vegansneedsauce: I literally filmed myself giving you a tour of the kitchen. I did not plan to put myself on camera, and I had to find a video-editing app for my phone to stitch the intro in, then I played with some of the settings. (Just be glad I didn’t make like ten 30-second clips…
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#VeganMoFo Day 29: A Recent Brunch
I make a “special” breakfast most Saturdays. Sometimes it’s waffles or pancakes, which only I like, but sometimes it’s savory, which K will usually eat too. There’s often toast, or roasted potatoes, but recently I made brunch with polenta. Or, okay, maybe it counts as grits? This is not my culture; I don’t know. Anyway,…
#VeganMoFo Day 28: Picnic Lunch (or just a packed lunch)
Soooo this is just my lunch for work today… But it’s also very similar to what I’ve actually made for road trips and picnic lunches many times over the years. Hummus. Tabbouli. Salad greens and shredded carrot and some kind of flatbread to make a wrap. Cookies or energy balls. And a very full water…
#VeganMoFo Day 27: Any Meal Can be a TV Dinner if You’re Lazy Enough
AKA basically every dinner I make is a TV dinner because I sit on my couch and watch TV while eating. Here’s tonight’s: Technically, the hummus and tabbouli are leftovers, except I won’t post about them until tomorrow–isn’t time fun? To go with them (and use up some other stuff), I baked tofu with sliced…
#VeganMoFo Day 26: Thanksgiving is my Time to Shine
I’ve hosted Thanksgiving dinner almost every year since moving to California in 2004. I love it–I seldom host anyone, much less a big group, and my mom and I (and sometimes other folks!) love cooking together. Over the years, we made it tradition to use the opportunity to explore different cuisines, cooking methods, ingredients, styles…we…
#VeganMoFo Day 25: tbt my garbage 35th birthday
Picture it: America, December 2016. We’d just elected fucking Donald Trump. Everyone’s skin was crawling. I’d lost my longtime job early in the year and hadn’t found any prospects for a new one. My partner went through a stressful health crisis over the summer and I was really present for that. Then I broke my…
A day late but for the sake of completeness here’s #VeganMoFo Day 24: fried rice for a potluck with tofu and Brussels sprouts. Or simply “dinner.” I got I make what I can eat, y’know?
#VeganMoFo Day 23: Sunday Dinner
When I was a kid, sometimes we’d have roast in a bag for dinner: a big slab o’ meat baked in a weird, oven-safe nylon bag (it’s a thing! albeit not a thing I would use now), surrounded by vegetables–potatoes, carrots, green beans. Yer basic meat and potatoes, all in one easy go. To revisit…
#VeganMoFo Day 22: ‘Fancy but Frugal’ Fresh Pasta
I made this on a weeknight, after work, and without much planning ahead. So it cost… whatever we had on hand, which seems reasonably frugal. And what did we have on hand? The rest of the “discolored” trumpet mushrooms. Some plum tomatoes. And flour. So… Fresh pasta, anyone? It’s indulgent. It’s special. And if you…
#VeganMoFo Day 21: Fancy Ingredients 4 Less!
At the market this week, a mushroom vendor was selling bags of “discolored” (but actually terribly perfect and photogenic, tbh) trumpet mushrooms, 2 lbs for $12. Okay, great, but what the hell am I gonna do with two fucking pounds of mushrooms?! Well, one idea was to make them into faux bacon strips with olive…
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