City O City for all of your delightful vegetarian needs

City O City is one of those places that I’ve walked by a bunch of times but never fully recognized was a restaurant until recently. It’s about a four block walk from where I live, and for some reason the giant painting on the side of the building always suggested a tattoo parlor. Nonetheless, I [...]

Improv Vegetarian Corn Empanadas!

So empanadas are pretty sweet. Well, I guess they’re more savory than sweet, unless we’re talking dessert empanadas here. Empanadas are sweet in the “awesome” sense. Or badass sense, even. Yes, empanadas = badass. Unfortunately, as I’ve determined, empanadas = a big ole pain in the patootey to make. It’s the dough. I have little [...]

Aventures in Repulsion – the Bacon Shake from Jack in the Box

So, or those of you in the Eastern Time zone and that strange land of afar called Euroasiafricustralia (err, something like that), it’s already Valentine’s Day. Meaning, of course, that it’s high time I wrote about something that’s completely repulsive. And, quite tragically, it involves bacon. I’ve never been to a Jack in the Box [...]

Whereupon I crack out on Mexican food at Blue Bonnet

So I’m still not sure who decided Blue Bonnet was a good name for a Mexican restaurant. I mean, you’d think they’d at least call it Capo Azul or something? Anyhow, I ended up going to Blue Bonnet over on Broadway in South Denver with a few friends not too long ago, and it was [...]

Holy Veggie Curry, Batman!

So I recently had the fortune to acquire from a coworker a zucchini of epic proportions. I’ve been feeding off of this sucker for weeks (well, off and on at least), and still have some left. After awhile, fried zucchini and zucchini bread just don’t cut it anymore. I don’t think I’ve never used zucchini [...]

My Delightful Sushi Rampage

I’ve been on a sushi kick lately. A big reason for this is because, on a recent thrift store visit, I bought what is pretty much the Best Plate Ever. It’s a copper plate made by Del Campo in Italy which I picked up for $2. I hadn’t heard of Del Campo until I saw [...]

Japanese Cravings + Fridge Remnants = Veggie Sushi

Lately, all the sushi I’ve been making has been frou frou fancy sushi with bacon and strange objects wrapped around the rolls and whatnot. Not that these haven’t been fabulously delicious, but the cleanup time (and prep time, for that matter) can be a bit of a pain. Which is why it’s nice to make [...]

Bringing In The New Year With Lazy Processed Food: Yay Mac and Cheese!

Yeah, it’s the holidays and all, but I’ve been a bum lately. No post in over a week, for shame! And because of the post I’m about to make, all of the interesting food I ate over the holidays won’t get written about until January, when anyone who reads the posts will be so sick [...]

How To Make Really Awful Vegetable/Veggie Chips

It’s not like I set out to make things that turn out poorly, I really don’t. And mind you, with as many liberties as I take with some of the things I set out to make, I pretty much expect awful things to get birthed in my kitchen on a pretty regular basis. Still, it [...]

Cheese and Potato Knishes Made With Bisquick

Once upon a time, many moons ago, I tried to make knishes. Potato and cheese filled knishes, if I remember correctly (a true comfort food if there ever was one). Now, my dough skills aren’t quite at the point I’d even call a “skill”. It’s more like I have dough unskills. And with that first [...]

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