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! [...]
Tags:Lunch·salad·vegan·Vinaigrette
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
Coconut Lime Muffins
October 19th, 2009 · 6 Comments · baking, vegan
For the past few days I had this idea in my head to make a lime muffin. I started thinking about all the fabulous flavors that would go well with lime – cherry, raspberry, almond, chili – and then my friend Cheryl recommended “coconut.” Bingo. So I got to work making Coconut Lime Muffins and [...]
Vegan Halloween Candy
October 16th, 2009 · 8 Comments · vegan
So even though the grocery stores have been hawking Halloween candy since the 4th of July, I figure some of you are like me and you buy your stash at the last minute – like, two weeks before the Big Day. Really, I buy candy ON Halloween Day so that I’m less likely to [...]
Cheese Free
October 13th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Diet, Health, vegan
“I’d go vegan but I could never give up CHEESE!“ Not only have I heard this a million times, I’ve said it myself when I was a vegetarian. I couldn’t imagine giving up cheese. I mean, how would I eat pizza? Or nachos? Or grilled cheese sandwiches? Going vegan and giving up cheese just seemed [...]
Tags:cheese·dairy free·daiya·dr cow·NaBloPoMo·Red star nutritional yeast·tofu·vegan·VeganMoFo
Vanilla Spice Oatmeal Cookies
October 12th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Snacks, baking, vegan
Happy Monday! It’s been a very busy weekend for yours truly. We had our second weekend of yoga teacher training and can you believe that the teachers-in-training are already practice teaching? They are doing a fabulous job – I cannot wait for our next training weekend in November! Because of the teacher training, this past [...]
Tags:cookies·ginger·NaBloPoMo·oatmeal·recipe·vanilla·vegan·VeganMoFo
Vegan Mishmash for VeganMoFo
October 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Diet, Life
Happy Monday! I found this vegan survey over at The Geeky White Girl Grows Up and thought I’d play along Favorite non-dairy milk? Homemade vanilla almond milk. What are the top 3 dishes/recipes you are planning to cook? Rice and beans (a staple at my home), scrambled tofu (we have this every week!), and Crispy [...]
