FOOD LEAGUE

Vegan Chocolate Truffles

Mat — Sun, 02 May 2010 16:49:04 +0000

These truffles are delicious, easy, and vegan. If this is your first time to make this recipe, double the batch so you can have more to experiment with, but MAKE SURE that the proportions are kept as above. Slight alterations do not bode well for these bites of chocolate deliciousness. I used to prefer Silk’s [...]

McDonald’s Indestructible Happy Meals

Mat — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:53:26 +0000

An experiment by author Joann Bruso yielded some interesting results on its one year anniversary. She kept a Happy Meal in her office for an entire year and it never decomposed. According to Bruso, ”It NEVER smelled bad. The food did NOT decompose. It did NOT get moldy, at all.” She adds, “I think ants, mice [...]

Bread Pudding with Apples

Christina — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 06:59:57 +0000

I haven’t always loved bread pudding. But there’s a simple reason why — I’d never had great bread pudding. Even though I’ve spent five years trying to hone my instinct for casseroles (both sweet and savory), I knew that this one deserved a recipe. It’s just close enough to baking that I wanted to start [...]

A Guide to Buying Wine at Trader Joe’s

Mat — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:35:38 +0000

After many a conversation with Trader Joe’s “wine stewards,” I have some advice for customers of TJ’s wine section. I put wine stewards in quotes because, while most of them are knowledgeable about wine, they have little/no choice in choosing the wines they offer. Follow these rules at TJ’s and you will end up with [...]

DC Vegetarian – Veggie Cart Food Done Right

Mat — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:11:35 +0000

DC Vegetarian SW 3rd between Stark and Washington Monday – Friday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Vegetarian food is in no short supply in Portland’s food cart community. Every cart has vegetarian options. Fewer carts, however, have devoted themselves entirely to the art of vegetarian eating. DC Vegetarian, dubbing themselves a “no kill cart”, is consciously minded, supports [...]