Vegan MoFo day7 ~ Vegan food & Etsy. Etsy Sellers specializing in made-to-order vegan delights!

If you're anything like us than you do not live in a very vegan friendly area.  I drool over twitter reading tweet after tweet from happy vegans enjoying the vegan cuisine from their local vegan friendly eateries.  Here we have a mediocre at best health food store, and all vegan friendly restaurants are a minimum of 30 miles away. 

Then I discovered that there are a plethora of Etsy shops dedicated to vegan offerings.  With a click of my mouse I could have fresh homemade vegan fare delivered to my P.O. Box.  We could fill our bellies while filling the pockets of small independent Etsy shop owners, well maybe not fill the pockets - but you know what I mean.  In the interest of full disclosure I must admit that we recently threw our hats into the Etsy Vegan food delivery ring as well.  A few months ago we opened  Medusa Fine Vegan Fare or http://www.medusafoods.etsy.com/.  Medusa Fine Vegan Fare's soul purpose is to provide high quality vegan entrees to those without access to such, or those busy vegans and vegetarians looking for a quick healthy meal.

On Medusa's menu you will find seitan based dishes like Thai Peanut, Southern Fried Cutlets, Vegan Tandoori Chicken, Maple Teriyaki and Buffalo Bites with Vegan Blue Cheese Dip to name a few.

Our shop isn't the only vegan food based Etsy shop.  We found a few others like Sweet Fritsy where you can find these wonderful looking donuts and  many other awesome looking vegan goodness.   http://www.sweetfritsy.etsy.com/

And I can't forget The Cupcake Mint  where you can order this bad boy or one of his equally mouth watering siblings. http://www.thecupcakemint.etsy.com/

When shopping on Etsy search vegan, vegan plants and edibles, or vegan food to find these and other vegan offerings available from some of the many different vegan friendly Etsy shops.

Vegan Mofo Day 3 East meets West!

Stir Fried Seitan in Garlic Chili Sauce

Vegan Sushi

House of Vegetarian

Whenever we find ourselves in Manhattan we aim to eat at House of Vegetarian 68 Mott Street, NY.  It's not the trendiest place to eat in NYC but it's our favorite.  The food is straight up Chinese food ~ nothing  too fancy, it's all vegetarian and I'm pretty sure all vegan.  We don't live in NYC and taking 5 kids and 2 adults out to eat is not something we can afford to do more than a few times a year.  And forget about ordering good vegan Chinese food up here in the Hudson Valley. So we make our own. 

This is a pretty good Garlic Sauce recipe:

2 tbs rice vinegar

3tbs pure maple syrup

2 tbs dark soy sauce

2tbs Chinese rice wine

3 to 4 whole dried chili peppers

3 tbs sesame oil

1/4 cup water

3 to 4 cloves of garlic thinly sliced

2 tbs cornstarch

Saute garlic in sesame oil for a min or so.  Dissolve corn starch in water. Stir all of the other ingredients (except cornstarch and water) into the sauteed garlic and bring to boil for about 3 mins.   After 3 mins stir in cornstarch and water combo.  Bring to boil again while stirring.  Sauce will thicken.  Pour over your stir fry.  This sauce works really well with tofu, seitan, tempeh and almost any veggies you would use in a stir fry.

Whenever my man (Mr. Tattooedgeek) isn't working for the man he's working for the woman ~ me! He's my resident Sushi Chef , Screen Printer and Artist. Aside from the typical veggie sushi rolls he makes toasted tempeh w/hot sauce rolls, teriyaki seitan rolls and others.

We've added several new totes to the shop this week.  This Hanya tote is just one of them.   

Caught Willow, one of our Siamese, being lazy earlier today ~ she was too cute to pass up!