Year: 2008

vegan

The Vegan 100

In response to The Omnivore’s Hundred, Bittersweet has produced The Vegan’s Hundred. The rules are the same for this list as the Omivore’s.  I will bold all the foods I have eaten as I eat them, however I am only bolding them if I have eaten the vegan version.  (All links are Bittersweet’s because she deserves the credit) Last edited 9-10-08. […]

recipes, reviews, vegan, vegetarian

The Joys of Nutritional Yeast

I’ve been trying to branch out and try new ingredients, especially those typically associated with vegan cooking.  During my experimentation, I ran across Nutritional Yeast in several recipes (including my spicy “buffalo wings”.)  I had no idea what it was, so I consulted my friendly local Internet and found out all sorts of interesting tibits. Nutritional yeast […]

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Kiva and Food Blogs

Heidi from 101 Cookbooks has again inspired me, though this time without a recipe.  After reading this post about setting up 101 Cookbooks as a Kiva.com lending team, I was inspired to log back into my Kiva account and make sure that all of my donations were allocated. For those of you unfamilar with Kiva, they make […]

recipes

Spicy Barbecue Seitan Wings

So last post, I talked about making my own seitan so that I could fry it up and make “buffalo wings.” Here are the seitan wings I made: It’s kind of hard to see, but they turned out really well.  There was something about the light, moistness of the homemade seitan that turned into juicy wings […]

recipes, techniques

Homemade Seitan

For over year now, I have been a fan and evangelist of seitan, sometimes called Wheat meat or Buddha Food, which is a dough made from the vital gluten of wheat.  But up until recently, I was using store bought packages rather than making my own.  However, I decided that needed to change.  Here I am, […]

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In the Words of Ron Burgandy…

I’m kind of a big deal.  🙂 … or something like that.  I did want to say that I was recently given the opportunity to guest post on so you wannabee a Domestik Goddess? which was a great opportunity.  I really enjoyed reading through her site.  I got a lot of recipes and gardening ideas while my […]

recipes

Eating Sci-Fi

Every now and then I hear something on the Food Network that I want to try.  And every now then I think I’m going to regret it.   That was my dinner several nights ago when I decided that I wanted to try a mocahete, which I was pretty sure was a fantastic Mexican dish (in actual fact, it’s […]

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Mexican Pinto Beans

Even though I said I’d be doing a lot of Chinese cookery over in the blog, tonight I decided to finally break down and make my own refried beans.  I found this little article on how to make them. The article described a fast way and a slow to make them.  I went with the […]

food and life, food media, recipes

Chinese Cooking

Chinese cooking has long been an topic at which I have turned up my nose. For many years, I was awash in a sea of Panda Expresses, crab rangoon filled with Philadelphia cream cheese, and MSG-laden Chinese buffets. A lot of that had to do with college. During those four years, I looked at Chinese […]