August 14, 2011
Last minute low-ball bidding on Priceline is a skill I can add to my resume. Being V.I.V.B. (very important vegan bloggers), we needed a safe haven to recuperate from a long day of eating. Luckily, the boutique Indigo Hotel gave us a $100 room for about $50 bucks. After some restful Read more…
August 13, 2011
Quick! Name as many starches as you can in this dish from the all-vegan One Love in Toronto, Canada. I’ll help you. 1) Green banana, steamed… 2) sweet potato… 3) yucca… 4) yellow yam… 5) plantain, as well as cooked greens and some fresh avocado slices. As the darling name implies, Read more…
August 5, 2011
The East Village’s Cowgirl’s Bakery makes deep-fried Kool Aid balls. A sucker for kitsch, nostalgia and an all-vegan bakery, I had to partake… once. I chose orange, the preferred artificial flavor of my youth. They also had the flavor of “red” and the flavor of “purple.” Though I’d prefer deep-fried Tang, my Read more…
July 31, 2011
Over the 5 years I have been blogging I have only reported on vegan eats in the Garden state twice: Sweet Avenue Bake Shop, barely outside of the Lincoln Tunnel in Rutherford, in 2008 and Medieval Times in Lyndhurst, NJ in 2010. That is it! I think I dismissed New Jersey prematurely, assuming Read more…
July 8, 2011
Remember, faithful reader, my obsession with Khao Tom Mad, the local dessert I lived off of for two months in Thailand? Save for Sookk on Manhattan’s West Side, I have basked in memories of the street delicacy since then. Surface perusal of Asian bakeries in and about New York’s Chinatown were Read more…
April 7, 2011
If I blogged even 1/4 of the times I’ve eaten Thai, my blog would explode. I eat it at least twice a week. So much do I love Thai food that I am often half-way through a dish before realizing my camera is right there next to me. That I Read more…
February 7, 2011
Sacrificing virgin coconut oil. With my apartment’s thin windows chilling the kitchen, my coconut oil was in the solid phase. To utilize it for a summer-inspired Bahama cake, I let her toast ‘er bottom on my stovetop, very briefly. Anyone who’s ever had a bowl of pyrex [or multiple glass Read more…
December 26, 2010
Snowflake time. Christmas morning and Santa came! Making quick use of the Electrician‘s new waffle maker and Williams Sonoma waffle tongs. Christmas sugar cookies. All dressed up. Banana everything cookies from Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar Santa came again at my folks’. Pancake in her festive collar.
April 4, 2010
March 21, 2010
Above all, feed them well. (Vegan white cheese pizza with cashew ricotto dollops, tempeh roll and veggie meatball hero from 3 Brothers in Rockville Center.) Stock your pantry with friendly items. (Pineapple hot fudge soy ice cream sundae with sliced banana) Buy a separate vegan-only grill for the Grill. (BBQ-grilled Read more…
January 31, 2010
With the Wolf Moon, I ate ravenously this weekend. If it wasn’t the moon then it was the cold. And if it wasn’t the cold it was my hungry heart looking for satiety. Here’s the the start of the ever-afflicting relationship 15. The Electrician fed me well, whipping up the Read more…
October 21, 2009
Birthday Brunch Ambush! The Greek rang for spontaneous brunch action of my choosing in the hybrid chariot. So I had to dump the cereal I just poured soy milk on and let it dry on a baking sheet. Kickin’ in Depression-era! My coffee says “hi”. My choice: Organic Grill in 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 6, 2009
Here is one you don’t see everyday. Soy & Sake‘s Hawaii roll has got fresh banana, avocado and Korean pear wrapped in sticky rice and topped with slithers of mango. It’s a great happy ending. This pan-Asian West Village spot also has a ton of other vegetarian rolls that include Read more…
September 25, 2009
True, I am not in love with Manhattan’s Upper East Side but I am more quoting the hilarious Ma Kelly in Johnny Dangerously when she plainly states, hobbling to her L.E.S. tenement: “The Lower East Side. This really sucks.” I’m back on the Upper East Side for my fieldwork placement. Read more…
September 19, 2009
I don’t often bake whole cakes. My oven is situated right smack dab in the middle of the dramatic slope of my kitchen floor and my cakes come out of the oven slanted and enchanted, taking a heavy blow to presentation. But in light of fellow blogstress and dear friend Read more…
June 28, 2009
Must-eat Day Trip series, Number 3 A blog series featuring the country’s best upscale vegan restaurants. There is a New York that is not New York City, not a surrounding suburb and not within the its commuter path. Many call it all “upstate”, simplifying it into one homogeneous lump of Read more…
June 23, 2009
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…
March 7, 2009
After a terrible morning, my first consoling thought was that of brunch. I was going to treat myself to Counter‘s yummy banana flambé vegan french toast when I realized… I had never made french toast myself! I found a very simple recipe for… Banana Coconut French Toast 2 ripe bananas, Read more…
December 25, 2008
Sugar Cookies These were certainly the most time consuming. Using this recipe from blogger couple John & Kristie I churned out 36 glorious evergreens, doused them with the sweet almond icing and dipped them into a pool of nonpareils. Sweet sugar overload! And just in time as one of 2009’s food Read more…
November 29, 2008
Yes, I can handle 29 dates in one night! But it turns out all of them were total drupes. Food puns aside: I couldn’t wait to use the dates Sophia sent my way in our vegan care package swap. I found an easy recipe here but the batter turned out Read more…
October 4, 2008
Although I proclaimed after my last visit to Pure Food and Wine that I’d not soon find justification to paying more than my weekly grocery allowance for a singular meal, you have to treat yourself sometimes. My upcoming birthday, CandyPenny‘s recently past birthday, Foodsparrow‘s return from a brief blogging hiatus, Tim X‘s NC-14 Read more…
May 8, 2008
Celebrating a very special period in my life, I was treated to a triple-digit all-raw dinner at Pure Food & Wine. Being perpetually broke and an avid thrifter, I am normally critical of such lofty expenditures, even food expenditures. Despite the hefty crew of NYC happy hour socialites toasting pitchers Read more…
February 23, 2008
Urai went out of her way to make sure I was properly nourished. She took great care in learning my taste preferences and dietary restrictions. Below is a partial list of some of the delicious food I’ve tasted in Bangsai: My first lunch: Fresh spring rolls (tarot root, glass noodle Read more…
February 12, 2008
Trader Joes’ Joe-Joe’s cookies are perfect for balancing the tastebuds after a meal. A quick 2-bite dessert of non-hydrogenated, sweet vanilla bean speckled yum. But as a singleton who delves not into sugar excessiveness, a box can last for ages. My clear-the-cupboard countdown was closely coming to an end (alliteration Read more…
