Tag Archives: Recipes

Mezcal Sabbath Menu

Posted on October 4, 2007 by Hot Knives

The latest in our Sunday Sabbath series, recently we kicked back with some serious Mezcal (and beer and tequila and horse tranquilizers) and spent 4 hours cooking what amounted to a tiny lunch and a cute dessert. Using some leftover, … Continue reading →

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Hot Chick Peas w/ Harissa

Posted on September 30, 2007 by Hot Knives

When we’re super strapped for cash, the first luxury product we cut from our pantry is canned items. Sure a can of garbanzo beans sets you back, oh, 69 cents. But buying industrial-sized sacks of dry beans for $3/10 pounds … Continue reading →

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Emerald Chutney Salad

Posted on September 19, 2007 by Hot Knives

It being mid-September, summer salad season is in its last throes and our salad spinners are ‘bout to be put away. Of course, being produce geeks and living in perpetual sun, we never fully hibernate from the greenery, if anything … Continue reading →

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Crewtons

Posted on September 13, 2007 by Hot Knives

Most our homies don’t need encouragement to eat their leafy greens, but hey, it happens. For those who don’t get salad (and they are out there, even amongst vegans), there is one and only one cure: excellent croutons. They can … Continue reading →

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Szechuan Soba Salad

Posted on September 9, 2007 by Hot Knives

Our great, grad school-bound buddy Aubrey “Bobby Beers” White recently high-tailed it out of town. But before she did, she broke out a box of packaged snacks from Japan, all filled with neon colored pickles, she’d been saving for over … Continue reading →

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Hot Knife Cast: World Exclusive

Posted on August 26, 2007 by Hot Knives

Hello readers, get ready to become “listeners”! Our latest installment of vegan hangover cooking instructions (featuring vegan Catalan Toast pictured above) comes to you via sight and sound: Introducing the first of, we hope, many podcasts where we toss out … Continue reading →

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“Almonds Beet Cheese” Salad

Posted on August 17, 2007 by Hot Knives

Rest assured, you will never come across a Hot Knives recipe for cashew cheese nachos. That’s just not something we’re OK with — fake cheese in general, and nacho cheese especially. That said, we’re sick of being barred from improving … Continue reading →

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Whiskey Popsicles

Posted on August 7, 2007 by Hot Knives

What with the upcoming La Grand Crew beer and bicycle outing, and now this recipe, it’s shaping up to be unofficial ‘Beverage Week’ here at Hot Knives. Considering it’s the dregs of summer we’re fine with that. A few days … Continue reading →

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Osteria Not-za

Posted on August 2, 2007 by Hot Knives

When attempting a dairy-free caprese salad, we’re just as repulsed by the idea of coagulating soymilk into savory balls as SoCal’s recent super-chef-transplant Mario Batali would be. Instead, we whipped up some white polenta, let it congeal, and ritzed it … Continue reading →

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“Polentaise” Two Ways

Posted on July 22, 2007 by Hot Knives

Being brunch geeks, hollandaise sauce has caused us a great deal of pain. The evil goo of egg yolks and clarified butter escapes any true vegan interpretation. Still, we’ve settled on a replacement we’re quite happy with: creamy polenta jacked … Continue reading →

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