Friday, August 29, 2008

The Vegan's Hundred

I found this on the Bittersweet blog and thought it was a real neat idea! There's a LOT of vegan food out there, so I was curious myself to see how much of this I've tried.

(I've only said that I've eaten something if it was the VEGAN version- pregan omni stuff doesn't count)

(I've also made my own comments in green)

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

1) Copy this list into your own blog, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Post a comment here once you’ve finished and link your post back to this one.
5) Pass it on!

1. Natto
2. Green Smoothie
3. Tofu Scramble (I just made it for the first time ever like yesterday, so there will be a post on that soon!)
4. Haggis (Weird... but I wouldn't mind trying just a bite)
5. Mangosteen
6. Creme brulee
7. Fondue
8. Marmite/Vegemite (I'd like to try both of those!)
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Nachos
12. Authentic soba noodles
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Taco from a street cart (It was at our Folk Music Festival, which I have yet to write about. Ack! The taco was reallllly yummy though)
16. Boba Tea
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Gyoza
20. Vanilla ice cream (I knowwww, I'm so lame, I've had other soy ice cream flavours but not vanilla it seems)
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Ceviche (I DEFINITELY would like to at least try that, looks intriguing)
24. Rice and beans
25. Knish
26. Raw scotch bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Caviar
29. Baklava
30. Pate
31. Wasabi peas
32. Chowder in a sourdough bowl (I'm thinking that I should totally do that, but maybe chili instead of chowder because I just looovvvvve chili. And I've also heard about putting pumpkin soup in little mini carved-out pumpkins. Awesome! But I digress.)
33. Mango lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Mulled cider
37. Scones with buttery spread and jam
38. Vodka Jelly (um, no thanks..)
39. Gumbo
40. Fast food french fries (ugh)
41. Raw Brownies
42. Fresh Garbanzo Beans
43. Dahl (my friend R makes THE BEST DAHL EVER. I don't know how she does it. I just eat it, and a whole lot of it)
44. Homemade Soymilk (I'd like to try doing that sometime, though)
45. Wine from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Stroopwafle (haha, that is awesome. I'd try making those for sure, with some sort of molasses filling... mmm)
47. Samosas
48. Vegetable Sushi
49. Glazed doughnut
50. Seaweed
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Tofurkey
54. Sheese
55. Cotton candy
56. Gnocchi
57. PiƱa colada
58. Birch beer
59. Scrapple
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Soy curls
63. Chickpea cutlets
64. Curry
65. Durian
66. Homemade Sausages (seitan!)
67. Churros, elephant ears, or funnel cake (I have made traditional Croatian elephant ears in the past, I should totally veganize that!)
68. Smoked tofu
69. Fried plantain
70. Mochi
71. Gazpacho
72. Warm chocolate chip cookies
73. Absinthe
74. Corn on the cob
75. Whipped cream, straight from the can
76. Pomegranate
77. Fauxstess Cupcake
78. Mashed potatoes with gravy
79. Jerky
80. Croissants
81. French onion soup
82. Savory crepes
83. Tings
84. A meal at Candle 79
85. Moussaka
86. Sprouted grains or seeds
87. Macaroni and “cheese” (I'm not a big fan of neither pasta nor cheesiness, but I'm open to trying this. and if I made it, my family could be THAT much closer to going vegan!)
88. Flowers
89. Matzoh ball soup
90. White chocolate (I used to like the non-vegan stuff when I was little, until it started to give me headaches. Now, my brain just associates white chocolate with headaches. Oh dear.)
91. Seitan
92. Kimchi
93. Butterscotch chips
94. Yellow watermelon
95. Chili with chocolate
96. Bagel and Tofutti (I've made my own bagels and those were excellent, but I'll have to admit that I haven't tried Tofutti)
97. Potato milk
98. Polenta (I've been meaning to make some for ages... maybe for breakfast first day of school? :)
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee (I really, really don't like coffee :P)
100. Raw cookie dough

Uh oh, I've only tried 37 of those... I fail! Guess that means I should eat more :) There are a lot of these that I have always wanted to make, so perhaps I should just get to that!

4 comments:

Carrie™ said...

These are fun to read. I especially like how you put links to a lot of the foods listed.

Peggy said...

I can't take credit for the links, they were in the original Bitterweet post :)

Anonymous said...

i love your blog! :) when did you try black truffles? aren't they ridiculously expensive?! :O what a luxury..

Peggy said...

:) Thanks!!

I tried them on a salad at a restaurant in Kelowna, B.C. once... It was only a little big of shavings and I couldn't even taste it, but that still counts, right? :D