Tag: vegan

recipes, techniques, vegan

Vegan Cheese Sauce Revisited

In this post on Nutritional Yeast, I gave a recipe for cheese sauce from How It All Vegan!: Irresistible Recipes for an Animal-Free Diet.  Well I got to chatting with Wordvixen, a Twitter buddy of mine, about the recipe. Apparently Ms. Vixen grew up on nutritional yeast (good for her) and said she would try […]

food tools, raw food

Bragg’s Amino Acids

 In my recipe for seitan, I listed Bragg Liquid Aminos as one of the ingredients.  Everyone’s favorite Domestik Goddess then asked what exactly they are. I thought it would be a good thing to talk about since until only the last few weeks did I actually become aware of how to cook with them.  Even then I went […]

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 […]

techniques, vegetarian

Stir Fry Seitan

Part of my challenge with vegetarianism, especially as I head towards more strict vegetarianism, is getting protein.  For the human body to function, even at rest, the USDA recommends 50g of protein per day.  For those who do not eat meat,  ingesting that much protein can be tough, especially when many vegetarian sources of protein […]

food and life, techniques

Happy World Vegan Day!

That’s right, it’s back again for another crazy year.  It’s World Vegan Day. I know many of you, my readers, are not vegans, which is just fine.  Neither am I.  However, there is nothing wrong with trying vegan recipes every now and then (like my soyrizo taquitos for instance…) I was vegan once for about […]