C'est La Vegan

Before going vegan I used to love buffalo chicken fingers – not the wings, but fried chicken tenders in buffalo sauce.  I never really understood the point of eating a wing (I still don’t), and bones in food always freaked me out.  Obviously, it’s been a while since I’ve eaten real buffalo chicken anything, but [...]

If you’ve never tried this dessert it might seem a little strange – but trust me when I tell you that it’s delicious!  I had a non-vegan version of this grape salad years ago at a potluck, and I was so excited when I came across this recipe on skinnytaste.com. (Although I’m not sure how “skinny” [...]

Ah, hummus… the vegan’s best friend.  Hummus tends to be the first thing people choose to serve to vegans when they aren’t sure what else to make for them, and is often the only thing a vegan can eat a a party that’s chock full of cheese and salami plates.  You know, like at all [...]

Over the years I’ve made lots of mushroom pates.  I keep trying to find the perfect recipe, and this one comes pretty close for me.  There are a couple tweaks I might try next time I make it, but for now this is really tasty.  I got the recipe from one of my favorite sources, [...]

The best sangria I’ve ever had was at a restaurant in Madrid, Spain about fifteen years ago.  Wish I hadn’t done the math on that one… it freaks me out to realize how quickly fifteen years can fly by!  The sangria I had was made with red wine, citrus fruits and apples, and it was [...]

When I studied abroad in London I was fortunate enough to enjoy several afternoon teas.  I love sweets, I love sandwiches, and I actually prefer tea to coffee, so a classic tea is a little piece of heaven for me.  I know that my love of this tasty ritual informed my menu of baked goods [...]

Happy Cinco de Mayo!  Living in Southern California, there’s no lack of holiday celebrations to take part in today.  If you’re having people over, or even if you’re just having a quiet night in, this Mexican-Style Casserole is the perfect thing to celebrate the holiday.  Now, I say Mexican-”style” because I have to [...]

Here it is – the last of the posts from our Oscar Party, and my favorite… “An Eggplant Cajun” for the film “An Education”.  For some reason we didn’t have any trouble with this title, and once we thought of the name Ryan found this recipe online. While it was super easy to veganize, I [...]

Okay, guys – only two more Oscar Party posts!  I’m saving my favorite for tomorrow.  In the meantime, let’s talk about these bananas!
The title “A Serious Man” gave us serious trouble.  We weren’t huge fans of the movie (sorry if you liked it!), so we were going to do a drink – “A Serious Man… [...]

These Pretzel bites were what we served for the film “Precious: Based on the novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”.  I’ve made them before in classic pretzel shape, and they were so good that I was looking for a chance to make them again.
I was originally going to do these for “Inglourious Basterds” as “Inglourious Dough Turds”. [...]

We’re into the second week of Oscar posts!  Doesn’t it feel like the Oscars was a year ago?  Maybe it’s just because I had a busy week, or maybe it’s because there were TEN best picture nominees that we made dishes for!  Either way, still going… Just a couple left and then on to St. [...]

I mentioned in my first post from our Oscar party that I made a couple old favorites in addition to some new recipes.  This is one of the former, definitely worth making over and over again!  These fried chicken bites are what we served for the film “The Blind Side.”  You might recognize the photo [...]