Iced Tea is Calling Me
I almost buy into the iced tea hype.
Tag: fake food
Moosewood Lentil Burgers with Vegan Chipotle Aioli
Try my vegan chipotle aioli on your next sandwich
Ridiculously Good Vegetarian Mushroom Onion Gravy
This one might convert your carnivorous friends to vegetarianism. Or at least make them wonder why people usually use meat drippings to make gravy. There’s a story behind this gravy. (Isn’t there always?) It began with loaf. I never understood meatloaf. As a child I always wondered, if you were…
Top 10 Impostor Health Foods
Impostor health foods: neither tasty nor healthful.
Vegetarian Wontons in Two Ways and Why I don’t Eat Fake Meat
I realize my life might be simpler if I ate either meat or something that is supposed to approximate meat. In my last post I described making my own wontons because I missed wonton soup. (As promised, Vegetarian Wonton Soup and Spicy Pan Fried Wontons recipes, below!) In the midst…
My Life in Pancakes
1 Mom’s silver dollar-sized, thin and fluffy, right off the griddle onto my plate, where I drown them in syrup. Perfectly tanned, perfectly sized to eat with my fingers when I think Mom isn’t looking. 2 Pancakes from diners are too wide, too tall, too stiff, too brown and come…
It’s Chili Outside
Vegetarian chili, aside from being the perfect meal for a cold winter day, is also one of my favorites because it happens magically when I’m nowhere near the kitchen. Yesterday evening I was on the floor of the writing room, re-arranging paragraphs of my latest essay that I’d cut into…
Cheese is Bad For Me and I Should Eat a Lot More of It, Says the USDA
Reading a New York Times article on the USDA’s mixed signals about cheese made me think about my own conflicting cheese emotions. The USDA, like a person with the two hemispheres of his brain separated, tells us “Eat less fat—don’t have so much cheese!” and at the same time encouraged…
