Browsing:

Tag: beet

Ras Plant Based 🇪🇹
Vegan Farm to Table Ethiopian in Crown Heights

I’m backed up with vegan spots to check out in Brooklyn. So a Friday treat to catch up with a teacher friend at Ras Plant Based, an all-vegan Ethiopian restaurant in Crown Heights. Because no one but another teacher can understand the ridiculous dysfunction we are expected to operate within Read more…


Stone Hearth Grille
High End Vegan Perfection within the Canyons

Every once and a while you need to splurge on yourself. You are, after all, your most important supporter. So on this night, watching the pink landforms catch the last rays of the day’s light on their outdoor deck, I showed myself how good I can treat myself–at Stone Hearth Read more…


Veggies for the Road 🚗💨

Sunday’s produce delivery will not go to waste! Since freshness is difficult to get on the road, I prepared some snacks that will hopefully survive my cooler. Firstly, fruits with skins are generally good travelers. So apples, oranges, and plums are already prepped. But this huge beet would need some Read more…


Scenes From a Quarantine, Part 5

Here are the latest highlights from the Quarantine cafe! First in the bakery, my failed sourdough starter. It was bubbling nice and fine, but I accidentally killed it. I’m starting another tomorrow, because… persistence. Next a stop at the bar before I’m seated at the best seat in the house. Read more…


Scenes From a Quarantine, Part 3

Though I was first feeling like this about the drastic shift in my work duties… …I’m feeling better now. Routines have been created and there’s no dress code, though I rocked the tutu yet again to make some example pictures for my students who I was assigning a homebound version Read more…


Terms of Endearment, Brooklyn

A reoccurring topic of conversation at family get-togethers is the state of film today. How the young have swiftly diminishing means of experiencing depth and quality, the depth and quality that marked our upbringing, the endless pool of movie references we speak like a language. I bring this up because Read more…


Move Vegan Bites & Delights on Staten Island

As a blogger, I am excited about uncovering vegan options in sneaky places. “Sneaky” as in places where you would least expect it. So vegan options in the East Village? Yeah, yeah. But vegan options in Staten Island? How amazing! To follow is yet another report on vegan treasures on Read more…


All the Best Vegan Food in Cleveland, Ohio

Of course I ate all the best vegan eats in the Cleveland area. So here they are, chronologically. Breakfast at the Cleveland Vegan: this large inviting space with friendly service was first on my list. I went for their Breakfast Sandwich–house omelet, tempeh bacon, kale, tomato, chipotle mayo, and sprouts Read more…


The Best Beets in Bay Ridge

This is perfect summer eating. I am floored by my latest meal at Bay Ridge’s Beets & Carrots, an unassuming food-first eatery with elevated standards. With one chef caring for all of the meals served, expect beautifully plated, flavor-packed dishes that make you forget you’re just a short walk away Read more…


Prettiest Day Ever 🌺: New York Botanical Garden & Supernatural Pop-up

I have this thing for dressing on theme. So as I get dressed for a beautiful Sunday at New York Botanical Garden‘s Orchid Show, I notice my Texas flag shirt and my Daenerys Targaryen costume. I giggle that I can almost set up some hooks on my wall so my Read more…


Beet Burger in Bay Ridge

It took me a while to finally eat the vegan burger at Beets & Carrots in Bay Ridge. They had foie gras on the menu… and veal. The production of these two “foods” are reprehensible to this vegan. Both of these items are now off their regular menu, though a Read more…


Autumn Roast Fest

With the Farmers Market season ending, I am preemptively stocking up–making my lunch a ton of roasted autumn vegetables.  Because these starchy roots need nothing but some oil, salt and pepper.  First, rainbow carrots and their slew of phytonutrients: purple, yellow and orange phytonutrients. Though Candy Cane beets (or Chioggia beets) Read more…


Bike & Eat

While the all day’s are still all mine, some biking and eating ’round my neighborhood. Above: the 69th street pier with my chariot. Below: Silly bike selfies with MP The only all-vegan spot in Bay Ridge, Shangri-La. Shangri-La is has plenty of mock meats that new vegetarians are all about.  Read more…


Winter Is Coming

It happens every year. Back to school whirlwind and boom!… Christmas music, freezing cold, hibernation.  But I’m holding on, despite the growing pile of things to bring to my classroom.  Inspired by this, this recipe is so so Summer.  It’s also the first dinner I served to another in my Read more…


A Taste of Bay Ridge

My new view in Brooklyn, the mighty Verrazzano Bridge is never out of site in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn–my new home.  Also, in site, lots of unique vegan options ready to be explored.  This is a selection of my welcome eats. Kusharista‘s tag line is “Grains, Lentils & More.”  This is Read more…


Vegan Burger at the Shake Shack! 👏

On a day of driving back and forth from Brooklyn to Manhattan, it was lunch in Manhattan, hitting up one of the Shake Shack locations to offer the new Veggie Shack! The Astor Place location.  It’s cash-free and you order at a kiosk.  Don’t forget to “uncheck” the cheese on Read more…


NYC Thing: Eating On Your Lap

I had some strenuous errands that would require some healthy sustenance… and my car.  So I first hit up Matthew Kenney’s latest East Village spot, Plantmade, dining on my lap–New York City style. Plantmade is pretty new so perhaps its obstructed menu on the wall and lack of lighting will Read more…


Burger Brackets Ketchup, Part 2: It Ain’t Easy Bean Beet

Vita vs. Nix

This Burger Brackets Ketchup, Part 2 is all ’bout that (burger) bass, ’bout that (burger) bass, no treble.  The base of a burger is a very important part of a great veggie burger.  Der, of course. There’s bean base, seitan base, rice base, soy science franken-food base, and… there’s a Read more…


Ancient Culture & Upscale Vegan Options

New Mexico has preserved remnants of countless ancient peoples. From the prehistoric Clovis Man to the Anasazi, ancestral Puebloans, the number of historical sites in the area is mind-blowing. One of the Anasazi, the Chaco Culture, inhabited Chaco Canyon in current day New Mexico during the 9th and 13th century. Read more…


Weird Vegan Valentines & Divine Treasures

I read this one as “You do all the others” at first.  The beet is an important part of the sentence. You are the dapper apple guy of my eye… Wait what? Your unkindness? You have a red pepper temper, my dear. We would make a happy strangely dressed pear Read more…


Nature > Pantones, Mermaiding {2017}

Art always imitates nature.  I like this fact.  It’s why I don’t often feel the need to go to an art museum.  Not to sound like some stoner or the American Beauty guy watching the plastic bag, but there is so much magic and beauty everywhere.  And you don’t even Read more…


Thanksgiving 2017

I love to cook for hours. It’s true. Give me time, space, and the radio and I’ll happily create numerous dishes from scratch with loving care. This Thanksgiving my goal was to use a lot of the ton of pumpkin puree I have. So I started with using it in Read more…


Eat with Your Eyes

After I came across 2 unrelated and random references to The Morgan Library & Museum, I went. Because it was like someone was telling me to.  And when I have the time, I like to live life like a Wes Anderson character would, chasing whims and beautiful things, standing in Read more…


The Refuge’s New Vegan Menu {Melville, NY}

The Refuge in Melville recently created an all-vegan menu… so that I can be fully satisfied. Well, not really me but, let’s say, more people in general. Such exciting twists are born of the changing tides in the food world. Plant-based is being embraced is a huge way… and beyond salad or Read more…


Seasons Change

Beautiful snow striations. Winter’s last word. Dumpling peaks. Blackstrap yolk. Who dun it? M.O.B.‘s California burger in Brooklyn. Carrot poker chips.


November’s Blur

For perspective, a stop at Long Island National Cemetery during menial errands on Veterans Day. So many lives. Savory crepes at Lil Choc Apothecary before Choir! Choir! Choir! in Brooklyn. Pulling beets prematurely. Educating the youths.Soon after he raked the yard. #futureman Dinner party planning with the help of Frank.