I dined out at one of the most popular vegetarian restaurants in Vancouver last night for a birthday party, Foundation on Main and Kingsway ( Read more... )

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I found this faux fish product today. It actually seems to be gluten free, unless I'm missing something.


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I found yet another store that specializes in various mock meat products, frozen and dried. This one is on Victoria Dr. around 33rd. This is one is just a big room with 2 walls of freezers full of various frozen products, a lot of them just labeled different types of beancurd rather than aspiring to imitate any particular meat ( Read more... )

I don't know what's wrong with me!
I came home from a night on the town and decided to reheat the entire rest of this strange Tofu Loaf I made yesterday (Imagine a tofu cookbook combined with "Microwave Cookery" type cookbook and you will see what kind of book I got the recipe from)I also made a giant soy-mango smoothies and drank it, and ate the ( Read more... )

I had a dream last night that my mother opened a falafel takeout place around the corner from where I lived as a baby. Highly unlikely--she hates cooking and falafels. But when I tried it in my dream it was the best I had ever tasted. "What's your secret ingredient?" I asked. "Pork" she said. "Pork? Are you sure?" I said. "Oh wait, maybe.. ( Read more... )

I don't know if I can explain this well, but lately I've been thinking about "fake meat" in a different way and I wanted to talk about it.

I know there's the stereotypical thing to say: "You shouldn't rely on fake meats, you are not going to be healthy if you only eat them, and besides, why are you trying to imitate something you don't want to eat ( Read more... )

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Regrettably, I had to just tear myself away from the book I was reading, because they kept going on about this skin-and-bones old cow they were trying to cook for soup, and I can't bear to hear that kind of thing because whenever I think of cows I think of my old B&W spaniel Miranda who admittedly is a lot like a cow. She really is just skin and ( Read more... )