The Web didn’t give me exactly what I wanted: A recipe for a quick, from-scratch skillet full of vegan sausage patties. Fat free. Cheap. Pantry ingredients. Well, my pantry, at least. The goal was a healthy version of the memory of sausage, mild and from the supermarket. While these brown, you can put together pancake […]
Category: Kook Cooks
Candidly, the recipes are posted for my convenience, referring to the iPad in the kitchen. I’m sure you’d like them, too.
Recipes mainly. All are vegetarian, nearly all vegan, aka whole-food plant-based WFPB and, especially the recent ones, low to no oil.
‘Kickstart’ Pancakes
No, as a matter of fact, you don’t need egg, sugar, oil and dairy milk for pancakes. What’s great about this vegan recipe is it’s just two servings, maybe three. The fruit component is a flavorful, nutritious enhancement. 1/3 cup fruit, optional 2/3 cup flours (wheat, rye, buckwheat or other flours, except cornmeal, or a […]
Easy Vegan Breakfasts
It’s time to get excited, and a little nervous, for tomorrow’s first of three classes of “Vegan: As Easy as You Want.” They’re in the conference room of Ozark Natural Foods (not in the store but several doors up in its office), and as of Monday, two-thirds full, says ONF Community Outreach Coordinator Heather Artripe. […]
Vegan – As Easy as You Want
Drop that grilled cheese! Come to Ozark Natural Foods in October for my introduction to essential vegetarianism, “Vegan – As Easy As You Want.” Although I’m primarily a wordsmith, by my eyes I’m a foodie. Thus, I’ve offered to teach three 90-minute cooking sessions at the ONF Conference Center, east of the store and also […]
An Omnivore’s Manifesto
We’re trying veganism, My Beloved and I, now in our 11th week of cutting the ovo-lacto from our comfortable vegetarianism of over two decades. Look Out For That Bus! It’d been a year since my last fasting cholesterol blood test. The results so floored my doctor a week ago — total dropped from 244 to […]
Bread Gone to Pot
If New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman ran his “Minimalist” piece “The Secret of Great Bread: Let Time Do the Work” in November 2006, then this has been my go-to method week-in week-out for 6 1/2 years. I began baking bread in about 1989 so I’ve tried lots of recipes. Bittman “discovered” Jim Lahey […]