Lately we have been doing a lot of experimenting with different cuisines and ingredients, my favorite is to buy a specific ingredient for the week to play with. Whether it’s a tried and true veg I know and love that I just want to push out of my comfort zone on, or a veg I don’t usually cook with, it has produced wonderful results.
This past week was red cabbage and turnips,
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One day my stepdad came home with some fries we had to try. These were Nick’s “Greek Style Fries – Potato wedges fried and sprinkled with lemon juice, oregano and tzatziki sauce” . To me these aren’t really fries… they are really in a class of their own. The “Zeus Juice” (I don’t know if this name is something from Nick’s or us haha) aka the tzaziki sauce is perfection in conjunction with these potato wedges.
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In my ongoing effort to be a team player and live as friend rather than foe to my fellow veegs I have created this beauty. It is light, flavorful and by god it’s delicious. I’m starting to believe that the best way to incorporate veganism into your life is via desserts.
Our wedding featured a vegan chocolate raspberry mousse cake and I am still analyzing how the f a cake that feels so downright naughty could be vegan!
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Because I’ve come home from my travels feeling restless and stuck I have been struck with a yen to try crazy different things in the kitchen. If I’m too broke to actually travel everywhere I want to right now I will have to do it via my kitchen. So on the menu this week for us was white bean, spinach, tomatillo enchiladas, corn and courgette agnolotti, mock chicken and dumplings and Egyptian koshari (or koshary,
» Read more about: The best Egyptian street food – Koshari »Finally back and somewhat rested after our long travels. Surprisingly, we felt like we could just keep travelling, so now we are trying to figure that out ($$$). We had some fab food experiences that I wish we could experience here at home – though we also appreciate the lovely food we have here in the Atl. We ordered our regular Zyka order within 3 hours of having landed.
I want to tell you about this great place called Woolf &
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So, you know we had this party recently – I was having a conversation with someone and broke off to give context ‘ blah blah, because, I love food – like, love foo—” and they cut me off with ” YES, I KNOW YOU LOVE FOOD”. I don’t know if it translates through text how hilarious that moment was for me but I learned that maybe I need to tone it down a little with my declaration of food love outside of this blog….thank god I’m a vegetarian with a mother who raised me on mainly hippy ancient-grains principles otherwise I’d probably be the size of a house.
If you didn’t read last weeks post, click here and get up to speed. In short – we had a party last week and had a big menu full of new recipes and processes, highlighting vegan food, prepared – so how did it go? Well, the party itself was awesome and the food went over great, so all in all a success.
We ended up preparing the night before and then cooked ALL DAY –
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Nick and I like to throw a few big parties every year. We use the excuse of a birthday or some occasion but really we just want to cook a ton of food, play music and hang out with friends we don’t get to see very often. To be honest I kind of hate the whole tired potluck thing, we love treating our guests to an indulgent gourmet (or at least our best effort at gourmet..),
Though the Amy’s cans are decent, it’s really easy to make your own vastly superior chili packed full of veg and spice.
When it’s ready to serve up we like to have it on top of couscous or macaroni and cheese (yes, you read that right, ChiliMac is the bomb and may just get its own post one day) with a big pile o’ collards or kale or a little cornbread muffin –
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Halloumi is huge in England – it’s everywhere. I was overjoyed when burrata exploded onto every menu here in the States and now I am hoping that this English fad will come on over and be our next burrata (if you haven’t had burrata – it is a creamy filled mozzarella ball of indulgence. Not to be missed.). Halloumi, quite differently, is a hard, salty cheese from Cyprus that you can grill or fry.
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