The past few years have seen me making one or two dishes for Thanskgiving day vegan potlucks, where reclaiming the holiday with close friends with similar values and cruelty-free cuisine really does make it one of the better days of the year. This year, my possible hosting of my baby brother and has turned into [...]
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Salt Spring Inspired Roasted Cherry Tomato Soup
Break out your rain boots, adorn your favorite hoodie and repeat after me: it’s officially soup weather. It seems like only yesterday, but I earned some real Pacific Northwest points with a British Columbian adventure back in May. It was my first ever visit to Canada, at all, and I’m truly an idiot for waiting so [...]
Pasta at Heart
White pasta fans, you’re in luck. I’ve spent much of the past 2 days on the phone with my sister, who just returned from a 3 week vacation in Italy. She spent her days working on small farms and her evenings sipping red wine. I’m so proud, and my kitchen has been thinking of her [...]
Spicy Thai Basil Noodles with Soft Tofu, Peanuts & Garlic Scapes
It’s time for my warm weather motto: I may hate the heat, but I heart farmers markets. I also heart venturing into other neighborhoods and secretly pretending that I live in them. The day will come that I move out of my dear Division St. apartment. That day could bring me further-out southeast into a [...]
Portobello Pizza & The Vegan Pizza Day Countdown
In preparation for Vegan Pizza Day on Saturday (fellow vegans, I behoove you – can we please declare a vegan danish say next?), I found myself once again contemplating the cute Pizza Cups from Slice and channeling my inner little old Italian lady relatives. Somehow, this led to the veganization of Portobello Mushroom Crust Pizzas from the same [...]
Cauliflower Cashew Goat Cheese
This spread was part of the menu for the first Heartichoke French-inspired dinner last weekend. It’s adapted from Bryanna Clark Grogan’s recipe for vegan “goat cheese” from this post on Notes from a Vegan Feast Kitchen. The original intention was for just that, a goat cheese style concoction with the incorporation of cauliflower, and nuts for [...]
Tops
I’ll just come out with the horrifying news. My camera is broken. A new one won’t be in my budget until next month. Maybe. Then there’s the whole new-camera-decision-making anxiety. My life’s been a series of smartphone pics and mental memories. It’s been frustrating, but therapeutic, as well. I spent two days cooking for a [...]
Holiday Projects: DIY Kahlua
Somehow, I found a way to grumble a wee bit while making this. Office holiday gift exchange pressure!!! The rest of my mood was all smirky, caffeinated anticipation, with the buzz of Victrola beans from my Seattle adventure, clear grain alcohol, rich vanilla paste and a little fresh clementine zest, for good measure. I had [...]
A New Tradition in the Life: Marsala, Sun-dried Tomato & Mozzarella Stuffed Mushrooms
The Story: Stuffed mushrooms were one of the first dishes I learned to pull off and share with guests as a vegan. Italian background, Italian food, check. I can still remember my mom pulverizering the filling in the food processor, and that flavor, which was nothing like the other foods I ate (admittedly, it was full of [...]
