A Very Vegan Jamaican Thanksgiving November 20, 2011

Fire N Spice Vegan Restaurant. A diamond in the rough!

Okay, so here’s a quick shout out to my FAVORITE vegan restaurant, Fire-N-Spice Vegan Restaurant.   It’s Jamaican vegan food (huh?!) and it’s about the best thing to hit the dying scene in Hartford, CT since Mark Twain!  The owner and staff are amazing.  The food brilliant.  And the amount of food for the price is practically a steal!

Here’s a video of the owner ‘splaining a little about this little vegetarian god send:

I plan on attending their Thanksgiving dinner right after I put my time in with my carnivorous family.  If any of you are in the CT area and want to attend here’s some more info:

Fire N Spice Thanksgiving Dinner

I might have a full review of the event next week.

Hopefully, I’ll see some of you there!

Seitan’s A Jerk! October 23, 2011

A boiling pot of elastic dumplings! Yuck!

UGH!!! So, as promised earlier, I attempted to make some vegan jerk chicken out of homemade seitan (vital wheat gluten) last night. A complete disaster! It was like chewing on elastic bands! I’m not sure what I did wrong. Last week I ate vegan sausage and peppers made with saitan and it was like chomping on bits of heaven (obviously, someone else made it, not me! LOL!).  If anyone knows any tricks to making this shit taste edible please help a poor culinary challenged dimwit out!