cucumber salad, pickled cucumbers, corn pancakes, perogies...

i'm super terrible about this! (the beginning of every entry!)

i've started about 5 posts and let them sit idle for days and not revisited them. i suck.

BUT...

we can say that my reasons for not being super-active online are that i'm being super-active in real life.

but now it's going on day 2 of rain-all-day-ocity.

froze a lot of marinara sauce this past week(or tomato base w/basil, salt,pepper,garlic and oil...that's marinara base, no?)

cucumber-yogurt salad has taken over our lives as we have a lot of lemon cucumbers going on and, really, how many things can really be done w/cucumbers? namely-lemon cucumbers. yellow, round, tennis ball sized...

1 C soy yogurt
2 (ish) cucumbers
1 C water
1/4 C vinegar
1t dill
1 onion (finely chopped)
1/8 t tumeric (or a little more if you heart it, in some things-as i do.)
dash pepper
1/2 t salt

serve over greens

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something that we just decided (and by "we" i mostly mean "Jacob") to try, yesterday, b/c we just couldn't fathom using the cucumbers in a timely enough matter, was that we "pickled" 2 big mason jars-full. here's hoping it works out as we have tons more on their way, still.

mason jar of raw cucumber slices, 1C vinegar 1C water, S&P, spices.


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i read a recipe for "corn pancakes" and veganized it and it was awesome.

2T oil
3/4 Corn
1/8 t salt
egg replacer for 1 egg
1 1/4 C buttermilk (soy w/vinegar)
1/4 t vanilla
1 T sugar
3/4 C flour
1/4 C cornmeal
1 t baking powder
1/2 t baking soda

fry in a pretty hot pan of oil to prevent sticking.
maple syrup to taste.
viola.

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perogies? pierogies? peirogies?

well, "the computer" says that those are all "not wrong" while simultaneously letting me know that they are incorrect. idk. super Polish power, go!

either way, whatevvvvs.

made some garlic pierogies and froze them, this past week.

2 C boiling water poured over a mixture of 4 C flour and 1/2 teaspoon salt.

potatoes mashed w/roasted garlic, salt and pepper.

i use my ever-trusty ring molds to size out good-size dough-to-potato filling ratio.

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a good companion to this is-of course-apple sauce as well as some beet horseradish:

3C cooked beets
6oz. horseradish
1 T brown sugar
1 t vinegar
1/4 t salt.

blended.