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[Wabbajack]

How did last night's experiment go?

[veganray]

Smell: delicious & Dr Peppery
Look: slightly flatter-topped than my day-to-day cupcakes, whipped cream "float" top with a candied cherry is visually stunning, I need to make an edible "straw" to complete the visual theme
Feel: slightly more substantial in texture than my day-to-day cupcakes, but somehow lighter as well
Taste: the proof will be in the pudding - serving at first break of poker tonight ~8:30pm

ASIDE - I sure wish they would make Cherry Chocolate Dr Pepper a regular release. That stuff is DA BOMB!

[Frank Delicious]

making veggie spring rolls tonight for dinner. Wife doesn't want anything too crazy so they are gonna have asparagus, carrot, cucumber, veggie creamcheese, pickled ginger and some pickled chinese cabbage in them. Store bought sweet and hot chili sauce for dipping.

[veganray]

cream cheese in spring roll = a li'l bit crazy

sweet/hot chile sauce in the old-skool ketchup bottle = AWESOME

[Frank Delicious]

the cream cheese makes it awesome. you should try it some time.

[veganray]

Vegan cream cheese doesn't behave well when heated. I made a bunch o' poppers with it last fall & they were meh.

[Frank Delicious]

I'm making the non-fried kind. I see I left that out of my original post. My bad.

[veganray]

I like to call the soft kind "summer rolls" to set 'em apart. Addition of cream cheese is intriguing, kinda like a sushi roll/summer roll hybrid.

[Frank Delicious]

I like to call the soft kind "summer rolls" to set 'em apart. Addition of cream cheese is intriguing, kinda like a sushi roll/summer roll hybrid.

yeah I tried it a while ago as a semi-hybrid style roll with some tuna, cream cheese, asparagus, cucumber and a little rice and it worked out well. It's a nice way to make 'em when you don't want a lot of rice or in this case, no rice at all.

[veganray]

Smell: delicious & Dr Peppery
Look: slightly flatter-topped than my day-to-day cupcakes, whipped cream "float" top with a candied cherry is visually stunning, I need to make an edible "straw" to complete the visual theme
Feel: slightly more substantial in texture than my day-to-day cupcakes, but somehow lighter as well
Taste: the proof will be in the pudding - serving at first break of poker tonight ~8:30pm

Fantastic. A smidge more chocolaty & less Dr Peppery than I intended, but an explosion of cherry goodness. Vegan whipped cream topping is a close analog to the spume that adorns a proper float. These will go into the rotation.

[vonDrehle]

Has anyone done something like this? I can't figure out if it looks disgusting or amazing.

[jubuttib]

Not quite like that but something along those lines, with less cheese involved. It was meaty and nom.

I really need to try some Epic Mealtime recipes sometime. The Deathstar Meatball looked pretty tasty.

[Frank Delicious]

made stuffed grape leaves tonight with rice pilaf flavored with cinnamon, coriander, black pepper, cloves, allspice, and bay leaf. Then mixed in some dried figs and dates and some cooked lamb meat. They turned out good.

[jubuttib]

turso tried spicing up his chips yesterday with the Trinidad Scorpion I got from Biscoe, and I have to say that they turned out really yummy.

[veganray]

Dried powder or sauce? (Both are off-the-hook.)

My dinner last night:
pot likker from braised mustard greens with chipotle/scallion corn bread crumbled into it, topped with smoked datil, smoked cayenne, tabasco, & Caribbean red chile powders
mixed microgreen salad with marinated button mushrooms, confetti of frozen tofu, and julienned daikon with pineapple/palm vinaigrette