The Gluten Free Vegan

You can blame my mother. It is because of her that I can’t help but enjoy things like turnips and parsnips. Actually,  don’t blame her, thank her instead. This one is a gooder. It doesn’t look like much. Three humble root vegetables – carrots, parsnips and turnips – cooked and mashed with some tasty things. [...]

Are you a fan of mustard? I am kind of on the fence about it. I certainly don’t hate it but I rarely use it. I can appreciate it in certain recipes and I don’t even mind if mustard takes center stage once in a while and yet I still hardly use it. Yellow mustard [...]

I’ve kind of started a bit of a trend/addiction at my office. Okay maybe it’s a tad presumptuous to take credit for the trend. But I did kind of introduce everyone to it. I think. Maybe. Here’s the story. We work in the middle of an industrial wasteland of good-food-desolation (a.k.a. Burger King and a [...]

Sometimes there are recipes in my stash that are automatically gluten-free and vegan that I forget about. I usually rediscover them when I’m going through my recipe box or cookbooks on a rainy evening when I’ve seen all the episodes of my favorite Food Network shows and there’s nothing on TV. Succotash has got to [...]

Artichokes are stupid vegetables. Don’t get me wrong. I love them. But man, are they ever a pain in the ass. You go through all this work to prepare them for tasty goodness. And then you have to painstakingly peel off each petal and scrape the soft good bits off with your teeth. That’s how you [...]

You know, in the back of my head somewhere in my subconscious I knew this wasn’t an original idea. But I swear that part of me had thought perhaps I imagined it or dreamed it up one night while hopped up on NyQuil or something. But no, it wasn’t so. It was this recipe I [...]