#VeganMoFo Day 5: I Don’t Believe in an Interventionist Veganism

But I know, darling, that you do. Seriously, though – making a lifestyle change based on one meal is a bit much to ask. So maybe let’s focus on that thin pie slice of maybe-could-be-vegan-but… sorts. You know, the ones who say things like “But I love cheese too much.” Yes, I realize that’s tomorrow’s…

#VeganMoFo Day 2: I Didn’t Get Fat Eating Kale

OK, to be fair, I was fat before I went vegan, but I also didn’t experience any kind of miraculous weight loss after I did, because god dammit, I LOVE SUGAR and I WON’T BE SHAMED. Anyway, among my favorite homemade junk foods is any kind of cookie, period, which I sometimes just make into…

#VeganMoFo Day 1: Reinventing Beans & Rice

One of the most basic vegetarian dishes is beans and rice. It really gets around: all kinds of beans, all kinds of rice, all kinds of seasonings and regional styles. You’ve got your Hoppin’ John with black-eyed peas, black beans and lightly seasoned white rice accompanying Costa Rican cuisine, Spanish rice and refried pinto beans…

HELLO! THIS BLOG LIVES! Mostly for VeganMoFo, coming soon to a corner of the internet near you. After last November – that terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad election; breaking my foot; not getting to finish all my awesome planned VeganMoFo projects – I pretty much abandoned this platform in favor of just posting shit on Instagram,…

#VeganMoFo Day 16: You Can’t Reinvent the Color Wheel

Let’s keep this real simple: purple cabbage linguine (one of my favorite monochromatic easy meals, from Color Me Vegan), plus some slices of roasted ‘carnival’ squash, which as a nice yellow flesh and edible skin. I s’pose I could’ve arranged the plate so it was rah-rah my alma mater, University of Washington, whose colors are…

#VeganMoFo Day 14: Chim Chiminey, Chim Chimichurri

For today’s ONE COLOR challenge, I cooked an all-green dinner. Look, I know there is a SIMILAR prompt on the 20th, but I am gonna go with the OTHER meaning of “green” then. Stay tuned. My all-green platter includes: green seitan, kale, avocado, chimichurri, pepitas, and jade green rice. How do you make seitan green?…

#VeganMoFo Day 13: Aliens Dream of Noodle Soup?

Honestly, who knows what aliens would like. Who knows what their taste/smell/other senses prefer, or what kinds of limbs they’d use to eat it with! Maybe they don’t “eat” in a way we recognize at all. But let’s say it’s a very Star Trek-like alien visiting, the kind that looks basically human with funny ears…

#VeganMoFo Day 12: Wouldn’t It Be Nice?

When I think about food that gets me excited to go on a long plane ride, it has to be the glorious pineapple. Oh, I’d love to hop on a plane right now and take a four-year-long world tour of places that grow this delectable fruit. But, alas, there are reasons I need to be…