Now stop rubbing it in everyone else’s face! The fair and beautiful Katie, who just transplanted her fine self from Chicago to Portland, has been posting the most tempting confections from her new workplace - SweetPea Bakery in the famed Portland mini-mall.

Not to mention one off color cake:

And to add insult to injury, she has announced that SweetPea is offering all you can eat vegan brunch. Okay, Portland. We get it. You win. Now stop showing off, already. It’s tacky.

Details from Lisa SweetPea

“Hi Friends!

xoxo
-lisa”

No restaurant review today, just a little reminder to tell you to skip dinner and eat a Sweet And Sara S’more instead. Holy cats, these things are forking insane. I was all getting ready to talk to someone on the phone today and I took a bite of the S’more, thinking I could just talk on the phone and wait to take another bite. No. I emailed him and said I needed half an hour.

Picture from the Sweet and Sara website, I was too busy eating mine to photograph it

It’s a buttery toasty tasting graham cracker, with a big scoop of luscious marshmallow, all dipped in dark chocolate. Everything about it is just perfect. The marshmallow is the just right amount of fluffy and toothsome, and the sweetness is not cloying, it’s just enough to let you know that you’re indulging. These things are running 4.49 at Whole Foods, and I gotta’ say, even though I kind of almost put it back because of the price tag, they are worth it. There’s also a peanut butter flavor, but fork that - I think original is where it’s at.

I know that Sara worked her ass off to get this recipe just right, and bless her soul, she did it. Mazel tov, girl! Check the Sweet And Sara website for how to get them. I got mine at the Whole Foods on Houston Street.

In other non-local news, AngelFood of Auckland New Zealand will be selling a marshmallow making kit for 10 dollars NZ (not sure what that translates to here, and too lazy to google it). It sounds like fun and I’ll review it on the blog in a few weeks.

It’s been a few weeks, so let me dip my toes back into the blogging world with the best sort of not-safe-for-work cookie disaster from Garrick, who’s also working on a vegan cookie book. You know, I’m just going to post them. If your boss fires you for looking at accidentally vagina-shaped cookies then it’s not the kind of job you want anyways.

They were supposed to be Sweeney Todd cookies, as Garrick explains on the PPK forums.

“They were supposed to look like slit flesh, as in Sweeney Todd, he slits the throats of victims… I didn’t know marzipan would expand in the oven. ”

In other news, Terry and I will be on NPR’s Weekend Edition tomorrow morning at 8:30 in NYC. I’m not sure what time or channel for other cities. And I’ll be posting some exciting news about mineses and Terry’ses upcoming projects.

Okay, toes? Dipped.

It seems that the pumpkin fairy has visited kittee, too. Look at this genius invention - pumpkin pretzels!

Having had the opportunity to eat some of kittee’s eats in Portland over the summer, I am sure these are wonderful. And if you’ve never made pretzels before, what a perfect time to try something new. You boil the dough before baking, the whole time thinking, “This will never work.” But then it always works and you feel better than everyone else.

Speaking of being better than everyone else, I’ll post that pumpkin brownie recipe tomorrow. I’ve been really lazy. I mean busy. Blazy?

I’ll distract you with a shot of kittee with a chapati bikini. And don’t forget, kittee is now the food editor of Herbivore magazine. A new issue came out today so subscribe, get some wonderful recipes, read some enlightening articles and interviews, and support independent vegan media. Or I will make you feel really guilty.