Chow Vegan

Curried Pineapple Rice

chow — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:07:09 +0000

Looking through my stash of cookbook recipes, I found one that I haven’t made in a long, long time. Curried Pineapple Rice. I remember how good the dish was but not why I stopped making it. Too lazy? Got tired of it? Misplaced the recipe? I don’t know. So I made it again. Still tasty and [...]

VeganMoFo: I Survived!

chow — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:06:12 +0000

I survived VeganMoFo! Whew, it was one busy and hectic month trying to get in 20 posts, that’s way more than I’ve ever blogged in any one month. So was it a trick or a treat? For the most part, it was a treat – new foods, new recipes and new blogs. It was a little [...]

VeganMoFo: Potato And Chorizo Tacos

chow — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:19:48 +0000

I still have some chorizo left in the fridge, it’s like never ending. Don’t get me wrong, I love chorizo. It’s just that it’s so flavorful a little goes a long ways, so there’s quite a bit left. Today, I made potato and chorizo tacos. In a blue corn taco shell, because I like my tacos [...]

VeganMoFo: Calbee Seaweed And Salt Chips

chow — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:49:07 +0000

I found myself in the chip aisle on a recent trip to the Asian supermarket. In the salty snack department, my biggest weakness had got to be potato chips. I, of course, couldn’t just look away and make a beeline for the checkout. Not me. I had to gawk at all the colorful packages and wondered [...]

VeganMoFo: Mock Chicken

chow — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:06:26 +0000

Chicken: Are you mocking me? Me: Not at all. It’s just called mock chicken. It’s also known as vegetarian chicken. Sometimes it’s served at Chinese restaurants as a hot or cold appetizer or at dim sum. Chicken: You’re mocking me. Me: No, not really. It doesn’t even taste like chicken. I admit it looks vaguely like roasted white [...]

VeganMoFo: Annie Chun’s Noodle Bowls

chow — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:27:56 +0000

I’ve written about eating instant noodle bowls before, at that time it was the Kung-Fu Vegetarian Noodle bowl. This time it’s Annie Chun’s Vegan Noodle Bowl which I received a couple of samples to review. The name isn’t quite as exciting as Kung-Fu but the taste is much better. I tried the Korean Sweet Chili flavor [...]

VeganMoFo: Chorizo Fried Rice

chow — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:51:47 +0000

At the end of the week, there’s usually only a few things left in the fridge. For today’s lunch, I threw chorizo and white rice together to make a sort of Mexican fried rice. Fried rice is a really great way to repurpose leftovers into a new and tasty dish. Since the chorizo is already so [...]

VeganMoFo: Izakaya Raka Review

chow — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:07:30 +0000

Recovered from the depths of an iPhone are photos from a Father’s Day celebration back in June. I had forgotten all about them. Dinner was at Izakaya Raka, a Japanese Tapas Bar in Grover Beach, California. Located south of San Luis Obispo, not far from the Monarch butterfly grove at Pismo State Beach. The restaurant [...]