Dinner: Quick Vegan Gumbo
For some reason I like making food related to holidays that I don’t even celebrate.
Methodical Cookbook Project: Asian Eggplant Caviar with Black Sesame Buns and Saffron-Lotus Root Pickles
Another recipe from The Artful Vegan. I was especially intrigued by the idea of the pickles because 1) I am generally intrigued by pickles these days (I recently bought this book about tsukemono, or Japanese pickles) and 2) because I’ve tried to cook with lotus root before and have been completely underwhelmed. I love how [...]
2009 Food Jar Labels
Food jar labels designed for homemade pickles, chutneys, etc. given as Christmas gifts.
Methodical Cookbook Project- Miso-Broiled Japanese Eggplant over Noodle Cakes with Walnut Miso Sauce and Wasabi Cream
I finally got a chance to try another recipe from Artful Vegan. Even though the whole point of this project is to make my way sequentially through each and every recipe in the book, I finally decided to skip one after deciding that the primary ingredients are simply not to be found in this part [...]
Christmas Dinner 2009
This year’s Christmas dinner:
Soup: Winter White soup from the book Voluptuous Vegan. It is a creamy pureed soup with roasted cauliflower, roasted garlic, potatoes, celery, etc. We garnished it with soy bacon, caramelized shallots, and chopped chives.
First Course: Fried spinach-basil ravioli stuffed with oyster and chanterelle mushrooms sauteed with shallots. Served with pepper aioli, okra [...]
DailyPhoto 12-24-09
Thursday December 24, 2009.
Prep work for Christmas dinner! From upper left: Caramel sauce, green herb sauce, Winter White soup, red onions, candied Buddha hand citron, seitan filling for red pepper ravioli, oyster and chanterelle mushroom filling for basil-spinach ravioli, finished candied Buddha hand, red and green ravioli.
Dinner 11-3-09: Sweet Potato and Kimchi Pancakes
I have an excess of sweet potatoes from the CSA, so I was happy to come across a recipe for Sweet Potato and Kimchi Pancakes on the Serious Eats site. I love sweet potato pancakes, and I love kimchi, but have never thought of combining them before.
Here are the ingredients: sweet potatoes cut into matchsticks, [...]
Restaurant review: Kaijitsu
Kaijitsu is a vegan restaurant in New York that serves Japanese shojin cuisine.
Vegan MoFo! Hot chocolate and marshmallows
I finally got my hands on some of these Dandies marshmallows! I went into Whole Foods to buy Earth Balance and agave nectar, and found these and just had to buy them. Because that’s what being vegan does to you- it makes you buy things that you totally do not need, just out of sheer [...]
Vegan MoFo! Mom’s breakfast bake- a veganizing challenge!
Sunday October 25, 2009.
My mom used to make this casserole for Christmas mornings. I always had a love/hate relationship with it- it contained so many things I disliked (even pre-vegan)- eggs, sausage, swiss cheese. But somehow it all came together into something satisfying, even if I did pick out the larger chunks of sausage. I [...]
Vegan MoFo! An experiment in onion rings
Dinner, Friday October 23. I was really craving onion rings, but didn’t want to buy frozen ones. So I decided to try making them at home, which I’ve never done before. I considered frying them but then thought of baking them. I sliced up one onion into rings and battered them with “buttermilk” (1 cup [...]
Vegan MoFo! Apples…and failure
Thursday October 22. (Photo- beautiful honey crisp apples from the campus farmer’s market. I’ve been eating a lot of apples lately!)
I think I’ve reached the point in this Vegan Month of Food blogging challenge where I’m hitting a wall, and I just have to push on through to the end. I didn’t post anything yesterday [...]
Vegan Mofo! Ravioli with tofu and squash filling and roasted garlic cream sauce
Fresh ravioli? On a weeknight?
Vegan Mofo! Vegetable and tofu rice paper wraps
Dinner, Sunday October 18, 2009.
Rice paper wraps are a great meal- quick and easy, infinitely variable. They are fun to serve to guests because everyone can choose their own combinations of fillings. Tonight we had tofu sauteed with garlic, chile paste, and hoisin sauce, mixed greens, scallions, cucumbers, lime wedges for squeezing, and shredded carrots. [...]
Vegan Mofo! Roganjosh Curry and Roasted Garlic Parathas
Dinner Saturday October 17. Totally non-traditional curry with Roganjosh curry powder from Penzey’s, potatos, chickpeas, onions, garlic, and tomatoes. But it was tasty! Served with parathas stuffed with some of the garlic I roasted the other night, and five different kinds of chutneys and sauces.
Vegan Mofo! Manicotti!
Dinner, Wednesday October 14.
Tonight I felt more motivated to make something complex. I also wanted to make something that would have leftovers that I’d actually want to eat since I know I’ll need something quick for tomorrow’s dinner. Although we just had pasta over the weekend, I was craving some kind of baked pasta dish. [...]
Vegan MoFo! Veggie Stirfry
Monday October 12, 2009. Dinner- stirfry of shiitake mushrooms, kohlrabi, turnip, kale, baby bok choy, broccoli, onion, garlic. Served with homemade kimchi and a slaw made from shredded daikon radish and carrots. All the veggies except the mushrooms and garlic courtesy of our CSA! Stirfry is the best for when you’re short of time and [...]
Vegan MoFo! Philly restaurant- Soy Cafe
Sunday Oct. 11. Today D. and I went to Soy Cafe in the Northern Liberties section of the city for a late lunch. I had tried their wrap sandwiches at an art event in the summer, but we had never actually been there before. It’s always nice to see “Vegan Friendly” on a sign at [...]
Vegan MoFo! Sausages and Ginger Snaps
Today was very nearly a Vegan MoFo fail. I got stuck late at work and had barely eaten any lunch (yeah, two apples and some peanuts just don’t do it) so I was totally ravenous and didn’t feel like documenting the preparation of my dinner. Which would have been boring anyway since it was just [...]
Vegan MoFo! Italian seitan sandwiches with fresh tomato sauce
Dinner, Thursday October 1.
I had some leftover cheese from last night’s French Onion soup, some fresh tomatoes and peppers from the CSA, and some seitan I made a couple of days ago, and a nice baguette from a local bakery. Perfect for a simple sandwich! I made a simple tomato sauce from scratch using two [...]
Dinner: Goodbye Summer
Today I picked up some fresh corn, zucchini, and tomatos from the farmer’s market. Autumn is upon us, so I’m thinking this will probably be the last of the corn on the cob and super-fresh tomatos for a while. I griddled the tomatos with a little bit of olive oil until they were soft and [...]
