Basic Pancakes

I've been on spring break the past week and when I'm not required to awaken at the buttcrack of dawn, I enjoy brushing up on my semiotics and winning countless arguments spending the extra time making lavish breakfasts for myself and others. Normally I make Skinny Bitch pancakes and serve with a massive tofu scramble (avec facon perhaps?), but I was spending time away from my flat and didn't have the resources. I'm sharing with you the most basic pancake recipe I know...I actually have it memorized. I ate my pancakes in the Adirondacks, what a treat!

Basic Pancakes
-1 cup flour
-1 Tbsp.sugar
-2 Tbsp. baking powder
-pinch of salt
-1 cup soy milk
-2 Tbsp. vegetable oil
-1 tsp. vanilla

• Combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in bowl, mix thoroughly
• Mix in soy milk, oil, and vanilla. Beat until batter is smooth.
• Measure desired amount of batter onto hot, oiled, griddle. When the upper surface of the pancake starts bubbling it's time to flip! Cook both sides evenly
  
• Serve with desired topping.

These pancakes are so light, fluffy and tasty I can resort to tearing into them with my hands and devouring them without any topping at all!

This is a snapshot of the Kombucha and vegan chocolate chip cookie I scored at Four Seasons Natural Foods in Saratoga. Saratoga had a Chipotle too...mega score!

Cinnamon Roll Extravaganza!

I had an extreme hankering for cinnamon rolls this weekend. I was going to make a batch Saturday morning, but ended up consuming close to a pound of tofu, and a bagel with earth balance and nooch before snowboarding for five hours instead. Today I managed to fit in a few hours of baking and a three hour conversation with my best friend in Deutschland. Just another lazy Sunday :) (actually not because of the copious amount of stress and coursework in my life right now). The cinnamon roll recipe I used today was from VeganYumYum, which you can find here. It's not as labor intense as it looks, I promise. And I definitely used whole wheat flour instead of all purpose. They were still amazingly delicious! My roommates couldn't believe they were dairy free. Unfortunately I did not have a camera to use, so I will leave you with a picture of the cinnamon roll at had at Strong Hearts on Valentine's Day.

Papaya eats Canadian

So my lack of posting has a totally legit explanation. First off, my lappy kicked the bucket and I only just got it back from the shop the end of last week and then I was off to Canada over the weekend for my birthday! My trip was amazing, and it was sooooo easy to find vegan options everywhere (Toronto is full of hipsters vegans). I also must say that after navigating through downtown Toronto I feel like I can drive anywhere. Here are some assorted pictures of foodage from my weekend:

Lebanese veggie plate: falafel, grape leaves, mixed veggies, hummus, taboli avec wheat pita.


Mixed veggie/tofu dish from the convenient 24hr Vietnamese place across from the hostel.

[insert the epic salad from Urban Herbivore in Kensington that I forgot to take a picture of here]

My favourite littlest Canadian was raving about this vegan pizza when we met up for lunch on Saturday, so that night I had to hunt it down and try it myself. Nom, nom, nom!

This was "OMG we're pulling over and going to Chipotle because this is the first one I've seen on the east coast," burrito run in Buffalo. Yeah, I can eat the whole thing, every bite doused in hot sauce.

Yep. So that was Papaya's birthday eats in Canada.