Does anyone else have comfort reading? Books that you go back to when they are sick or sad or exhausted because you have to read something to get your mind off the aforementioned sickness or sadness or exhaustion but you can’t quite manage to concentrate on anything complicated? Well my anxiety is turned all the way up right now and I’ve been reading Anne of Green Gables again.

As much as I wish I was more like Anne my waistline is expanding much like Diana’s who regretted only having three raspberry tarts:

“The little girls of Avonlea school always pooled their lunches, and to eat three raspberry tarts all alone or even to share them only with one’s best chum would have forever and ever branded as “awful mean” the little girl who did it. And yet, when the tarts were divided among ten girl you just got enough to tantalize you.”

And to make up for that disappointment I made a whole batch and ate three to myself.

Jane the Virgin started in 2014 and Kate watched her very first episode in… last week. She started watching it last week. And not because I was watching it and she trusts my excellent taste but because someone she admires on Twitter likes it. I’ve been watching it all this time and she hasn’t cared one bit.

But I’m not bitter.

She is absolutely obsessed now though and thought that we should make a grilled cheese for this prompt. Jane’s recipe is, of course, one-third white cheddar, one-third yellow cheddar, and one-third grated American cheese. That’s not going to work for Vegan Mofo so behold my thoughts on the vegan grilled cheese.

The Cheese

Follow Your Heart Shreds, Cheddar. Or Daiya, Cheddar Style, grated. Grated will melt easier and melting the cheese really improves the taste.

The Bread

Seeded multigrain or white. Either way it should come in a bag from a supermarket.

The Cooking 

Heat the pan, high heat. Butter the bread both sides and place them both in the pan. When the downwards facing side is browned flip one side, pop the cheese on and put the other side on top, brown side facing the cheese.when the bottom is browned flip over and cook until the bottom is browned and the cheese is melted. Cut diagonally because everything tastes better in triangles.

I have two of my little cousins visiting me with my auntie (well she is my auntie and she’s their grandmother, so they are technically my cousins once removed but we’ll stick with cousins for the sake of simplicity.) Wait, where was I going with that sentence? Let’s try again…

I have two of my little cousins visiting me so I thought I’d let them take over the baking. We did a pizza masterclass. I made two batches of the dough from Vegan With a Vengeance, a big pan full of tomato sauce and had some cheese and basil on hand to top.

First they rolled out the pizza and spread the tomato sauce on top

Then then they added some cheese (Daiya mozzarella for us)

Then out of the oven and topped with basil and olive oil.

Then served! Thanks for the supper little cousins!