Men Who Cook

I like to cook vegan food. I like to eat vegan food. Eat Air Blog has noticed that the vegan cooking world/ blogs are dominated by women. They put out a challenge for men who like to cook to post their recipes on their blog. As I have only posted about cooking once on this blog as that is not really what this blog is about, I figured this would be a perfect excuse to post one of my favorite vegan recipes.

Those familiar with vegan cooking know that Veganomicon kicks major ass and is in my opinion one of the best vegan cookbooks out there. One of my favorite, and luckily for me, easiest, recipes in that cookbook is Pineapple Cashew Quinoa Stir Fry. To not give away the whole recipe, it is a simple dish with the main ingredients being quinoa, cashews, pineapple juice, soy sauce, peas/edamame, green pepper.


The basic recipe is cooking the quinoa, stir fry the pepper, garlic and ginger, add soy sauce and stock and combine with the quinoa. Very simple but delicious. Like most recipes, I modified the recipe a bit for the ingredients we had available. I'm not sure if the average person has peanut oil, but we don't; olive oil substituted fine. Instead of green peas we used lima beans. White rice vinegar substituted fine for mirin. Crushed red peppers were used in place of a red chile, and the scallions were skipped (am I the only person who isn't a fan of scallions, onions, all other onion type things? I actually feel sick if I eat too many of them. Could this be a weird food allergy?)

I try to eat locally as much as possible. This meal was certainly not local. Quinoa is typically from South America, our quinoa was bought bulk, not sure of the origin. The pineapple is certainly not local. In face, probably not a single ingredient in this meal was local, except for the added water. Ah well. It was delicious at least. The beer I consumed while cooking was brewed locally at least by moi.

While this is a very simple dish and probably doesn't merit a blog post, it is incredibly delicious and healthy. Those looking to make a simple delicious healthy vegan meal should opt for this guy. The recipe claimed that it serves 4. My wife and I both ate it with no leftovers, and we ate a side salad too. I guess we just have big appetites. Happy cooking. And eating.