Month: May 2008

recipes

Spicy Hot Seitan…

Over on I Am The Animal, I wrote about a new seitan recipe I created.  The recipe came about because I wanted some spicy asian food, but I didn’t have any sambal or sriracha.  So I used lots of red pepper flake. Here is the recipe: Red Pepper Seitan. If you have never heard of seitan […]

food and life, recipes, techniques

Mmm… Shogun

Tonight we went to my favorite sushi place…Shogun in Overland Park, KS. (Yes, Kansas seems an odd place for the mecca of sushi, but I’ve eaten sushi in every town I visit.  Shogun is best, though Maki in Irvine, CA isn’t too shabby.) So there’s only one problem…I’m vegan.  I do have an ace up […]

recipes

I Made Ketchup

Okay, there’s a big part of me that feels a certain culinary snobbery should prevent me from being as happy about this as I am, but I can’t help it.  I made ketchup. My wife was making vegan meatloaf (which was really quite excellent, especially when topped with my ketchup…) when she realized that we were out […]

announcements

New Vegan Blog

Hi everyone, I have decided to go Vegan for 90 days and working out at least 5 times per week during that 90 day period. I am journeling my missteps, trials, tribulations, and hopefully successes at http://iamtheanimal.blogspot.com I will still be posting to this here blog, at least as much as I have done recently.