Chay G

If only someone would make me this every day for lunch, I would be very happy!  Hmmm, Eliot, are you reading this? I love braised figs.  This salad is very easy to make.  The ingredients are few, earth balance, bit of sugar, figs, balsamic vinegar, arugula, olive oil, lemon juice, s&p.  I highly recommend using [...]

Yummy.  I served this to my family and my mom-in-law.  Everyone really liked it.  It calls for simmering with 5 red chili peppers, which I took out early in the process as I thought it was getting a bit spicy.  Turns out it wasn’t that spicy and next time I make it will let them [...]

I made this dish about 2 weeks ago.  The Sweet and Sour Tempeh from Colleen Patrick Goudreau’s cookbook, The Vegan Table was good.  The girls, Eliot and I ate it.  It was a bit too sweet for me but I will try again using less apricots preserves.  Eliot ate all the leftovers the next day [...]

The sesame miso dressing is excellent.  You need very little of it to dress your salad – so start off with a bit and then taste.  Mine were a bit too drenched but it was excellent.  I will make this dressing quite a bit.  Eliot loved it too!  I did not have any mirin, but [...]

I have cooked a bunch of recipes from The Vegan Table but keep forgetting to post them.  So will do a bunch of short posts and get the pics up.  Have to be honest, there are so many great vegan cookbooks out there, not to mention all the online recipes that I am forever sidetracked [...]