January 2, 2010
It’s time to clear out the pantry and put to use the season’s leftover ingredients. This is first in a series of pantry cook fest postings: Pumpkin coconut and shallot soup, from the ton of puree from processing my Halloween pumpkin. Seitan loaf, stir-fried. I made a dry yet flavorful Read more…
December 16, 2009
I have Daiya, among other vegan treats for my upcoming holiday cookie marathon. But yes, Daiya–the hot topic vegan cheese. I have taken it apart before but never had a stash of my own to experiment with.I don’t know what to make with shredded cheese. It’s been so long! Starting Read more…
November 27, 2009
I am thankful to survive, and thrive, through the love and support of friends. Thanksgiving plans changed drastically at the last minute due to reasons a trained psychologist will need to help me understand. Luckily, I was able to find a place to feast. Here are the highlights: CP‘s almond Read more…
November 22, 2009
I am thankful for the ability to put my ideals in action. This past weekend I had the chance to partake in a very special event hosted by Long Island Food Not Bombs. I helped share thousands of pounds of packaged foods, hot, prepared vegan dishes, fruits, vegetables, clothing and Read more…
I am thankful for friends who value food. Holidays, like Johnny Dangerously, are just another excuse to gather the gang and to eat… and eat well. The hiatus-ed FoodSparrow and her dapper gent hosted a wonderful vegan Thanksgiving potluck over the weekend in their gorgeous Park Slope apartment and we Read more…
November 21, 2009
Dear Beets,I like the way you stay on my hands for hours, how peeling your earthened skin reveals the most vibrant purple-red. I think you invented purple-red. If I were born a root in the ground I, too, would grow the most vivid innards, like yours. I’d let my color Read more…
November 10, 2009
I ate an entire tube of polenta. I am not proud of this but I couldn’t resist. Each delicate “fry” was crisp on the outside with soft creaminess on the inside. It was this texture that kept me nibbling until all were done. This snack is satisfying and very easy Read more…
November 4, 2009
It would be an injustice not to devote an entire post to the amazing hostel in Guanajuato that held my weary head for two days and two nights. After a long drive for someone with nothing to think about, we finally found La Casa de Dante. As soon as we Read more…
October 28, 2009
Now that I am settled into the New York minute, I can reminisce about my last amazing eat in Seattle. Breakfast not at Tiffany’s but at Joey’s. Preparing biscuits from scratch along with a killer tempeh and mushroom gravy and a side of shredded hash browns, he went all out. Read more…
October 9, 2009
Way too much sugar today. First.. an impulse buy at my daily juice spot, the Buccaneer from Go Max Go out of Portland, Or-e-gon. I was so excited about this bar a few months back, one of a line of vegan rice milk chocolate bars modeled after those staple non-vegan Read more…
October 5, 2009
/ I often feel I was born in the wrong era. Though I have taken to the 00’s I suppose, I pine for old time aesthetics. I love the smack of a type writer, tintype photography, cloche hats, Ada Jones. From the satisfying scratch of a phonograph, to the grainy Read more…
October 4, 2009
Food shopping and cooking for one is a nuanced art. But I am learning. As a kid I always accompanied my mom to the supermarket for weekly food shopping. With the dry erase etchings transferred to an old piece of junk mail, we set out with our game plan. The Read more…
October 3, 2009
I’ve attempted to cook with hearts of palm before when I, convinced they’d mock the texture of mollusks often added to soup… added them to a soup recipe. That was a bomb-diggity. These buoyant cylinders don’t absorb much flavor. But when I saw this post from Peta’s recipe blog, which Read more…
September 28, 2009
“The girls” and I embarked upon dinner and a movie in this past Friday. Our intention was to make VeganYumYum’s fried green tomatoes and watch the movie Fried Green Tomatoes. But a long agenda of topics to be addressed on top of multiple bottles of carefully selected wine, and you Read more…
September 18, 2009
Autumn is my favorite season. For so many reasons: many discernible, others crackling lightly in the cool air, in the shifts of the Earth’s axis, my stars up at bat. What I love: 1. Sweater weather 2. Long nights 3. The Harvest Moon (October 4) 4. Butternut squash 5. New Read more…
September 11, 2009
I’ve had Bryant Terry’s Vegan Soul Kitchen for quite some time, holding out for a day just like today. Today, in Brooklyn, it rained the entire day. With a premature autumn breeze jet-streaming down the railroad on Olive street and backed by my iTunes on roommate’s-not-home volume, I ventured to Read more…
September 8, 2009
It’s September! And the end of the mango season, among other distinctive developments. But with the morning and evening’s cooling breeze I hope to hold the mango’s tropical air, still, diced in a cous cous pilaf… with a medley of cheerful red pepper and wet, slovenly cilantro and scallion.
August 24, 2009
Me and my vegan Twinkies… and stained spouse-sweeper, Confederate-inspired belt buckle and undersized jeans. Plenty of cheap beer was a necessity. Here is an extra large “Danish Lager Beer” Southern fried tofu from FoodSparrow with a veganaise aioli. CandyPenny chomping on my Red Lobster bun Tator tots and smart dog Read more…
July 10, 2009
In Wisconsin, the Fish Fry is a Friday staple at bars and eateries. With some old beer batter in need of some crisp, Wisconsin’s own Wok Man and I fried up our own vegan style version in my Brooklyn kitchen. We drenched tofu wedges in the week-old deactivated batter to Read more…
July 4, 2009
In honor of America and independence, more Vegan Brunch recipes! Creamy avocado potato salad. This dish gets ugly quickly under the blazing July sun, helping others remain weirded by vegan eats. I say use the potato salad recipe in Vcon for “mixed” parties. Beer-battered tofu. A simple and delicious recipe Read more…
July 3, 2009
Lasagna, coca-cola and pig tails. These were three of my favorite things as a little one. Luckily for this little Italian girl, Easter time meant all three of these things– and a bunny head-shaped pink cake with jelly bean eyes (as seen in the distance of this picture). I often Read more…
July 1, 2009
Before you even see these gorgeous little beasts, let me say a word about this fine piece of rock in my palm: black salt or, in its native Hindi, kala namak. No, black salt isn’t street code for heroin. It’s a special smokey salt. In Vegan Brunch Isa gives this Read more…
June 29, 2009
Excitedly, I have been knocking back some of Isa’s Vegan Brunch recipes! And I’ve only just begun… I got plans to fill the remainder of my summer break I/independence weekend with her hearty concoctions. But for now: Chesapeake Bay crab cakes… vegan style with tempeh and some kelp for fishy Read more…
June 23, 2009
Ok, that is probably the silliest blog title I ever published. Here is a epicure rundown: Kate’s Joint‘s vegan French toast. Desperately in need of a pad of Earth Balance… if only the waitress could be found. Oatmeal raisin cookies from my vegan kitchen.Sura Thai Kitchen‘s pad see ew and Read more…
Yes, we have tons of bananas! And this morning was devoted to putting them to use before the pesky fruit flies started making love to them. And what better an opportunity to get to know Isa’s Vegan Bunch cookbook? So these fermenting ripe ovaries of the Musaceae will be mashed Read more…
May 30, 2009
crunch. berries.pesto. veganaise. tofu. scramble. bayview. seasoning. chocolate. chip.