NakedSushi

I saw a post by Vegan Dad with a recipe for veggie lunch meat and it didn’t look all that hard. I already had most of the ingredients (other than vital wheat gluten) in my cupboard and vital wheat gluten was easy enough to get at Whole Paycheck. The recipe itself isn’t difficult, but [...]

An easy thing to make for dinner is a plate full of roasted vegetables. Once the vegetables are washed and cut into bite-sized pieces, it’s only a matter of throwing them in some olive oil, seasoning, salt and pepper, and then letting them roast in the oven for 45-60 minutes.

This batch has sliced sunchokes, cauliflower, [...]

Veggie World is a restaurant which confuses me in several ways.  First, its name, which in English says “Veggie World,” yet in Chinese characters, says “Vegetarian Fragrance Garden” or 素香园.  I’m not sure why they needed to include the word for “fragrance” in their Chinese name because it doesn’t really make sense. Also, how did [...]

When the weather’s cold and you have friends over, there’s nothing better for dinner than hot pot.  It’s DIY, which means I don’t have to spend forever preparing something in the kitchen.  I guess it’s a bit intimate since everyone is fishing tasty morsels out of the same giant pot, but it’s okay, boiling broth [...]

Porridge is so easy to make, I should really do it more often.  This one is even kind of healthy because I used brown rice instead of the usual sweet white rice I use in porridge.  I didn’t think that kabocha and mushrooms would go well together because they’re such strong flavors on their own, [...]

These pictures were from the first time the BF made the fragrant eggplant dish from a recipe he read out of Land of Plenty. Even though anything deep fried tastes good, this was extra good because of the salty black bean paste.

recipe here

I was flipping through the pages of Daniel Boulud’s Cafe Boulud Cookbookat a friend’s place the other day when I saw the photo for the root vegetable cassoulet.  I always thought of cassoulet as a pork and beans type dish and never even had the thought to just leave off the meat and make it [...]