When I think picnics, I think "what will still taste good cold?" because I generally have to drag everything around for a while before I get to a picnicable time/spot. So back in June, when picnics were possible, I made an Asian-themed picnic!
Starting from the top, going clockwise: Green Tea Cupcakes from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World (I accidentally halved the amount of oil, so they sunk, making a nice little bowl for the frosting), Asian Marinated Tofu from Vegan with a Vengeance, my own Cold Sesame Noodle Salad, made with rice and buckwheat noodles (gluten-free!), and last but not least... Snow Pea Oranges!
These things are cute, healthy finger food. If you ever need adorable hors d'oeuvres, you know what to do. Oh, and this isn't really an ingredient, but you'll also need 20 toothpicks.
20 fresh snow peas*
20 mandarin orange sections
2 Tbsp orange juice
1 tsp soy sauce
2 tsp toasted sesame oil
1 tsp rice vinegar
1 1-inch section of ginger, peeled and minced
Bring pot of water to a boil, then dump in the snow peas. Take them out after 1-2 minutes; they should be sorta floppy, but not discolored. Wrap each citrus section in a snow pea and stick a toothpick through it to hold it together. Put in a shallow dish or bowl.
Whisk together the other ingredients in a small bowl; pour over the snow peas and allow to marinate for at least an hour. Store in the fridge until ready to serve!
*- Note: If using frozen snow peas, you don't have to blanch them to make them flexible. Just run them under warm water until they aren't frozen anymore.
Also, jd over at Veggie Terrain tagged me to do this image meme. I think I was supposed to do 10 "this is so me/this is so NOT me" things, but finding that many images was exhausting, so I gave up after 7.
This is so me:
This is so NOT me:
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This is so NOT me:
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This is so NOT me:
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This is so NOT me:
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Thanks for the tag, jd! I think most other bloggers have tagged each other by now, but if you're a vegan blogger who reads this and hasn't been tagged... You're it!
5 comments:
Delish!!
Such a fun photo meme :-)
your picnic looks is so adorable, like it's made of cute plastic food, and really that's a complement! very asian. :D
and that hors deouvre (I cannot spell) idea is smashing.
The green tea cupcakes are tres cute!
What? You mean you don't like pesticides?? I always make sure I get the produce with the pesticide-a-licious sticker on them.
Hehehe. You know I'm kidding.
Anyway, your picnic eats are completely adorable! Yay for an Asian themed meal, complete with Asian dessert! Those snow pea oranges are just the world's cutest idea, too. Awww. They look really refreshing too!
I'm not surprised that you don't like coffee. I didn't either for a long, long time. Eventually I learned the reason: because it is incredibly difficult to find a good cup of coffee. Most places in America serve stale beans and Americans learn to tolerate the resulting bad taste to get caffeine, and most baristas don't have the intensive training required to pull even a drinkable, decent shot of espresso.
Anyway, I searched for espresso shops near your area where you can try the really, really good stuff. :) Because I'm a dork. Anyway, here's a place in Cambridge: Simon's. (I'd recommend a machiatto or a small soy latte or small soy cappuccino, ordered for-here.)
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