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Category Archive: Recipes & Cooking

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  1. I get recipes e-mailed directly to my inbox on a daily basis. Often multiple times per day. Vegan ones. Meaty ones. Fancy ones. Kids’ ones. I just like reading them, and it’s rare that any surprise me. Today, I got a recipe from Chef/Proprietor Michael Doyle of Maurepas Foods, in New Orleans, LA (that’s Louisiana, not Los Angeles) for pickled peanuts. Pickled peanuts?! I am surprised by this! I love pickled things and I love peanuts but I have never had or even heard of them combined. So, with a couple disclaimers: One) I haven’t tried it yet, so if it sucks you can’t blame me. If it’s awesome though, I get all the credit. Other One) As is, his recipe made 200 servings, so I have scaled it back to .1 times  the original. I hope that this doesn’t affect it! Here is the recipe:

    pickled peanuts

    PICKLED PEANUTS

    INGREDIENTS:

    2 Lbs green peanuts
    8 Cups water
    1/4 Cup + 1 tablespoon + 1 3/4 teaspoons salt
    1.2 Cups cola
    0.8 Cup rice vinegar
    1 allspice berry
    dash star anise or a small fraction of one star anise
    1 dried chile, medium heat

    INSTRUCTIONS:

    1. Combine peanuts, water, and 1/4 cup salt and bring to a boil for 45 minutes. Peel peanuts and leave them as intact as possible.

    2. Combine remaining ingredients in a pot and bring to a boil for 10 minutes. Add peanuts and boil for 5 minutes. Cool and refrigerate for at least 48 hours before serving. Can be refrigerated up to 4 weeks.

    I’m going to try this one, are you? Let me know if you’ve had pickled peanuts before, if they’re as delicious as they sound, or how this recipe turns out in the comments, K?

    We can pickle that!

     

  2. Ladies, Gentlemen, Mammals of all orders,

    I have a secret to spill:

    GoVeggie! or as I like to call it, Go Veggie Exclamation Point (GVEP), formerly known as Galaxy Nutritional Foods (which never had astronomical imagery as part of its branding, nor was it made on the moon), a switch I wrote about earlier, are the makers of the new vegan cheese products available at Trader Joe’s (a store that is so very good to us). Their new and improved shreds are their shreds, and their new and improved cream cheese is their Not Your Average Tub Of Cream Cheese (which I think should be called Above Average Cream Cheese). How did I find this out? I never kiss and tell! Wait. Yes, I do: some good ol’ fashioned sleuthin’ and um, this blog post.

    To celebrate all the cheesy goodness, GVEP threw a rager last night that was hosted, and when I say hosted, I mean “Hi, how are you, thanks so much for coming, I’m Heather, let me feed your face!” HOSTED by the effervescent energy balls (but pretty), the Spork Sisters, Jenny and Heather. There were people; like Rory Freedman, who has given up cursing (oh, the irony for a Skinny Bitch!) and has a new book called Beg: A Radical New Way Of Regarding Animals coming out on April 23rd. Television’s Jason Wrobel who is waiting to hear if the pilot episode of his Cooking Channel show How To Live To 100 did well enough to get picked-up and in the interim told us all about the importance of Vitamin K2 (which sounds like Scrubbing Bubbles for your heart). And my friend The Insufferable Vegan and I both masquerading as QuarryGirl.

    There was Sporktastic food:

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    Cream Cheese and Olive Tapenade Layered Dip, Mini Mediterranean Pita Pizza Bites, Saffron Scented Arancini with Mushrooms

    There was drink:

    frey wine

    Courtesy Frey Wines– America’s First Organic Winery

    And there was a cooking demo, where I learned pepper is now just called ‘pep’ and a Vita-Mix is a ‘Vity’:

    demo

    Heather & Jenny make basil oil!

    And best of all, for one lucky SuperVegan reader (that could be you!) there’s a copy of Spork-Fed, the cookbook any vegan who wants to make Strawberry Cream Cheese-Stuffed French Toast must own, the cookbook I personally had signed by both sisters just for you, PLUS a coupon for one free GVEP product!

    To enter, all you have to do is leave a comment (make sure to leave an e-mail address!) telling us about the best or worst vegan cheese dish you’ve ever eaten, by Monday at noon, PT. Good luck!

  3. reubenAccording to Wikipedia, “The Reuben sandwich is a hot sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, with Russian or Thousand Island dressing, and sauerkraut. These are grilled between slices of rye bread.” Well fuck you, Wikipedia*, cause there are vegan Reubens, and our Reubens are better than your Reubens! Here in LA, you can order them all over the place from Follow Your Heart Cafe** to Locali to Native Foods to Flore to Golden Mean to Real Food Daily. But, maybe, just maybe, you live somewhere else?  Somewhere where there doesn’t happen to be a plethora of slammies (slammin’ sammies, a term courtesy the fine folks of Food For Lovers).

    Well here’s how I make ‘em– it’s easy, I swear on Wikipedia that you can do it, too:

    1. Make some cashew cheese. My recipe is HERE. Make it ahead of time, like day-ahead cause it it gets better once it’s been fully fridged. Disclaimer: this does not taste even a little bit like Swiss cheese, but it is darned delicious. You will want some in your fridge, always.

    2. Make some One Thousand Island Dressing. Maybe even 1,001. This is simple: get a bowl. In that bowl put: Continue Reading…

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    It’s creamy, it’s tangy, it’s full of bacteria but it’s still so much fun to stick your tongue in – yogurt! To me, a world without yogurt is woeful, unimaginably grim, and full of longing. If being vegan meant I could never eat yogurt again, I don’t think I would even be able to consider the possibility. Lucky for me, I grew up in a house where making yogurt was not only common, but also free of expensive hardware (I still haven’t figured out the point of a “yogurt maker”).

    Yogurt is among the foods people typically file under “impossibly hard to make”. I can’t imagine why though, seeing as how it’s insanely simple. Admittedly, there’s a lot of luck involved, but with some basic science and a few ingredients, you should have tangy, cruelty-free goodness in no time (well, almost).

    MOSTLY FOOLPROOF SOY YOGURT

    Ingredients:

    • A vegan yogurt culture, which you can get one of two ways: buy a starter like this one, or use a good-size spoonful of any vegan yogurt labeled with the “active culture” symbol (I like to buy a small container of soy yogurt and take a spoon out)
    • Soymilk (You can use other types of vegan milk but the result will be slightly different. I find soymilk gives the most yogurty-ness without using any additives like starch or sugar)

    Directions:

    A few factors are critical to yogurt making: cleanliness, temperature and cleanliness. Continue Reading…

  5. This coming Monday, January 14th, Dirt Candy maker Amanda, chef and owner of the only restaurant in NYC that is 100% things that grow from the ground update: committed to vegetables, but not in a mental institution sort-of way, is speaking at the New York Public Library. From Amanda, “Actually, all three of us who worked on the cookbook will be talking: I’ll be going on and on about vegetables and restaurants, my husband will be running his mouth about the history of vegetarianism and NYC’s legacy of lost vegetarian restaurants, and artist Ryan Dunlavey will be using interpretive dance to discuss graphic novels, cartooning, food, and where all three intersect. It’s free, and open to the public.”

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    Monday, January 14, 2013, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

    Mid-Manhattan Library (Map and directions)

    Check it out!

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