March 5, 2010

katherine

March 5, 2010 - .  

breakfast: Cheerios with soymilk; coffee

lunch: sliced apple; leftover udon with peanut sauce; blueberry soy yogurt; 1 apple chip

snack: Sour Patch Kids from Bed Bath and Beyond. I was there to buy spouts for old big beer/wine bottles to make oil and vinegar dispensers (more or less like this)

dinner at Pommes Frites: french fries with ketchup, chopped onion, and jalapeño-cilantro sauce

at a bar with Rosalie: Long Island Iced Tea; PBR

2nd dinner at Vinnie’s Pizzeria: BBQ “chicken” and soy cheese vegan pizza; Mexican black bean and soy cheese vegan pizza. Also, half an order of garlic knots. This place always has like 4 awesome vegan pizza types that you can buy for $4/slice. The garlic knots are vegan and are 5/$1. Here is a blurry picture from Yelp of some of the vegan pizza.

stacey

March 5, 2010 - .  

breakfast: coffee with soymilk from Marvelous Market.  Soymilk is free (unless you are getting a drink made to order) and if you bring your own mug coffee is $1.10 for any size (at least so far).

lunch: falafel and fries from Maoz and part of an apple (half of it had gone bad).

dinner: leftover falafel from Maoz

March 4, 2010

stacey

March 4, 2010 - .  

breakfast: pumpkin seeds and oatmeal with salt. no coffee!

lunch: leftover B salad (recipe posted previously) and leftover okra stew with brown recipe (recipe posted previously)

snack: vegan chocolate cupcake with chocolate frosting from Hello Cupcake. They have a vegan cupcake everyday.

dinner: same as lunch

post dinner snack: popcorn with Braggs and nutritional yeast.

emily

March 4, 2010 - .  

banana oat bar (see yesterday’s); coffee from my favorite beans from the bulk section at central market

pita with grandma’s hummus, fava bean puree, pitted black olives, spinach; texas sweet orange

corn flakes with raisins and soy milk; dried mango

white bean soup with kale and sun dried tomatoes; rosemary garlic bread (links to recipes in a previous post); pitted black olives

$2.50 gin & tonics at barflys

March 3, 2010

stacey

March 3, 2010 - .  

breakfast: coffee with soy milk from Marvelous Market and pumpkin seeds

lunch: leftover B salad (see previous post, recipe posted in archives); 1/2 a Chipotle garden blend burrito.

snacks: more pumpkin seeds and a soy latte from Hello Cupcake (they do not charge extra for soy milk).  I think this is my first time ever having coffee twice in one day.

dinner: more B salad.  Note: If you make this salad, you may want to cut the dressing recipe in half (or even less).  I made way too much dressing.

March 1, 2010

stacey

March 1, 2010 - .  

breakfast: Tomato and Tofutti bagel sandwich from White Electric This is a pretty cool coffee shop and much less crowded than Coffee Exchange.

snacks: steamed soy with peppermint tea from the edge, french fries from Ruffles, banana, part of an onion bagel

dinner: brussel sprouts with fresh squeezed lemon juice, earth balance, salt, pepper, brown sugar and toasted almonds. Trader Joe’s soy nuggets (although  Marcy and mom swear these are good, I think they are pretty nasty)

desert: Turtle Mountain’s Purely Decadent Cookie Avalanche ice cream

February 28, 2010

katherine

February 28, 2010 - .  

brunch at Papacitos (Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY): vegan tamales with soyrizo, served with roasted eggplant-tahini chili sauce, avocado pico de gallo, vegan sour cream, roasted red pepper + green chili salsa, and chips ($12); coffee

This was pretty amazing food. They do have a $7 vegan breakfast burrito (served 11-4pm every day, not just on weekends) with tofu, potato, vegetables, vegan cheese, and vegan sour cream that I would like to try as a cheaper option. Their $8 vegan lunch/dinner burrito (which is 1.5 pounds) includes special things like vegan cheese, vegan sour cream, and either seitan, tempeh, or soyrizo in addition to rice, beans, and salsa. I want to try that too. Also, their bloody mary mix is homemade and vegan.

snack: peanut butter cookie

dinner: hummus (click for the recipe) and

side

  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 2 T olive oil
  • 1/4 c tahini
  • juice of 1 lemon
  • 1/4-1/3 c water
  • 1 can (15.5 oz) chick peas
  • salt to taste (about .5-1 tsp)

Food process all ingredients.  It is simplest to blend the garlic cloves first (to eliminate the need to mince them), to then add the next four ingredients and let mix (these more watery ingredients froth up and this seems to improve the texture), and to add the chickpeas at the end.

Serve as is or with embellishments (paprika sprinkle, oil drizzle, adobo sauce, or fresh parsley are some of many nice additions)

creamy lemon pecan spread (click for the recipe) with pita; beet greens sauteed with carrot strips, onion, garlic, red pepper flakes, salt, pepper, and a bit of olive oil; half a smoked apple sage Field Roast sausage; espresso

sideI intended on making parsley pesto, and then realized I didn’t have enough parsley. I ended up liking it, particularly along with the hummus (very tart, which went well with the tahini-heavy hummus).

  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 1 carrot, chopped into chunks
  • 1/2 c pecans (or whatever nut you want; pine nuts or walnuts work well)
  • 1 T olive oil
  • 1 T miso
  • 2 T nutritional yeast
  • juice of 1 lemon
  • 1-2 T water
  • bunch of parsley (I had about 1/4 – 1/2 c chopped parsley)
  • salt to taste

Food process all ingredients. Blend the garlic cloves, carrot chunks, and nuts first so they are finely chopped, then add the next 5 ingredients, and finally add the parsley.

a few different kinds of beer at Pacific Standard trivia night (placing in the top five for the first time since I’ve been there… congrats Spen Family!); a few different kinds of olives; Twizzlers (lists glycerin as an ingredient, which may or may not be vegan. does anyone know the source of the glycerin in Twizzlers?)

In sort of good news, I found some corn candy tonight that did not have gelatin or egg whites. It was made by the same brand that makes jelly bellies. It had beeswax, so I didn’t get it, but it is the first gelatin- and egg-white-free corn candy I’ve seen in a while, and may be suitable for those who eat honey. Does anyone know where you can get totally vegan corn candy, other than making it from scratch (http://theurbanhousewife.blogspot.com/2007/09/homemade-vegan-candy-corn-happy.html)? I’m going to try that soon.

stacey

February 28, 2010 - .  

brunch: steamed soymilk with peppermint tea; a side of tempeh “sausage;” cinnamon-orange vegan french toast and a vegan “steak and cheese” wrap from Julian’s.  I have been there once before and had the french toast; pesto-fu and st. jamez ‘benedict.’  The first time I went there, I loved the food. This time around I thought the steak and cheese sandwich was too greasy and the french toast was too dry.  My dad loves this restaruant and is making us go back tonight for dinner, so I will be able to report on their dinner menu as well.

snack 1: a spoonful of Turlte Mountain’s Purely Decadent Cookie Avalanche ice cream (just 1 spoonful! I can’t beleive I had enough self control- perhaps it was because I was still so full from brunch.

snack 2: an apple, 2 bananas,  grapes and peppermint tea

dinner: Apparently Julian’s dinner on Sunday is all specials.  None of their specials were  vegan, but they made me some vegan food.  I split the food with my mom so we got two meals.  We had a dish withveggies and lentils and a sandwich that had asparagus and tofu. I can’t remember what else was in the food.  The meals were ok.  They were pretty tasty, but basic (nothing you couldn’t make easily at home for 1/100 of the cost).

drink: Narragansett beer (local!)

February 27, 2010

stacey

February 27, 2010 - .  

breakfast: grapes, banana, cooked onion and spinach, garlic bagel with Earth Balance on one half and avocado on the other half, Ritz crackers (I was really hungry this morning and my parents don’t have a lot of food in the house so I ate some Ritz crackers)

lunch: pistachio nuts and some more Ritz crackers

dinner: I met my grandparents, cousins and aunt and uncle at Twist. I had a salad with whole grain mustard sage dressing and a meal they made for me with rice noodles, shitake mushrooms, baby bok choy and other veggies. it was spicy but lacking flavor.

desert: Turtle Mountain’s Purely Decadent Cookie Avalanche ice cream

February 25, 2010

stacey

February 25, 2010 - .  

breakfast: coffee with soy milk from Marvelous Market

lunch: Gardein Santa Fe Good Stuff “chicken” with leftover homemade apple gravy and frozen mixed vegetables. I previously posted a comment about Gardein and my lack of enthusiasm for it.

snack: very salted pumpkin seeds and unsalted almonds

dinner: 4 side dinner from Everlasting Life.  Their food is awesome. I went once before with Katherine and the mac and cheese tasted spoiled.  Last night I got bean curd (tofu skins), beets, garlic kale salad and “chicken salad.”  I also split a side of mac and cheese with Meredith.  The mac and cheese was great (nothing like the last time I had it).  I liked it better than Soul Veg because it was less greasy and creamier.  The people who work there are really nice.  They let Meredith and me try a bunch of sides so that we could decide what we liked.  Also, they have a Customer Loyalty card- for every 10 dollars (I think they said 10, but the card says 8 ) you spend you get a stamp on the card.  After 7 stamps your 8th meal is free (value= $10)

drink: Yuengling and Dogfish Head Raison D’Etre 

February 24, 2010

stacey

February 24, 2010 - .  

breakfast: everything bagel with strawberry jelly.  grapes and strawberries and this really nasty cran-apple juice that was free from a law firm

lunch: a disgusting amount of pretzels rods; pumpkin seeds;  some leftover gravy from Sunday; edamame

dinner: popcorn with Braggs and nutritional yeast

drink: Yuengling

desert: nonpareils from Marvelous Market. I had not had nonpareils since I became a vegan 10 yrs ago. Joanna found vegan nonpareils at Marvelous Market!  I ate way too many.

February 23, 2010

katherine

February 23, 2010 - .  

breakfast: Cheerios with soymilk; coffee from Brooklyn Standard

lunch: everything bagel with Tofutti cream cheese and olives, $2.72 including tax, from Giant Bagel Shop; rice crackers

snack: more rice crackers

dinner: raw kale salad from same recipe that Stacey and I tried at Rooting DC a few days ago (click for the recipe);

salad
Adapted from the recipe by Tracye McQuirter, byanygreensnecessary.com

  • 1 bunch kale, washed and chopped small. Spin to dry.
  • 2 T olive oil
  • 1 T Bragg’s liquid aminos (use soy sauce if you do not have Bragg’s)
  • half a red onion, chopped small
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 6 cherry tomatoes, quartered
  • 2 T nutritional yeast
  • 1 avocado, peeled and chopped

Toss kale in oil and Bragg’s, and let marinate for at least ten minutes.  Add onion, garlic, cherry tomatoes, and nutritional yeast, mixing thoroughly to incorporate the nutritional yeast.  Add the avocado just before serving so that it doesn’t brown.

soba (buckwheat) noodles dipped in soy sauce+wasabi+green onions;
agedofu and sauce (click for the recipe)

entreeTOFU

  • 2 blocks tofu
  • a few T of corn starch
  • enough canola oil to fill a skillet to 1/2 inch
  • enough water to fill a bowl to 2-3 inches
  • 2 T toasted sesame seeds (preferably black)

Towel-dry and then press the tofu (wrap it in a towel, and put a skillet or a few books on top), for an hour if possible.  While the tofu is being pressed, prepare the sauce (see sauce recipe a couple paragraphs down).

Start boiling the water in one pan (once it boils, lower heat but maintain a simmer) and heating the oil in a skillet (for a couple minutes until it is hot, but not burning/smoking).

Cut the pressed tofu into large cubes (about a cubic inch).  Dip the tofu into a small bowl with the corn starch, turning the tofu to thoroughly cover all sides. 

Place the starch-covered tofu in the hot oil and let fry for several minutes until the bottom starts to brown.  Once it starts to brown, flip the tofu to cook the other side.  While the second side cooks, pour the boiling water into a bowl.  Once the tofu has browned on all sides, remove it from the oil and place in the hot water.  Then remove it from the water and place one side in a bowl with the sesame seeds to coat.  Serve sesame-seed-side-up in a bowl with the sauce.

SAUCE

  • 1/4 c shiitake mushroom broth (I buy dried shiitakes from H Mart, and simmering a handful of these in water makes mushroom broth
  • 3 T soy sauce
  • 3 T rice vinegar
  • 1 clove garlic, minced
  • 1 scallion, chopped
  • 1 T grated fresh ginger
  • 1/2 tsp sesame oil
  • 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes

Combine all ingredients.

late night snack: Purely Decadent Dulce de Leche soy ice cream

stacey

February 23, 2010 - .  

breakfast: Oats with water and salt

lunch: leftover three bean salad (recipe previously posted by Katherine) and a lot of pretzel sticks and pumpkin seeds

coffee with free soy milk from MarvelousMmarket

dinner: whole wheat spaghetti with store bought pasta sauce, Follow Your Heart vegan cheese and these vegan chicken strips from Trader Joe’s (they aren’t very good)

February 22, 2010

katherine

February 22, 2010 - .  

breakfast: Cheerios with soymilk; coffee

lunch from NY Dosas food cart: one vegan drumstick with sauce ($1.75); wheat+rice crepe with vegetables and complimentary sambaar soup and coconut chutney ($6); ginger beer ($2)

snack: rice crackers; iced coffee from Gorilla (complimentary when you buy beans)

dinner from Bedouin Tent in Brooklyn: half of… small grape leaves plate (best grape leaves I have ever had); small hummus plate; small lentil/bulgar salad with thin caramelized onions; small beet salad; small fava bean/parsely/tomato salad; complimentary, freshly baked pita (maybe with the hummus?) plus one more piece of pita. All the salads were $4, the bread is $1.

February 21, 2010

katherine

February 21, 2010 - .  

brunch: coffee from Heller’s; hash browns (onion; garlic; shredded, towel-dried potatoes; oil; salt and pepper); 3-bean-bok-choy salad (click for the recipe);

salad

  • 1 can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
  • 1 can kidney beans, drained and rinsed
  • 1 can of some sort of green bean that tasted like olive (Honey what was it called??)
  • 1/2 head of bok choy, chopped small
  • 1/2 onion, chopped small
  • apple cider vinegar to taste
  • soy sauce to taste (just a little bit to round out the flavor)
  • olive oil (sadly what we used was 85% soy, 15% olive oil)
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • juice of 2 limes
  • chopped Granny Smith apple

Combine all ingredients.  Add one of the limes directly to the apple slices so that they don’t brown as quickly. Let marinate for at least 10 minutes before serving.

biscuits (click for the recipe) and sausage-apple gravy. The gravy was fried onions and garlic, small Granny Smith apple slices, 2 cups broth from Rapunzel bouillon, rosemary, 8 leaves fresh chopped sage, roasted red pepper, salt and pepper, a roux made with white flour and oil, and Field Roast’s sage and apple sausage (sliced and fried). Apple in gravy received mixed reviews.

bread
adapted from this recipe

  • 0.75 c white flour
  • 1.25c whole wheat pastry flour
  • 2.5 tsp baking powder
  • 0.5 tsp baking soda
  • 0.5 tsp salt
  • 5 T Crisco (yum!)
  • 1 cup cold soymilk (stick in freezer for a couple minutes before using)
  • 1 tsp apple cider vinegar

Combine dry ingredients.  Cut in Crisco.  In a separate bowl, combine soymilk and cider vinegar to curdle; let this sit for 15 minutes.  Then add the curdled soymilk to the rest of the ingredients, and stir.  Roll to about 1/2 inch thick.  Bake at 350F for 6-10 minutes (we took ours out too early, but it still tasted good) on a greased baking sheet.


dinner of sorts: Cajun french fries ($2.85 for the regular size, which is HUGE), ketchup, and complimentary peanuts from Five Guys. Potatoes for the day were from Shelley, Idaho. This is the best food in the entire world.

snacks on bus and after: sour patch kids ($0.99 for generic ones from CVS); more Stickletti pretzels; two clementine oranges; lemon poppyseed cookie from Alternative Baking Company (the store was open at 1am when I was walking home from the DC2NY bus… how could I say no???)

stacey

February 21, 2010 - .  

brunch: hash browns (onion; garlic; shredded, towel-dried potatoes; oil (lots and lots and lots of veggie oil; salt and pepper); 3-bean-bok-choy salad.  Katherine already posted the recipe.  I can’t remember the third type of bean, but the next time I got to Bestworld (formerly known as Bestway), I will look it up.

biscuits (we mostly followed this recipe, but we used more whole wheat flour and less white flour) with sausage-apple gravy. The gravy was fried onions and garlic, small apple slices, 2 cups broth from Rapunzel bouillon, rosemary, 8 leaves fresh chopped sage, roasted red pepper, salt and pepper, a roux made with white flour and oil, and Field Roast’s sage and apple sausage (sliced and fried). Katherine didn’t like the gravy that much, but I did.

dinner: Cajun french fries and ketchup from Five Guys.  lots and lots of peanuts.

emily

February 21, 2010 - .  

miso-asparagus soup, grapefruit

peanut butter and strawberry conserve on toasted homemade beer bread; baby carrots; dried mango

lone star at chicken shit bingo (a decidedly not vegan activity)

tons of indian food at swad. i had little amounts of so much stuff i’m not going to try to list it all

coconut haystacks, dark chocolate sour cherries, dark chocolate almonds, chocolate covered ginger, all from the bulk bins at whole foods…

February 20, 2010

katherine

February 20, 2010 - .  

breakfast: coffee with shot of espresso from Sankofa; leftover vegan pizza

snacks provided during cooking demonstrations at Rooting DC: spicy kale salad (recipe by Tracye McQuirter; recipe is on her site); 2 different raw green smoothies

lunch: half a loaf of vegan chocolate chip banana bread, also purchased at Sankofa

snacks during Shutter Island: fruit Fig Newmans (thanks Nate); maple cookies from Trader Joe’s, just like we used to eat by the box in Oberlin (thank you Honey!), two big bites of Stacey’s Un-Chicken Fajita made by Sunneen

free sample of brandy from Sportsman Liquors in Mount Pleasant; gin and tonic with lime; Yuengling; Peak Organic beer

“dinner” (note the order here): tempura mix pancakes (I thought it was scallion pancake mix, and did not realize it until a stranger entered the kitchen and wondered why I was frying straight tempura mix), chopped and fried with onion, garlic, carrot, roasted red pepper, sea salt, black pepper, vegetarian oyster sauce, and lime. Broccoli tempura (after realizing the mistake).

stacey

February 20, 2010 - .  

breakfast: coffee with soy milk from Sankofa (the staff was extremely friendly and are now considering stocking vegan cream cheese and vegan cheese after our suggestions); leftover vegan pizza from Duccini’s

snacks provided during cooking demonstrations at Rooting DC: a low cost vegan salad (I am not sure of the recipe), spicy kale salad made by Tracye McQuirter (a nutritionist who has been vegan for 20 years).  She posts the kale salad recipe and other recipes on her website.  I also tried 2 different raw green smoothies.  If you want the recipes, send me an email and I will forward them to you.

lunch: half a loaf of vegan chocolate chip banana bread, also purchased at Sankofa

snacks during Shutter Island: fruit Fig Newmans (thanks Nate); maple cookies from Trader Joe’s, just like we used to eat by the box in Oberlin and Un-Chicken Fajita made by Sunneen.

drinks: free sample of brandy from Sportsman Liquors in Mount Pleasant; gin and tonic with lime; Yuengling; Peak Organic nut brown ale

“dinner” (provided by honey and nate): tempura mix pancakes chopped and fried with onion, garlic, carrot, roasted red pepper, sea salt, black pepper, vegetarian oyster sauce, and lime. Broccoli tempura (after realizing the mistake).  This was the most amazing dish I have had in a long time!

February 19, 2010

katherine

February 19, 2010 - .  

breakfast: Special K with soymilk, orange juice, coffee

lunch: homemade pecan multigrain bread with avocado, pickle, roasted red pepper, leftover enoki mushrooms; more coffee from Dunkin’ Donuts

snack: another piece of bread; adorable thin pretzels called “Stickletti” from the Busy Bee corner store in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

dinner #1: everything bagel with Tofutti, onion, tomato, and jalapeño from Giant Bagel Shop, $3

dinner #2: giant slice of pizza (with Daiya soy-free vegan cheese) from Duccini’s in DC, $5. They don’t normally sell it by the slice unless you have enough people to use most of a pizza (which is 8 pieces, or $40). Fortuitously, there were 6 punk vegans there when Stacey and I arrived who let us claim the extra two pieces from theirs. Thank you!


(Stacey’s cell phone and studded jacket for scale)

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