My roommate and I believe that our apartment is single handedly responsible for keeping the pizza delivery business afloat in this economy, in our hood. Alas, we’re not frat rats or bros, and there’s not a delicious roofie in sight.

As we were piling our pizza boxes to the heavens (aka housekeeping), my latest zpizza order was at the door. I had ordered a veganized Pear and Gorgonzola salad, a veganized Tuscan (mmmm), and a (regular ol’ omni) pepperoni for a house guest. The manager threw in a free large Mexican Pizza as a thank you for my business,  which was a really kind gesture. Unfortunately, my houseguest was picky and didn’t try it, I obviously couldn’t eat it, but my roommate did get a couple of slices while it was still good.

zpizza, it was totally appreciated, thank you for the thought.

Now with marinated mushrooms and peas.

Funny, it was pretty good, but it didn’t bowl me over like the first time I had made it.

The anti-vegan roommate liked it, so maybe I’m just getting pickier in my old age.

Thome Yorke. Artist. Vegan. Some Kind of Mongolid. Strangely alluring.

I was going to cook tonight, and then blog about it. Instead, I managed to get tickets to tonight’s Thom Yorke show, so fuck all y’all. He’s vegan, so it counts for MoFo, right?

Edit: I just got home, and it was truly an amazing show. At most, maybe 600 people crammed into the Echoplex. I somehow got very close to the stage – maybe three or four heads back; I could count all of the scraggly hairs on Thom’s face.

I don’t know if it was because it was a Thom Yorke show, or because it took place in Echo Park, but when we left, we noticed that the obligatory street meat cart was serving veggie dogs. (The sign said in small print that there were regular ones, too. It was actually kind of cute.) I didn’t ask if they were vegan or anything, but they did smell delicious. Good on them!

See you on Monday.

(or at least on a bagel.)

Not my bagel, but they could be bagel brothers.

In a previous post about the amazing Pumpkin Baked Ziti casserole from Veganomicon, I mused about possibly replacing Tofutti Cream Cheese with the Cashew Ricotta recipe, but on bagels. It only took me a few years to get my head out of my ass and do it.

My weapon of choice: Trader Joe’s Onion Bagels

The verdict: Texture, mouth feel (Goddamn, I hate that term) and consistency are all great and probably would be even if I didn’t use my Vita-Mix for the project. However, for bagel purposes, I’ll definitely cut back on the salt and possibly the garlic in the recipe. Another idea that I’m obsessing about is adding sun-dried tomatoes to the mix. Yes, it shall be done.

I will report back with further bagel-related news.

Also, woot! VeganMofo made it into the LA Times. Okay, so it’s probably just the online version, but that’s ok. Print is dead, we’re not missing it.