Cashews are one nut you’ll want to bust over and over. They yield the creamiest cream you’ll ever want drizzled on your taco, or all up in just about everything. I don’t know how I ever got along without them. This is a basic recipe you can tweak to your heart’s delight. If I’m making…
Sassy Tomato Marinara
Spaghetti topped with a sassy-sweet red sauce is one of my favorite things in the entire world. A little sweetener is crucial to counterbalance the tomatoes’ acidity – the caress within the sting. In many of my recipes I like to use stevia, a sweet plant extract, which in flavorful dishes ably does the job…
Pad Thai-Me-Up
This is a peanutty vegan variation on a popular favorite that I think kicks ass. Consensually, of course. Serves 2-3 depending on appetite. I can’t get enough. Ingredients 1 batch Spank the Peanut Sauce 14 oz. firm or extra firm water-packed tofu, baked per Make-you-Like-it Tofu 8 oz brown rice noodles 1 T rice bran…
Make-You-Like-It Tofu
Haters can bite me – tofu done right is delicious. It’s got that wonderful mix of textures and ability to soak up sauces that makes popcorn chicken and deep fried whitefish so popular with carnivores. I’ve found that there are three critical elements to getting tofu to that perfectly delectable spongy-inside-crispy-outside state without having to…
Spank the Peanut Sauce
This spicy Thai-inspired sauce is versatile, and has a nice limey tang to counterbalance its sweetness – a coy little spank for the tongue. It works well with stir-fried veggies and oven-fried tofu over rice or in a vegan Pad Thai with noodles. Ingredients 1 T grated ginger (about 1.5 in. ginger root) 1 clove…
Lube up Your Veggies
They say oil and water don’t mix, but… I cook using a reduced-oil method. I got started with the Forks Over Knives no-oil approach, but that was a little too much restraint for my tastes. I use a little bit of the “good” oil – olive or rice bran – for flavor, and then add…
What’s so Kinky about Veganism?
Veganism is my kink. Let me elucidate. A very smart, sex-positive woman I know who grounds herself in sensuality introduced me to the idea of “existential kink:” that there is an unconscious part of us secretly enjoying things our conscious mind finds sucky, and successful shadow work involves the integration of this part. She uses…
About Me
I grew up in a very basic (in the colloquial sense) meat-and-potatoes household, all-American, conservative, Christian, and incredibly repressed. I definitely didn’t learn about sex or cooking from my mother. The most exotic thing we ever ate was Chinese food, and that wasn’t until I was in junior high, when my parents started to branch…
The Kinky Vegan 