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.
ForksOverKnives.com, the website of the 2011 documentary, piqued my interest a few months ago with a recipe for “Chickpea Omelet.” No, it’s not lumpy with garbanzos. The dish is a savory thick pancake using flour ground from the bean. Update: Similar versions use a thin batter for a crepe-like effect: the Indian dosa and central African […]
Yes, schnecken can be veganized. I wouldn’t be posting, but the sweet rolls were a hit at a party Christmas afternoon. The friends won’t know the pastries were animal free until they read this. The earlier recipe, in this Brick “Savor Schnecken Like a Snail,” was last updated a year ago, and it stands as […]
“Falling-Down Cake” is my childhood name for Mom’s chocolate cake. Mom, as discussed previously, was a cook of post-War vintage, the Joy of Cooking, The New Settlement Cook Book and Thoughts for Buffets her references, with a handful of index cards copied from her BFF Isabel Marks. Her weeknight chocolate cake — the single pan […]
This pasta sauce says summer to me louder than gazpacho soup. If you’re desperate for hot weather, this’ll be almost as good with canned tomatoes and dried basil. The temperature contrast between room temperature sauce and steaming pasta is deliberate. Here’s a quote from a 1985 newspaper recipe by Arthur “Food Maven” Schwartz: “Some uncooked […]
This matzo recipe tastes way better than a box. That’s the joke about storebought matzo, the unleavened bread eaten instead of conventional yeast or baking soda/powder loaves or other baked goods during the Jewish holiday of Passover. Yet I’ve always liked matzo, and factory-made does taste far better than cardboard. Homemade isn’t difficult and doesn’t […]
Nothing can truly replace the taste or mouth-feel of sour cream or cream cheese. We vegans should just honor our memories of dairy dip by improving on it. If you’re too full after the game on TV for a real meal, at least you haven’t messed up as badly, having gorged on the protein and […]