Category Archives: Vegan

We Made It To The Top

Alan and I visited with Irene Webb, literary agent extraordinate, and her beau Michael in New Mexico in the Spring – April 2012 actually. Irene moved to Santa Fe from Santa Monica about 5

A Simple Pot of Beans aka Good Mother Stallard

It was oh so funny when we were small. What is it with kids and farting? I wonder why farting is so funny? Curious. In any event…. My friend Kathy Patton taught me about beans. Real beans.

An Autumnal Roast…

My current favorite cookbook is Yotam Ottolenghi’s book Plenty. Although Ottolenghi is not a vegetarian – the book is about beautiful, delicious vegetables. Many of the recipes include

Granola Granola

Mimi’s been awaiting patiently for this recipe… Haven’t ya Mim! It’s tasty and made with good ingredients and might even be healthy – but honestly I’m not sure about that. It IS vegan so

Mango Mango Mango Chutney….

We have a big dispute in my family about how to say this word. Alan who speaks Spanish claims that he says it correctly (“mon-go”). But who says it’s a Spanish word anyway. After all

Autumn

I love the Fall. I also love Winter, Spring and Summer. They all have good things. Fall has a beautiful quality to the light – and the air feels thinner and cooler even on a hot day.

Family BBQ

My big brother Eric is in town from Portland, Oregon – with his wife Annie and two of his three children. Also, my other brother-from-another-mother (my brother’s BFF), Danny is in town

Jalapeno Escabeche

I was flipping through my new Vegetarian Times magazine (vegetariantimes.com) July/August 2012 edition, and I found a recipe for Jalapeno Escabeche, submitted by Karen Solomon

More Jam – Plum

I thought it would be nice to make jam with my mom again and she wanted to make plum jam with red or purple inside plums (she wanted Satsuma Plums).  So we got going on that.