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Thanks.
I’d like to cook a proper Thanksgiving feast, but it’s not that simple unfortunately. It’d have to be a reheated prepared meal. And thankfully, that ain’t bad at all. With a Whole Foods near, it’s convenient enough. I ordered their Vegan Field Roast with an extra side of Brussels and popped it in the oven before [...]
Processed Food
Processing pumpkins is fool-proof. Make a sloppy cut around your pumpkin and scoop out its innards. What a delightfully slimy feel the pumpkin’s stringy fibers have. Overcook in an oven until tender flesh takes an easy puncture. Scoop to the back of the skin and puree and you’re done! I used the white Lumina pumpkin [...]
In Two Words: Thanks. Giving.
Maple. Buttercream. Sloppy. Piping. Cinnamon. Snow. Wheatmeat. Croute. “Who’ll. Win?” Left. Over. Weekend. Morning. Super. Pretzels.
From Pumpkin to Cake
Two little pumpkins have sat on my desk at work since I thought “Pumpkins! Already?!” Now Halloween is long gone and Thanksgiving is upon us. I brought those cute little pumpkins home today to help me bake up some seasonal cupcakes for my grade’s Thanksgiving Feast, the first of the cupcake marathons the holiday will [...]
Children of the Corn
Today was probably the most beautiful day ever this year. And I got to spend it was my little nieces and nephew, wandering around a corn maze under a bright Mr. Blue Sky. Though I forgot my camera at home, a 4 MP point & shoot did the trick, capturing all the day’s treats.The girls [...]
Orange Creamsicle & Gourd
This weekend’s gorgeous crispy blue autumn sky was the perfect pairing for pumpkin. Autumn is my favorite time of year for many, many reasons. Fleshly squash varieties, pumpkins the color of foliage and their twisting curious stems, goosenecked, rumply crumpling gourds with acne, peanut pumpkins–to name a few. The Electrician‘s porch, hit by the [...]
What’s the Best Vegan Burger in New York City? [Part 3]
Candle 79‘s Black Bean Pumpkin Seed Burger (Upper East Side) Pro: It’s absolutely yummy, polenta fries Con: It’s also a mush-fest, pricey Josie’s NYC‘s Organic 3-grain vegetable burger (Upper West Side) Pro: Quinoa, bulgur & cous cous-oh my! Con: A bit pricey Goodburger‘sVeggie Burger (Union Square) Pro: Separate grill, good quick burger Con: Mushy Bliss‘s [...]
Sunday Type of Monday
At Olive street, Sundays are for podcast catch-ups, cooking and lesson planning. They’re for doing the dishes, budgeting and watching the Netflix, a Buster Keaton double feature, that has been staring at you all week long from the desk. They are an attempt at making the next 5 days as easy as possible. That means [...]
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 [...]
Chocolate Pumpkin Pie & the 5th Graders
Having a big, fat still-healthy pumpkin leftover from October, I decided against purchasing the easy can of pumpkin puree for my chocolate pumpkin pie for my class’s holiday breakfast. No, no no, I would process the big gourd myself! Sure, I have a whole day to kill. Sure, I love digging my fingers in wet [...]
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 [...]
Uthayam Booniyom
I would be fibbing if I told that my visit to Ubon Rathcthani was not somewhat influenced by Uthayam Booniyom, a vegetarian restaurant run by some pretty amazing women affiliated with the nearby Buddhist temple. The huge open-air space is part fruit/vegetable market and part delectable, totally vegan buffet. The buffet options are plentiful and [...]
