Birthday Eats! June 30, 2010

Yesterday was my birthday and Kala and I opted for dinner at the Triple Rock Social Club. The place is a bar owned and.operated by members of the band Dillinger Four. The place  serves up a lot of vegan friendly bar/comfort food, as well as having local and national bands play. Kala and I both opted for variations on the po’ boy sandwich. Mine was the Minneapolis po’boy, a mound of Gimme Lean and potatoes covered in vegan nacho sauce and Nayonaise. All this on a small bun, this is not a pick it up and eat it sammie. Kala had the BBQ-ed po’boy that was a smilar sized mound of mock duck and potatoes covered in a rich and spicy bbq sauce. Both were very tasty and very filling!

–Shane

The Kitties Need You! May 26, 2010

I usually don’t post anything about my Etsy shop here on the food blog, but since it’s for an important cause I have to share 🙂 I’ve you haven’t heard yet, on May 20 there was a horrible fire at the Berkeley East Bay Humane Society that completely destroyed their cat shelter area, laundry area, offices and has left them without water, electricity, or phone service. 15 precious kitties were also lost in the fire. What they need now more than anything is money to get them back on their feet.  I thought the best way I could help would be to donate sales from select items from my Etsy shop. I’ve already been able to donate $24 from the sales of a Hedgehog Meadows bag to another great seller Oh Danger and nifty Robot Pin to another awesome person. I’ll be donating 100% of the sales of the following items in my shop:

Queen Bee Project/Gift Bag

Sleepy Hedgehog Pin:

Garden Delights Project/Gift Bag:

Abstract Botany Pin Set:

Mod Monkey Project Bag:

-Kala

On the Horizon… May 24, 2010

There seem to be lots of awesome looking vegan books coming out this year and I thought it’d be fun to share the ones I’m most excited about!  So here we go:

The Vegan Cookie Connoisseur: Over 140 Simply Delicious Recipes That Treat the Eyes and Taste Buds by Kelly Peloza:

Quick and Easy Vegan Celebrations: Festive Menus and 150 Great-Tasting Recipes that Give Every Vegan Reason to Celebrate All Year by Alicia C. Simpson:

The Vegan Girl’s Guide to Life: Cruelty-Free Crafts, Recipes, Beauty Secrets and More by Melisser Elliot:

So what did I miss?  What books are you guys looking forward to?

-Kala

My new blog… veg-geek May 7, 2010

Hi folks!  I have started a new blog, in addition to this one, that will mainly be about pop culture sorts of things: movies, television, games(table top and electronic) and what ever else strikes me as worth commenting on. My first post? My musings on the current season of  Doctor Who.  So please stop on over to Veg-Geek.

–Shane

Peanut Butter and Jelly Ice Cream May 2, 2010

Simply delicious:

This is the peanut butter and jelly ice cream from The Vegan Scoop and it’s crazy awesome!  This is the third recipe we’ve tried from this book an it’s by the far the best.  And it was really easy to make, you don’t have to mess with any sort of thickener because of how much peanut butter is in the recipe.  We used chunky strawberry preserves for the jelly and I can see how chocolate would also make a great mix in, mmmm peanut butter and chocolate!  So if you have this book, you need to make this ice cream!  Unless you’re allergic to peanuts, then not so much 🙂

-Kala

In the zone…the calzone April 24, 2010

While this may be the second post featuring Daiya cheese, these wonderful calzones were our first test of the mozzarella.  Put simply ,they were awesome, so good we have in fact made them twice.  The process was simple, we used the pizza crust recipe from Sara Kramer’s book La Dolce Vegan! we cut the finished dough into four equal portions and rolled each out onto a floured surface until it was fairly thin, added some chunky tomato sauce, mushrooms, some Yves vegan pepperoni and a generous hand full of the Daiya.  We sealed it up, cut a few vent holes, and baked it at 450 degrees F for 15 to 20 minutes.  Showing off the best of Daiya’s qualities, the calzones were tasty, gooey and stretchy!  Oh, and they are even good cold.

What are you waiting for?  Go get some Daiya and play!

–Shane

Photos by Kala

Happy Birthday Kala!!!! March 11, 2010

Well its that time of year again, my beautiful wife’s birthday! Everybody  feel free to wish her a goood one (oh and I did not make the cake heh)

–Shane