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The madeleine is so simple yet so delicious.

One of my favorite sweets.

You probably guessed.

Yes, I brought this pan from Minnesota as well.

It’s one of my favorite pans.

There are different madeleine pans, but I find this shape elegant.

With the recipe I use, I can make five.

As usual they disappeared quickly.

This time I didn’t perfectly follow my usual recipe and replaced some ingredients with what I happened to have in my kitchen at that time (e.g., all purpose flour for cake flour, etc.).

They still turned out fine, but I will go get cake flour next time to achieve a little more delicate texture I like in my madeleines.

To celebrate Mother’s Day we made a plan to have lunch at my mother-in-law’s house.

The five of us, me, my husband, my mother-in-law, my brother-in-law, and his wife, were going to be there.

To make things easy, we decided to bring food to share so that we would have something to eat (vegan) and my mother-in-law did not have to cook.

I brought panini sandwiches, salad, and soup for lunch.

The panini was made with homemade vegan “cheese” spread, onion jam (or fig jam), two kinds of vegan meat, and arugula/spinach.

My brother-in-law and his wife brought burgers, corn, and potato salad.

It turned out to be a beautiful day, and we had lunch outside.

I also brought a cake for desert.

I wanted it to taste fresh, so I decided to serve it in the “build-your-own” style.

So an almond cake, cream, and berries were served separately, and everyone made their own cake plate.

I made the cream by combining Cocojune vanilla yogurt, coconut cream, and sugar, and it turned out delicious!

I loved it because it was light and so refreshing.

If you want something different from traditional frosting, try this.

My mother-in-law liked it too.

By the way, the Cocojune yogurt is so good, and I think it is probably the best plant-based yogurt I’ve ever tried.

Sorry for the long absence.

We just got back last evening from our winter vacation in Spain and Portugal.

Our neighbor kept an eye on our place while we were gone, and when we came home, we found some care package, curry and rice in the fridge, a loaf of bread in the freezer, and banana bread on the kitchen counter.

So thankful to have a neighbor like this!

(They are not vegan, but they made everything vegan.)

We had the curry last night, and this morning we enjoyed the banana bread.

Everything was so delicious.

*If you are interested in what we did and ate during our vacation, check out my Instagram page. I have several posts from the vacation, and I am planning to leave many more pictures and videos as highlights in a few days.

I also post pictures on Instagram not seen here on the blog. So, follow me on Instagram if interested!

https://www.instagram.com/culinarytribune/

I made this sandwich shortly after Thanksgiving.

I was meaning to post it but apparently forgot until now.

It’s a simple sandwich, yet so delicious.

Sandwich bread.

Homemade vegan mayo (always better than the store-bought one; or I should say I haven’t found one I like).

Dijon mustard.

Vegan cheese slice (lately my favorite is the Whole Foods’ brand).

Vegan turkey from Aldi.

Arugula.

Nice color!

Doesn’t this look good?

So this year we tried several vegan turkey options.

Turkey breast from Aldi, Trader Joe’s turkey roast, and the Field Roast’s turkey roast.

Vegan turkey breast from Aldi (Photo from https://vegconomist.com/ )

Vegan turkey roast from Trader Joe’s. (Photo from https://www.clubtraderjoes.com/ )

Vegan turkey roast from Field Roast. ( https://fieldroast.com/product/celebration-roast/ )

We liked the Field’ Roast’s turkey roast much better than the Trader Joe’s.

(Last year Trader Joe’s had a different vegan turkey roast (small), and we LOVED it, so we were very disappointed that they did not have the same roast this year, and the one they had this year was not good.)

The vegan turkey breast from Aldi was also really tasty.

It doesn’t look as festive as the roast, so I would still choose the roast type, but this Aldi’s breast was so good, and we enjoyed it for non-Thanksgiving meals.

The one I used for this sandwich is this one.

I like vegan turkey, and I wish they sold it all year round not just for November.

This gluten-free oatmeal bread turned out delicious!

The recipe does not include eggs, dairy, or flour.

The recipe is from this newly released book, and in fact none of the recipe use eggs, dairy, or flour.

The book is called “Heto Heto Pan”.

“Pan” means bread in Japanese.

“Heto heto” is an informal way to express the condition where you are exhausted and have no energy left to do anything.

The author says all the recipes in the book are so easy and takes such a short time to prepare (until it goes in an oven) that you can make any of the bread in the book even when you are extremely tired.

It is true.

You basically mix all the ingredients, pour the batter into a mold, and bake in the oven.

Yet it ended up with being such a beautiful loaf.

This bread is perfect for breakfast or a snack.

It has an early look and taste.

I can eat it every day.