Lists good?
Are the new lists on the right side helpful? Anything else you’d like to see there?
Shooting Vegetarians
Shooting Vegetarians sounds like a pretty cool movie that deals with punk/straight edge culture and veganism. Neil’s a vegan who’s expected to take over the family business—a butcher shop. Obviously this presents a few moral problems for Neil…
I look forward to checking this movie out once it hits video or DVD.
Uniq fruit kinda’ Ugli
I picked up a fruit I had never heard of the other day from, of all places, Giant. It’s called a “Uniq Fruit,” but is supposedly better known as an Ugli Tangelo. It’s basically a natural combination of a tangerine and a grapefruit and can be eaten like either: peeled (like a tangerine or cut open (like a grapefruit). It grows primarily (solely?) in Jamaica.
The taste wasn’t quite as strong as I would have expected, but it was still very good. The slight blandness may be because it was from Giant (their pomegranates during the prime season were absolutely tasteless).
Chickpea curry in a hurry
Last night I tried something from Lorna Sass’ Short-Cut Vegetarian last night: “Chickpea curry in a hurry.”
Despite the name, it actually took me a little while to prepare it, as I had to make a trip to the store for most of the ingredients. I was successful in finding almost all of them, though, and the actual prep and cook time was only about 20 minutes.
Basically, it was a mixture of spinach, chickpeas, curry, diced tomatoes, garlic, and a few other things (I threw in some green tea for good measure) which got cooked and then poured over rice. The end result was OK, especially considering that I don’t care much for spinach. It was a light on spice and kind of mushy, but I think that was due to one or two errors I made while cooking.
Not a bad first step towards some more complicated cooking, though.
Vegetarians told to increase intake of vitamin A
Vegetarians told to increase intake of vitamin A
Apparently carrots, broccoli, and other vegetables thought to be good sources of Vitamin A may not have as much of the nutrient as originally thought. Vegetarians may have to increase their intake of Vitamin A and iron as a result.
Basinger sandwich kinda meaty
Basinger sandwich goes down badly
The actress has complained because a New York deli has put her name on a sandwich containing meat. Probably not the best move on the restaurant’s part.
Using that old pumpkin
We had our Halloween pumpkin still sitting around our house, and since we hadn’t carved it, we figured we could still use it to cook up some dishes. Fortunately, we were right, and though it was difficult to cut, using half the pumpkin, Huyen managed to make two pumpkin pies and a batch of (get this) pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. They all turned out very well and it was nice to be able to use that $12 pumpkin for something other than just sitting on our porch for a week.
Battle of the Fake Foods
Paul serves up his take on various vegetarian equivalents of meat foods. Considering he’s not vegetarian, it’s interesting to hear to comparisons from someone who still eats meat.
On an unrelated note, make sure you read the two entries below this—for whatever reason, they didn’t publish when I originally wrote them.
Vegetarian horror eats
On the 6th I went to NJ for an Exhumed Films post-holiday get-together. Everyone brought food and we hung out and watched some trashy movies on the big screen. What’s interesting is that there were a number of vegetarians there. Vegetarian horror fans: “We’ll watch killings but won’t eat anything that’s been killed.” Exhumed Films regular Anthony also pointed this out in his Cult-Con 2000 review.
One of the dishes that was served was a vegetarian (vegan if eaten without cheese) burrito. It was incredible—the Morningstar Recipe Crumbles were cooked up just right… the right spices, the right consistency, everything. I was quite impressed.
My goal for this week: try at least one receipe from one of my Moosewood cookbooks.
Organic bananas
I don’t like bananas, but this is good news, nonetheless.
