Posted in Food, tagged awesome, chocolate, crescent rolls, easy recipe, fluff, graham, marshmallow, recipe, s'mores, vegetarian, vegetarian recipe on 19th Oct 09 (Mon) | 3 Comments »
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Vegetarian S’mores Pouches
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So, as many vegetarians know, marshmallows are not vegetarian due to the use of gelatin. Well, for this month’s Vegetarian Supper Club in Eugene, OR, I attempted to make homemade vegetarian marshmallows. I used a recipe (that shan’t be linked to), followed it to the letter… and failed. I mean, it tasted like [...]
Posted in Food, Movies & Television, tagged awesome, pes, video, western spaghetti on 23rd Sep 09 (Wed) | 1 Comment »
Posted in Food, tagged beer float, beer recipe, blue moon, ice cream float, orange sherbet, recipe, sherbet, wheat beer on 9th Aug 09 (Sun) | Leave a Comment »
Directly related to this Oakshire Overcast espresso gelato float post, I tried a new concoction… and it was delicious… behold, Blue Moon Orange Sherbet float…
3-4 scoops of orange sherbet, one bottle of Blue Moon Belgian-style wheat ale, and enjoy!
~Dan – np: Dream Theater – Train of Thought
Posted in Food, tagged beer float, ciao bello, espresso, espresso stout, eugene, gelato, ice cream float, oakshire brewery, oakshire overcast, oregon, recipe, stout on 31st Jul 09 (Fri) | 3 Comments »
With the new bottling capabilities of Eugene’s Oakshire Brewery, coupled with Wednesday’s blistering 105° heat in Eugene Oregon, I opted for a tasty treat… a Double Espresso Stout Float.
Three scoops Ciao Bello espresso gelato, about 4-6 ounces of Oakshire Overcast espresso stout, and enjoy!
~Dan – np: dóusidʒ – Empties (aka Dóusid 3 or Dosage)
Posted in Food, tagged awesome, easy recipe, grilled, grilled pineapple, pina colada, pineapple, recipe, rum, vegan, vegan recipe, vegetarian, vegetarian recipe on 29th Jul 09 (Wed) | Leave a Comment »
On Sunday, we hosted July’s Veggie Supper Club in Eugene and set the theme to a BBQ. We made amazing bbq sauce’d tofu & tempeh, brie/craisin/pistachio quesodillas, and the shockingly easy coconut-rum soaked grilled pineapple…
photo(s) cc. 2009 Margaret O’Brien
Coconut-rum Grilled Pineapple
serves 4
Ingredients:
1 pineapple, cored and sliced
1/2 cup coconut rum
1/2 cup dark brown sugar
1/4 lime [...]
Posted in Food, tagged agave, cornbread, dessert, spring roll, strawberries, strawberry, vegetarian, vegetarian recipe, yogurt on 28th Jun 09 (Sun) | Leave a Comment »
June’s Veggie Supper Club in Eugene was an “Amazing Appetizers and Fantastic Fingerfoods” theme; so I decided to try something new for me and something that would incorporate the great strawberries from market and raspberries from our backyard… so, Strawberry Cornbread Muffins and Fresh Fruit Spring Rolls were on the menu for today…
(photo: Made Healthier)
Strawberry [...]
Posted in Food, tagged dumplings, mushroom soup, mushroom stew, vegan, vegan recipe, vegetarian, vegetarian recipe on 21st Jun 09 (Sun) | 1 Comment »
Vegan Mushroom Dumpling Stew
So, a friend at work had a baby recently, and we do these things called “Meals on Wheels” for the family to help them out. Since my friend and her family are vegetarians, I had to volunteer. Regardless of the almost summer timing, I decided to make Mushroom Dumpling Stew. As luck [...]
Posted in Food, tagged bananas foster, coconut milk, easy recipe, flambe, ice cream, new orleans, recipe, vanilla, vanilla bean, vegan, vegan recipe, vegetarian, vegetarian recipe, vice cream on 31st May 09 (Sun) | 1 Comment »
(photo: Food Network)
Vegan Bananas Foster
I made some vegan Bananas Foster and Coconut Vanilla Bean vice cream* for Veggie Supper Club tonight. Our theme was “Cajun”… so what better than a classic New Orleans flambé dessert? Both recipes below are super easy, and super delicious. And, to be fair, making Bananas Foster into a “vegan recipe” [...]
Posted in Food, Music News, New Sounds, tagged eugene, glen phillips, Liège, nickel creek, off the waffle, oregon, toad the wet sprocket, waffle, Works Progress Administration on 31st Mar 09 (Tue) | 2 Comments »
Two unrelated, but equally good things…
There’s a new waffle place in Eugene. It’s called Off the Waffle (it’s on Van Buren just south of 7th). They make Liège style waffles and they are freaking amazing. I’ve been there twice in the last week. As of now, they have 3 options: white or whole wheat ($3), [...]
Posted in Food, tagged cactus, cactus chili, chili, nopales, vegan, vegan chili, vegan recipe, vegetarian, vegetarian chili, vegetarian recipe on 16th Mar 09 (Mon) | 4 Comments »
I made some Vegetarian / Vegan Cactus Chili for Veggie Supper Club last night. If you stumbled in here from a recipe search; well, this blog is mainly music related, but here are some past recipes I did: Amazin’ Beans with Homemade BBQ Sauce, Vegan Biscuits & Gravy -and- Spiced Biscotti.
Ingredients for Cactus Chili
makes [...]
Posted in Food, tagged beer, brewfest, eugene, klcc, local beer, microbrew, oregon on 8th Feb 09 (Sun) | 3 Comments »
The last two nights (Feb 6 & 7, 2009) was local Eugene NPR station KLCC’s microbrew festival. I went last night. My wife dropped me off at the fairgrounds after a nice Indian meal (and then picked me up afterwards… she rocks). It was $15 to get in, which included a commemorative (4 oz?) [...]
Posted in Food, Music News, tagged 40th anniversary, ale, beer, brew, commemorative, cruisin with ruben and the jets, frank zappa, frank zappa beer, lagunitas, lagunitas brewing company, ruben and the jets on 6th Feb 09 (Fri) | 13 Comments »
Anyway the wind blows
it don’t matter to me
A continuation from this post 6+ months ago… Lagunitas Brewery’s Frank Zappa beer #5… is in my hands (but not quite my mouf yet)…
Behold, the Cruisin’ with Ruben and the Jets Ale*… a tribute to the 40 year anniv of the album of the same name. It’s probably [...]
Posted in Food, tagged eugene, lagotto romagnolo, mushrooms, oregon, oregon truffle festival, truffle, truffle dog, willamette valley, wine on 2nd Feb 09 (Mon) | 2 Comments »
Yesterday was a truffle-tastic day… we started the day with a belated work holiday brunch for my wife’s work at NIB (see my prior rave / review here). Delicious. Utterly delicious. We had some truffles of the chocolate variety, and one of those chocolate truffles had a filling that was of the mycological variety. Then [...]
Posted in Food, Music News, tagged beer, cruisin with ruben and the jets, frank zappa, great wall of china, iTunes, lagunitas, lagunitas brewing company, nellie mckay, ruben and the jets, zappa beer on 12th Jan 09 (Mon) | 4 Comments »
There are some new-old (or old-new?) Nellie McKay songs on iTunes. Four songs from the never released Live from the Great Wall of China concert that Nellie was involved in back in Sept 2004…
(photo by eatsdirt)
Songs: Dog Song, Manhattan Avenue, I Wanna Get Married, Really
Each song is its “own album” for $0.99. Odd iTunes categorization, [...]
Posted in Food, tagged biscuits, biscuits & gravy, blossoming lotus, chicago diner, mushroom gravy, vegan, vegan biscuits, vegan gravy, vegan recipe, vegetarian, vegetarian recipe on 15th Sep 08 (Mon) | 3 Comments »
Vegan Biscuits & Gravy
I made some vegan biscuits and gravy for Veggie Supper Club last night. Our theme was “Breakfast for Dinner.” We also brought a vegan version of Amish Baked Oatmeal (with fresh blackberries from our backyard) and sparkling white wine, OJ & grenadine for breakfast cocktails. If you stumbled in here [...]
Posted in Food, Music News, tagged donut, doughnut, medeski martin & wood, MMW, oregon, portland, radiolarians, Radiolarians 1, tour, voodoo donut, voodoo doughnut, Zaebos on 3rd Sep 08 (Wed) | Leave a Comment »
On a lighter, fluffier note – – Voodoo Doughnut in downtown Portland (22 SW 3rd Ave) is rad… http://www.voodoodoughnut.com/
Mogwai show in 2 hours. Nooch!
~Dan
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News bulletin (posted up in here after the initial post, hence the lack of MMW subject line): Medeski Martin & Wood is touring the West in November:
MMW’s newest album Radiolarians 1 will be released [...]
Posted in Food, tagged best of, eugene, oregon, peta, pizza, pizza research institute, vegan, Vegan-friendly, vegetarian on 16th Aug 08 (Sat) | 10 Comments »
Eugene has some great local pizza places… Mezza Luna, Cozmic, Pegasus, La Perla (presumably, I haven’t had it yet*), etc. One of our favorites is the Pizza Research Institute (aka PRI). It’s wild and crazy, they put crazy toppings on it (potatoes, corn, pears, cinnamon, eggplant, and much more (they have a periodic table [...]
Posted in Food, tagged awesome, blueberry, blueberry muffin, blueberry muffin mix, childhood dreams, cold stone, cold stone creamery, ice cream on 3rd Aug 08 (Sun) | 3 Comments »
Whenever my mom made blueberry muffins, I always got to help. I often snuck (snook?) samples out of the bowl before they made it to the muffin pan. It was my dream that when I grew up that I’d be able to buy my own box of blueberry muffin mix and eat it [...]
