Category: cooking
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Voilà Vegan: Recipes from a stealth vegan pâtisserie in Paris
I love a good vegan story, and the story of Boneshaker Donuts and Coffee in Paris and the resulting cookbook, Voilà Vegan, is magnifique! Amanda Bankert is a donut-loving American living in Paris. She trained in pâtisserie at Le Cordon Bleu and, determined to bring American-style donuts to Paris, opened the first of her two…
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Pasta: a vegan cook’s best friend
I have loved pasta from the very first time I ever had spaghetti. Though not a staple in South African cooking, my mother incorporated it into her repertoire by the time my earliest childhood memories kick in. I haven’t had her spaghetti and meat sauce in decades, but I can still taste it. So good.…
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Protein-packed air-fryer tofu and chickpea falafel
Who says vegans have trouble finding protein? I’m not a recipe blogger but I do like to cook. I have promised to keep the Friday posts light, offering ideas to make veganism seem more approachable and even attractive. So, delivering on that, I’m sharing with you an easy air-fryer falafel recipe I sort of made…
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Catering fail—no protein
Here’s a thing that has always been annoying: when so-called chefs can’t figure out protein that is not from an animal source. I blogged about it at Fit Is a Feminist Issue back in 2015. I have just come from two days at an off-site meeting where the catering fell short in this way. Now,…
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Not all that’s edible is food
When I was at the social ontology conference last week I went to two great papers that considered, among other questions, the broad idea of what counts as food? In his paper, “Friend (Not) Food: Livestock as a Social Kind,” Dylan Brown, PhD candidate in Philosophy at Duke, noted that not everything edible counts as…
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Don’t you just love farmers’ markets in the summer?
My title pretty much sums up how I feel about farmers’ markets when they have the local grown seasonal veggies that have just been picked fresh from the ground. I love the way summer markets reflect the natural rhythm of local produce. Back in June I had freshly picked Ontario strawberries from Heeman’s, a local…
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Yummy summer salad for the long weekend (or any weekend)
We’re gearing up for a long weekend here in Ontario. The weather is promising to be spectacular and I thought it might be good to talk about watermelon salad recipes. Have you tried watermelon salad? Well if not, here we go. I hadn’t ventured there either, but a couple of weeks ago I was trying…
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Vegan “meat” products: is more realistic better?
Several years ago, before I’d ever heard of “Beyond,” I sent back a burger I’d ordered in a sports-bar style restaurant because I thought it was a beef burger rather than the veggie burger I’d ordered. It was red inside, and I thought the juice running out of it was blood on my plate. It…
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For the vegans who miss creamy, this post is for you
Among the more frequent obstacles people cite that get in the way of moving from vegetarian to vegan, missing “creamy” is probably second (missing cheese is the main contender for the blue ribbon). Who doesn’t love a creamy dessert like chocolate mouse or trifle, or a creamy salad dressing like ranch, or a creamy pasta…
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Some ideas to help you plan ahead for Meatless Monday
Sometimes trying something new is daunting until you have a plan. Then it becomes easier. As promised earlier this week, today I’m offering a few ideas for easy Meatless Monday meals and snacks. I’m definitely a three-meals-a-day person, plus snacks, and so today I’ll cover breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. Breakfast: A quick and easy…
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