Purim is coming! Purim has always been my favorite Jewish holiday, probably because it’s one of the few where you can make noise in synagogue and it’s not only ok, it’s encouraged. Everyone gets noisemakers called groggers and you can stamp your feet loudly. It’s the most fun you get to have in temple. Over […]
Archive | February, 2015
Tofu Teriyaki Bowls and Nasoya Tofu
It was just six years ago that I thought I couldn’t live without chicken. Then I watched “Meet Your Meat” and never ate another bite of flesh again. Today it’s tofu I think I can’t live without. I find that funny because there was a time that I insisted no tofu be in any dish […]
Apologies and Love Letters: 6 Years Vegan
Today is my 6 year anniversary of becoming vegan. I was going to write a new essay but nothing I could write could express how I feel more than this essay that I wrote for my 4 year vegan anniversary. So I present it again, updated. Whenever people comment about the pictures of food and […]
The Secret to Crispy Tofu and Vegetable Lo Mein with Crispy Tofu
One of the questions I get asked a lot is how I get my tofu so crispy. No, you don’t have to deep-fry it to get it that way. No cuisine needs crispy tofu as much as Chinese food does and since it’s Chinese New Year for the next 2 weeks, I thought I’d share […]
How to Make Steamed & Pan-Fried Chinese Vegetable Dumplings
If you know me, you know how much I love Chinese food. You also know how much I miss it since I’m not living in the city. Chinese food used to be my go-to whenever I didn’t want to cook or I got home late from work. Now the only way I get it is […]
Green Chile Queso Beast Burger with Guacamole and Beyond Meat’s Beast Burger
Prepare yourselves: The Beast is coming! Just when I thought I couldn’t love Beyond Meat more, they are unleashing The Beast. The Beast is Beyond Meat’s new burger. The Beast Burger is amazing! Beyond Meat is changing the whole veggie burger game with this one. This quarter-pound vegan burger is incredible. It looks like a […]
Product Review: Three Paws Gourmet Dog Treats
It’s almost Valentine’s Day and that means it’s time to focus on love, hearts and the warm fuzzies that come from true love. What better topic could there be than my Benny? We all know that when you want to find true love, you’ll find it with animals. Benny is my little valentine (whether he […]
Homemade Calzones, Easy Queso Cheese Sauce and a Review of Field Roast Cheese Slices
I’m pretty sure every vegetarian and vegan knows about Field Roast and if they don’t, they need to get acquainted with them right away! Field Roast makes grain meat and they do it exceedingly well. Field Roast was created in 1997 in Seattle when Chef David Lee combined the European tradition of sausage-making with the […]
Flourless Nut Butter Cookies and Tofu in Spicy Peanut Sauce Plus a Review of Once Again Nut Butters
I do not like peanut butter and jelly. Nope, never have, never will. It’s probably because I don’t have a sweet tooth. I do, however, love peanut butter and cream cheese. When I was in grade school, every Friday the cafeteria would be closed for the upcoming Shabbos and each classroom would get a tray […]
You’ll Fall in Love with this Vegan Valentine’s Day Menu
Making these menus is always harder for me than you might think. There are so many delicious recipes on The “V” Word, that it’s difficult to narrow it down to just a few for a menu. It’s much easier to make mix-and-match menus with tons of suggestions but is that really much different than you […]
Vegan “Pollo” Escabeche with a Review of Pearls Olives
When I was a kid, I loved black olives. My mother would put them in our salads and I would take them and put my fingers into the holes of the pitted olives. Then I would eat them off my fingers. Doesn’t every kid do this? I would munch all the olives so that by […]