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Quinoa Asparagus

Posted on April 26, 2016 by jeffreylatty

I’ll never stop blogging of the awesome creativity that arises from spontaneity. Approaching things with an open-mind and allowing change makes life easily coped to reach greatness and stress-free scenarios.

The level of creativity after a couple of good beers is comparable. But, please, blog responsibly. Big beer manufacturers do not want you to enjoy a surplus of their mind-altering beverages. They do not want to make a lot of money.

Bicycles.

Bicycles.

Bicycles.

Quinoa Asparagus ingredients:

Quinoa, black 🙂
Pepe, pasta
Asparagus, roasted
Tomato, julienne sliced
Earth Balance, mmmmm
Seasonings, to taste

Roast Asparagus. Cook Quinoa and add Pepe towards the end, turning off heat. Season and add to a bowl to mix with Earth Balance.

Serve.

Have fun with your food and please, keep an open-mind! GO BLACKHAWKS!

Simplicity Enthused The Cat

Posted on April 20, 2016 by jeffreylatty

Positivity isn’t as common as it could be. I’m not sure it is a trait or mindset that can be taught, but it can be heavily influenced. Negative Nancy’s bring people around you down.

Optimism is an overall wishful and hopeful train of thought that often is a silent motivator helping others around you better in their own mindset. It ultimately is a trickling domino effect that affects more people than most would think.

One big factor illuminated from the Vegan lifestyle is the vastness of positive energy superfluously everywhere. It is automatically prevalent from the lack of murder and torture involved in the fueling of our bodies. Pessimism naturally occurs when genocide is greedily taking place for literal sloppy consumption. Not only will it take years off of your life, will it make your body feel bad and look bad. Continuation of this murderous lifestyle will give you diseases on your diseases. Over the years it will turn you into slaves to drugs. You will be dependant on drugs that have their own side effects creating a domino effect for the worse. And the pharmaceutical companies own you and a good chunk of your money until you die an early death.

Please, if you are a male and wish to enjoy yourself, don’t forget to ask your doctor about Cialis or Viagra to get it up because a carnivorous lifestyle takes away your manhood. Taking these drugs because you are now a drug addict, means you might have sudden eyesight loss or sudden hearing loss. It could also give urination problems due to enlarged prostate.

If only it were as clear to others as it is to Vegans who have evolved to find the correct loophole that truly is the way life is supposed to be. Disease-free, murder-free and life-full. I’m gonna quit ranting for the day and get into some food. No animals were harmed in the process of writing this blog.

Mac N Cheese = Macaroni & Cheese = Vegetarian w/ animal cruelty and torture

I have prepared and consumed a few different batches of ‘MacNcheese’ in the last few months. All were Vegan and all were absolutely edible. However, I did not fully document ingredients and pictures as well as I could have. I do know they all involved a bit of Daiya, a bit of Cashew Milk and Noodles. The possibilities of other ingredients are endless and infinite as great as our universe. I even used Avocado in one batch. I used whole Cashews in another. I made forkless MacNcheese in Burrito form.

HAVE FUN WITH YOUR FOOD.

Thinking Outside Your Head

Posted on April 17, 2016April 18, 2016 by jeffreylatty

By far the best way to get exactly what you want and exactly what you think you get is cooking and preparing food from as scratch as possible. It is the healthiest way to go about life. Unfortunately, it is hard to sometimes fit into routines and it definitely is time consuming. Ever since throwing myself (arms wide open) into the consumption of the Vegan lifestyle, I’ve been constantly reminded of the time and hurdles that take place in this lifelong journey. Not that Vegetarian is any easier. It truly is, being able to eat cheese and dairy. There is not much of a challenge, nor is it truly bettering yourself or the world. Vegetarianism is the start to hopefully enlightened by the sense of what truly matters in this world.

Nothing will benefit life more than what you put into your body. Animal products kill people and murder innocent lives, genocide-style, to feed greed. Nothing is destroying our planet more than the gluttony behind animal consumption, meat and dairy. Good for you for being Vegetarian. I hope all Vegetarians succeed over that hump and obtain that sense of what is going on. I came across this speech with a little help from The Vegan Zombie.

Gary Yourofsky Speech

Furthermore, in certain areas it is extremely difficult to live the Vegan lifestyle at a faster pace than cooking all day. I’m sometimes a lazy son of a bitch and when you don’t have motivation to prepare awesome food to refuel, you have to dig deep sometimes, you have to brainstorm, you have to think outside of your head. You can’t always trust what mom & pop restaurants put in their food, but with my experience in mom & pop Italian pizza, I just know that Italian Pizza is made from scratch as cheaply as possible. I’m talking about the dough. I’d put my life on it that all Italian pizza dough consists of flour, salt, yeast, sugar, oil and water.

I have, since being a child, been fighting an addiction. This addiction is impossible to overcome. It is a pizza addiction. Vegan pizza is delicious, but involves preparing. I have been ordering (delivery) Vegan pizza from a ma & pa Italian Restaurant. It is a Veggie pizza without cheese. They’ve never messed up and it is awesome to have that option in my Vegan fuel arsenal. I’ve been dreaming of a Subway option that might actually fill me up. Their Veggie sub, Vegan-style, is delicious, but I need three or four to fill me up. I partook my first Subway adventure yesterday.

Before I forget, I wanna bitch about Netflix. Netflix is occasionally good, but usually bad. The selection sucks and it is dumb with its algorithms to recommend things “smartly” to watch. My favorite movie, Field of Dreams, has never been on Netflix. I recently found an awesome movie away from Netflix completely in American Flyers, also starring Kevin Costner. I have created a joke to myself and cycling about ‘going the distance’.

Field of Dreams trailer

American Flyers trailer

It took some digging, but I did find the newest awesome cycling documentary today on Netflix. And followed by another just super interesting documentary.

Inspired to Ride trailer

The Barkley Marathons trailer

I love cycling, but I do love adventure more. Adventure gives someone unparalleled challenges. Easy things are boring. Boring is easy. Cycling adventures are my favorite.

I hiked down to a Subway and hiked back with my sandwich. It was a footlong on toasted whole wheat bread. This sandwich consisted of just Veggies. It had lettuce, onion, tomato, olives, spinach, jalapeño, cucumber and Love.

Doc Mustard ingredients:

Mustard
Sriracha
Chipotle
OnionP/GarlicP/Pepper
Ketchup

Subway Adventure ingredients:

Subway Vegan sandwich
Vegenaise
Doc Mustard
Tofurky

Empty Veggies into bowl. Add Vegenaise & Doc Mustard and mix. Fill sandwich with Veggies and add Tofurky.

Enjoy.

Fingerlinging Good

Posted on March 20, 2016 by jeffreylatty

I wish my ten fingers and ten toes were ever-growing Fingerling Potatoes that grew without a sense of feeling just as fingernails and toenails do. Every once in a while a good trimming and consumption is needed in this somewhat twisted fantasy, Jeffrey Fingerling Hands.

I grew up watching Robin Williams in various movies and will always be a fan of his. I named a sauce, Robin Dilliams, in honor of his talents and hilariousness. He also rode bicycles, so it is only right in this snow-blog, shaken vigorously only spraying 2016 Chicago Cubs champagne bubbles everywhere instead of false snow inside, world I have created.

Robin Dilliams ingredients:

‘Butter’, Earth Balance
Dill Weed, chopped
Sriracha, cock sauce
Lemon, juices – no seeds, no stems
Pizza sauce, or tomato sauce
Corn Starch, for consistency
SeaSalt/Pepper/BrownSugar

Heat, mix and love.

Rice ingredients:

Basmati Rice
Split Peas, green
Carrot, diced
BayLeaves/BrownSugar/SeaSalt/Pepper

Cook.

‘Butter’, Earth Balance
Tofu, extra firmly crumbled
Parsley, chopped

Mix.

I rode to the store on my muddy Trek Darth Vader for Tomatoes. It looks more like Spring, it was just super chilly today.

Fingerlinging Good ingredients:

Robin Dilliams, heated
Rice, heated w/ Bay Leaves removed
Spinach, sliced
Dill, chopped and a nice looking branch for garnish
Oil, just a little
Garlic, sliced
Cashew, whole & raw
Fingerling Potatoes, red and golden
Lemon, juices no seeds nor stems
Sriracha/BalsamicVinegar

Sauté, strongly with Lemon/Sriracha/Balsamic added towards the end.

Tomatoes, red and yellow cherry/grape
SeaSalt/Pepper/OnionP/GarlicP

Add ingredients and season while simmering for a bit.

I constructed a Plant-Based amphitheater of flavorful texture where flavor battles texture in an exploding cherry tomato eruption of plant genocide fury. Battles which heighten senses in a disarray as intense as a LSD high might.

The foundation started with sliced Spinach and quickly to anchor the butchered Spinach was the damp Tofunated Rice embedded with Split Peas and Carrot still wet with Earth Balance.

I constructed the domed roof with massive blackened Fingerling Potatoes creating a solidly unbreakable structure and some lovely decor of Cherry Tomatoes to help the spectators feel at home.

The wonderful infrastructure is finished and held together with Cashews and Garlic. No amazing accomplishment is final without splashing a little color and a flag to truly represent what this all means. Robin Dilliams covered roof and exterior pillars stand tall with an enormous flag flapping in the gusty breeze at the very top symbolizing non other than Dill.

The End

I leave you with this awesome jam:

Ghosts of the Midwinter Fires

Ⓥinestrone Colcannon

Posted on March 16, 2016 by jeffreylatty

Yesterday evening, Northern Central Illinois (and probably most Northern Illinois) experienced their first thunderstorm of the year 2016. I ran outside the moment that I heard hail. It was too damp and windy for me, so I tried capturing a couple of pictures and hid dryly inside to finish watching Better Call Saul. And I’m assuming that because it was the DVR I was watching, the weather did not affect the satellite DVR and only destroys live TV.

Which reminds me that I need to put my Planet Bike fenders on my Trek HulkRip to ensure a drier ass, today. Apologies if I rush through this posting and prematurely blog in your eye. I’m getting hungry and energetic at the same time. I also want to ride my Trek Darth Vader with its new wheels, but the wind is tornadic out there. I may have to ride the I&M Canal to try and hide the wind.

And hours later, I have my fenders on and test rode them. They make noises, but I think that might be normal. They make almost squeaking noises along rough terrain and little bumps. I also ran a few errands and I did not blow over!

I love Colcannon. I love potatoes. I love Vegan Colcannon. And I’ve always been a proud New Belgium Brewing fan, but lately they’ve seriously stepped up their game and it makes me so happy! I’ve been waiting to find their RyePA since 2014 and finally FOUND IT! I was not disappointed, but my enjoyment level actually excelled.

My Ⓥinestrone Colcannon concept is a bit more complex than not. It only became insane when I opened my brain and ideas escaped exponentially as I only collected a few while the other amazing insane thoughts/ideas are now in a different universe.

Ⓥinestrone Colcannon ingredients:

Potatoes, sliced longways and roasted facedown
Cashew Milk, heated
Ⓥinestrone Soupé (recipe)
Tofu, extra firmly crumbled
Instant Mashed Potatoes, for consistency

I like chunky Colcannon. I garnished with roasted Fingerling Potatoes, Tomato and Parsley.

I added a few different ingredients and textures the following night to impress myself.

I charred French Bread, added grape Tomatoes and involved more Ⓥinestrone with wonderfully melting Tofutti slices.

I do not want to tell anyone how much of one ingredient to put. I am all about breaking rules. Recipes are just guidelines. If you try and follow them completely, you will stress yourself out and every palate is different. I am trying to get positive creative energy flowing with a stronger influence on healthy and active lifestyles. I plan on living 300+ years and so should you!

Garbonzilli

Posted on March 11, 2016February 5, 2024 by jeffreylatty

Yet another last minute spontaneous (soup/chili) season ending decision.

I made baked Garbanzo beans for a Minestrone recipe and had leftover beans. Utilizing leftovers and minimizing waste in a kitchen depicts how pro you are.

Congratulations to Peyton Manning on a great career. I feel his delay on retiring helped Denver’s QB remaining issues.

On a better note, I finally have wheels on my Trek Darth Vader that’ll last forever.

Garbonzilli ingredients:

Oil, very little
Garlic, freshly minced
Onion, diced
Celery, diced
Carrot, sliced
Peppers (yellow, green, red), diced
Garbanzo Beans, baked
Broth, veggie
ChipotleP/BrownSugar/SeaSalt/Pepper/Paprika
Tomatoes, freshly deseeded and chopped
Tomato Juice from Tomato guts

Sauté Veggies and add Broth, Beans, Tomatoes and Seasonings and simmer for a couple of hours.

HAPPY FRIDAY!

LBⓋ16 Ⓥinestrone Soupé

Posted on March 10, 2016March 11, 2016 by jeffreylatty

Here in Northern Central Illinois, spring is just about contemplating and flinching when the teacher called Spring’s name. In Illinois, the climate changes every day. And occasionally you witness all four seasons in one day, especially between the true seasons. Furthermore an awesome excuse to go crazy with soup and chili. Going out with a bang is always up my sleeve. That bike up top is strange, yet intrigued my because of broken spoke issues. No spokes there.

There is a band Clutch. I first heard Clutch in my teenage years. The song that I remember most from the beginning of my Clutch experience is Spacegrass, recorded 1995 and probably heard by me in 2000 ish.

Spacegrass

I tried various beers from Short’s Brewery way out west in Bellaire. The Fresh Prince doesn’t even know about this as this Bellaire is in Michigan. This beer, Space Rock, automatically made me think of this song and an exact correlation took place (in space).

They were all very drinkable. I’m not gonna pretend that I can depict every note of every beer. I know good beer from bad beer and everyone who I pretend reads my flog-blogs should know that while knowing I don’t measure my ingredients.

Low Balance Veganism 16:

Oil-free, basically fat-free and totally flavorful

Ⓥinestrone ingredients:

Broth, Veggie (4) @ $1.98 = $0.50 per serving
Zucchini Squash, quarterly sliced (8) @ $1.75 = $0.22 per serving
Onion, chopped (4) @ $0.80 = $0.20 per serving
Celery, chopped (5) @ $1.25 = $0.25 per serving
Carrots, diced (12) @ $1.25 = $0.10 per serving
Green Beans, chopped (6) @ $1.49 = $0.25 per serving
Basil, freshly chopped (4.5) @ $2.98 = $0.66 per serving
Parsley, freshly chopped (15) @ $1.00 = $0.07 per serving
Tomatoes, freshly seeded and gutted (12) @ $3.98 = $0.33 per serving
Tomato Sauce (2.5) @ $0.49 = $0.20 per serving
Garlic, freshly minced (3) @ $0.35 = $0.12 per serving
Tofu, extra firm yet crumbled (6) @ $2.98 = $0.50 per serving
Brown Rice, cooked (13) @ $1.33 = $0.11 per serving
Black Rice, cooked (8) @ $5.98 = $0.75 per serving
Seasonings(SeaSalt/Pepper/BrownSugar/BalsamicVinegar /OnionP/GarlicP/CrushedRedPeppers/Cayenne) = $0.10 per serving
Baked Garbanzo Beans (13) @ $1.49 = $0.12 per serving
Bay Leaves, later removed = $0.10 per serving

Being oil-free I oven-roasted my core veggies and then added all to stew in harmony together.

Making completely from scratch (except for store-bought broth) makes a big impact in the quality of soup. And at $4.58 per serving for the quality and vast servings that can be produced, this is cheaply great soup to motivate springs arrival.

The Soft Parade

Short’s Brewing Company beers tried:

Space Rock – Pale Ale (3.75 Untappd bottle caps)
Huma Lupa Licious – IPA (3.5 Untappd bottle caps)
ControversiALE – IPA (3.75 Untappd bottle caps)
Soft Parade – Fruit Beer (4.25 Untappd bottle caps)
Bellaire Brown – Brown Ale (3.25 Untappd bottle caps)

The highest rated Short’s Brewing beer was the Soft Parade. A very decent beers from a good brewery in my book. I cannot wait to try more.

LBⓋ 14 Broccoli ‘Cheese’ Rice

Posted on March 5, 2016March 5, 2016 by jeffreylatty

I have fell in love with Black Rice. It not only is unique, it is extra nutritious and it is damn tasty. According to Wikipedia,

“The bran hull (outermost layer) of black rice contains one of the highest levels of anthocyanin antioxidants found in food.”

Low Budget Ⓥeganism 14

‘Cheese’ Sauce ingredients:

Daiya, block ‘cheddar’ – chopped (7) @ $5.98 = $0.85 per serving
Sriracha (96) @ $2.97 = $0.04 per serving
Seasonings (GarlicP/OnionP/BrownSugar/LiquidSmoke/SeaSalt/ Pepper/CornStarch) @ $0.07 per serving
Broth, Veggie (4) @ $1.99 = $0.25 per serving

Ready….GO:

Heat VeggieBroth/Seasonings/Daiya/Sriracha and simmer.
Control consistency with CornStarch/Broth. Stir often.

veloink

Broccoli ‘Cheese’ Rice ingredients:

Broccoli, frozen florets – steamed (5) @ $1.49 = $0.30 per serving
Black Rice, cooked (9) @ $5.98 = $0.66 per serving
Basmati Rice, cooked (16) @ $3.19 = $0.20 per serving
Seasonings(SeaSalt/Pepper/OnionP/GarlicP) = $0.05 per serving
‘Cheese’ Sauce, heated = $1.21 per serving

Cook and season Rice. Steam Broccoli. And smother the life out of those florets with hot ‘Cheesy’ greatness. The health benefits compared to cost is amazing. And the mixture of cheapness, flavor and healthiness is unsoberly staggering. Per serving, the cost of this LBV is $2.42. It leaves more expenses for good beer, healthier food and better bicycles!

A Warm Place

#Prost

LBⓋ 13/10 Lentili ‘Cheese’ Fries

Posted on March 4, 2016 by jeffreylatty

Last year, I wanted to share 10 LBⓋ ideas. Low Budget Vegan is more fun to me than probably helpful to anyone else. As I do not have anyone ever reading these, it is a better way of organizing ideas and hopefully one day I’ll influence someone to go Vegetarian, Vegan or just to cook for themselves.

I bought new wheels for my (bicycle) Trek Darth Vader, hence low budget Veganism. Don’t get me started with these wheels. They have already been returned for a wheelset that’ll work for me better. Anyways….

LBⓋ 13/10 Lentili ‘Cheese’ Fries ingredients:

Daiya, block ‘cheddar’ – chopped (7) @ $5.98 = $0.85 per serving
Fries, frozen & roasted (9) @ $2.98 = $0.33 per serving
Lentil, canned soup – simmered (2) @ $1.50 = $0.75 per serving
Sriracha (96) @ $2.97 = $0.04 per serving
Seasonings (GarlicP/OnionP/BrownSugar/LiquidSmoke/SeaSalt/ Pepper/CornStarch) @ $0.07 per serving
Broth, Veggie (4) @ $1.99 = $0.25 per serving

Ready….GO:

Heat Lentil Soup/Veggie Broth and simmer. Heat VeggieBroth/Seasonings/Daiya/Sriracha and simmer.
Control consistency with CornStarch/Broth.
Oven-Roast fries and construct.

This would’ve been made cheaper and better from-scratch, unfortunately time was not on my side and this dude was hungry. And at $2.29 per serving this cheaply and timely produces 3-5 hearty servings and is a healthier comfort food. To be remastered….

Happy Friday! I recommend enjoying a great beer, having some excellent plant-based food and watching PlantPure Nation on Netflix. Of course, after going for a FatBike ride in the snow as I did last night. If possible.

PlantPure Nation Trailer

Snow Ride

Simple Man

Leonardo Meatlessburger

Posted on February 29, 2016March 1, 2016 by jeffreylatty

I do not intend to be extremely repetitive, but I love sandwiches. And finding fun ways to include sandwiches into my (Ⓥegan) lifestyle, is one of my keys to happiness.

Dude’s gotta eat…

And while any dude (or lady) has to eat, they might as well eat happily. While eating happily, they (you) might as well be healthily happily eating. And if you can healthily happily eat, you might as well step it up a notch or two and eat Vegetarian or Vegan to ultimately do an enormous part in saving the planet.

Fight Climate Change

Even scientists say, “eat less meat” when asked how to better the planet.

I am not one to follow much of what takes place in the movie industry these days, but it’s impossible nowadays to ignore it. When news involves Leonardo DiCaprio, I’ll listen as Leo and I go way back to when I saw Titanic in theater at age 12, I believe. Since then, he’s truly been a favorite actor of mine. Being a true environmental activist is greater than (>) his amazing acting career and is how people with power/fame should go above themselves to try and make a true difference.

12 Celebrities

I’m gonna have to share links to my favorite Leo movies. I have to.

The Basketball Diaries

The Beach

Catch Me If You Can

The Departed

I made a good amount of (ben) Meatlessburger happiness. (The QB for the Pittsburgh Steelers is Ben Roethlisberger:). A brewery that I’ve come across with a few different beers is Half Acre out of Chicago, IL. I did not visit the Brewery (yet), just picked up a few 4-packs. I enjoyed their Pale Ale, their IPA and their Black/Dark Ale. They were all in 16 oz. cans with great decorative properties and the stuff inside is good, as well.

As far as the Meatlessburger goes, I made a gyro-style sandwich, a USA-style sandwich and an experimental chinese-style bunless Meatlessburger. And a LBⓋ (Low Budget Vegan) side… 🙂

Ⓥzatziki Sauce ingredients:

Non-dairy yogurt, plain
Lemon, freshly juiced
Cucumber, deseeded and diced
Cumin powder
Garlic, freshly minced
SeaSalt/Pepper/BrownSugar
Sriracha
Onion, diced

Mix. And Enjoy.

Meatlessburger ingredients:

Tofu, extra firmly crumbled (?:)
Lightlife ‘sausage’ and ‘beef’, crumbled
Daiya Cheddar, block diced cubes
Garlic, freshly minced
SeaSalt/Pepper/BrownSugar/GarlicP/OnionP
Liquid Smoke
Parsley, freshly chopped
Soy Sauce

Prep. Mix. And enjoy. Add Corn Starch if needed.

Gyro Meatlessburger ingredients:

Ⓥzatziki Sauce
Meatlessburger, pan-fried/cast-ironed/baked/grilled
Cucumber, slices
Tomato, slices (Bushel Boy)
Lettuce & Spinach, freshly sliced
Bun, gourmet (bigger) and grilled on inside

USA Meatlessburger ingredients:

Meatlessburger, pan-fried/cast-ironed/baked/grilled
Daiya, melted/broiled onto Meatlessburger
Lettuce
Cucumber, slices
Tomato, slices (Bushel Boy)
Onion, slices
Vegenaise, mmmmmm
Mustard
Mushrooms, sliced and sauteéd

I will go over the LBV and Chinese-style bunless Meatlessburger at a later time.

Happy Leap Year Day. Is that a thing?