Yang Chinese Restaurant – Snapshot Review

There’s only three words hungry vegetarians need to know before rushing down to the CTA train stop on Roosevelt Road: General Tso’s Tofu.
Sticky, sweet, and spicy, Yang Chinese Restaurant’s General Tso’s Tofu could be the most delicious surprise of the month.
In fact, everything we had at a restaurant we normally walk right by was delicious. [...]

P.S. Bangkok – Snapshot Review

Our original plan was to finally check out Matsuya after several recommendations; but with time short we made an executive decision to hit up P.S. Bangkok instead.
Appetizers were a fried sweet corn cake and tofu satay. The corn cake was perhaps lacking a little too much flavor, relying solely on the dipping sauce to add [...]

Indian Garden – Snapshot Review

Spicy. Spicy. Spicy.  That about sums up Indian Garden.
I could eat the pakora by the plateful. It’s like the popcorn shrimp of the vegetarian world.  Always crisp, never greasy.  As I mentioned, everything has a kick.  From the saag paneer to the aloo gobi.  By the time we were done, I was convinced my eyes [...]

Veggie Chicken Peanut Ginger Curry w/ Rice

What happens when you just randomly try experimenting with recipes?  You tend to over prepare; which is exactly what happened when I made my peanut ginger sauce two weeks ago.  The ice cream I finally made used maybe 1/8 cup of the peanuty, gingery goodness.  That sadly left me with nearly 3 cups of the [...]

Simple Taco Soup

Who doesn’t love easy?  Ten hour work days and hours of comicon recovery time has left me with little initiative to get any food prepped for the week.  But alas, the leftovers are gone, and I’m forced to throw something together.  And now we have taco soup.  To give it a heartier vibe I added [...]

Peanut Ginger Dipping Sauce

I received the Kitchen-Aid Ice Cream Maker for my birthday, something I’ve always wanted but never wanted to pay for.  With my greatest of birthday wishes fulfilled, I jumped right into coming up with the craziest ice cream ideas I could think up.  Sure, I could try vanilla or chocolate, but where’s the fun in [...]