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Lusty Vegan Review, Giveaway, & Lemon Meringue Chia Pudding
ONE OF YOU IS VEGAN. THE OTHER IS NOT. I was never in a “mixed” relationship. That is, a relationship in which I was vegan and my partner was an omnivore. At the time that …
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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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Macadamia Nut Spreadable Pepper-Herb Feta on Yummie Nation.
I’m just going to tease you with photos today – and then send you to Yummie Nation, where I’m a contributor, for the recipe for my gluten- and oil-free Macadamia Nut Spreadable Pepper-Herb Feta. I shared …
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Virtual Vegan LINKY Potluck 6
Hello there! Welcome to the 6th Virtual Vegan LINKY Potluck! Please enjoy the deliciousness from last week’s winners and then don’t miss out – – enter your own dish for this week! Remember, VVLP is on …
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Virtual Vegan LINKY Potluck 5
It’s Wednesday and that means that it’s time for the VVLP5! Keeping things short and sweet, here are the most popular (calculated by number of clicks) dishes from last week’s Potluck: Appetizers Zucchini Chickpea Fritters …
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Breakfast in Bed: Multigrain Pancake/Waffle Mix with 3 Variations
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to appreciate breakfast more and more, especially on those mornings when I wake up with a growling stomach (most mornings…). So this makes Angela’s (Canned Time) Breakfast in Bed …
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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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Raw Black Bread. Gluten- and Oil-free.
With vegan “replacement” foods like tempeh (or coconut) for bacon; nuts and nutritional yeast for Parmesan cheese; seitan for sausage – the key to satisfaction and appeal is replicating familiar flavors. This is what makes transitioning from a …
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Cashew Coconut Cream Cheese. Oil-free.
Back in the Stone Age of my college years, my stomach was a bottomless pit. I was hungry all of the time – but especially so at about 7 or 8 pm at night. When …
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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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The Virtual Vegan Potluck Returns on November 16. Sign Up Now!
If you’re a food blogger (and I know you are), click on over to the Virtual Vegan Potluck website and sign up for the November 16 event. It’s as easy as pie. Or soup. Or …
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Practically Raw Desserts: A Review, Giveaway, & Dulce de Leche “Spooncream”
Besides being refreshingly flexible, every recipe in this book has the added bonus of being free of dairy, eggs, gluten, wheat, soy, peanuts, corn, refined grains, refined sugars, yeast, starch, and other nutrient-poor ingredients. Many …
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Vegan MoFo 14: Baked Peanut Butter & Jelly Oatmeal
When my favorite breakfast and my beloved flavor combination come together it’s a heavenly collision of warm, creamy, nutty, jammy breakfast-goodness. Making its way onto Buzzfeed’s 29 Ways to Honor the Glory of Peanut Butter & …
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Thoughts on Vegetarianism & Oil-free Black Bean, Corn, & Walnut Burgers.
I was a vegetarian for a few years before going full-on vegan. I ate great quantities of eggs and cheese – even though neither one of those things consists of vegetables. So how did that …
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Loaded Morning Muffins with Crumb Topping
You can see from the long ingredient list why these are called “loaded” muffins, but gosh, they’re delicious. It’s crunch time over at Ethical Ocean and their Eat What’s Good vegan recipe contest. I’ve been …
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Raw Parmesan “Pita” Chips. And A Contest.
I told you I was going to make a raw version of Stacy’s Pita Chips…and here they are. Stacy’s, I’ve kicked you to the processed and over-salted curb! (Pssst! I’m sharing this recipe on Healthy …
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Red Velvet Waffles with Cream Cheese Sauce
This recipe comes thanks to my friend, Angela, at Canned Time. Angela puts me to shame when it comes to Pinterest so I often poach ideas straight from her – like this recipe. She’d pinned …
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Dehydrator Love
I don’t have a recipe to share today, just some low-quality, iPhone photos of a raw pizza that kinda rocked my sheltered plant-based planet. You see, I recently acquired an Excalibur 9-tray dehydrator, an item that …
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Chocolate Mint Cream Cheese Muffins
Christmas and mint. How did they become an item? The red-and-white-swirled candy canes dangling from stuffed stockings? The tiny pastel-colored, melt-away candies piled in bowls that appear only in December? The Santa- and snowman-shaped chocolate …
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Savory Pumpkin Pie with Shiitake Mushroom Streusel
If you’ve had your fill of sweet pumpkin pie already, you might want to try this one. Nothing sweet (save for a hint of maple syrup) here. This recipe is an adaptation of one from …
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The Thanksgiving Day Dessert Table
I’m still recovering from the gigantic feast that was Thanksgiving over at Somer’s house. You can get the (long) list of delicious plant-based dishes here. Other than at the buffet at Bellagio in Vegas, I’ve …
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Cinnamon Raisin Swirl Flatbread Sandwiches w/ Chocolate Cheez & Caramelized Bananas
These flatbreads are based on a recipe for Spiced Pumpkin Flatbreads that I shared earlier this month. It occurred to me that a cinnamony-sweet version would be just the thing for a brunch, lunch or …
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VeganMoFo: Khatchapuri Day 2, The Bread
May I present to you the finished product, those little Georgian cheez pies that made life so much easier while living in Russia! Now, I’d like to draw your attention to the small wine glasses …
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VeganMoFo: Khatchapuri Day 1, Tofu Farmer Cheez and A Potluck Update
Virtual Vegan Potluck Update: We have reached (actually surpassed!) our goal of 100 Potluck participants! Yay! The sign-up form on the website will be closed at noon U.S. Mountain Time today – so there’s still …
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VeganMoFo: Roasted Pear, Roasted Pepper Chedda’ & Sauerkraut Quesadillas with Pecans
This is one of those combinations that – on paper – doesn’t seem at all reasonable. Sauerkraut in a quesadilla? With pears?? In the mouth, however, it works with delicious synchronicity. There’s the smooth richness …
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Peanut Milk & Meal
I’m weaning myself off of soy milk. Not only because I’ve discovered a connection between my consumption of soy milk and how (icky) I feel, but also because of a post about carrageenan by …
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Unprocessed: A Review & A Giveaway
You know how it is. You switch to a plant-based diet and you get educated; you arm yourself with the data that informs your decision to eat healthfully and mindfully. You read The China Study, …
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(Eating Vegan) Under the Sheltering Sky
It can be challenging enough to feed Kel and me while we are on the road, but what about feeding 10 or 11 or 15? In a place with (count them) zero restaurants, convenience stores …
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Other People’s Food (6): Life is Sweet
What to do with that 5-pound behemoth of a zucchini that eerily resembles a lethal weapon wielded by an ogre in a Grimm’s Fairy Tale? Grate that puppy up and make zucchini bread. Lots of …
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The Evolution of Eating
Part rogue’s gallery, part dean’s list, this is a quick, condensed sketch of what I’ve eaten over the past twenty-eight years of my life – from the time that I was more or less responsible …
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