The Vegan Butcher

It’s not always easy being vegan in a non-vegan world. In this post I will not cry you a river about never being able to eat in social situations, blah blah. This post is about the amazing and heartwarming times you find omnivorous restaurants that are willing to go out of their way to ensure you get a delicious vegan meal in their non-vegan setting. Here are some stories about places like that. (more…)

I went over to my darling bestie Jerri’s house the other day. The days are getting shorter, the nights chillier, and the summer is clearly dying. Before it gives its final death rattle we wanted to have one last BBQ hurrah. Jerr Bear had a supply of mini hamburgers and mini buns and was going to make mini sliders.

NEEDLESS TO SAY (but you know I’m gonna say it anyway), I got very jealous. I wanted to have mini burgers too! As I sat there grumping Jerri and I came up with a plan: mushroom sliders! If we couldn’t find vegan mini buns we would make our own with cookie cutters and bread! IT WAS ON! (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…)

Dolly Parton very nearly ruined my dinner last week. This post chronicles that evening.

Let me begin by stating my undying, unconditional, lifelong love for Dolly Parton. She is a musical genius and has a brilliant mind for business. And she’s funny as hell. What it comes down to is that she has never done nor will she ever do anything I don’t absolutely love. I think during the next holiday season I’m going to have to devote a post to how much I love her and Kenny Rogers’s Once Upon a Christmas album. But that is not this post. This post is about Dolly Parton and vegan hamburgers. (more…)

In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. He created the first man and named him Adam. When He was about to create a companion for Adam He addressed him and said, “Adam, I can create you the most beautiful of all creatures and she shall be your partner, but it will cost you an arm and a leg.” Adam considered, and then said, “What can I get for a rib?”

AHAHHAHA. Okay, I seriously hear that terrible joke in my head every time anyone mentions ribs in any context. You had best believe it was being hollered over and over in that echoey and empty cavern upstairs when I was making these bad boys. To drown it out I jammed my earbuds in, put Prince’s Very Best Of album on loop, and cranked it up.

I saw this recipe a couple months ago and immediately wanted to tackle it. It’s fairly labour intensive, so I needed to be in the right physical and mental place to do it. That day finally arrived last week. (more…)

I’ve figured out what it takes to get me to post: I need an assignment! I need pressure. Participating in VeganMoFo forced me to post every day, and so I did. Well, dear readers, I have a new assignment and I’ve decided to take you along for the ride! I have been asked by a certain darling Alicia C. Simpson to be a recipe tester for her as yet untitled third vegan cookbook. Eeeeeee! I was very delighted and honoured when she asked me to help out. This is my documentation of the testing process. (more…)