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It's Double Down Day - Try The Vegan Version!

By erika on 4/13/10 7:09pm
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Yesterday was the official release day for the KFC Double Down nation-wide, and bloggers everywhere had a field day.  They are universally reporting that - the primary overwhelming taste is "salt."  Mixed with "fried."  

The Double Down, if you've missed the disgusting news, is basically a club sandwich with two fried chicken breasts instead of bread.  The Consumerist dubs it "the bacon sandwich on fried chicken bread."  In between those chicken breasts, KFC has tucked bacon, cheese, and a mystery sauce.  Hurf!


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Veg*n Snapshots

By Anonymous on 10/18/09 10:09am
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Veg*n Snapshots works to unite all vegetarians and vegans via slideshow. Add your photo! Plug your website! Show your pride! Free to join!


http://vgnsnaps.wordpress.com

Voice4Change / Animal & Environmental Protection

By Anonymous on 10/18/09 10:06am
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Voice4Change works to promote protection, compassion, kindness, love and respect for animals and the earth. You'll find quality information, websites, videos, audio clips, petitions, slideshows & more.


http://www.working4change.blogspot.com/

Are Vegetarians just Vegans who can't commit?

By legerdemain on 6/30/09 3:18pm
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I’ve been a vegetarian for seven years, now. It’s never been terribly difficult, except at family gatherings, and then it was more awkward than difficult, a matter of making my own dinner. I was in my early twenties, and there were a few of us that were, or were becoming, vegetarian at the time. I was at college, so I couldn’t afford to buy meat anyway; I just sort of fell into it by default. Since then, however, I’ve moved to San Francisco and become friends with a rare breed of individual; the vegan.

Tomorrow, I take the plunge and join their ranks. For the month of July, there will be no milk, no butter, no eggs, and, worst of all, no cheese. I love cheese; it’s savory, it’s salty, it smells like a farm. It’s one of the crowning achievements of human kind, up there with fire and Barcelona.

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Lentil Casserole

By legerdemain on 5/6/09 1:08pm
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So, the lentil seems to have become something of a bête noir for those who wish to make out that all vegetarian food is tasteless and hard to eat. To be fair, they probably have something of a point, but I suspect that’s at least partly because they’ve never eaten them properly prepared. I’m a big fan of the puy lentil, these tiny nutty ovals that you can pair with almost anything.

I’ve used them to make a simple lentil casserole, which I hope that you’ll like.

Ingredients (makes enough for 2-4, depending on portion size, and what you serve with it. A salad would be nice)

1 cup puy lentils, well washed
2 Carrots, diced
Handful of mushrooms, your choice of what type, roughly chopped
2 cloves garlic, diced
Half an onion, diced
2 small zucchini, diced
1 potato, diced
1 large potato, finely sliced
Stock cube (or fresh stock, if you have it)
Tomato puree
Fresh Thyme

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Five vegetarian restaurants in San Francisco

By legerdemain on 5/5/09 12:27pm
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San Francisco, as you might expect, is a very vegetarian friendly city. Most every place you go to eat will have more than one decent vegetarian option. There are, of course, some exceptions (I’m looking at you, Blue Plate), but even somewhere like the marvelously meaty Back Porch has a different vegan special each day, which changes according to what looked good at the market that morning. Oh, and their in house hot sauce is insanely good. Of course, on top of this, it’s hard to beat a super vegetarian burrito!

Anyway, I digress. There are some excellent specialist vegetarian restaurants in the city here, and I wanted to share five of my favorites.

1. Cha-ya, Valencia and 19th St

One of the most popular stops on Valencia, its Japanese menu is long and varied. There are soups, hot pots, goiza and a full selection of vegan sushi. It’s cash only, and gets pretty busy, so go early. They also have a great range of sake, as well, so this is a great place to go on a Friday or Saturday evening, before stopping across the road for a beer in the Elbo Rooms.

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