Meats Be Gone | oink oink
two things that are stupid, brought to you by my cranky mood
1. The Vegan Table recipe for Borscht, which makes you boil quartered beets, greens, and potatoes for 30 minutes and then try to pick the quarters out of the opaque purple liquid with tongs while the bits of greens stick all over them, THERE HAS TO BE A BETTER WAY.
2. Top Chef! Come on now! [...]
THE fake mac-n-cheese!
The quest for our personal favorite macaroni and fake cheese is ended. I had been disappointed before (Mac Daddy, you bastard) and unenthused yet reasonably satisfied (VegNews). But this one is actually GOOD! Or else my tastebuds have finally been completely warped, it’s hard to know for sure.
Of course the perfect recipe could not be [...]
teeth soup and gullet pie
For some reason this one image from Deborah Madison’s Vegetarian Cooking For Everyone (which was my favorite cookbook forever ago and is really very vegan-useful) has been lodged in my brain, even though I haven’t looked at the pictures sections in years, probably.
It’s Posole with Red Chile Pods. It just looks so strange. What the [...]
the terrible rain! the terrible gluten!
Yesterday the weather was just miserable. It was 40 degrees and rained all day and all night. I don’t know how there could even be so much rain. The incessant dripping caused the puppy to develop extreme craziness.
He is destroying the goblin toy that he got as a prize for graduating from puppy school. I [...]
oldness accompanied by crankiness
Oooh, we are doing so bad at the mofo. I had no idea things would turn out this way when we signed up.
Well let’s see. I had my birthday last week so now I am 31 which is not that great. Remember when it was so exciting to have a birthday and you counted down [...]
backblog
I have been expending so much energy in cooking and photographing but then falling asleep halfway through the blogging part. How sad for me, I am old. So on Thursday I made the alfredo from VeganYumYum. I didn’t like it at first, maybe it is saltier than it is supposed to be since I used [...]
grilled uncheese
The Uncheese Cookbook is crazy. It doesn’t make things that are like cheese, but it makes cheese-type things. It’s like how squirrels are in the monkey niche. Like if you described what cheese is like to someone in a parallel universe, this is what they would bring you. Also, it is like witchcraft that you [...]
excuses!
No one accomplished their goals yesterday, besides the puppy, who did indeed lose his manly bits.
Sweetie did not make the dinner because he had “a headache.” But I did make the dinner.
Black bean and Sweet Potato Flautas from Yellow Rose Recipes. I like Yellow Rose because it contains many things where once you make them [...]
baseline
So. Last April I decided I was on the verge of fulfilling my unfortunate genetic destiny (to be a sausage-shaped Polish lady) and I took all my measurements and bought the 30 Day Shred DVD. Then various things happened where my young-ish and beloved dog Oscar was diagnosed with cancer and had to be put [...]
garden bounty
Our upstairs neighbors are very industrious and have converted our overgrown shitheap of a backyard into a lovely garden oasis (I see a trend here). I have only helped to garden a few times, and they are still very nice about sharing their harvests (although that also might be related to the astonishing amount of [...]