The Vegan Butcher

It has been raining in London for a month and a half straight. I’m not even kidding. They claim to be building the Olympic Stadium just over from my house in East London, but I’m convinced it’s actually an ark and I plan to be first in line when the truth comes out that this whole city is going down by the head and that we’re all going to die.

In the meantime, though, we all need something good and hearty to warm us from the inside out in this chilly, miserable weather. Enter my Mushroom & Tri-Onion Soup! (more…)

I still have a couple folders of unblogged-about pictures from events/cooking sessions in Halifax. I stashed them and saved them up so that if there came a day in London when I had nothing to blog about, I would have some backup subjects. Well, friends, it turns out that London never leaves me short of vegan things to go on about, so I have these folders of Halifax-related things that are swiftly becoming outdated. The long-overdue day has come for me to talk about the second #VeganTweetup Halifax Twitter vegans (and friends) vegan potluck in Halifax. (more…)

Back in the true north, strong and free (Canada, if you’re wondering), they are enjoying a long weekend. The occasion? Canadian Thanksgiving! In order to celebrate in spirit I will provide all o’ y’all with a recipe for what I am affectionately calling:

Chelsea’d Pumpkin (more…)

Today was a mad day in Londontown! It would have fulfilled any vegan’s dream. Well, this vegan’s dream, anyway. And it’s finally coming true!!! AHABSFHJNSLGNLSA!!!!!!! Now that I’m a London girl, I can explore its vegan community as much and as sloooowly as I want. That hasn’t quite settled in yet (as illustrated below). Aaaanyway, it’s now waaayyyy past midnight in jolly old England, so let’s recap this day swiftly. (more…)

…Chili today and hot tamale. AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA. I’ll give you a moment to compose yourselves… Ready? On we go to another Tex-Mex post.

Before we start, I’d like to welcome you to another Vegan Month of Food! I am moving from Canada to the UK in two days. If you thought I was frazzled last year while doing MoFo and working two jobs and travelling to NYC, just wait until I do it during an international move! You’re in for a possible roller coaster ride, friends! Hop aboard!

Anyways, let’s do this!

I am a firm believer in learning new words as often as possible and using them whenever and wherever you can. I especially like discovering words that have long gone out of fashion. Grab them from the forgotten corners of linguistic history, brush them off, and begin to use them again! Today’s word, dear readers, is “slapdash”. (more…)

As I sit here writing the fifth post in our “Into the Woods” series, my dear readers, I am listening to the soundtrack of another wicked Stephen Sondheim musical, “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”. While it’s an amazing musical and I love it more than most people love cake, I cannot see it inspiring a blog series anytime soon (unless anyone has any ideas for finding a vegan substitute for human flesh). No, for now I think we’ll stick to the slightly happier and definitely more vegan-friendly Sondheim musical, “Into the Woods”.

So far in this series we have discovered Cinderella, Little Red, Jack, and Milky White. In this post we are going to learn more about the villain of this tale, the witch who lives next door to the baker and his wife. (more…)

It’s time for our third post in the “Into the Woods” series! If you don’t know what I’m talking about, where have you been? Do some back reading now to get in the loop.

Another fairy tale character involved in Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods” is dear Jack, of Jack and the Beanstalk fame. In this story Jack and his mother have fallen on hard times and she sends him into the woods to sell their cow—his one and only (and rather beloved) friend, Milky White.

So off goes Jack, with explicit instructions from his brilliant and shockingly beautiful mother (can you tell which role I played in our high school production?) to get as much gold as he possibly can for the worse-for-the-wear creature.

Jack, being a bit of a dolt, is tricked into giving up Milky White for five magic beans. Were I really Jack’s mother, this is what I would have done with them. (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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All right, Internet! It’s time to explore a bit of vegan Halifax.

Last week a couple of my local vegan Twitter friends decided it was high time to meet up. Thus: the creation of the Halifax #VeganTweetup. (more…)

Have you ever noticed how in the world of the Super Mario Bros. it is the humble mushroom—and not beef or milk or any other animal product—that causes Mario to grow and gain extra life? Yessir, mushrooms are the cat’s pajamas and I buy and consume a lot of them.

So when it came time for “What’s the in Fackin’ Fridge?” Friday, it was three varieties of mushrooms that fell into my arms first. I had a paper bag of hearty portobellos, a container of organic shiitakes, and even dug a couple of button mushrooms (erlack, I HATE them) out of my Mama’s stash. White button mushrooms are stupid and I refuse to eat them, but they met my ends here so I went with it. (more…)