Back with Another One of Those Block Rockin' Beets

Oh yeah, you know I just paraphrased The Chemical Brothers.

In reference to these, which I pulled from the garden yesterday (before the oppressively-hot sun made them spoil in the ground):

They're going to form a nice salad for lunch later!

Today's been overly productive:

-Woke up at 7:00am with back pains (yay!).

-Made coffee (to try out the soy creamer I got on sale and with a coupon yesterday--VERY tasty)

-Offered The Hubs coffee at 8:00am and was DENIED :)

-Laundry done and put away!

-Veg stock on the boil

-Leftover coffee freezing into ice cubes for later goodness

-Grocery list updated

-Watched some DVR'd shows and set some new ones

-Read more of Game of Thrones (book #1) by George R.R. Martin. The Hubs got me book #2 this weekend, so I'm speeding my way through the rest of book #1. If you didn't watch the show on HBO this past spring, you are mental (or just missing a really good thing).

Coming up:

-A shower (YES!!)

-Lunch!

-Groceries and a visit to The Hubs' Mutti

-Making this lovely recipe

-Dinner: Chipotle Black Bean Soup (from Ripe from Around Here by jae steele. Can't get enough of it.)

-More reading

-True Blood (double yes!!)

Enjoy your Sunday!

Jes

Magenta Pie

I'm not going to post anything about recent VegNews controversy, other than to say that I have loved buying and devouring everything in the magazine for the last year.

Enough said, and moving on to PIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! {I couldn't think of anything as exciting to segue into! If you can, get your own blog!!}

I had frozen blueberries. I had a pie crust taking up space in my small freezer. I had a couple of apples killing time in the crisper that needed to be used.

So they got used. And in the tastiest way possible (no, not that way, perv!)

Magenta Pie (Apple and Blueberry Pie)

loosely adapted from allrecipes.com

Pie Innards:

1 pre-made vegan pieshell

2 cups frozen blueberries

3-4 apples, small dice--I used some Fujis that were hanging out in my fridge

zest and juice of 1 lemon

3/4 cup vegan sugar

1/6 cup AP flour

1/6 cup wheat flour

Topping:

2/3 cup brown sugar

3/4 cup rolled oats

1/4 cup AP flour

1/4 cup wheat flour

1/2 tsp. cinnamon

pinch salt

6 tbsp. slightly melted Earth Balance vegan butter

Preheat oven to 375 deg. F. Parbake pieshell for about 7-10 minutes until it starts to slightly brown.

Mix the ingredients listed under "Pie Innards" together in a mixing bowl and "ooo" and "ahhh" at the lovely magenta color that develops. In a separate mixing bowl, mix together the ingredients under "Topping."

Dump the "Pie Innards" into the parbaked pie shell. Cover with the "Topping." I had some leftover that I just started eating from the bowl, but you could probably not be gross like me and save it. 'Cuz you're cool.

Bake pie for about 40-50 minutes until the top browns a little. I turned the broiler on at the very end, so my pie is darker on top (wait, that sounds wrong).

Eat!!!!

This pie was still good (and tasty for breakfast!) for like 3 days afterwards. Which was when I took the photos {slacker}.

Jes