Archive for 2010
Vegan Tofu Mushroom Sisig
Tofu Sisig – Serves 4 Ingredients 4 tbsp. olive oil 2 packs of 5 oz Tofu Cutlets – diced (or firm Tofu **see below) Approx. 1 cup button mushrooms – cleaned, dried and diced 4 cloves of garlic, minced – (I used 1 tsp. of Garlic Salt because I was out of fresh garlic) 1/2 more »
Wing’s Chinese Restaurant
Wing’s Chinese Restaurant www.wingsofsanjose.com 131 Jackson St San Jose, CA 95112 (408) 294-3303 Mon-Thurs 11:30AM-9PM Friday 11:30AM-10PM Sat 11:30AM-9:30PM Sun 12:30PM-8:30PM Wing’s is a Chinese restaurant located in San Jose’s Japantown. An odd sight for sure. It has an old neon sign with flapping wings which looks like it may have been there from the more »
ELF Vegan make up CHEAP!
Being vegan for a while now, I progressively replace non-vegan items with animal friendly vegan products when ever possible. My beauty products were the next in line. Since I’m on a limited budget, I needed to find something good, cheap and vegan. Guess what I found?? ELF cosmetics (eyes lips face cosmetics) Almost all items more »
Maggiano’s revisted
Since the weather was nice this weekend, Mellie and I decided to go out on a “date.” I chose Maggiano’s in Santana Row (perfect since I wanted to take some pictures of the vegan options). I generally don’t care for the fashionistas or snobby people that want to be seen, but I do enjoy going more »
Updates and Vegan French Onion soup
Tackling the horrendous process of updating my website and moving my blog roll over to wordpress…I realized how depressing my old blog roll had been. Aside from the sparse entries as of late, too many of my posts lacked pictures. Being a visually stimulated person myself, I don’t know why I didn’t take pictures more more »
Vegan Mabo Tofu
Ingredients: 2 Tbsp Vegetable oil 1 1/2 Tsp Sesame oil 1 Garlic clove, crushed and minced 1/4 Cup Onion minced 1/2 Tsp Red Peppers (I used chinese Garlic Red Peppers) 1/2 Cup Water 1 1/2 Tsp Sake 3 1/2 Tsp Soy sauce 1/2 Tsp Salt 4-5 Tbsp Ketchup 1 pk Medium Firm Tofu (if soft more »
Vegan French Onion Soup
Vegan French Onion Soup Ingredients 1 1/2 – 2 Onions sliced 1/4 cup Panko(japanese bread crumbs), flour or plain bread crumbs 1 cup Croutons, toasted French Bread or bread of your choice 2 tbsp Olive Oil or vegetable oil 1/4 cup Soy Sauce 4 cups Water In a large pan, heat oil and cook sliced more »
