How To Enjoy Spring Produce

I’ve been reminded the past few weeks why Spring may be my favorite season, and I need only one word for it: asparagus.
I’ve been pining or asparagus season since, oh, November or so. Granted, this is California, so I could theoretically get asparagus anytime I want, but it’s usually conventionally grown and from Mexico or [...]

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Vegan MoFo: On the Go

Starting my new job today (!!!), so a quick post full of quick vegan noms.
Fast and easy vegan breakfast, take 3-ish:

How to: Fry up some potatoes in olive oil. After flipping (once brown on one side), add soyrizo. Fry a little more. Nom. Swoon.
Quick vegan dinner in October:

Souuuuuup. Minestrone soup. Ok, ready? Set?
- Pan. Olive [...]

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Vegan MoFo: Colcannon

I’m drowning in greens. No, seriously.
I came home with a LOT of greens from the farmers’ market. I already had some beet greens and one bunch of golden chard (I couldn’t resist, and it was one dollar). Then at the market on Saturday I bought two bunches of kale (russian and some other kind) and [...]

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Cooking Delicata Squash for Vegan MoFo

The farmstand this week brought some winter squash. You can imagine my excitement! I’ve decided this is the winter I learn to prepare winter squash, so I snatched some of these babies up. First on the chopping block: delicata squash.

First of all, if you’re looking for economical food, winter squash has got to be it. [...]

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Vegan MoFo: Eggplant Polenta Pile

Last night, I had a date. A date with an eggplant.

Eggplant and I have had a touch-and-go relationship. Well, actually, there’s never been much touching. Maybe a one-night stand at my favorite Sri Lankan restaurant where they actually know how to prepare eggplant. Usually, though, my relationship with eggplant consists of me finding it in [...]

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Vegan Mofo Day 6: How to Make Perfect Tofu

Friends, colleagues, fellow vegetarians and vegans alike,
Do you struggle with tofu? Do you feel as though you’re one of those infomercial people in black-and-white, wrestling with preparing tofu? Have you gotten your hopes up for a broiled, steamed, fried, or baked tofu recipe, hoping this could be “the one,” only to be met with disappointing [...]

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How to Cook Kale

My dad recently asked for some instructions on how to cook kale. I’d showed him before, but he needed a written step-by-step.  I figured I’d share this how-to! A lot of this is informed by Greens Glorious Greens, which is the best cookbook (as far as I’m concerned) if you want to get eating some [...]

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Vegan Mofo Day 4: Best Vegan Cookbooks for a Sick Girl

Ugh. It appears that a weekend of traveling and one drink too many has left me sick. What’s a girl to do?
I have been playing this game all day in bed. Go doggy, go! Gotta say, it’s a good way to amuse myself.
But on the food front:

I’m whipping out one of my favorite vegan cookbooks, [...]

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Vegan MoFo Day 3: Best (Vegan) Fast Breakfast

I introduce to you, the food that powered me through college:

There’s a reason my breakfast today is arranged in a heart shape: I love this quick, simple, healthy, vegan! breakfast. It requires little hands-on time — perfect for rushing out the door to an 8am class — and is sturdy enough to sit in your [...]

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Vegan MoFo Day 2: Vegan MoFo!

I just found out today from For the Love of Guava about Vegan MoFo, a blog movement from The Post-Punk Kitchen — the same kids that brought you Veganomicon. This is my most recent vegan cookbook purchase, and a regular in my kitchen, so hell yes I’m in!
The idea is simple: one blog post every [...]

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