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…
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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 11: One of My Favorite Foods
All vegans love falafel, right? And I haven’t really made other Middle Eastern-type dishes this month. So today’s the day. I’m writing this post ahead of time, the day after the US election. I am not happy about the result. It’s a distressing day. I’m not all that hungry, if I’m being honest. But I…
#VeganMoFo Day 10: Making Fusion My Own
I mean, I guess, kinda. I love Indo-Chinese food, which is already a fusion, so I tried to make some of that at home: gobi manchurian and salt and pepper tofu with roti. Why reinvent a pretty good wheel? OK, well, I did try to make it “me,” too. So it’s Indo-Chinese-Emily fusion. I baked…
#VeganMoFo Day 9: Something Borrowed, Something New
Last month, my boyfriend and I trekked up to Oakland to check out the Vegan Soul Wellness Fest and had the great privilege of watching a demo by Astig Vegan on making Filipino food vegan-style. Until then, I’d been under the impression FIlipino food was synonymous with “contains pork,” so it was eye-opening to hear…
#VeganMoFo Day 8: On the Other Side
According to Antipodr, the direct opposite of my locale in Northern California is somewhere in the middle of the Indian Ocean – but near enough to Madagascar to … well, let’s say I wouldn’t want to be left in open water here, but we’ll make Madagascar our “dig a hole through the Earth” destination for…
#VeganMoFo Day 7: Remind Me of Home
I grew up along the Oregon-Washington I-5 corridor. Unfortunately, food-wise, the PNW is BEST known for amazing seafood, shellfish, Tillamook cheese, and beer. Since I don’t drink and I’m vegan, that narrows it down a bit. OK, a lot. There’s always marionberries – but they’re out of season… and hazelnuts (OK, mom, filberts), but it…
Vegans Need Sauce 