What Melissa Make Mise En Place
It's been awhile since we played a game of "What Melissa Make?" ((20 points awarded to the person who first guesses correctly.)) ((Also, if you do nothing else today, please (please) be sure to take note of the nest I created for my garlic.)) ((ty.))
Whole Foods Plant Based
Melissa is... (what's the word I'm looking for here?) fucked. ((Melissa is fucked.))
Chili Powder (Recipe)
Melissa is confident there is a cheaper, faster way to acquire chili powder. Melissa is further convinced she's got a shaker-full already sitting on her counter. Melissa makes a homemade chili powder anyway. Melissa is a good sport about it all.
Mango Fruit Paste (Recipe)
Melissa makes a mango fruit paste (from dried mangoes; that were soaked in water; then rehydrated -- then pulverized). ((Melissa doesn't know who she is anymore.))
Baked Tofu (Recipe)
Really Melissa? Baked tofu?
Vegan Potato Salad
Potato salad!!! YAAYYY!!! ((A vegan, plant-based, mayonnaise-free, potato salad, but a potato salad nonetheless.)) ((YAAAYYYY!!!))
What Melissa Make?
((Time for another round...))
Black Bean Tacos
Very recently, I would have told you I don't like beans; I order my burritos without beans; I order everything without beans -- I don't like beans. But then...
Refried Beans
YAAAYYY!!!
More Beans
Congratulations! You're the next contestant on "What Melissa Make?"
Black Bean Burger
Black bean burger, plus lettuce, tomato, and red onions, with avocado, spicy mustard, cilantro, sweet potato fries, and a homemade ketchup ((for that A++)).
Black Bean Mise En Place
((For an assignment, I had to soak a bag of beans.)) ((If you don't know how many beans that is -- it's a fucking lot.)) ((This isn't even half.)) First person to correctly guess what I'm making earns 20 points. ((Go!))
BBQ Sauce
I also had to make a whole foods, plant based BBQ sauce -- which I put on some chicken, because that's where BBQ sauce goes ((h/t: plant based failure)) -- with...
Balsamic Reduction
I had to make a balsamic reduction, but they didn't tell me what to put it on. (('at'll work.))
Mashed Potatoes
((Not only is there no rosemary in this recipe, I was supposed to use the nut butter from the last post, to make this a whole foods, plant based recipe, but...