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Yesterday’s project(s): vegan (gluten) pot roast and non-vegan gingerbread.

Right now you should be thanking your lucky stars I don’t have a camera to take pictures of this stuff with because the roast, while relatively tasty (really just a huge hunk of seitan made from scratch), looked like a total monstrosity. Also it’s way bigger than I can handle. But it was nice to throw something in the oven with a bunch of carrots and potatoes and onions and garlic and let it roast a while. On a wintry day.

In the future I’ll cut down on the size (the recipe, from the Farm Vegetarian Cookbook, called for 4 cups of flour and 4 cups of gluten flour, which made a really huge roast — I’d half it next time) and maybe make the gluten itself with something other than just water (maybe stock, or some sort of sauce, not unlike the oil-water-soy sauce mix it was made in).

Gingerbread was pretty textbook — and turned out tasty. I whipped some cream to top it with while still warm. I also did little else all day besides cook and bake. But that’s pretty alright.