Vegan Victuals: The Blog |
Bring on the winter.
I’ve been working on my layer of blubber, getting myself ready. Inadvertently. Here’s what’s anchoring me in for a long winter: Roasted zucchini sandwich with way too big a bun X’s 5 days a week. Huge tofu dosa from House of Dosas in Hicksville, Long Island. Vegan cheese whiz. What the heck am I going [...]
Taste & Run: Citizens Bank Park’s Vegan Offerings
So what if Philadelphia sports fans have a terrible reputation… and the SEPTA subway trains are home to a human hostility I haven’t experienced in some time… and that the Phillies are whipping the Mets’ butts in the National League East… and that I had to take a certification exam to get my literacy coach [...]
B-day at A-bistro
Happy Birthday CandyPenny! It was the lady’s choice for dinner so we hit Abistro, an upscale yet homy spot for a quality meal in Fort Green, Brooklyn. Abistro is most certainly not a vegan restaurant though tofu is able to be subbed in the majority of their entrees. They sure know their medium and the value of [...]
The Concord Grape
I defy you to taste a Concord grape and not think of grape Bonkers, the shredded pastel purple of grape-flavored Big League Chew, a shiny purple Spree. Before I knew Concord grapes existed I wondered how these candies got away with calling themselves “grape”. Ah, but these frosty loose-skinned skin-staining indigo jewels have shown me [...]
Dear Butterfly Bushes at Boyfriend’s House,
You’re kind of the most beautiful thing ever. And I kind of want a black polka-dot face.
Reduce, Reuse…Eat
I will not eat Thai lunch specials. I will not eat Thai lunch specials. I will not eat Thai lunch specials. Now that school is in session, I am surrounded by good Thai, contrary to my home neighborhood. This school year I am going to resist. More. And without the double-load of grad school at [...]
{I’m Not Hungry} You Will Be. You… will… be.
Can you figure out what these are? They’re kind of the coolest thing ever to happen to pancakes. Star Wars pancake molds from Williams Sonoma. Yes, that’s an Imperial stormtrooper, Darth Vader and Yoda, a great birthday gift The Electrician received. Of course I just had to break them in with a batch of vegan [...]
Stray Eats
V-Spot brunch in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Sweet Fruit Empanadas of banana and strawberry with some sausage. Yummy but could have used an accompaniment… compote, cream, etc Mango and sticky rice at Long Tan in Park Slope, again. Bless that towering cylinder of coconut milk sweetened sticky rice. If I was being executed I’d want my [...]
Vegetarianism lowers your risk of heart disease, cancer and stroke {or the leading causes of death in the U.S.} as well as lowering the risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, kidney disease, osteoporosis and obesity
A new study that followed 120,000+ people for 20-26 years concluded that animal-based protein diets make you die sooner; this is not a groundbreaking study as research has been concluding this for years. Yay, more evidence but also more of the same ridiculous reporting: “Plant-based diets – fruits, vegetables, whole grains, a little fish, soy [...]
Nervous Energy
Tomorrow is the first day of school. So tonight I had lots of anxious energy to burn. I had to get in the kitchen and bask in a fragrant medley of like 40% of my spice rack… freshly-ground coriander, a heavy twist of the garlic mill, best buddies in dying my utensils yellow: turmeric and [...]
} Cupcake Intermission {
In between the hullabaloo of the start of a new school year, here is a sweet bite of marble cupcake to match my marble notebook.
Annual Repost: Perhaps Labor Day Doesn’t Come From a Store. Perhaps Labor Day means a bit more.
As the Industrial Revolution took hold of the nation, the average American in the late 1800s worked 12-hour days, seven days a week in order to make a basic living. Children were also working, as they provided cheap labor to employers and laws against child labor were not strongly enforced. With the long hours and [...]
