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Review, Recipe, & Giveaway: Plant Power by Nava Atlas

As you can tell, I’ve been catching up on a backlog of cookbook reviews and giveaways. I hope you haven’t tired of them yet, because I have several more scheduled over the next few months (The …

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OATrageous Oatmeals Giveaway & Chickpea Veggie Soup

There are a few things in life you can count on: the sun rising in the east each morning; happy and excited greetings from your dog (and a bored yawn from your cat) when you …

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Review & Giveaway: Vegan Chocolate by Fran Costigan

Whenever I felt completely daunted about how much recipe testing, writing, and photography I had to do for my cookbook, I’d look over at the tempting pile of cookbooks that were waiting for my review. …

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Everyday Vegan Eats by Zsu Dever: Giveaway & Chocolate Chip Cookies!

Zsu has been a regular participant in our weekly Virtual Vegan Linky Potluck, and I finally got the time to spend with her recently-published cookbook, Everyday Vegan Eats. One of the things I love about Zsu’s …

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Decadent Gluten-free Vegan Baking Giveaway and Meet Cara!

You know that panicked feeling you get when a special person is coming over to your house and you look around and realize that dust has settled over every flat surface, there’s a pile of clean …

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Vegan Beans From Around the World: Review & Giveaway + Navy Bean Pie

Every dish in this book is good food, not just good vegan food. – Kelsey Kinser Over the past month – when I need a break from creating and eating my own recipes for my …

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I’m Writing A Cookbook (and other news)

I hope you all had a wonderful Memorial Day holiday and are ready to launch yourselves into summer!  A lot has been happening behind the scenes for me and it’s time to share – so …

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Vegan Planet Review & Giveaway

I imagine that when Robin Robertson put the finishing touches on Vegan Planet and sent it off one final time to her editor, she breathed a big sigh of relief and satisfaction and thought to herself: …

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Jazzy Vegetarian Classics Giveaway and Mushroom-Nut Burgers

My earliest musical memories center around jazz and food: popcorn by the fire on blustery winter nights warmed by the playful yet melancholy piano of Vince Guaraldi (and good as it is, I’m not talking …

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Review, Giveaway, & Blondies: Sweet Debbie’s Organic Treats

First things first: thank you all for your sweet words and support.  I was feeling like a major heel for canceling the May Potluck, but I needn’t have worried.  Big virtual hugs to one and …

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Rawsome Vegan Baking Blog Tour! Review, Recipe & Giveaway

It almost wouldn’t matter if the recipes in Rawsome Vegan Baking by Emily Von Euw weren’t delicious.  That’s because the photography and the book itself are stunning – from the heft and size of it, …

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Happy Herbivore Abroad Blog Tour & Giveaway

Back when I was doing a lot of international traveling, I was still eating meat and dairy.  I never gave a thought to what I would eat!  Well, except when using my rudimentary foreign language …

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Upcoming Giveaway: Happy Herbivore Abroad

Giveaway alert: On Sunday, December 16, I am honored to be participating in the 31 Days of Giveaways Blog Tour for Lindsay Nixon’s new cookbook, Happy Herbivore Abroad.  I’ll be sharing a short interview with …

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Getting & Giving

The Getting: I am woefully behind on saying “thank you” to several bloggers who have passed along some very nice awards to An Unrefined Vegan.  Angela at Canned Time & The Misfit Baker both awarded my …

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Giving it Away: The Vegan Slow Cooker

I’m celebrating my blog’s one year birthday (which was October 21) by giving away a copy of Kathy Hester’s cookbook, The Slow Cooker Vegan.  I won’t be giving away my much-used copy, however.  Kathy has …

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