Summer Rolls are Vietnamese in origin and typically contain pork, shrimp, rice vermicelli and some vegetables rolled in rice paper. Unlike Spring Rolls, they are not fried and are instead served cold or at room temperature.
One day in the store during the summer before I started this site, I came across rice paper wrappers. [...]
(Note for non-nerds: for searching and matching in various computer languages ‘*’ is a wild card character so it can match anything. So among nerdy vegetarians and vegans, veg*n gets used since * can stand for “etaria” in vegetarian or “a” in vegan so you can write “veg*n” instead of “vegetarian and/ or vegan”. [...]
While grocery shopping before Thanksgiving, the November issue of Gourmet caught my eye. I had not picked up an issue in a while and they had done a vegetarian Thanksgiving menu so I decided to pick it up and take a look.
Their vegetarian entree looked quite tasty and suitably challenging so I announced I [...]
Either for Christmas or my birthday last year I got some Bed Bath & Beyond gift cards and had no idea what to do with them because they don’t carry my kitchen knives and I am fairly well stocked at home. None of my linens really needed replacing so of course I was wandering [...]
The picture pretty much says it all.
On October 7th, Fantôme Chocolat and I went to the Mycological Association of Washington 2007 Mushroom Fair at Brookside Gardens. The picture is Fantôme Chocolat decked out in his ’shrooms shirt he got from Far West Fungi when we went to San Francisco in May 2006 and holding [...]
