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Vegan Tiramisu
I have made vegan versions of dessert classics before, but there was always something that daunted me about attempting the well-known Italian cake Tiramisu. There is the multiple layers and components, all of which needed accurate veganization. And given all that alteration it’d still need to be, in fact, Tiramisu. Too often recipes and desserts [...]
Colorado | Kansas
After a strenuous drive back east on I-70, succumbing to the erratic weather fits of the land’s high elevation, we arrived back in Denver, Colorado, a quick stop-over on our route into the Great Plains. I will happily bid the Rockies a fond farewell and look forward to the flatlands. This trip has brought, thus [...]
Checking In With the 3 Brothers
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted about 3 Brothers… since I went on Daiya-overload a few weeks ago. But I was on Long Island with wheels and was hungry. A visit to 3 Brothers was in order. It is still surreal when I walk into this place and they present me with their vegan [...]
Full Moon Fever/Too Lazy to Write or Link Anything
Vegan vanilla sheet cake at Whole Foods. My cheddar Daiya ziti with tofu-ricotta dollops Shredded beet and parsnip salad with pineapple vinagarette (a la Veganomicon)
How To Date a Vegan Food Blogger, Cliff Notes/Spring Version
Above all, feed them well. (Vegan white cheese pizza with cashew ricotto dollops, tempeh roll and veggie meatball hero from 3 Brothers) Stock your pantry with friendly items. (Pineapple hot fudge soy ice cream sundae with sliced banana) Buy a separate vegan-only grill for the Grill. (BBQ-grilled tofu with roasted Brussels and crispy fries) See [...]
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 [...]
Bare Pantries, Part 2
The quest for pantry turnover and a fresh beginning of 2010 continues! Making my class a batch of mini-cupcakes for their celebratory pizza party used up an old bag of confectionary sugar, right in time for my upcoming sugar detox, and a container of hydrongenated waxy sprinkles I inherited from my last classroom that was taking [...]
[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 [...]
Irrational Love of the Beet
Dear Beets, I like the way you stay on my hands for hours, how peeling your earthened skin reveals the most vibrant purple-red. I think you invented purple-red. If I were born a root in the ground I, too, would grow the most vivid innards, like yours. I’d let my color bleed and ooze in [...]
Holy Cannoli! Vegan Cannoli!
It had to be done. Veganizing cannoli. I had a recipe from The Vegetarian Site in my task box since January. In light of my sister, a long-time cannoli queen, and my Pop’s July birthdays, I would finally give it a go. After great success in veganizing Rainbow cookies for father’s day, this would be [...]
Lasagna
Lasagna, coca-cola and pig tails. These were three of my favorite things as a little one. Luckily for this little Italian girl, Easter time meant all three of these things– and a bunny head-shaped pink cake with jelly bean eyes (as seen in the distance of this picture). I often winced at a baked noodle [...]
Thanksgiving Pumpkin Baked Ziti with Caramelized Onion and Sage Bread Crumb Topping
Sometime around May this year I’ve noticed that time had entered some hyper drive speed, much to the horizontal stripes slicing the universe Millennium Falcon-style. I’ve been saying, “Before you know it, it will be Thanksgiving, then Christmas and then 2009!” Bidding farewell to the kids at early dismissal yesterday it hit me: what in [...]
