My yearly quiz post.

Survey from my sis.
1. What was the most recent tea you drank?
I drank approximately one million cups of Tibetan tea (peh-cha) yesterday.

2. What vegan forms do you post/lurk on?
I like to stalk my sister at Sweet Soy vegan blog.

3. You have to have tofu for dinner, and it has be an Italian dish. What comes to mind first?
Balsamic tofu w/ green olives and panko. not v. Italian though.

4. How many vegan blogs do you read on an average day?
on average, .5

5. Besides your own, what is the most recent one you’ve read?
cake wrecks, womanimalistic

6. If you could hang out with a vegan blogger that you haven’t met, who would it be, and what would you do?
i want to hang out with those girls from that new york vegan bakery, have too many frosting shots and tell them how pretty they are.

7. If you had to base your dinners for a week around one of the holy trilogy – tofu, seitan or tempeh, which would it be?
Tofu, then hope I don't get kidney stones.

8. If you had to use one in a fight, which would it be? dried out seitan

10. What’s a recipe in vegan blogland that you’ve been eyeing?
i always eye my sister's fancy pizza recipe.

11. Do you own any clothing with vegan messages/brands on them? i used to have a shirt that had a picture of GW Bush with a gun to his head, and a little rainbow on the bottom. that's pretty vegan.

12. Have you made your pilgrimage to the ‘vegan mecca’ yet? (Portland, duh) i've been there but the only vegan thing i remember ingesting was basil infused vodka at the Delta.

13. What age did you first go vegan? Did it stick?
i was vegan once for two weeks.
then brie and sardines lured me back with the green foggy stench they put off.

14. What is the worst vegan meal you’ve had? Who cooked it?
i think it's kind of gross when vegans make vegan versions of real things.
like twinkies and baby deer.

15. What made you decide to blog?
my sister forced me with her big tempeh stick.

16. What are three of your favorite meals to make?
i love to make biscuits, big indian curries, and pad thai.

17. What dish would you bring to a vegan Thanksgiving-themed potluck?
some kind of savory sweet potatoes probably.

18. Where is your favorite vegan meal at a restaurant?
i do love laughing planet's veggie burgers, but i have to say BRUNCH at the Chicago diner is my favorite. Also Shalimar in Broad Ripple has killer Vegetable Biryani.

19. What do you think the best chain to dine as a vegan is?
my house. i just bought the franchise.

20. My kitchen needs a………
paint job! and cuisinart food processor.

21. This vegetable is not allowed in my kitchen…..!
All veg is welcome in my kitchen. Raisins, on the other hand......

22. What’s for dinner tonight?
Potato coconut curry

23.What’s your favourite cookie cutter?
last year i received a set of three dog bone cookie cutters.

Frenchy Quiches

This morning I pulled the French Sheep's Milk Feta chunk I've been saving out of the fridge and put it to bon use. Instead of just eggs and fixins in a crust, I took the advice of an old hippy cookbook and made a crème anglaise style filling instead. Yes. Adding some half n half n flour, then putting into the magical modern cauldron which is called KitchenAid, the custard quiches turned out to be a little bit transporting. While they were baking I did the dishes, and everyone knows a meal tastes better when the dishes are done. Thanks to my quiche picture model. Un bon oeuf.

Pad Thai, Paquita, Precious Sis.

Pad Thai weekend at the Lemon Meringue Kitchen. Sister came down, and we made pad thai, ate veggie booty, then had a Dark Knight/vegan sundae party. If I thought we couldn't get any nerdier, we also watched the documentary "Monster Camp" which is about a live action role playing (larping) club. Notice in the picture how serene and relaxed I am at the stove, but my stirring hand is a blur. You must always be vigilant with the pad thai.
Caroline Paquita came into town and had an art show. It is so good! They really transformed the place. She also told me about tinctures and such, and generally was entertaining and lovely. Next up: tacos tacos tacos tacos. can't stop, and ya don't stop.

Pupusas!

Just got back from Chattanooga, where I ate pupusas for three days straight. I'm going to have to learn how to make them, because I'm not sure where to get them around here. The first place I ate them was at Taco Rico, a place with food from El Salvador. The second place was Jalisco, a really great restaurant with cheese pupusas and good fish tacos. Pupusas are flat cornmeal cakes stuffed with different things and fried. I got bean and cheese at Taco Rico, which was really really good. Cheese pupusas at Jalisco are great.

Mar Sculptures

Not really edible, but these are mar (yak butter) sculptures! The ones pictured here were at the Tibetan-Mongolian Cultural Center in Bloomington. Monks dip their hands into icy water while shaping and coloring the butter, so their fingers are numb while working. Usually they are made for special occasions like Losar (Tibetan New Year), but this year Losar was not celebrated in protest of the violence that has exploded in Tibet recently.

Benedict, Modified.

This is a delicious way to get an eggs Benedict/Florentine fix in less time and with less work. Toast an english muffin, put down some fresh spinach, eggs, then (you guessed it) nutritional yeast gravy. i put tomatoes on top. It is GOOD.

I have white miso in my fridge, but am not sure where to start. What first?

Coming soon: La Torre Chimichangas!