Wednesday means $1.25 Corn Dog Night!

Since I stopped eating most meat in middle school, my memories of it pretty vague. However, my meat-related palate experienced arrested development. Among other utterly unsophisticated foods, Arby's roast beef sandwichs, Chick-fil-A, corned beef, and even the atrocity that is chipped beef on toast are what I recall tasting good. Things like filet mignon--meh. I don't really crave them, but they are what I remember as being the most appealing. Corn dogs are another one of those foods of childhood.

$1.25 Wednesday corn dog nights at the Hungry Tiger Too on 12th and Oak in Portland gives you that state fair food fix. Thursday is $0.40 wing night, with fantastic buffalo wings. The microbrews are also a great price for some very high quality stuff, and they have a great happy hour with an extensive vegan menu. I am not as big of a fan of the fries--they're pretty soft and more oily than I like--but the tater tots are nicely crisp on the outside and appropriately potato-y on the inside.

The scene is very hipster and fills up fast, but is the best kind of Portland bar/restaurant: the type that parallels the usual spots and has plenty of omni options but is fantastically vegan friendly. This is another one of those "only in Portland" (or maybe Portland and NYC) kind of places!

Welcome!

Welcome to a very casual blog that is intended to discuss animal-free cooking and eating at home and around the world. S., my collaborator, and I are two recent law graduates living on the same latitude but opposite coast, but we both are working hard to cook delicious, healthy foods while studying for the bar exam. Our styles vary--I do the cooking completely by the book<!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[i]<!--[endif]--> and allegedly that I am famous among my law school classmates for my legendary cupcake-baking skills, while S. is an avid experimenter who comes up with really creative ideas and always attempts to use up her ingredients before they go bad. Which I often fail to do.

We also like to think about cooking for one or two people, since that will be our primary number of servings for the foreseeable future. We also sometimes cook multiple servings and save leftovers in the fridge or freezer. With cooking, we hope to include cookbook and recipe reviews with a particular idea to ease, speed, availability, and cost of ingredients as well, since we are still living on student budgets (the salaries of new public interest lawyers). Expect a combination of healthy, fresh, local cuisine with some decadent vegan desserts and nutritionally devoid junk food.

I am the big eater and have been lucky enough to have many opportunities to travel in recent years and eat my way through various cities. I'll try to detail from memory some of my thoughts on eating abroad as well, and my favorites from various places. I’ll also try to write some brief city guides, reviews, and tips for vegan deliciousness there, with forays into new vegan dining scenes.

We hope that if you take a look at our blog that you'll enjoy it! If you're reading this, you're probably a friend of ours, so you really should read it faithfully out of the goodness of your heart. And because we will quiz you on it later, to make sure you're really paying attention.

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<!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[i]<!--[endif]--> The best cooking song of all time. "Cooking by the Book: A Lil' Bigger Mix," Mastgrr, Lil’ Jon, and Lazytown, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQp5l4-sfFA (2008) (last visited June 18, 2011).