Vegan Cooking *FAIL!*

The snapshot at right of the spicy vegan sausage and the spicy greens from the Happy Herbivore cookbook.

"Why, no, it did NOT look this in the picture," Lady Married with Veggies says, batting her eyelashes. "Why ever do you ask?"

Some days  we make beautiful and delicious things here at Married With Veggies.  Other days, Lord Married With Veggies turns to hand me my meal, lowers his voice and says, "Your vegan turd, m'lady."

Once we crumbled the "turd" and mixed it in, it was quite delightful (that sentence is all kinds of wrong) because it mostly tasted like fennel. Yum! No, really. It was. Whatever.

Lord Married With Veggies is scheming for the next time. Lady Married with Veggies says there are so many recipes that don't look like turds left to try.

Lady Married with Veggies is also suspicious that the Happy Herbivore cookbook used a food photographer. The photo for Aztec corn chowder is yellow as the sun and beautifully smooth. There are no little turdling chunks of black beans in that photo to be seen at all. When I write my cookbook (it's a figure of speech), I will NOT use photographer's tricks. Because some times food looks beautiful, and sometimes it looks like a giant vegan turd.