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 for [...]
Entries Tagged as 'vegan'
Book: Eating Animals
November 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · vegan
Tags:Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act·eating animals·Jonathan Safran Foer
Loaded Mashed Sweet Potatoes
November 12th, 2009 · 4 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 [...]
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 now [...]
Tags:Ellen Degeneres Show·huffington post·Jonathan Safran Foer·peta·Tony Gonzalez·Veganism·Vegetarianism
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 actual fruit isn’t quite [...]
Tags:bush melon·feijoa·guavasteen·mellowfruit·pepino melon·pineapple guava·tree melon
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 like an apple [...]
Dangerous Foods for Dogs
November 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment · dogs, vegan
I was catching up on my blog-reading today and found a review of The Simple Vegan Dog Book over at the Vegan Soap Box. Included in the blog post was a list of foods you should never give your dog, and, after doing a little more research, I’d thought I’d pass it on. I knew [...]
Tags:dangerous foods·dog food recipe·dogs·simple vegan dog book
Brussels Sprouts
November 2nd, 2009 · 9 Comments · Lunch, recipes, vegan
Hello!
Hope you had a super awesome weekend. For me, it was great to be home after traveling last weekend.
A big shout out to Meatless Mama! Thank you for the Blog Award! That was just such a nice surprise and really made my day.
Brussels sprouts are one of those vegetables that for a long [...]
Tags:Brussels sprout
Vegan Thai Pumpkin Soup
October 28th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Dinner, vegan
I went to a local pumpkin patch the other day – don’t you just love pumpkin patches? There is just something so enchanting about walking through a sea of plump orange pumpkins. I took home up a few carving pumpkins and a sugar pumpkin. Usually the smaller sugar pumpkins are the ones used for cooking, [...]
Tags:Coconut milk·pumpkin·soup·thai·vegan
Natalie Portman – Vegan “Evil Doer?”
October 27th, 2009 · 3 Comments · vegan
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Wow – talk about getting smacked!
This morning the Huffington Post printed an editorial by Natalie Portman. In the piece, Portman explains how reading Jonathan Safran Foer’s book Eating Animals convinced her to evolve from being a vegetarian into a vegan activist. Portman praises Safran’s courage in writing a book that seems to promote [...]
Tags:huffington post·Jonathan Safran Foer·Michael Pollan·natalie portman·Omnivore's Dilemma·Veganism
Vegan Cooking Demos on Ellen
October 26th, 2009 · 8 Comments · recipes, vegan
I don’t watch a lot of daytime TV but one show I really love is Ellen. And I love her even more since she came out as a vegan about a year ago.
Recently Ellen has twice hosted her personal chef on her show to demonstrate how easy it is to cook up a [...]
Tags:ellen degeneres·roberto martin·vegan cooking·Wolfgang Puck
