Miss Rachel

Tuesday was Sweetie’s birthday, and since I knew I had to work that night I decided we should have a birthday-inspired dinner the night before. I cooked up some chickpeas with garlic, onions, tomatoes and a bunch of spices. It wasn’t quite Madhur Jaffrey’s recipe, but I did follow the spice combination in her Very Spicy, Delicious Chickpeas recipe and dinner was indeed delicious and spicy.

I served the chickpeas over basmati rice. I used up all our brown rice, and I’ve decided to try white rice for a change.

For dessert, there was no question of what we’d have: cupcakes. I took VCTOTW out of the library again, and made some birthday cupcakes. (I ran out of sprinkles by the time I got to the last few.)

I put some candles in one for Sweetie and snapped a pic before he blew them out.

Yesterday was my birthday, and although I enjoyed a delicious meal with Sweetie at one of my favorite vegan restaurants, It’s Only Natural, I was disappointed when I found they didn’t have much in the way of desserts. So I decided to make my own birthday cake in the form of cupcakes!

I followed your basic vegan cupcake recipeusing rice milk in place of soy and corn oil in place of canola and increasing the vanilla to 1 tablespoon. Also I didn’t do any sifting and they came out just fine. I topped them with your basic vegan vanilla buttercream frosting and sprinkles, put a candle in one of them and then Sweetie sang to me.

Then we enjoyed our cupcakes.