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I Am Never Eating Daiya Again.
Since Daiya’s first buzz in March ‘09 to my first taste of it in August (read here), the vegan wonder has turned the vegan cheese world upside down. Now it is the winner of VegNews’s Product of the Year, although Vegan Gourmet (Follow Your Heart) won the reader’s choice. I have watched area eateries thrive [...]
Food Miscellany: Catch Up
Back at 3 Brothers again. I plan to take full advantage of this place’s proximity to me. There is so much to try too. This time, we got a little fancy-pants and ordered the eggplant rollatini appetizer, which was as huge as a stand alone meal. What I love about 3 Brothers is how generous [...]
How To Date A Vegan Food Blogger
Pala means “shovel” in Italian. But on the Lower East Side, Pala means “absolutely delicious Italian restaurant with a new all-vegan menu, a dedicated fryer and Daiya“. After perusing its online menu of pasta and pizza, I knew I would have to put a visit to Pala at the top of my to-eat list. So after [...]
[Vegan] Heaven Isn’t Too Far Away
Last time I was at 3 Brothers, the very vegan-friendly pizzeria on Long Island, I was floored. This time, with the arrival of their comprehensive vegan menu, I was positively giddy. Not to be over-dramatic, but 3 Brothers is, quite possibly, vegan heaven on Earth. The thing of fairy tales and folklore. The many pages [...]
Bare Pantries, Part 1
It’s time to clear out the pantry and put to use the season’s leftover ingredients. This is first in a series of pantry cook fest postings:
Pumpkin coconut and shallot soup, from the ton of puree from processing my Halloween pumpkin.
Seitan loaf, stir-fried. I made a dry yet flavorful loaf on Christmas after drinking too many [...]
Days of Daiya
I have Daiya, among other vegan treats for my upcoming holiday cookie marathon. But yes, Daiya–the hot topic vegan cheese. I have taken it apart before but never had a stash of my own to experiment with.I don’t know what to make with shredded cheese. It’s been so long! Starting basic, I whipped up a [...]
Vegan MoFo #24: Vegan on the I-5 South
I had some unfinished business in the Pacific Northwest. And by business I mean vegan food to eat. This time I flew into Seattle only to head straight to Portland, Oregon, thee vegan capital of the country. But after a long transatlantic flight, we weren’t going to make it all the way to Portland without [...]
VeganMoFo #11: Vegan Pizza… On Long Island?!
Before I start let me just say that I am really excited about this post. Never before have I wanted to spread the world about an eatery! But I’m getting ahead of myself…
First, as Daiya cheese is sweeping the vegan world, the list of places to enjoy it keeps on growing. I noticed recently that [...]
VeganMoFo #2: Daiya Deconstructed
It is all the rage but what is Daiya? What’s in it? Here I go, deconstructing sunshine.
Purified water
Ground cassava: a starchy root from the tropics you may know as yucca. It’s related to tapioca.
Arrowroot: another tropical starch related to tapioca
high oleic sunflower oil: sunflower oil that is at least 82% oleic acid, a mono-unsaturated omega-9 [...]
The Upper East Side… This Really Sucks
True, I am not in love with Manhattan’s Upper East Side but I am more quoting the hilarious Ma Kelly in Johnny Dangerously when she plainly states, hobbling to her L.E.S. tenement: “The Lower East Side. This really sucks.“
I’m back on the Upper East Side for my fieldwork placement. So making lemon cake out of [...]
