The Vegan Butcher

Helllllloooooooooo Readers! My hectically busy year in London has drawn to a close and I’m back in glorious Nova Scotia again, just in time for endless delightful North American autumnal baked goods and comfort foods. First up to/on the plate: Vegan Chicken à la King and Pot Pies! (more…)

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 finally found tofu in this new city of mine! The Tescos and Marks & Spencers that I have been haunting these past three weeks have left me high and dry in the soy curd department. This afternoon was a perfect, sunny, crisp October day to walk around and finally find a Sainsbury’s. I took a roughly 5km roundtrip jaunt to the supermarket located over in East Ham. The way there was lovely. I was walking through a part of town I hadn’t seen yet, taking in local shops and wandering town their High Street, marvelling at the new and exciting.

The way back was AWFUL. My arms nearly fell off my body. I always buy too much stuff. Between the supermarket and the street-side vegetable market stalls, I got some wicked (albeit far too many) ingredients for a stir-fry. (more…)

I was in the grocery store the other day (or as Jerri and I have taken to calling it, the brocery store—don’t ask) and as I wandered through the produce section I happened upon a vegetable I had never seen before.

“What in the hell is that?” I asked Jerri, who was wandering with me at the time.

“Kohlrabi?” she read from the sign. “I have no idea. Are those slugs?”

I dropped the kohlrabi I was holding because for a second I thought it was, indeed, covered in slugs. I picked it up, called her a bitch as she laughed at me, and put it in the cart. (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…)

This is what I consider to be a lazy post. I don’t count this as cooking. It took maybe half an hour and there wasn’t a sink-full of dishes at the end of this. Why don’t I “cook” like this more often?

The other night was Mexican Night at la Casa del Butcher! It had been a looooong time since quesadillas were part of our lives, so we whipped out my handy quesadilla maker and fired it up. Oh yes, I own a quesadilla maker. I have a love for any and all kitchen gadgets and appliances and have been known to make some ridiculous purchases over the years. This was absolutely one of them but unlike some others I do not regret this one at all. It’s a fackin’ quesadilla maker! Once you try one out, Mexican night will never be the same again. (more…)