A hurricane and lots of treats

Within the last week, Brent and I experienced our first hurricane and our first earthquake.  Well, we pretty much missed the earthquake because our apartment complex is under construction so there is a constant rumble. 
Luckily, we survived Hurricane Irene with minimal damage.  Princeton experienced quite a bit of flooding and lots of trees down.

 In the week leading up to the expected landfall on Sunday morning, Brent and I watched as everyone around us scrambled to stock up on water, food, and apparently everything and anything from Trader Joe's.  Having never been threatened by a hurricane, we were fairly ignorant about how to prepare.  After the large branch pictured above fell in front of our porch Saturday night, we put some cardboard over the windows above our bed and filled the bathtub with water.... That's about all we did.

Well, that and lots of baking!

Over the course of the weekend, I made four different goodies.

Mocha Meringues (Really, really not-vegan)

Lemon Curd (Very not-vegan)

Mexican Hot Chocolate Snickerdoodle Cookies (Vegan)

Green tea cupcakes (vegan)

 I'm 2 days away from my Hebrew final, which is kind of all consuming at the moment.  But, I will be posting these recipes shortly :)