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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 for [...]

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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 [...]

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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 now [...]

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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 actual fruit isn’t quite [...]

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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 like an apple [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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