Hi ya’ll.  Amy here filling in for Mark with my first post on IV.  He spent the entire evening helping me stretch the canvas for a ten-foot painting, so he deserves a break.  It’s salad time…just in time for your fall crop of lettuce.  Sadly ours got eaten by hoggish vermin.  We’ll take better precautions [...]

So this is actually a recipe for Hoppin’ John, but it’s so frighteningly real, you’ll jump back with terror. I should note in advance that I’ve never actually had non-vegan Hoppin’ John. I do know, however, that it’s usually made with ham. This version uses homemade fakin’ to reproduce (with frightening accuracy) that “hammy” quality. [...]

For the first 25 years of my life, I thought orzo was okra. Now, in recent years I’ve warmed up to the idea of a vegetable that has fur, but it’s not hard to understand why I would have assiduously avoided this miraculous beast. But fear not, dear readers! Those dark days are past! Orzo, [...]