http://taste.truespies.org true spies on food Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:20:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday’s project(s): vegan (gluten) pot roast and non-vegan gingerbread. Right now you should be thanking your lucky stars I don’t have a camera to take pictures of this stuff with because the roast, while relatively tasty (really just a huge hunk of seitan made from scratch), looked like a total monstrosity. ... http://truespies.org/andybot/2008/11/17/roast-post/ I never got a chance to get you my review of Taj Mahal, because I became ungodly busy Thursday and Friday, and I wasn’t on the internet long enough on the weekend. So here goes. It was pretty sweet. There was a plethora of paneer options, which is a big plus in ... http://truespies.org/andybot/2008/09/29/talkin-taj/ Sometimes it’s hard to want to eat soup when it’s hot out, but we had a few nice, cool days and a few ears of corn to use up, so…. Potato and corn chowder it is! 1. In your soup pot, fry up a sliced onion, a clove or two of garlic, ... http://truespies.org/torleymanor/2008/09/02/summer-chowder/ Today I met my friend Jamaica Jones for lunch at the Café at Frick. I had the prix fixe and chose: ginger/carrot/leek soup with crème fraîche crabcake bruschetta frozen caramel souffle with a pecan sandie and warm caramel-pecan sauce. The ladies who greeted us at the door clapped with glee to finally meet ... http://truespies.org/blackcoffee/2008/06/20/gorgeous-day/ vs Thoughts? (It’s really more difficult than one would expect to find an image of the Frownie Brownie). http://truespies.org/dontkickfood/2008/04/15/local-restaurant-chain-beef/ For my 32nd birthday, I went to Lidia’s Italy: Pittsburgh edition. For $22, this is what you get at Lidia’s for brunch: a bloody mary or mimosa (we all ordered mimosas. I ordered two.) an amazing array of bread like cranberry scones and rosemary foccacia with three different kinds of ... http://truespies.org/blackcoffee/2008/02/25/sunday-gluttony/ Black Bean and Pumpkin Soup You’ll need: 2 cans black beans, rinsed 1 can diced tomatoes (if you’re into tomatoes, or not if you’re not.) 1 can pumpkin puree (or in this case, a small heap of freshly pureed pumpkin) 1-2 onions, diced 4 garlic cloves, minced ½ c cooking sherry ½ stick soy margarine 4 c vegetable broth 1 ... http://truespies.org/torleymanor/2008/02/12/black-bean-and-pumpkin-soup-and-biscuits/ African Peanut Soup In a large sauce pan, heat up: a dribble of olive oil a good-sized yellow onion, chopped two cloves of garlic, chopped a knuckle of fresh ginger, peeled and grated pinch of cinnamon bigger pinch of cumin smaller pinch of cayenne – or a squirt of ... http://truespies.org/torleymanor/2008/02/11/african-peanut-soup/ At x-mas time, when visiting my folks, some of our holiday presents included some excess bounty from their garden, including a shopping bag full of potatoes, a handful of sweet potatoes, and three obscenely large (and shaped) neck pumpkins. Witness one of these obscene bastards! (more…) http://truespies.org/torleymanor/2008/01/30/so-very-much-pumpkin/ For x-mas I got Emma the Veganomicon cookbook. We’ve been trying a handful of the recipes out since then. A couple weeks ago we made homemade seitan for the first time using their recipe. Tonight I tried out their Chickpea Cutlets recipe and used it to make ... http://truespies.org/torleymanor/2008/01/14/vegan-chicken-parm/