Thursday, September 24, 2015

Vegan Recipes

A man can never have enough vegan recipes using common ingredients, and which are delicious, as well as  quick and easy to make.  Please leave links, comments and recipes whenever you have a chance.  An added bonus would be getting some of those recipes that are also oil and sugar free, yet still retain that "WOW!!" factor.  For example, I tried the sofritas at Chipoltle's the other day, as a stand-alone sample in a little cup they provided.  It could pass for someone's very good homemade chilli, yet it used some type of tofu instead of ground beef and didn't have beans in it.  It was hardy and had great flavor.  The only difference I would have made would have been to add a couple of types of beans and more onion and garlic.  Does anyone have a faux sofritas recipe like the one Chipoltle's uses?  I'm betting that they used some type of oil at some point in the process of making it.  Other than that, it seemed like they used healthy ingredients.  The staff there didn't know how to make it because it comes to them from distribution already made.

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

From Virginia, The Old Dominion (1939) by Matthew Page Andrews: an excerpt from the diary of Mrs. Angus W. McDonald of Frederick Co, VA, but "forced to refugee in
Lexington",
"I cannot deny that when I first heard of the taking off of Lincoln, I thought it was just what he deserved;  he that had urged on and promoted a savage war that had cost so many lives;  but a little reflection made me see that it was worse for us than if he had been suffered to live, for his satisfaction had been great when we were disarmed, and he was disposed to be merciful."