When it starts to be winter, I want to cook all my food in the oven. I also absolutely love food stuffed with other foods--stuffed apples, stuffed peppers, stuffed pears, things with stuffing inside. So, when I saw Trader Joe's had a new kind of vegan fake meat crumble in their "cold but not frozen fake meats next to the vegetables" section, *and* ( Read more... )

Yesterday night, thomasyan and his girlfriend K.Y. came over and we all cooked handmade soba noodles. They were delicious! They were the first hommade handmade noodles I have ever eaten. Thomas says you can special order the buckwheat noodle making flour from Miso Market in Cambridge ( Read more... )

This is more a recipe than a review, but this was so delicious I wanted to write it down right away. I have been eating a lot of variations on "lentils and..." lately, and wanted to talk about some things that make that delicious instead of totally boring every day.

The first thing is MDH brand Chana Dal Masala spice (warning: this amazon link is ( Read more... )

Why I never returned your email ( Read more... )

So, I have a secret: I love jerky. It's no good though, full of disgusting meat ends and preservatives. I have been looking for primal vegan jerky in the Boston area since the vegan food fest last fall, and now I've found the seitan flavor--at the usually vegan-food-free wasteland of the Porter Square MBTA kiosk ( Read more... )

I really like asparagus. But the kind of asparagus you usually get at any store usually has, well...very tough stems. It's not like eating asparagus: it's like eating a branch. Even vegans don't want that. So, since I cannot miraculously get good asparagus around here, and I have enough roughage in my diet with the daily oatmeal, I thought to try ( Read more... )

- Gardening!
Gardening is great. I have half of the garden in the back. The roses and the irises are blooming, and in my little garden I have planted: about 6 tiny little lettuces, which I hope will grow; 1 fennel plant which was already sprouting; 5 wild onions and 5 regular onions; 1 garlic which sprouted right in the bag from TJ's and is now ( Read more... )

I've been doing fewer vegan food reviews lately because ( Read more... )

ab3nd and I are making Dandelion wine this spring, because for once I finally thought of it before the dandelions were all gone, and ab3nd has the right equipment already so there wasn't a huge outlay for, say, specialty labglass, so if it all goes wrong then I won't have started an expensive new hobby only to find out I don't actually like it ( Read more... )

Trader Joe's Organic Low-Sodium Vegetable Broth was not the broth I wanted. I generally prefer the "better than broth bullion" vegan beef or chicken flavor broth concentrate, but the last time that I went shopping I couldn't find it anywhere (Shaw's was out, it seemed), so I just got this broth-in-a box. I prefer paying for the concentrate because ( Read more... )