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Fake Chicken

June 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · vegan

Time magazine reported yesterday that the University of Missouri has had a huge breakthrough in the creation of fake chicken meat. Not only does it LOOK like chicken it TASTES like chicken too. So this makes me wonder, assuming that you really wouldn’t notice a difference between real chicken and the new fake chicken, how [...]

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My New Favorite Snack: Next Organics

May 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Snacks, vegan

Lately I’ve become addicted to these delicious chocolate treats! It’s very simple: organic fruit covered with organic dark chocolate. I started with the Dark Chocolate Coconut and I was hooked! From there I’ve tried Dark Chocolate Apricots (winner!) and Dark Chocolate Cherries (yum!) Next Organics also offers the following: Goji berries Bananas Almonds Walnuts Cashews [...]

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Meatless Mondays! Mongo Salad

May 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Lunch, vegan

I celebrated Meatless Monday today with a huge lunchtime vegan salad: Organic baby lettuce Organic bibb lettuce Organic green onions Organic carrots Organic cucumbers Chickpeas Walnuts Fennel* Organic pink lady apple* I’ve added apples to my salads before, but since Kate introduced me to adding FENNEL I’ve become a fennel devotee. Wow is it delicious! [...]

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The Veganized Double Down

May 19th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Health, vegan

This is hilarious. Or sad. I’m not sure which. Remember on April 12 when KFC introduced their artery-clogging, blood pressure-blasting, heart-stopping sandwich called the “Double Down?” “The one-of-a-kind Double Down features two thick and juicy boneless white meat chicken filets (Original Recipe(R) or Grilled), two pieces of bacon, two melted slices of Monterey Jack and [...]

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Meatless Monday: Vegan Coconut Rice Pudding!

May 10th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Desserts, vegan

Meatless Monday Mania is sweeping the nation! Even Mario Batali is doing it!! In case you haven’t heard, “Meatless Monday” is an international non-profit initiative in association with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to reduce meat consumption by 15% to improve personal health and the health of our planet. And while I personally [...]

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Book: Eating Animals

November 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · vegan

I just finished reading Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer and while I don’t want to post a full review – there are PLENTY of those floating around right now! – I do want to mention a few things I learned from the book. (By the way I think this is a really important book [...]

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Loaded Mashed Sweet Potatoes

November 12th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Desserts, Dinner, Life, Lunch, baking, vegan

Tami over at Vegan Appetite hosts “Food Network Friday” – a call to cooks everywhere to “veganize” the chosen Food Network recipe. I was excited that I got to pick this week’s recipe: Loaded Mashed Potatoes by Paula Deen. Paul Deen, as you probably know, is the Queen of Cream…and Bacon and Cheese. So modifying [...]

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Vegetarian in the News

November 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment · vegan

Wow there’s been a lot of press about vegetarians lately! Of course Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer has been front and center. Foer was recently interviewed several times, including on The Ellen Degeneres Show, and has written articles for CNN, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, and more. I’m reading Eating Animals right [...]

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Meet Feijoa and Pepino

November 10th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Raw, vegan

I tried two new fruits today: a feijoa and a pepino melon! Feijoa Feijoa, aka “pineapple guava,” “fig guava,” and “guavasteen,” is apparently the big sleeper of  Fruit World. In the late 1800s it received lots of praise yet very little has come from that. The Feijoa flower is quite beautiful, don’t you think? The [...]

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Persimmons

November 8th, 2009 · 5 Comments · vegan

So I haven’t done too well on my quest to try new-to-me fruits and veggies. I had a goal to try five new foods and in reality I tried exactly….one. Sigh. The one I tried was the Fuyu persimmon, and it was delicious! I enjoyed it straight up, and loved it. The consistency is crunchy [...]

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