Vegetarian November is over! My first non-vegetarian meal was a gigantic sushi dinner at Chaya and I loved every minute of it, including the staff's initial reaction: "You're back! Long time no see. Where have you been?"

Blatantly stealing bubblingbeebles's post format, this month I learned ( Read more... )

courtesy of lizthegrey on google+: 8 menu items vegans are sick of orderingI celebrated vegetarian november being over by getting myself a jimmy john's tuna sandwich. it is not a fantastic sandwich, but it is miles better than their veggie sandwich, and considering it gets delivered straight to the 412 lab, it is in fact what I missed most this ( Read more... )

At the end of the third week of my November vegetarian challenge, I seem to finally be getting a little frustrated. When cooking for myself, I hardly find myself wanting meat at all, but there are a few things that are usually staples of my diet that I do miss: sandwiches, for one, and sushi. The lack of chicken stock/bouillon has been a bit of a ( Read more... )

This is just about wrapping up the first week of the vegetarian challenge and so far, so good. I haven't found it too difficult to manage other than my rabid desire for sushi, which I've been placating with avocado rolls. In general, I've found cooking vegetarian to be a lot easier than anticipated. I think it's less overwhelming to try to choose ( Read more... )

An idea I've been kicking around for a while now has been to try eating vegetarian for some length of time. I think it would force me to expand my cooking techniques and explore new ingredients (looking at you, tofu); I also think it would be an interesting thought experiment to have to be so conscious of what goes into my food. It's arguably ( Read more... )