A cheese puff tree? Saw this on a bike ride and had to record its existence. Half-inch cheese-puffy balls all over this thing. Yay. Just goes to show that just because it looks like cheese, there’s no guarantee it’s going to taste like cheese. Enter Teese cheddar. As a Chicago-born lass, I want nothing more than [...]
Archive for May, 2009
what a tease
Posted in general, tagged vegan cheese on May 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
vita’s open again
Posted in eatin' out/in, tagged dessert, Portland, tofu on May 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
So Vita Cafe’s finally open again. This is right across the street from the old location, at Alberta and 30th. It looks like they’ve lost the outdoor seating but gained several tables inside—they were pretty busy so I didn’t ask what prompted the move. Whatever, the food’s still solid. I even tried something new. Tom ordered [...]
everydaycake
Posted in general on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Meant to post this over the weekend, but I didn’t because <enter lame excuse here>. Saturday morning, we went on another 4-quadrant Portland bike ride, beginning early enough to grab breakfast muffins at Sweetpea and get ourselves a bench by the river. (We were a little farther south than I wanted to be but there was a [...]
5-minute dessert
Posted in quick fix on May 18, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Thanks, summer. Oh, wait, it’s still spring. But it was sunny and gorgeous and a little hot, and after finding out that Vita Cafe has yet to open their fancy new location (right across the street from the old one…due to open May 20), Tom and I found ourselves at New Seasons looking [...]
backpacking orzo
Posted in campastic, recipes, tagged camping on May 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The gear’s out of the closet and the roads around the mountains are beginning to open after the winter…’tis the season for just-add-boiling-water recipe development. I wrote before about backpacking food, and I just added a new category (look to your right) because I’d like to add a lot more to this. On a multiday hike, sometimes you don’t even want [...]
baby steps in belgium
Posted in general on May 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Ghent, Belgium, home of around 230,000 people, is set to become the first city to have a veg day once a week. They’re starting with city employees, who are now being offered a Thursday veg menu (meat will still be available if they ask for it). And starting in September, schoolchildren will also have veg Thursdays. Mainly for environmental reasons, [...]
food baby watch 2009
Posted in general on May 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last year we started our indoor shelf garden, with some success. We had probably 30 or 40 cherry tomatoes, a hot pepper, and even a handful of basil and rosemary before they were totally ravaged by little black flies. We’re pretty much starting over this year, so I’d like to introduce you to the new food [...]
veggie thing
Posted in eatin' out/in on May 7, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Close your eyes and picture this. Wait, if you close your eyes you can’t read about what you’re supposed to be picturing in your closed-eye mind. Picture this as well as you can with your eyes still open: You’re getting hungry and either you don’t know the city you’re in all that well or you’re just [...]
last chance: making strides
Posted in general on May 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Another non-vegan interruption… Hey, do you hate cancer? Yeah, me too. Wouldn’t it be cool if nobody had to die from it? Yeah, I think so too. So here’s one last chance to help me raise money for fighting The Big C. Portland’s walk is this Saturday morning…and it looks like I might not even [...]
agar: flake v. powder
Posted in general on May 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Lesson learned: When you’re in the middle of a recipe and a question pops up, get thee to the Internet and find the answer. Don’t guess and muddle through. Super-jonesing lemon bars (odd for not having them in maybe a decade), I whipped up a batch from Veganomicon. When it came to agar, though—which I had never [...]
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