The Vegan Butcher

I hope you’re ready for another massive dose of insanity, because it’s time for the next post in the “From the Booth” series! In this series, as previously shown, you and I will take advantage of the endless hours spent at my weekend/evening job in a parking lot attendant booth by cooking vegan food right here at the lot.

This week we delve into a world as of yet unexplored at the booth: Baking! Baking? BAKING?!?! In a parking lot?!? All right, everybody needs to calm down. Yes. We’re going to bake. Let’s make the impossible possible! Grab your mixing bowls! We’re making banana bread. (If you’re thinking, “This shit is bananas!”, you’re not wrong.) (more…)

It’s time for our next post in the “Into the Woods” series! If you missed the first I recommend that you read back so as not to be totally and utterly confused during this post.

Next up on our list of fairy tale characters to explore: Little Red Riding Hood.

In “Into the Woods” Little Red is a chubby little thing that loves her sweets. She stops by the Baker’s house on her way into the woods to visit her grandmother and places an order…all for Granny, of course:

“It’s not for me, it’s for my Granny in the woods. A loaf of bread, please—to bring my poor old hungry Granny in the woods… Just a loaf of bread, please… And perhaps a sticky bun? Or four? And a few of those pies, please… I sort of hate to ask it, but do you have a basket?” (more…)

Get ready for the most exciting blog post of your life in which I make a sandwich from the leftovers in my fridge! I can tell you’re all pretty jacked up about this–perhaps we should all calm down.

The other night I was cooking for a post that didn’t involve a main dish. I didn’t have anything on the go to eat for supper, so I rooted around in the fridge and found leftover seitan and garlic mayo from this meal, and dug in the freezer to find leftover batter coating from this meal. We were in business! (more…)

I am a theatre kid. I sing incessantly and love everything about Broadway. In high school a friend and I started the theatre troupe at my school and I took part in all productions we staged during my time there.

During my final year of high school we put on “Into the Woods”, an absolutely perfect musical by Stephen Sondheim. If you are not familiar with this play, I highly recommend that you get it into your life. It’s a delightful story with multiple fairy tales interwoven as one and tells the story of what happens after the happily ever after.

What does this have to do with vegan cooking? There are numerous references to food in this play. So many references to food, in fact, that I could ignore them no longer. I needed to get into the kitchen and bring them to life! In this series we are going to delve into the foods of “Into the Woods” (see what I did there?). Are you ready? Doesn’t matter—we’re doing this. (more…)

I invite you to once again join me on my quest to mastering seitan. When I say I’m going to learn to do something right, I’m not messing around. You’re going to see so much seitan on this blog you’ll long for the simpler days of tofu and beans. Take heart, beloved readers! The roads hardest travelled often lead to the best destinations. POWER THROUGH! We’ve got this. (more…)

Okay, I need you to use your imagination and work with me here. There are a lot of “ifs” required to make this post work. IF the Swiss Family Robinson had been shipwrecked on an old pirate island with an impressive stash of rum and IF they had had an endless supply of (frozen) bananas, coconuts and limes and IF they had had a cocktail blender with a power source, then after a long day of building shelters and fighting off anacondas they would have kicked back on the beach with a drink.

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In honour of passing 666 followers on Twitter, here is a post on seitan. (Ahahahaha. Oh, SO CLEVER, Tracy!) Big up to my 666th follower, @nubiandread!

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I have a vegan buddy in England who wants me to teach him some new kitchen skills when I move there this fall.

“I can totally do that!” I thought to myself as we chatted, feeling confident in my skills, “Just as long as he doesn’t request lessons in making seit—“

“…especially if I can learn to cook seitan!”

Melonfarmer. (For those of you joining this programming in progress, that is the curse I use instead of “motherfacker”. It’s friendlier for my Mama, whom I know reads this blog.) (more…)

Last Sunday afternoon Halifax Twitter vegans put down their laptops and took up their casserole cozies—it was time for the inaugural Halifax #VeganTweetup Potluck! (more…)

The “From the Booth” series is BACK! With less than two months remaining until I pack up and ship off to England, the extra hours at my weekend/evening job have been ramping up and I figure we should utilise them by cooking ridiculous things in the parking lot.

The first time we threw caution and common sense to the wind and cooked at the attendant booth of my parking lot we made a vegan grilled cheese sandwich. This time we are harnessing more of my mad Girl Guide cooking skills and we’re making a Milk Carton Hot Dog. Get ready for this shit. (more…)

If you’re ever in Halifax or surrounding areas and are on the prowl for delicious and authentic Lebanese food, look no further than Kababji in Burnside. (more…)