Scallion "pancakes"

How does one eat leftover mashed potatoes with a stir-fry?

Mix leftover mashed potatoes with some dry breadcrumbs (I used panko) and ginger-scallion oil.
Pan fry.
Eat, marvelling at the way they remind you of the real deal.

Creamy broccoli soup

I'm not usually a cream-of-whatever soup person, but this was easy and so delicious.

You need:
broccoli
onion
veg stock
almonds
miso
preserved lemon
salt and pepper
Sichuan chilli oil

Saute onions, add broccoli and stock and cook until soft.
Meanwhile, in a high-speed blender, puree almonds, preserved lemon and miso with a little bit of water.
When the broccoli is done, add to the blender and blend it up. You can puree it all, or leave some chunky. Finish with some chilli oil and pepper.

Why I'm googling "nonstick egg rings"

Discarded sourdough starter = crumpets.

Birthday cake

A veganized version of Black Star Pastry's Strawberry Watermelon cake:

For the almond dacquoise, I used my recipe, but with aqua faba in place of the water + versawhip (and I also didn't heat the mixture, working on my unproven assumption that baking would activate the agar). I made two layers a bit over 20cm in diameter -- next time I might make smaller, taller layers.

For the cream, I used rad whip with some rosewater added. Next time I might use Soyatoo, which I expect would hold its shape better -- the rad whip didn't whip up a lot to begin with, and then as the cake sat it deflated a lot.

Overall, not as impressive looking as its inspiration, but it tasted superb, and was still delicious when we finished it a day or two later.