coconut is magic

to cure(or at least,aid) my constant craving for coconut,we made these:

CHOCOLATE COCONUT MACAROONS
and
DRIED FRUIT AND COCONUT CANDIES

both from The Joy of Vegan Baking,our new favorite cookbook. though,neither required the oven to actually be turned on.

we're thinking of making the candies continuously,but varying the recipe with,among other things,different nuts...since it called for walnuts,but if we were to use,say,cashews,the flavor would be entirely different. the continuous part is because they are entirely raw and jake has been trying to start the day raw(for the first few hours) since he says that he feels better when he does that. pancakes are good too,if you ask me,but whatever. fine by me.

i think tonight we're going to make ZUCCHINI FRITTERS with apple chunks in them. the shredded zucchini being frozen,from our garden. yay. i'll post that recipe when it happens.

possibly complimented by some of the jalepeno jelly that i made in the summer.

i'm going to try to get back to doing this more frequently. i can't seem to concentrate, fully, on projects.

we're waiting on an organic seeds catologue to come in the mail before we really start planning this years garden. definitely decided that we are using an entirely seperate space for squash-type plants. mostly because they took over and choked other plants to death,but also because we want to plant more More MORE! this year. the tomato sauce that we froze from the upwards of 10 plnts last year,was gone in less than 3 months. putting the squashes somewhere else will free up SO MUCH space to plant,say triple the amount of tomato plants.
we're also going to try a few more things this year. just to experiment,last year,we planted anything that we could get our hands on,but i think this ear we'll make it a point to try things like eggplant,specifically.

since winter is really setting in,and our basement remains unfinished, i think that we're going to try brewing soon...still haven't decided specifics yet,but i do think that we'll most likely, start with wine,just because it'll be easier...and we're lazy,on top of having a billion things to do,already.

went to watkins yesterday. wandered the block of the town. just like i anticipated,it's really a very seasonal town. went into a secon-hand store that is truly a glorified(alphebatized,clean) packrat's basement. only vonnegut they had were ones that i already had. the dude said that it was hard to actually get any of his stuff... also stopped at a coffee shop/bookstore. they had 2 vegan bakedcgoods. blueberry with puff pastry...i wish they would expand that to other fruits...
the summer. i swear,this year.