history of vegandom. I present to you the making of the cupcake cake:

I started off with four flavors of cupcakes and four of frosting (chocolate, vanilla, mocha, and almond), and laid them like brickwork around a central support.

The frosting helped to bind the layers together, and I built it up until a towering edifice loomed over the tabletop.

I drizzled chocolate frosting over the top, painting the whole thing brown (much like a certain tank of molasses just before some fateful day).

Finally, I watched as my handiwork at the the hands of ravenous guests was unmade.

A happy disaster was had by all.

In slightly less exciting news, those of you who are interested in reading “I Was A Teenage Vegan Cookbook, Volume 3: Fall is Full of Stuff” without dealing with the myriad hassles of capitalist exchange and the lingering guilt of paper product consumption can now download, in stunning black and white, a digital version of your very own, to have and to hold, in breakfast and in bed, until death or untimely hard drive meltdown do you part. Download yours today!

Despite all of this exciting news, today is a sad day here at iwasateenagevegancookblog, as I, having left my friends in Boston behind to return to school must now part ways with this blog and with you, gentle readers. I have classes to take and a new kitchen full of housemates to whip into shape, and will probably not have world enough and time to post about it here. We’ve had a good run, you and I, but don’t think of this as goodbye, so much as some abstract and completely metaphorical form of “see you later”. In closing then, take this cliched and borrowed phrase as both bene- and valediction: eat, drink, and be merry.

And now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for:

The End.

You’d think that having quit my job I’d have more time to work on this blog, but I’ve been busier than ever. What can I say? I’m sorry. I wish I could make it up to you, but I’m afraid this internet relationship just hasn’t been working out the way that I’d planned. I just wasn’t ready for this sort of commitment. Please accept these humble pictures from some of my recent recipes as a token of my esteem for you, dear readers.

To start things off we have a dinner chock full of stuff from my latest cookbook, including boston brown bread, apricot-glazed green beans, cornbread stuffing, and, the undisputed highlight, toftemptan (which, for all you laypeople out there, is tofu stuffed with tempeh stuffed with seitan).

Next, a couple of my latest and craziest dessert recipes, chocolate/almond-filled coconut macaroons and mulled apple cider cupcakes with orange cream frosting and crystallized ginger.

Penultimately, as a reasonably British breakfast or teatime treat, here are some whole wheat walnut and apricot scones.

And lastly, something I threw together for a party featuring a live action game of clue the other week (where the assignment was to bring a murder-themed food), allow me to present this humble arrangement of hummus and carrot swords.

For those of you keeping score at home, it was Professor Plum, in the Billiards Room, with the Tomahawk, and it was I, the dashing and flamboyant Earl Grey, who solved the case and brought the most foul murderer’s evening reign of terror to what was quite literally a crashing halt.

I’m hoping to make the most recent volume of my cookbook available for download soon as a PDF (check my profile for the earlier two), but for those of you who simply cannot wait that long (and given the increasingly lengthy intervals between my posts it may yet be some time), physical copies are still available online through the Paper Trail Distro and in person at the Lucy Parsons Center in Boston, Printed Matter in New York (maybe) and the newly founded Hunter Seeker zine shop in San Francisco. Also, for more of my delightfully abstruse rambling, check out my recent interview with Paper Trail here. I also made another trip down to Fiore’s in JP last week to do some baking for with Homefries, and threw together some pear and soy cream danishes. Those are probably all gone by now, but if you’re in the area you should stop in for a bite and see what h.f. and her crew have been cooking up.

In addition to baking, I’ve been doing a lot of audio work recently. Look for a remix I contributed to my pal PdL for his new album Stop Means Go that should be coming out on his label Vanita Phone Company and available through iTunes as soon as he finished sewing the cd packaging together, as well as a sound art piece (and a couple of photographs) that I contributed to ReconnectUS (they have yet to accept/reject any submissions, but it may turn up on their website if not in their show itself), an upcoming art show focused on the war in Iraq that will be going up in Providence and Pawtucket in March.