I've had a weird and distracting day so I don't have any real content for you. Here's another fun food survey, brought to you by Jess of Get Sconed!
1. What was the most recent tea you drank?
I hate tea. Except chai. So it was probably chai. I just don't remember the last time I had any. I'm more of a coffee kind of gal, and in that case it would be an iced decaf vanilla soy latte from Starbucks on Saturday.
2. What vegan forums do you post/lurk on? If so, what is your username? Spill!
I don't do forums anymore. My experience has been that forums, whether vegan or Pagan or otherwise, are a breeding ground for assholes and superior types. Since I'm the only superior type I want in my life, I shy away from them.
3. You have to have tofu for dinner, and it has be an Italian dish. What comes to mind first?
Going hungry. Or trying Isa's pizza recipe from Vegan With a Vengeance--I've heard good things about her tofu ricotta recipe.
4. How many vegan blogs do you read on an average day?
Erm...I check about five every day, and I wander around others periodically.
5. Besides your own, what is the most recent one you’ve read?
Love Like a Vegan
6. If you could hang out with a vegan blogger that you haven’t met, who would it be, and what would you do?
Hannah Kaminsky, totally. I'd eat anything she offered me. Or Isa; I'd cheerfully have her iddle vegan babies.
7. If you had to base your dinners for a week around one of the holy trilogy – tofu, seitan or tempeh, which would it be?
Dude, I have no idea. I've never actually cooked with seitan, and I've never even tasted tempeh. I'm still iffy on tofu. So maybe I'd pick seitan, just because it looks like it'd be fun to make.
8. If you had to use one in a fight, which would it be?
Tofu, hands down--the firm kind straight out of the package with the water still in it. It's so spongy and gross like that, I'd love to fling handfuls of it at someone's head, or better yet, shove it down someone's pants.
9. Name 3 meals you’d realistically make with that tough protein of choice!
Which one? Seitan? Well, I'd love to try the "pot roast" from Vegetarian Meat and Potatoes, and I've got the stuff to make the chickpea cutlets from VCON (which uses vital wheat gluten), so I'll be doing that this week sometime...and flipping over to tofu, assuming I didn't let it rot in the fridge like usual, I'd give the ol' scramfu another whirl.
10. What’s a recipe in vegan blogland that you’ve been eyeing?
Pretty much everything on the Readers' Favorites page at Fat-Free Vegan, but I'm kind of jonesing to try the Mini Crustless Tofu Quiches. I love me some quiche, so if her recipe can take care of my quiche craving without eggs and make me love tofu, Susan will be my heroine for life.
11. Do you own any clothing with vegan messages/brands on them?
Nope. They don't make vegan messagewear for fat girls. As we know, all vegans are tiny little skinny punk girls with dreadlocks.
12. Have you made your pilgrimage to the ‘vegan mecca’ yet? (Portland, duh)
No, but I'd love to. I want to see the West Coast like whoa.
13. What age did you first go vegan? Did it stick?
*snort* Um...27? 26? Whatever year that was. No, it didn't stick, and it still hasn't; I'm working on it, though. More on that later.
14. What is the worst vegan meal you’ve had? Who cooked it?
A lot of the meals I've made have been awful--I do well with a recipe but not so much without one. I can bake circles around most people but my actual cooking, well...like I said, I need recipes. Once, I tried stuffing this weird round summer squash, and it was awful--the squash itself had no flavor. That wasn't really my fault, given that I'd never seen that kind of squash before. It sucked.
15. What made you decide to blog?
I don't get enough attention.
16. What are three of your favorite meals to make?
I know it's culinary blasphemy, but I rather enjoy a meatless meat-and-two-veg combination of fakey chicken, some sort of potato, and some sort of steamed vegetable. I also love tacos. And I have recently discovered a deep adoration for baked potatoes made in the oven rather than the microwave. (I grew up thinking all potatoes were baked in the microwave. Imagine my surprise! I didn't think it would make that much of a difference, but it so does. Thank you, Alton. That's 148.6 orgasms I owe you.)
17. What dish would you bring to a vegan Thanksgiving-themed potluck?
The mocha pie I posted last week, in full sized pie form. And a Celebration Roast, so I'd have something besides sides to eat. (I. LOVE. Celebration Roast.)
18. Where is your favorite vegan meal at a restaurant? How many times have you ordered it?
Ummm...I'm in love with the Clay Pit's Kadhu Curry. I've only had it twice, but it haunts my dreams like a phantom lover. With potatoes.
19. What do you think the best chain to dine as a vegan is?
Subway, I think. I know it's not sophisticated as sandwich chains go, but you can get a vegan sammich there and not have to overanalyze it. The only thing I hate about Subway is that Jared guy. He can kiss my fat white ass.
20. My kitchen needs a…
Personal chef. A pretty personal chef named Andre with tattoos and an accent. And a butt you could eat breakfast off of. And thighs that could choke a bear (but wouldn't because that's so not vegan). And a...erm, "tofu pup" that could strike oil.
21. This vegetable is not allowed in my kitchen…..!
Cabbage. My god. Cabbage is the devil.
22. What’s for dinner tonight?
Well, I'm trying something new--acorn squash. I'll be throwing together a stuffing with mushrooms, wild rice, and pecans. I'll report back on how it goes.
23. What’s your favourite cookie cutter?
I don't know--I haven't made cut-out cookies in so long! But I have a set of those graduated round cutters that I bought because I obey Alton Brown's every word, and I love them, because they can do so many things. I have a bag of cookie cutters in my pantry. I should get them out and make cookies soon.
Oooh, we love acorn squash. My favorite way to make it is really simple... drizzle your favorite oil (we aren't vegan and so use butter sometimes, but it is just as good with a good quality UNfiltered olive oil), and brown sugar. Nuts and raisins are optional but delicious. I've also done it with rum-soaked raisin and brown rice stuffing, which is yummy. If you want something "meat like" without eating meat, try some of the Bocca or other brand "ground meeatless" and use it in the stuffing. There's a sausage flavored tofu thing that is REALLY Yummy and goes good in the brown rice and raisin stuffing. :)
Posted by: RevAllyson | October 21, 2008 at 03:33 PM