Sick Days

These past few days have been sick days. The kind were Matt and I lay on the couch or in bed for hours watching movies and internet TV. Not a bad thing, but considering the amount of kleenex and toilet paper (due to lack of kleenex), not very good for the trees.

Saturday we had a dinner planned that we sadly had to cancel. We were having brunch for dinner, and it was going to be epic. I had made a double batch of cinnamon roll dough (enough for 32 rolls), and 4 batches of vegan frittata. Luckily, I had not cut up all the sweet potatoes yet!

So in between simultaneous nose blowing and ginger tea drinking, and countless hours of televised entertainment, this is what I made and ate.

Lunch was a light nosh of cucumbers and some hummus I whipped up. This was delicious, especially if you like garlic. I didn't have tahini on hand, so for those of you with sesame allergies, this recipe is for you.

Delicious Tahini Free Hummus

1 can chickpeas

generous drizzle of olive oil

few squeezes of Sriracha hot sauce

1-1 1/2 teas garlic powder

salt to taste

olive oil and smoked paprika to garnish

Put all ingredients in a food processor and process until smooth.

garnish with a drizzle of olive oil and some smoked paprika.

Then that afternoon, regardless of my congestion, I made all of the cinnamon rolls. Sadly, I did not have much cinnamon, so some of them were cardamom rolls. I used the cardamom for this loaf of Cardamom Chocolate Swirl Bread.

Simply roll out some of your favorite cinnamon roll dough, spread on some earth balance buttery spread, sprinkle evaporated cane juice generously over top, dust with cardamom and some chocolate chips. Roll it up and fit it into a bread dish. and bake until thoroughly cooked through at 350 degrees F.

Here is how messy I get when baking. Note that the kleenex box isn't usually involved.

Here is the unbaked loaf.

Here is all the cinnamon roll delights that I put in the oven.

And here is the final products.

The lighter ones are the cardamom rolls.

Some shots of the bread.

Let me tell you, the combination of chocolate and cardamom is amazing.

Today, there was no exciting cinnamon roll baking, but there was carrot, apple, ginger juice drinking,

and miso soup making.

Along with many more hours of laying in bed watching hulu.

Hope your weekend was a bit less tree destroying than ours.

Happy Monday Morning!