All year I always look forward to one thing in the summer time, and it isn’t a break from the constant cloud cover. There are few pleasures as great as a fresh, local, in season strawberry. They have, in fact, ruined strawberries for me the rest of the year. read more
June 20th, 2010 - 9:09 pm § in Recipes
Vegan Corn Dogs
Those of you that have become regular readers may have caught on to the fact that I have a pension for deep frying. As part of my mission to make vegan food more accessible to the public at large, I like to offer a counterpoint to the typical image of the sprouts and tofu idea [...][...]
May 9th, 2010 - 1:07 am § in Recipes
Sesame Balls
After finally getting around to making mochi I decided to take on my favorite dim sum dessert (mostly because it uses pretty much the same ingredients). Sesame balls (jin deui, Jian dui, or jen dai) are traditionally popular around Chinese new years but can be found year round at Chinese bakeries an[...]
April 28th, 2010 - 12:01 am § in Recipes
Match Daifuku Mochi
For a while I worked a job in a neighborhood where the only store was a small, Japanese grocery. During that time I got hooked on daifuku mochi. Mochi, as far as I know, is a catch all term for a whole class of Japanese desserts made from glutinous rice flour. Mochi can be baked, [...][...]
Teese Recipe Revision
The hard working folks over at Chicago Soy Dairy have been hard at work reformulating their Teese recipe. They recently sent out some samples of a test batch of the new mozzarella recipe and i was able to put it though a few tests. Among the areas they have been working to improve are the [...][...]
April 4th, 2010 - 8:34 pm § in Restaurants, Reviews
Wayward’s New Diggs
Recently I finally got a chance to check out Wayward Cafe’s new digs in the university district. Wayward has been a vegan staple in Seattle for years. It opened some years ago, originally as a workers collective, but after a time it began to experience some organizational issues and slid down [...]
