...first of all we voted...it was quite painless only about 20 or so people in line in front of us...
...and it was $1 day at my local thrift store...YAY!...so me and about 10,000 other people went shopping there...haha...it was really crowded...
...but look at all the goodies I found...
...starting at the top...
...an adorable (and new) pair of Christmas gift salt and pepper shakers...
...a Snoopy Christmas plate...both of those will go to Alaska...
...an orange tote...I had a white one just like it but I broke the handle on one side - which pretty much makes a tote useless...so it got recycled...
...a biscuit cutter...or just a round cookie cutter...it has a fancy red handle...it could replace the tin can with both ends cut out that I've been using since we got married (that's what my Mom also used my entire life)...but probably not...haha
...a collector's edition of Sebastian Faulks Birdsong...which I read a few months ago...
...an oak leaf shaped cookie cutter...perfect for some fall cookies...
...an apparently unused clear plastic serving tray...I'll put it up with the Christmas plates for holiday use...we don't have much use for serving trays on a daily basis...haha...
...and finally the star of today's thrifting show...a Wilton silicone mini bundt cake pan...it's really dirty so I'm going to give it a good scrub and also a run through the dishy-washy...
...and another star not pictured here because it's currently soaking in a big glass of bleach...it's a stick blender...and it was also not super clean and the Man said he wasn't going to let it touch his food...haha...
...our current stick blender is on it's last legs...you can see it in this post from
the 2014 Family Christmas Party...those babes I'm holding are the teenaged soccer players you've seen recently on the blog...and that one is making a horrible sound and the Man says it's bearings are shot...
...now on to the Delicious Food portion of the post...
...I'm making the Vegan Chocolate Dot Pound Cake...
the recipe is posted (of course) back in 2011...but I've tweaked it a little bit more over the years...I'm using the Fiber One cereal this time...
...I got a container of 'pumpkin' out of the freezer...this one is actually butternut squash...but I use them interchangeably...
...this is the new clean (and sterile - I also gave it a bath in isopropyl alcohol after the bleach one...just to put the Man's mind at rest about it...haha) Braun stick blender...it doesn't pop apart for cleaning like the old one...but that's ok...
...one of my tweaks is that instead of using flax seed goo...I use 2 tsp of egg replacer and 2 Tbls of ground flaxseed...
...just giving it a whirr with the new stick blender...
...and also giving the thawed out 'pumpkin' a blend as well...
...since vegan chocolate chips are so difficult to find around here...I'm just chopping up a vegan chocolate bar for the chips...
...and here's a closeup of the shiny-clean silicone bundt cake pan...
...the Man does not want any chocolate chips in his...nor does he like it spicy...so I only put in half the spice and ladled his batter into two of the bundts...
...and then I added the rest of the spice (so my cakes will be like 1 1/2 times spicy which is fine with me and all of the chocolate which is also fine with me...haha)...
...and I had enough batter leftover for FOUR more muffins...all for me...YAY!...and I always put some water into the empty muffin cups the way our 4-H cooking instructor told us to all those years ago...it's really not necessary...
America's Test Kitchen did a whole post about it...
...the little bundts baked up perfectly...
...and so did the muffins...
...letting them cool a bit...
...but I'm definitely eating one warm...I so much prefer muffins and cupcakes cooked without the paper liners because you get this wonderful golden crust and it's the best part of any muffin...
...oh my goodness these are so delicious...and perfect for fall...
...one last thing...the Fiber One cereal comes in two little pouches...which gives me an interesting new recycled storage bag...it'll be perfect for something long and skinny...
...what delicious food have you been eating lately?...
~Have a lovely day!
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