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Recipe Request: Awesome Cake Recipe
Thank you all for your suggestions! I decided on the devil's cake from Tartine and the cakes are smelling delicious cooling on the counter now. I can't wait to get it all together and surprise him with it.
I have to try some of the white cake recipes though - maybe for Valentine's Day with some raspberry filling.
Recipe Request: Awesome Cake Recipe
@ Jerzee - The coconut raspberry sounds delicious to me but he's not really a coconut fan. Do you think it would be the same without it?
The chocolate sounds wonderful too, but I'm not sure if I can find valrhona cocoa today. Does whole foods or trader joes carry it or would I need to order it? Can I substitute another cocoa?
Recipe Request: Awesome Cake Recipe
@heart: I am going to decorate it like a normal cake - although it might be fun to see his face if I made him a wedding cake...
@emmab: Sounds similar to a chocolate torte I have made a couple of times. Delicious but I was thinking of something more light and airy.
@honeybee: I would like to try that recipe. Did you just use plain buttercream icing? I wonder if I could sneak a layer of chocolate in between the layers.
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A Request ... (For A Veg Liaison)
I think it would be wonderful. I too get tired of people asking me what I eat or just being totally judgemental of my lifestyle. It would be nice to find out about new products, although I mostly just eat lots of fruits & vegetables.
Recipe Request: Awesome Cake Recipe
Thank you all for your suggestions! I decided on the devil's cake from Tartine and the cakes are smelling delicious cooling on the counter now. I can't wait to get it all together and surprise him with it.
I have to try some of the white cake recipes though - maybe for Valentine's Day with some raspberry filling.
Recipe Request: Awesome Cake Recipe
@ Jerzee - The coconut raspberry sounds delicious to me but he's not really a coconut fan. Do you think it would be the same without it?
The chocolate sounds wonderful too, but I'm not sure if I can find valrhona cocoa today. Does whole foods or trader joes carry it or would I need to order it? Can I substitute another cocoa?
Recipe Request: Awesome Cake Recipe
@heart: I am going to decorate it like a normal cake - although it might be fun to see his face if I made him a wedding cake...
@emmab: Sounds similar to a chocolate torte I have made a couple of times. Delicious but I was thinking of something more light and airy.
@honeybee: I would like to try that recipe. Did you just use plain buttercream icing? I wonder if I could sneak a layer of chocolate in between the layers.
Recipe Request: Awesome Cake Recipe
Wedding cake type I guess - vanilla and very moist. Please no fake butter!
Your favorite place to dine in San Francisco
The Slanted Door and Ana Mandara's are delicious if you like vietnamese food. I can't wait to go back. Yum!
Food traveler - SF- I travel to eat. Please recommend...
Slanted door for outstanding vietnamese food
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'The Fortune Cookie Chronicles'
It said "you will soon take a trip by air," and it was correct because shortly after that I went for a weekend to nyc and had a blast!
Cook the Book: 'Panini Express'
I like roasted peppers and onions with provolone and fresh basil :)
I add _____ to my oatmeal cookies
raisins and walnuts or mini chocolate chips
Valentine's Day Chocolate Giveaway
milk chocolate rocks
Valentine's Day Chocolate Giveaway
Milk chocolate is my favorite.
A Request ... (For A Veg Liaison)
It took a while, but we found someone to cover the vegetarian field for us: Michael Natkin of Herbivoracious. And, yes, we're calling it Seriously Meatless.
A Request ... (For A Veg Liaison)
Yeah, what's the dealio on the Seriously mEatless addition? I'd been looking forward to it.
A Request ... (For A Veg Liaison)
Just wondering if there's been any progress (I did notice and like the bit about eating vegan in Japan). :-)
A Request ... (For A Veg Liaison)
I'm really excited about this. And not only because it'll be great to have a vegetarian/vegan addition (Seriously mEATless is an awesome name BTW - thanks @heartofglass), but because it really does show that the honchos here actually listen to and care about what the posters here, which isn't nearly as common as one would think at some other sites. Plus, I'd imagine (I'm in advertising) that it could open up new advertisers for you guys so that this move could be great for both the SE minions and your bottom line.
Thanks @Adam for doing this and thanks @KarynMC for coming up with the idea. I look forward to seeing it!
A Request ... (For A Veg Liaison)
@hungrychristel & Adam K! :) Thanks so much! That is great praise from a poster I love to read and the esteemed creator of Slice Dude!
A Request ... (For A Veg Liaison)
@heart - LOL Seriously mEATless is good. How is it that you've always got the clever remarks?
A Request ... (For A Veg Liaison)
also want to thank KarynMC for a great idea and for sharing it.
Really, great idea.
...and also thank Adam for listening and moving forward on it. I would definitely appreciate content from a vegan/vegetarian correspondent. As always, keep up the great work.
A Request ... (For A Veg Liaison)
@Adam, I'm glad that you appear to be moving forward with this!
I don't think gluten-free labeling would be too difficult - perhaps you could only label those items you know to be gluten free and leave the label off if you're in doubt? I would hope someone with celiac could recognize that they can't eat seitan or blue cheese, even if a recipe containing those items gets labeled gluten-free.
Just a bit of a warning about items labeled "vegan" - those labels can be misleading. For example, Trader Joe's frequently labels its soy cheese "vegan," but if you read the ingredients, it lists casein, a milk protein. I always read the label! You'd be surprised where whey (hummus?!) or gelatin (cereal!?) can show up!
That said, I don't think very many people would be upset about being accidentally fed obscure animal-based byproducts like caranuba wax or bone char sugar, especially if it was an honest mistake or a case of bad labeling.
I'm very happy about this! Yay, SE!
A Request ... (For A Veg Liaison)
@dbcurrie: That's a great idea re:tagging for the specific food preferences/restrictions. I think we do already try to tag all vegetarian things as "vegetarian," but we've never really featured many vegan recipes on the site, so I don't think we've ever tagged "vegan." "Dairy-free" might be easy enough, but without knowing enough about gluten myself, I don't know if I'd be able to handle/enforce "gluten-free" tagging—I'd rather go without a "gluten-free" tag than to false-positive the wrong thing and make someone sick.
We did talk about this at our weekly meeting, and now I've got to get up off my chair and start looking around for someone up for doing a vegetarian column.
@HeartofGlass: I like "Seriously Meatless" We just might use that!
A Request ... (For A Veg Liaison)
My only addition to this conversation would be to actually have a vegan AND vegetarian section. I have two friends, one who is vegan and one who is vegetarian. I can feed the vegetarian vegan food, but not vice versa. I would hate for either the vegan or the vegetarian camp to be over-represented--having two camps would be cool. They are very different worlds, really. Oh, right...you all probably know that.
And it would really be great to build on the "almost meatleass" recipe column that has been living on SE for a little while...
Okay, so all I'm saying is, YAY! Go SE!
A Request ... (For A Veg Liaison)
@heart, I think that's a nice thing for manufacturers to do. There are so many reasons why people avoid specific things, whether it's medical, religious or a matter of choice. If you're cooking for yourself, it's probably less of a problem because after a while you know what brands or products to avoid. But if you're cooking for a friend, it would be nice to look at a label and know in a glance. Same with recipes. With the ones that require packaged products, it might not be possible to tag them because the packaged things might differ, but if there aren't packaged items, it would be nice to be able to search for just the gluten-free or whatever, without having to check all the recipes individually.
A Request ... (For A Veg Liaison)
^db, one thing I miss about living in England is that all vegetarian products have a little green leaf on them in the supermarket. So instead of having to parse everything for gelatin, bone meal, or animal fat, it's nice just to look at the label. Wegman's has started to do that with a green 'V' and also has labels for nut-free, gluten-free and so forth--which is also nice because some decadent things like flourless chocolate cake are gluten free even though they don't appear so.
A Request ... (For A Veg Liaison)
Yanno, I think it might be helpful to tag the existing recipes as to whether they're dairy-free, vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, and whatever else might apply. I think that would be particularly useful for those of us who might be cooking for someone else. Because I'm the kind of doofus who would be making a potato casserole for a gluten-free friend and not think about the tablespoon of flour in the roux because I'd be thinking that potatoes are a slam-dunk.
Looking at a recipe title is fine, but you can't count on an eggplant dish being meatless or dairy free for that vegan friend, because there could be eggs, butter, anchovies -- any number of tabu items. So the tags would make it easier to sort through and find the ones that fit the bill.
A Request ... (For A Veg Liaison)
Thanks, Adam.
I hope that you find someone. Truly, until the tofu thread, I didn't realize that so many omnivorous Serious Eaters would be interested in learning about vegetarian/vegan products and cooking.
It makes sense, though. I constantly get questions from co-workers and friends-of-friends asking how to make marshmallow bars for a newly vegetarian daughter, or what nondairy milk they should try now that they know they can't tolerate lactose. I think a lot of people who would be uncomfortable going to an all-vegetarian or vegan forum would benefit from seeing information here.
Thanks again! I do hope you find someone!
A Request ... (For A Veg Liaison)
I'm pretty new to this site, but I think that would be great! I'm not a vegetarian, but I do enjoy vegetarian meals. I'd love to learn some options for new meatless recipes.
A Request ... (For A Veg Liaison)
This would be interesting to further broaden the spectrum in an already multifaceted site. Hope it's doable.
A Request ... (For A Veg Liaison)
Another omnivore who'd love to see the site. btw...for you vegans who miss bacon, try that new smoked olive oil!!! Not sure what stores it's in, but I know it's on line. Love the pecan wood smoke on veggies & tofu!
A Request ... (For A Veg Liaison)
@Adam ~ I adore bacon and pork, but have vegetarians in my family, friends and family with severe allergies and have discovered that I'm lactose intolerant. I have no intention to ever give up meat, but there are issues that affect me and my loved ones that would be addressed, I hope? I've been cooking for vegetarians, vegans, celiacs, raw foods only, severe allergics. I found out on the tofu thread that silken tofu can be a dairy substitute. Any help would be appreciated!
A Request ... (For A Veg Liaison)
Hi, all! Just saw this message this morning. I'll see if we can find someone to take up a column on vegan/vegetarian issues. It would be a nice addition to the site. I'd only hope that whoever this person might be could stand being on a site so nuts about bacon/pork!
A Request ... (For A Veg Liaison)
What a super idea that would be helpful to so many groups! I was veg. for seven years, and rarely eat meat now (and I try to eat sustainable meat products when I do). I'm also lactose intolerant (a recent discovery), and am still investigating and experimenting with dairy alternatives. I'm would be all over some advice about the best vegan ice cream and cheesecakes. Or how to make vegan cheese!
A blog on this site, or a sister site if it got really big, would be perfect. Serious.....Vegheads? Beets? Well, that ones silly, I know. I like Serious [No Meat] Eats Embackus!
A Request ... (For A Veg Liaison)
yes please!! great idea!
A Request ... (For A Veg Liaison)
I have to pitch in support from the omnivore side! Two of my best friends are vegetarian, so I'd love to get more ideas for cooking for them!
A Request ... (For A Veg Liaison)
Karyn, I'm with you, too. I think it's a brilliant idea. I'm not a vegetarian by any means, but it doesn't mean I wouldn't be interested. We eat lots of fruit and veg on a daily basis, and the OH is lactose intolerant so I have to be creative, and I found that often "dairy free" has a lot in common with "vegetarian" or even "vegan". And even if it wasn't the case, I think that a Vegetarian/Vegan section of sorts would just make a lot of sense on SE.
A Request ... (For A Veg Liaison)
Karyn, that's a great idea. I would love to see something like that as a sister site. I'm an omnivore, but grew up as a vegetarian and can go for months without eating meat or even thinking about it. I've toyed with the idea of vegan territory, if only for health reasons, not as a forever thing, but just as another addition to what I eat, but it just seems so hard. Being an ovo-lacto vegetarian is a piece of cake, but when you take away the cheese, the eggs, the grilled cheese sandwiches!, I'd be completely out of my element. I've tried soy cheese. It's not the same.
So yeah, that would be awesome.
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I think it would be wonderful. I too get tired of people asking me what I eat or just being totally judgemental of my lifestyle. It would be nice to find out about new products, although I mostly just eat lots of fruits & vegetables.