A Sloppy Joe Marriage

Cookbook * The Artful Vegan: The Millennium Restaurant
Recipe * Sloppy Jose

Yumm or Yuck * Yumm

Sloppy joe sandwiches are good, but at times a bit messy - just like marriage is, at least for me :) For this reason, we celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary with the sloppy joe of all sloppy joes courtesy Millennium's cookbook. With capers and suribachi ground fennel seeds, the sauce has a lot of rich depth. Add chili powder and red pepper flakes and you've got kick! Sauteed with crumbled tempeh and served on focaccia bread, this is truly a "decadent" down home meal. Not what I remember as a kid at all! Served with potato wedges and a simple salad this meal gets a big thumbs up. So, now for the important question...if your marriage/relationship was a meal, what would it be?

Chocolate Biscotti

Cookbook * The Artful Vegan: The Millennium Restaurant
Recipe * Chocolate Biscotti
Yumm or Yuck? * Yumm

Would you think less or more of me if I told you I ate the entire batch of biscotti by myself? These are perhaps the best biscotti I've ever made vegan or not - maybe its the cocoa nibs, maybe its the chocolate chunks or the walnuts, or maybe its the Jack Daniels Whiskey that makes them so addictive. The dough is much gooeyer than normal biscotti dough and requires a great deal of patience to form into a log before baking, but its totally worth it!

Spicy Ginger Cookie Ice Cream Sandwich

Cookbook * The Artful Vegan: The Millennium Restaurant
Recipe * Spicy Ginger Cookies
Yumm or Yuck? * Yumm

We usually make these cookies during the holidays, but paired with peach ice cream (Celestial Seasonings), they make a wonderful summertime treat. And what better way to bid farewell to summer than an ice cream sandwich? Follow the directions exactly and these will turn out perfect everytime. Bonus points for making the whole house smell like Christmas time.

Fig Upside Down Cake

Cookbook * Millenium Restaurant: The Artful Vegan
Recipe * Caramelized Fig Cake
Yumm or Yuck? * Yumm

I have waited since last year for fig season, and now its finally here. This is a yummy take on an upside down cake. The cake is very moist, perhaps a little too dense, but very good. Recipe calls for a lemon sauce which I didn't have time to make, but would certainly put this cake over the top.