May 2009
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Joel's Moderately Fancy Meal of the Week: Chickpea...
Last night I had a family dinner, which is a fairly rare thing as my immediate family lives on the other side of the country. It wasn’t a super-fancy occasion, but when bringing a dish to a family dinner it’s an important thing to make it a little showy. This emphasizes one’s taste and discretion, and makes one appear to be a sophisticated grown-up person. Bear in mind that it...
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World Wide Vegan Bakesale! Let's DO THIS!
Vegansaurus is putting together a bake sale for World Wide Vegan Bakesale! If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area on Saturday, June 27th AND/OR Sunday, June 28th and interested in participating in ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM, email me! We need bakers, eaters and good looking fools to stand on the corner and direct people toward us. That’s key.
All of the money raised will go to support a...
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Broke-Ass Foodie: Souley Vegan's Red Beans and... →
Souley Vegan at Rainbow Grocery! And it’s DELICIOUS! They’re selling red beans & rice, collard greens, mac n cheese, bbq tofu and full meals, ranging in price from $4.29-$9.99! Completely worth it!
ALSO, we’ve heard a rumor that Souley Vegan will be re-opening in Oakland at 3rd and Broadway near Jack London Square very soon! We’ll keep you posted on the haps because...
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SF Vegan Drinks tomorrow night!
WHO IS IN!?
Vegansaurus will be there, in full force, ready to drink all the martinis in Martuni’s! We are THAT amazing!
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Gluttony, reviewed: Southern Comfort Dinner at...
We sure ate a lot of food last week, you guys. First, a rundown of just what we had.
Vegansaurus’ SoCo menu (with photos by Laura!) breads and herbed butter nachos with “cheez whiz,” guacamole, salsa, sour cream, and jalapeños; side of fried green tomatoes iceberg wedge with strained tofu “egg,” cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, honeydew melon; thousand island dressing...
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Ani Phyo's Raw Food Dessert Party TONIGHT!
The always fantastic VegNews magazine is hosting an Urban Dessert Soiree tonight at CandyBar in San Francisco, featuring desserts from Ani Phyo’s new cookbook, Ani’s Raw Food Desserts. You can find me there tonight eating my weight in pie. Unfortunately, the event is sold out (what is with me and posting sold out events?! I am the worst!) but you should add your name to the VegNews...
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Mimosa Cafe!
Mimosa Cafe is the tiniest little hole in the wall in Oakland right off Grand Avenue. It ain’t much to look at but you didn’t come for interior decorating suggestions, you came to EAT. And eat you will! Mimosa Cafe serves up one the absolute best tofu scrambles in all the SF bay area. And I know tofu scrambles. How is it that I know tofu scrambles? I LIVE TO EAT, I DO NOT EAT TO LIVE....
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Vegansaurus SHOWDOWN: Marshmallows!
Vegan Marshmallows have garnered some controversy in the past. First there were those vegan marshmallows that weren’t actually vegan and then there were the ones that were hella tasty but aquired by Whole Foods who DISCONTINUED THE VEGAN MARSHMALLOWS AND REPLACED THEM WITH BOILED PIG SKIN MARSHMALLOWS THE NERVE.
But now we have two accessible replacements on the market. PRAISE THE LORD AND...
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Recipe: Mark Bittman's Mexican Chocolate Pudding!
Vegans know that silken tofu makes the best chocolate pudding; Mark Bittman shares this with the rest of the New York Times-reading world.
Quoth The Minimalist, “It’s not that it’s fake dairy, it’s a totally different thing, and really delicious.”
Watch the video, which while unembeddable is quite entertaining, and be sure to bookmark the recipe.
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Product review: Daiya Cheese!
Daiya Cheese has taken the vegan world by storm. I mean, I think. I haven’t been able to find much out about it on the internets but I know this shit looks amazing and whoever can invent a truly amazing melty, stretchy vegan cheese will do more for veganism than anyone ever. Lofty statement, I know but HOW MANY FUCKING TIMES have you heard, “But I couldn’t live without...
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Product review: Go Max Go Candy Bars!
Go Max Go has released a line of vegan candy bars that are the Designer Imposters of the sweet treat world! And much like PRIMO smelled exactly like Giorgio, these candy bars are pretty g-d close to the originals. They have the Buccaneer (vegan 3 Musketeers), Twilight (vegan Milky Way), Mahalo (vegan Almond Joy) and Jokerz (vegan Snickers)! We conducted a taste test at Vegansaurus HQ with three of...
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Southern Comfort Dinner at Millennium!
Once a year fancy-shmancy Millennium turns into a trailer trash hootenany. It’s called the Southern Comfort Dinner and it’s a meal you don’t want to miss if you’re a fan of foods like FRIED EVERYTHING and SUNDAE BARS. If you don’t have an eating disorder (or are looking to start one! ‘Tis the season!), I’ll see you on May 21st! I’ll be the girl who...
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Recipe: Yogurt!
Inspired by being broke, loving food, and having a certain amount of free time, Joel and I made yogurt last weekend. What with my love of yogurt and Joel’s love of making everything at home, it seemed like a good idea, especially considering we could make plain yogurt that, presumably, wouldn’t have that awful mayonnaise taste of commercial plain soy yogurts. We followed this this...
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Brassica Supper Club!
I’ve heard that one sign of a truly great chef is the ability to make an amazing salad. For me, the salad is the thing you have to get through to get to the FOOD. I can appreciate a salad and even when dieting, order one as a meal (I disgust myself) but it’s rarely the dish that stands out. At least for me. I’m sure there is some argumentative asshole out there who will say...
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WatchThis is Dan Barber of Blue Hill Farm talking about foie gras. I was all set to hate it and him, but by the end, I didn’t. I kind of wanted to kiss him, actually.
What do you all think?
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Yay Vulcans!
With the release of the new Star Trek movie today, I thought I should point out that Vulcans, those quintessential mavens of enviable, indisputable LOGIC, are all vegetarians! (Unless, apparently, they are some kind of social outcast Vulcans.)
In fact, the entire Federation could be considered vegans, as just about all their food seems to be provided for them via replicators, the equivalent of...
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Foods you would think are always vegan because...
I am compiling a list of things that you would think are always vegan but are quite often not. I’m doing this because a couple times in the past weeks, I’ve been somewhere and asked if the following things are vegan and the answer has been No, and also, “You’re the only vegan to ever ask that!” so I thought I should share with you less sophisticated/worse-than-me...
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Road Trip THURSDAY (WHAT?): The Stanford Inn!
This is a Road Trip Thursday because you need extra time to get to Mendocino and back, but you still have time to call in sick to work tomorrow and get away for the weekend. DO IT EVERYONE ELSE IS DON’T YOU WANT TO BE POPULAR?
Okay so. The Stanford Inn is pretty much heaven on earth. It’s heaven if you are healthy and active and want to wake with the sun (PSYCHO) and mountain bike and...