As many of you know, about once every two months we get a major fiendin’ for Mexican food. Our local options aren’t great, and among those, the vegan selection is pretty much bean flautas. So. We scratch the Mexican itch by making one of several different feasts, almost all involving guacamole, (homemade) refried beans, and [...]

Taking a brief break from my solitary bachelor existence, I had my mom over the other night and we cooked it down. Over the last year, we’ve opted to cook at home more and more, to the point where we rarely go out. My mom loves to cook too and over the years has come [...]

I may have mentioned this before, but one of my all-time favorite soups is Beezy’s pinto poblano. So, we got a hankerin’ for pinto poblano tonight (which isn’t that weird…I probably hanker for this soup half of my waking hours), but it was 8 o’clock and Beezy’s was closed…so, it was up to us to [...]

Growing up, I ate a lot of leftovers. My parents both worked two jobs so it was much more efficient to make a few big meals and then eat leftovers on off nights–especially since I could heat them up myself. Since you can’t always eke out a full meal from a single leftover, you often [...]

After making chili last weekend, we had some leftover black beans to use up–but my traditional black bean soup is much too close to a chili to seriously entertain as a post-chili-black-bean-use-em-up ™. So I says to myself, “Self, let’s shake things up! Let’s make this more soupy…and tangy! Like a cilantro lime black bean [...]

This has the look and feel of a hippie chili–except it’s packed with flavor. This isn’t a super spicy chili; it’s got a hint of sweetness with a small bite…like an apathetic chihuahua. This chili has been through countless iterations. We’ve found over time that, like a curry, a chili depends heavily on the chili powder [...]

So you’ve probably noticed by now–recipes/menus often come in waves here at IV. This is largely because we rarely deign to countenance leftovers twice, except as lunch. Instead, we try to rethink stuff we’ve already made and pair it with something else we’ve already made and/or with something fresh. We made taco salad a few [...]

Last year for Amy’s birthday, we went out to a local bar that we’d been meaning to eat at–and they served the most amazing taco salad we’d ever eaten, made vegan just for us. They never seemed to have served it again, though, much to our dismay. So we’ve had this year-long hankerin’ for taco [...]

You like tortilla chips, right? Well do you like them so much that you savor the thought of eating every last crumb (i.e. half the bag)? If you answered yes, then no, respectively, you need tortilla soup! Seriously. Tortilla Soup 1 large onion, diced 1⁄4 green bell pepper, diced 8 cups veggie stock 2 (4 [...]

I adapted this recipe for TVP & Tofu soyrizo to use tempeh. I don’t really like working with TVP and it’s awesome with tempeh. So. 1 package of tempeh, minced into minuscule crumblins 2 cloves garlic, minced or pressed 1/8 cup red wine vinegar (or mix of cooking sherry & red wine) 1/8 cup soy [...]