chickpeas / cookies / dinner / maple / roasted / tofu / VCIYCJ

sweet & savoury & colorful

The Sweet: White Chocolate Chip & Orange Biscotti Recipe modified from Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar. White Chocolate Chips from Pangea’s VeganSweets line, via Sidecar in Seattle.   The Savoury: Roasted Chickpeas with tamari, nutritional yeast, olive oil, cayenne, lemon juice, cumin and smoked paprika. The Savoury & Colorful: Cornmeal Crusted Tofu with maple … Continue reading »

dinner / kale / mushrooms / tofu / Vegan MoFo IV / VeganMoFo / wine

A Day in the Life: Onwards, Marsala

Continuing on my classy streak with a dinner pairing from the versatile 500 Vegan Recipes, which is by two lovely ladies I dig: Tofu Marsala and Sesame Kale It just may be the week of marsala. My variations from the original entrée recipe were the use of cremini mushrooms vs. button, and the addition of a wee bit of … Continue reading »

Big Lebowski pie / booze / pie / tofu / Tofutti / Vegan MoFo IV / VeganMoFo

A Day in the Life #1: VeganMoFo Begins & White Russian Pie

Let me be amongst the nearly 550+ vegans to proudly announce, “Happy Vegan MoFo!”* This marks Year IV of MoFo creativity – and this year, I’ll not only be participating in daily posts, I’ll also be helping with the official round ups, too. Aka I’m supposed to spend all day reading vegan blogs! Ah, ah. … Continue reading »

grocery shopping / J C Rice Noodle / Lents International Farmers Market / noodles / portland / thai / The Vegan Revolution with Zombies / tofu

Rice Noodlin’ with a visit to JC Rice Noodle Shop

Maybe,  just maybe, I’ve become obsessed with rice noodles. Look, I like noodles in my life, and lately they’ve been of the rice variety. Recently, my fixation was over yellow curry noodles. Things got even better with a curious stop at JC Rice Noodle Shop & Restaurant on SE Foster. I was in the area for … Continue reading »

Burmere / curry / FarMar / farmer's market / fubonn / grocery shopping / Lents International Farmers Market / noodles / recipes / thai / tofu

Khao Soi Yellow Curry Noodles with Tofu

Khao Soi Yellow Curry Noodles with Tofu and assorted vegetables Adapted from the Thai-Burmese style recipe on Veggie Belly and various others, based on my available ingredients and whim. Inspired by the notion of cauliflower + curry, a field trip in deep SE Portland to the Lents International Farmers Market for produce, great pour over-style Ethiopian … Continue reading »

broccoli / dinner / Nasoya / noodles / peanut butter / tofu

clean out the fridge Pra Ram style noodle dinner

Quite recently, I purchased peanut butter after forgetting it existed for a couple of months.  I was glad I did, because it came to the rescue the other night on an almost too-warm-to-cook, clean-out-the-fridge-for-dinner evening. I was grasping for ideas and near gasping for breath until I remembered that I had just enough odds and … Continue reading »