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summer approaches

just some recent sights & treats that are so far epitomizing my upcoming summer dining in Portland, despite my rainboot wearing yesterday: Pretend there are five farmers markets pictured right here, okay?

June 14, 2011 7 Comments Short URL cookies, portland, summer

sweet & savoury & colorful

The Sweet: White Chocolate Chip & Orange Biscotti Recipe modified from Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar. White Chocolate Chips from Pangea’s VeganSweets line, via Sidecar in Seattle. The Savoury: Roasted Chickpeas with tamari, nutritional yeast, olive oil, cayenne, lemon juice, cumin and smoked paprika. The Savoury & Colorful: Cornmeal Crusted Tofu with maple [...]

December 13, 2010 8 Comments Short URL Appetite for Reduction, chickpeas, cookies, dinner, maple, roasted, tofu, VCIYCJ

Esme Sauce, Soup & Pretzel Cookies

Esme sauce: know it, love it (just like esme)! Cabernet after a highly stressful day & my cluttered table: same goes for you. This sauce just hits the spot – even more so with last night’s addition of chopped sorrel and baby spinach. from the past couple weeks… A recent lunch & dinner for days: Tomato, Roasted Garlic [...]

October 14, 2010 9 Comments Short URL beans, cookies, corona beans rule, Heartichoke, soup, VCIYCJ, veganomicon

ooo, summer I love your ways: produce, potlucks & a triple vegan bacon cheeseburger

Just kidding, I only like the fruits of your labor. The fruits of eight months of Portland drizzle. Rathermore (that’s right), your glorious fresh fruits and vegetables. Come on, weirdo summer, let’s get through the heat wave and onwards to heirloom tomatoes and spin the color wheel of bell peppers, eggplant and cauliflower! Here are [...]

July 22, 2010 7 Comments Short URL American Vegan Kitchen, Appetite for Reduction, appetizers, breakfast, coconut aminos, cookies, friends, isa's new book, Jeff, Maitake Mushrooms, mushrooms, summer, tofu, tofu scramble, urban vegan, VCIYCJ, veganomicon

Photo Essay #703: BloLo Brunch & Vegan Bake Sale for Haiti

One of my favorite, least-cohesive type of updates. Over the course of this past slammin’ weekend, I saw the Mayor at a brew pub, dined with friends at Taqueria Los Gorditos: The Restaurant, tried out a new karaoke spot, baked biscotti, finished The Comeback (delightful!), sipped a couple local microbrews on the engaging, Pretzel Necklace™ NW [...]

February 2, 2010 10 Comments Short URL bake sale, BloLo, brunch, charity, cookies, events, friends, italian, portland, Pretzel Necklace, restaurants, soy curls, Taqueria Los Gorditos

sorta boring, mostly great & a segue

Roasted Blue Potatoes, Golden Beets and a single Russet, with coarse sea salt, olive oil and pepper. I’ll take golden beets over red any day, any place, any time zone, as long as there’s a working oven. Huckleberry’s Bistro style Tofu Scramble with Italian kale, green cabbage, kalamata olives, yellow bell pepper, creminis, lemon juice, [...]

January 7, 2010 12 Comments Short URL chickpeas, chinese, cookies, dinner, dreena, events, products, tofu, tofu scramble, VCIYCJ

Saturday is for Cookies (in Portland, of course)

There are two vegan cookie events taking place on Saturday in Portland. What is the world coming to? Cookies. Vegan Cookies. And Vegan Mania. The Apron Activists are hosting the Portland Holiday Baketacular at 2pm at the Bye & Bye on NE Alberta. Donate your best baked goods or come buy some in support of Lighthouse [...]

December 9, 2009 2 Comments Short URL Apron Activists, cookies, portland, TRYveganpdx, VCIYCJ

Ode to Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar Testing

Behold, Irish Whiskey Cremes I hope you can handle this oncoming sweet food porn extravaganza. I hope you like cookies. It’s time to collect the photos and memories of the past two years’ worth of recipe testing for the latest Post Punk Kitchen authors classic: Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar by Isa Chandra Moskowtiz [...]

November 10, 2009 34 Comments Short URL cookie test kitchen, cookies, desserts, ppk, recipe testing, test kitchen, VCIYCJ, vegan, vegan cookies