The past couple days, I was really bumming, but I went into the restaurant last night and decided to stop feeling so sad for myself; just get back to running shit and loving my everyday. It worked. I had great guests and even when things weren’t perfect, I was able to course correct and really connect with people in a good way. I even got into a really nice conversation with a couple about their 6 kids, blogging, and baking. Inspired and feeling full of love, though I went home tired, I decided to get into the kitchen.
So, you may or may not know, the meaning of life is locked in the braided dough of a delicious salteña. A childhood favorite, I learned how to make it vegetarian recently in the past couple years. Today, I have reached true baking nirvana: VEGAN salteñas. Last night, I prepped my vegan mod of the traditional filling and I chilled a batch of Terry Romero’s empanada dough over night. It was perfect. Less buttery and heavy than the original, these salteñas were just as satisfying and flavorful as I ever remembered. Check it out:
Original Recipe for traditional Bolivian salteñas is here. Vegetarian mod. Ultimate Vegan mod.
Results:
Thank you to everyone who continues to send good vibes to Gimme Dem Cupcakes!
Salty Cakes is born « gimme dem cupcakes said,
May 25, 2010 @ 1:32 am
[...] Suzie-homemaker mod: everything I produce for my own consumption will be vegan. The clincher was last week’s success creating vegan saltenas. My coworkers requeste a made to order saltena day, so now I have 18 beautifully browned pockets [...]
Small Talk « Literacy Live! said,
June 24, 2010 @ 2:16 pm
[...] with, “My favorite food is____. What is your favorite food?” And I usually say salteñas, a traditional Bolivian empanadas. With so many Bolivian students at Lincolnia, they were eager [...]