The Casual Vegan

I am celebrating Easter mostly by eating a lot of fruit and beans, reading Howard Zinn, and enjoying the strange coastal winter storm we’re having. Er, we’re not really followers of any tradition around here. So, while I was slicing up an avocado in the skin and squeezing out the contents onto a dish (very mess-free way of preparing an avocado), I decided to have a full serving of the taste combination I had had a hint of the night before by accident.

sans soy substitute

Now, Frank’s Red Hot Original Cayenne Pepper Sauce has all kinds of recommendations for things to pair the sauce with — chicken & eggs and the like. There’s a recipe for buffalo wings on the label, which of course calls for butter as Frank’s itself only has 5 ingredients: cayenne pepper, vinegar, water, salt, & garlic powder. Frank’s plus that buttery addition is the flavor that everyone comes to recognize as classic hot wing material. Well, take the naturally-buttery and slightly greasy consistency of avocado and put it together with Frank’s right out of the bottle, and you’ve got yourself a dish that mimics the tender portions of hot wings in a way that Greg says is “creepy.” For someone attempting to approximate a well-known meat dish, this combo blows soy products out of the water and is about 8 million times better for you, and doesn’t require frying to boot. It’s also just a really interesting way to consume a whole avocado and everyone could use more avocado in his or her life!

(Turns out Frank’s is pretty tasty on mangos too.)

Related:

• Vegan Pizza Recipe
• Vegan Cupcakes!

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