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Meatless Monday Manfood: Be Fresh Veggies and Black Bean Hummus Polenta Pizza

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Apr 112011

Let me be fresh with you for a minute. This pizza will rock your world. It’s where the magic happens. It’s where Mexican food (favorite ladyfood) meets pizza (numero uno manfood in this house) meets hummus (Thanks for the tip, Kelsey!) and a baby is born. MAGIC.

I’m definitely not being presumptuous when I say that easy pizza is one of my new favorite food groups.

The crust was inspired by Clean Start‘s (hate the title, enjoy the book) polenta pizza recipe and an immense pressure to create a wheat-free pizza crust that wasn’t socca – which I still haven’t tried, mainly because everyone else seems to be doing it already, and my mother told me to stay away from peer pressure, especially when it comes to pizza-making. Continue reading »

Meatless Monday Manfood: So Not Mr. Rice Easy Fried Rice

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Apr 042011

We all knew the day would come. The day I’d have to answer the burning question: why quick cook rice?

Let’s just be honest: there’s nothing really quick about many of my recipes, and I rarely feature rice, so why not something related to veggies or veganism or my zest for life?

Well, here’s the simple and the complicated answer: rice is one of my two last names.

Meatless Monday Manfood: Lightweight Pasta Salad

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Mar 282011

This weekend Soon-to-be-J.D. and I were in NYC stuffing our faces with amazing vegan food. Some of the food was quick cook rice approved: raw enchiladas, coffee shops where you don’t have to ask for the non-dairy milk, and the once-a-year NYC bagel covered in tofu cream “cheese.” Some of the food definitely falls solidly under the manfood category: pancakes, tofu scramble, and nachos. Neither category is better, though one is certainly a bit healthier.

The thing is: I’m starting to believe that truly healthy eating is when we eat without regard for labels (except the vegan one for me). If you can tolerate certain ingredients and aren’t allergic, then I don’t see why you shouldn’t indulge in some vegan “junk” food once in a while. Continue reading »