C'est La Vegan

This past weekend, we went to see “Planet Earth Live” at the Hollywood Bowl with our good friends Tim and Ildy.   I always love a night out at the bowl, complete with tasty food and wine, good friends and live music, all whilst tucked away in the Hollywood hills.  It’s definitely one of my favorites [...]

Sushi and me – a short story…
When I was a kid, the thought of sushi was totally disgusting to me.  The raw fish part was gross, and yes, I now know it isn’t really all just raw fish, but I didn’t then, so I never even considered trying it.
Cut to one of my first trips to California, [...]

We had these for dinner a while ago, and they were so good that I made Ryan take a picture of them.  I never really had fish tacos until moving to California.  For a while, we weren’t eating dairy, but were still eating fish.  Often when we ate out, a fish taco was the only [...]

The next dish that I made for our Hollywood Bowl Picnic was the tempeh pate from the Native Foods Cookbook.  This is one of my favorite recipes, and I can’t even count how many times I’ve made this.  We’ve eaten it in Palm Springs wraps (Ryan’s favorite), I’ve baked it in puff pastry, served it [...]

I don’t know if I’ve ever had real pastrami, but years ago, I used to get a Reuben sandwich in my home town that used turkey pastrami.  I think that was my first introduction to Reubens, and since then I’ve only had veggie versions.  One that we kind of overdosed on is this avocado reuben.  [...]