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How to really make (vegan) pizza

17May08

I just got finished cleaning up most of the mess from a wonderful night.  I threw a dual birthday party for my friends Lauren and Grant.  Here are oldish pictures of their beautiful faces:

We had homemade vegan pizza. It was the best vegan pizza I’ve ever had. Here’s the secret:
Screw the cheese.
Seriously. [...]

Don’t buy Stemlit cherries!

11May08

We all talk about buying local and organic and yada, yada, yada, but here’s a chance to vote with your dollars for good working conditions:
Don’t by Stemlit branch cherries.  They treat their farmers like crap.
I had an idea recently for a wikipedia-like database of information about how good different foods and food companies are, health-wise, [...]

The Raw Vegan One-At-A-Time Diet

05Jan08

Lilly left a comment on my post about gourmet food asking what the alternative is. As far as I can tell…
It’s just eating stuff. Carrots, bananas, avocados, walnuts, tahini, blah blah blah blah blah. No preparation, no cooking, just clean the crud off that plant and chew on it!
Sounds appetizing, huh?
Well maybe [...]

Is gourmet good?

04Jan08

I’ve been thinking a lot about the way we eat. Cuisine, I’ve noticed, is about creating well-balanced foods. We eat guacamole, which balances the sweetness of avocado, onion and tomato with the tasty fats in avocado and olive oil. It balances the tartness of lime with the saltiness from salt. It [...]

The Naked Chef

23Dec07

I’m at home, so I watch T.V. That seems to be the natural order of things. I’ve seen Jamie Oliver pull a tray of roast veg out of an outdoor oven about 20 times, each time just as super excited as the last.
Note to self: it doesn’t so much matter what you’re doing, [...]

Cap’n Crunch activates very old circuits in my reptillian brain

12Dec07

Boy Scout camp.  13 years old.  Cutting open the individual serving size box with a knife.  Slicing through the wax paper.  Pouring milk out of the ancient yellow plastic pitcher.  Crunch crunch.  My mom never lets us eat Cap’n Crunch!  Mmm.  Crunch crunch.
Ecstasy.

Rawdventure

23Oct07

At the vegan grocery store in San Diego, they sell raw vegan cheesecake. It’s really delicious, but it costs $5/slice. So I thought I’d try to make one myself.
I found what looked like a good recipe, and noted that I had to soak some cashews.  10 hours later, I took my newly soaked [...]

Crumbly Upside Down Peach Cobbler

08Sep07

Batter
1 1/2 c flour
3 t baking powder
1/2 c sugar
1/4 t salt
1 c milk
1/4 cup Earth Balance
Fruit
1/8 c sugar
1 t cinnamon
10 peaches, sliced
Crumb Topping
1/2 c sugar
1/2 c flour
1/4 c Earth Balance
2 t cinnamon
Cream the butter and the sugar for the batter. Add the other dry ingredients and mix well. Add the soy milk and [...]

Raw corn

07Sep07

How did I go my whole life not knowing that you can eat corn raw and that it is delicious?
Also, the dance scene in New Haven?  It is a little weird.  Seriously, stripper moves?

Larnin’

30Aug07

I learned from Gramma…
Reading the paper is wonderful. It’s a big world, and what is better than talking politics in the morning with people you love?
I learned from my Mom…
Veganism is not a magic bullet. There are hard tradeoffs between being a steward of the environment, of our bodies, of our society, and [...]


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