unripe tomatoes

We picked 10 pounds of lingering green tomatoes off our plants (4 heavy producers, 4 light producers, 2 non producers). Just in time--there's now 6" of snow on the ground!

Now begins the quest to find uses for these 10 pounds of unripe tomatoes. We will definitely bread and fry some of them. Leave a comment if you have a favorite way to eat unripe tomatoes!

Here's round one: Green Tomato Cake!

happy birthday julie!

I made Julie this vegan rainbow cake for her birthday, using a vegan cake recipe from our friend Susan and batter coloring instructions from Omnomicon.

Here it is in all of its frosted cloudy glory:

Sorry no slice shots--it got eaten too fast!

Also, we had a veggie chili cook-off, so chili recipes are forthcoming!

chocolate blueberry birthday cake

Mr. Eric is another quarter year older! He hit the big 6.75! (leap year baby) He's having a shared birthday party with a friend tonight so I made this chocolate blueberry cake. I used Susan's vegan chocolate cake recipe and added a layer of blueberry compote between the two layers of cake. Yum! Tonight is going to be so good!