Winter is starting to rear it’s not ugly but certainly unwelcome face. There’s a deep chill creeping into the evening hours and a heavy grey tinge in the increasingly early dusks. There is a temptation to run to the comfort of warm, hearty soups, but for me there’s no greater comfort food than pizza. Hawaiian…
Tag: Vegan
Cheesy Scambled Tofu
Scrambled tofu is a fundamental dish in the herbivore world. It was the first tofu based meal that I made and it has become one of my staples. Breakfast, conventionally egg and meat-centric, is one of the more difficult meals to manage in transition especially while eating with mixed company. Scrambled tofu, much like its…
A Beef with Michael Pollan
Back in February, prolific author and journalist Michael Pollan, known for his opposition to industrialized agriculture and a polluted food culture, released a netflix series called, “Cooked.” The series, based on Pollan’s book of the same name, is an inquest into the cultural and social significance of cooking, and how manufactured foods, processed by corporations,…
Juice/Smoothie Cleanse
I’ve always been skeptical of the whole juice detox trend – mostly because it is a trend, and as such it’s become a highly marketable process that utilizes increasingly exotic, sometimes pseudo, super foods, and charges a small fortune for the opportunity to have a miraculous full body rejuvenation. It’s not the actual nutritional quality…
Pizza Cake
I love pizza. A cheese pizza was the last non-vegan food I ate prior to becoming vegan. It will probably be the last thing I eat before I die. I eat it way too much, but my adoration never diminishes. I was worried when I first became vegan that my pizza love was something that…
Seitan with Spinach and Sun-dried Tomatoes
Seitan, colloquially known as wheat meat, and more simply as wheat gluten, is one of the wonders of the vegan and vegetarian world. It’s similarity in texture to meat and high protein content makes it a popular substitute in meat centric meals and it is used as the central ingredient in numerous alternative products, probably…
BBQ Tofu
One of the best and most pleasurable things about serving vegan food to non-vegans is seeing their surprise when they discover how good it can be. I don’t particularly understand the surprise, and maybe that’s why I enjoy the reaction. Yes, individual palettes vary greatly but it is possible to have a few standards, and…
Plant and Pine 