Happy Mutants food and drink topic (Part 2)

Oh, yum. That looks amazing.

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That was something that would be said to kids when they misbehaved in my childhood: you little stinker!

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Inspired, I found a recipe and made Cauliflower Risotto last night. Everyone loved it. It was probably more of a Cauliflower Alfredo, to be fair. But very tasty. Thanks for this.

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Cider donuts. Vegan, as host I baked them for is dairy free.

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Recipe?

Most of the vegan donut recipes I see have a lot of specialty ingredients, so I keep hoping for one that isn’t too extreme but still tastes good enough that one batch would satisfy everyone, not just the one vegan in our family, you know?

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This is the recipe I used:
Baked Vegan Apple Cider Donuts. I had coconut oil on hand, for the sugaring step she uses coconut oil or melted vegan margarine. The other item I didn’t have on hand was pastry flour, but I had cake flour which I cut 50/50 with all purpose. She gives a substitution of using flour with a small amount of corn starch.

The eyes were marshmallows cut in half and dotted with a food marker.

They were baked, not fried, so didn’t have the hard crunch some fried donuts do, but they had some crispy cakiness to it.

Eta:
They were respectable donuts, and if I had not known that they were vegan, would not have guessed.

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Thanks!

So you know, Trader Joe’s often sells the mini marshmallows, and theirs are ‘accidentally vegan’, unlike most brands.

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Leftover Tirolerknödel with a spring onion/champignon/carrot/peppers/parsley/chives/sour cream thingy.

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That is so cool!

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Fun fact: because they only produce Tootsie Rolls in their factory (near Midway Airport on Chicago’s southwest side), they’re safe for virtually any allergy or dietary restriction. (No cross contamination, ever.) They’re not vegan, however.

It’s a good choice to put in the teal pumpkin for the kids who can’t eat most candies.

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Teal Pumpkin?

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People have begun putting out a teal colored pumpkin as a sign that they have alternatives to candy for tricker or treaters who can’t have it, or who need allergy friendly goodies.

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Many thanks

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The rest of the onion/champignon/carrot/peppers/parsley/chives/sour cream thingy on mashed potatoes and, you guessed it, schnitzel.

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Thanks for being so timely in answering @anon87143080’s question.

We used to just use two very different baskets, to make it clear there was no co-mingling, rather than buy or paint a pumpkin bucket for the protected candy.

I miss those days, but getting 400+ kids over a 4-hour period was also very stressful.

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Phở 88 in Washington DC. Decent, not great.

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New Orleans Muffuletta salad sandwich.

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Is that the family platter size?

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I…I’m not sure they have quite understood the meaning of “salad”…

Looks amazing

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