{"id":969,"date":"2012-07-21T09:30:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T13:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=969"},"modified":"2012-07-20T13:46:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T17:46:18","slug":"jcs-birthday-breakfast-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/jcs-birthday-breakfast-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"JC’s Birthday Breakfast fest."},"content":{"rendered":"

This was the second birthday I’ve celebrated with JC, and I wanted to make it delicious and awesome. And I’m pretty sure I succeeded. Here is an overview of the preparations for our lovely day together.<\/p>\n

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The day before I started by marinating tofu circles with a solution of black salt, vegetable broth, pepper, salt, and lemon. There is a great recipe for tofu marinade in Vegan Brunch<\/a>\u00a0that I used as a guide.<\/p>\n

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I started out by waking up just a little too early on a Saturday to bake whole wheat\u00a0English muffins<\/a>\u00a0(recipe from All Recipes). We still had the bag of the Monkton Organic Farm and Bakery<\/a>\u00a0flour we picked up from\u00a0Trinity-Bellwoods Farmers Market<\/a>\u00a0a month ago. My mom commented on how light they looked, but they were perfect. After I covered them with a bit of coarse (maybe too coarse) cornmeal and stuck them in the oven it was time to start the hollandaise sauce.<\/p>\n

Ever since JC appeared to be a connaisseur\u00a0of hollandaise sauce (judging by his endless vegan benedict orders whenever we go to a new place for brunch,) I’ve made it a small mental goal to make hollandaise sauce that reaches the same level as what he remembers. I came pretty close this time, flavourwise it was exactly what I was going for, but texturally, while it was smooth and creamy, it was just a smidge too full of that non-egg texture.<\/p>\n

I’m going to pick up some of\u00a0The Vegg packs<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0Earth’s General Store<\/a>\u00a0when we are in Edmonton next week and try using it to get a more egglike consistency. I suspect it would have a lot to do with the sodium alginate, more kitchen experiments will be needed (or just less flour, more sodium alginate.) My Vegan Hollandaise recipe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Next I started frying the marinated tofu slices. This I was very happy with. The black salt and the extra firm fresh tofu rounds were very very great. Just two minutes on each side was perfect.<\/p>\n

While they were frying I put together Vegan Ceasars in mason jars, and topped them off with fresh celery stalks. Yum!<\/p>\n

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I sliced up some tomatoes, put them on a sliced english muffin, topped with the tofuegg, then poured on the hollandaise sauce and served breakfast in bed in style.<\/p>\n

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Other stuff that was on the menu for the day:
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\nMidnight Poutine at Poutini’s the night before
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\nPicnic at the Toronto Islands
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Slow Cooked Eggplant No-Parmigiana
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And a chocolate vanilla ice cream cake:<\/p>\n

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