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Grant Application Stew

Writers: we sit a lot, and we have a lot of deadlines, which means that the longer we [...]

Happy Pie Day!

Gracious! I had no idea. Good thing Everyday Dish alerted me. Now go make some pie!

Give us this day our… Lentil Soup!

I’d like to welcome my friend Bev to blogland. She’s always been out there on Flickr and Twitter [...]

Curried Carrot, Leek & Lentil Soup

I got called ‘vegan anarchist’ at work last week, and actually, I was OK with that.
Soon after, [...]

In which I fulfil my genetic and cultural destiny and slowly start to become a kind of female, vegan Homer Simpson

Remember that episode of The Simpsons when Homer got a handgun and proceeded to try to use it [...]

Why cold, sunny Sunday afternoons were invented

This post is for La S., who’s been on the verge of fainting with anticipation for the Green [...]

Barefoot in the kitchen

The temperature in my appartment is about a thousand degrees all winter. We never have to turn our [...]

Apple, bo bapple

My produce of the week on Torontoist is the garden-variety apple. There are all kinds of interesting facts [...]

Quebexico is a state of mind

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I’m no couch potato but…

I’m starting a new weekly column about fresh, local, in-season vegetables on Sundays at Torontoist and I’m very [...]

I need an old pastry chef & a young pastry chef

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Magic Loaf Studio

Someday, I’m going do a bunch of research into cultural and religious vegetarianism. Around the world, what people [...]

Not enough is said here about mashed potatoes

Wash you some potatoes
Peel the same potatoes, saving the peelings for the soup stock you will hopefully make [...]

Veggie up

My hawk-like dedication to blogging has been somewhat dulled over these last weeks thanks to my sloth like [...]

The meat people can keep winter

I have my first really-post on Torontoist.com today.
I essentially spent the weekend trying to find one vegan menu [...]

The real meaning of “baguette”

JM: I’m just impressed that it’s possible to make bread– that we can do that. With our hands.
DR: [...]

Crimes and misdebeanors

Sigh.
Living in Casa Del Deadlines sometimes has unpleasant consequences. Unpleasant consequences, such as occasionally committing misdebeanors like wasting [...]

Bean it forward

I’d like to say hi to all the new readers who’ve been visiting from ThePPK and LiveJournal. (Anyone [...]

Big Pot O’Beans: Week 2, Black Beans Bonus Edition

Hold the phone! We are not done with this bean, people.
I had just one cup of black beans [...]

Big Pot O’ Beans: Week 2: Black Beans: The Week In Review

I’m shocked! The black beans totally sucked me into the beans and rice vortex. Day one was beans [...]

Big Pot O’ Beans: Week 1, Day 5: Fettucine Alfonso

I made the Fettucine Alfonso from Joanne Stepaniak�??s �??Ultimate Un-Cheese Cookbook�?� because I really wanted to experiment [...]

Big Pot O’ Beans: Week 1, Day 4: White Bean Croquettes on a Bed of Corn and Spinach with Portabello Wine Sauce

I promise you this much: If you cook anything “on a bed of” anything at home, you will [...]

Big Pot O’Beans: Week 1, Day 3: Provencal Bean & Vegetable Stew

A lot of recipes in The Complete Vegan are based on basic techniques from French Cuisine, only without [...]

Big Pot O’ Beans: Week 1, Day 2: Simmering

I got my bean-cooking instructions from The Complete Vegan Cookbook. I highly recommend that everyone everywhere grab a [...]

Pepe the muffin swan

We had brunch at Fressen again this weekend and we ordered a muffin and only ate half of [...]

Big Pot O’ Beans: Week 1, Day 1: Soaking

Isa Chandra Moskowitz, author of the Vegan With A Vengeance cookbook, over at ThePPK.com has a great suggestion [...]

Peanut Butter Banana Pancakes

March 29, 2006 Update:
This recipe is now featured in And They Cook, Too a bloggers’ fundraising coobook for [...]

Steamed Carrot Pudding for Christmas or, you know, because you’re feeling English

I veganized my mother’s Christmas pudding recipe and the people have spoken and the people seem to think [...]

Vegetarian money-saving tip

Get a big thing of powdered soy milk and use it in recipes. It’s a million, billion, trillion [...]

Pancakes

I’m re-posting this from it’s original home on PulpLit.net because I like to have it close by.

Whisk together [...]

The 12 Days of Cheeseless, day 11

Why I will never truly be vegan: Advil Extra Strength Migraine Gel Caps
I guess actual searing pain is [...]

MMM Lentils

If you have a can of diced tomatoes, you have the world on a string, I’m telling you.
I [...]

The 12 Days of Cheeseless, day 9

Olive the nightlife.
Olive to boogie.
What an uneventful cheeseless day. I almost feel silly for posting this. But I [...]

The 12 Days of Cheeseless, day 8

I’d like to kick off this entry with a quick shout out to my dawg, Nutritional Yeast. You [...]

The 12 Days of Cheeseless, day 7

I just can’t say enough nice things about the brunch at Fressen. La S was concerned at first [...]

The 12 Days of Cheeseless, day 6

Oh right. I forgot about this part. I always forget about this part. This raging animal hunger that [...]

The 12 Days of Cheeseless, day 5

I think that one reason it’s so easy for me to give up so much dairy so much [...]

The 12 Days of Cheeseless, day 3

Cheese uneaten: parmesan
Egg unbeaten: scrambled
Missing it: not yet
Vegan resource of the day: Vegan Lunch Box:
a) Because its vegan
b) [...]

The 12 Days of Cheeseless, day 2

One of the dumber things about me is that I don’t really like that I still eat eggs [...]

Recipe: Huile de Superiority Complex

This oil is the love that binds the top and bottom of my pizza together.

Recipe: Je ne sais quoi Canadian Pizza Sauce

This sauce is an important building block to my pizza.

Rockingest Lunch E-V-E-R (say it like the comic book store owner on the Simpsons)

Originally published on PulpLit.net
How have I lived all this time without knowing about this?
2 words: TOFU OMELETTE.
Take 8 [...]

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