The amazing folks at Vegan Mainstream put this on their Facebook page this morning, and it really struck me:

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The amazing folks at Vegan Mainstream put this on their Facebook page this morning, and it really struck me:

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Click here to read on!

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The photo above is the hot sauce fresh out of the blender. That foam disappears after a few minutes.

If you’ve been following this site for a while, you probably have picked up that I’m obsessed with making hot sauce. Now that I’m growing hot peppers on the front porch, I’ve been itching [...]]]>

The photo above is the hot sauce fresh out of the blender. That foam disappears after a few minutes.

If you’ve been following this site for a while, you probably have picked up that I’m obsessed with making hot sauce. Now that I’m growing hot peppers on the front porch, I’ve been itching to make some home grown hot sauce.

Since I’ve only got one pepper plant, I needed to do more with less. Cooking your peppers tends to mellow their heat level, so I decided to go raw instead! This hot sauce was freaking amazing. As a bonus, since you don’t have to boil any vinegar to make it, it doesn’t make the whole house smell like vinegar. My husband was pretty happy about that part.

That’s it! I’ve been using this hot sauce on pretty much every meal I make. The green chilies give it a really unique flavor, and the 1:1 chile to garlic ratio doesn’t hurt things, either. YUM! I’m keeping an eye on my pepper plant. As soon as there are three more peppers on there, you can bet I’ll be making another batch of this magical raw hot sauce!

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My friend Simon is starting a line of fake meats, and when he invited me to a tasting party to try out some of this vegan goodness, I have to admit that I was pretty excited about it. Possibly, I looked forward to it for the whole week leading up. And maybe [...]]]>

My friend Simon is starting a line of fake meats, and when he invited me to a tasting party to try out some of this vegan goodness, I have to admit that I was pretty excited about it. Possibly, I looked forward to it for the whole week leading up. And maybe I skimped on lunch to make sure I’d be able to try ever.y.thing. twice.

I don’t have a ton of deets about Gutenfleischers fake meats to share yet, but I can tell you that everything at Saturday’s tasting was DELICIOUS. Seriously, check out this menu:

Stuffed Mushrooms
Korean BBQ Meatballs
Chips and Queso
Breakfast Rolls – tempeh and vegan sausage with vegan sour cream rolled up in tortillas
Sandwich Tray – three kinds of lunch meat with trimmings
Mini Tacos
Buffalo Wings
Mini Steaks with Mashed Potatoes and Garlic Green Beans
Vegan Peanut Butter Cupcakes (from Dough Bakery) topped with Tempeh Bacon (no, seriously)

As you can imagine, I was in sort of a food coma after all of that. Worth it! They’re doing weekly meal orders now and have even bigger plans in the works! If you want to get in the know, you can sign up for the Gutenfleischers email list.

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Add this to my birthday wish list! My friend Missy Kulik did the illustrations for Lickin’ the Beaters 2, Siue Moffat’s new vegan chocolate and candy cookbook!

If you guys aren’t familiar with Missy’s work, you’re totally missing out. She’s the mastermind behind Tofu Baby, and she sells a slough [...]]]>

Add this to my birthday wish list! My friend Missy Kulik did the illustrations for Lickin’ the Beaters 2, Siue Moffat’s new vegan chocolate and candy cookbook!

If you guys aren’t familiar with Missy’s work, you’re totally missing out. She’s the mastermind behind Tofu Baby, and she sells a slough of super-adorable crafts featuring her drawings in the Sugar Cookie Etsy shop.

Don’t you just love a new, vegan cookbook? Especially one that’s all about decadent desserts!

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I’m sure you guys know how I feel about packing your lunch. A packed lunch is healthier for you and for the planet. Rather than [...]]]>

How cool is this, you guys? A trio of friends made a pact that they’d pack their lunches 10 times before allowing themselves to eat lunch out.

I’m sure you guys know how I feel about packing your lunch. A packed lunch is healthier for you and for the planet. Rather than blow $7 on lunch at the cafeteria made from questionable ingredients, you can pack something tasty and nutritious for much less money, and reduce waste to boot!

Lunch It, Punch It

The ladies at Lunch It, Punch It had such a great time with this challenge that they launched a whole website so that other folks could get in on the lunch-packing goodness!

They’ve got free, printable lunch punch cards that you and your friends can use to track your progress. Their site features recipes and other bits of inspiration to keep you packing your lunch, even on those days that you might not want to pull it together.

So, what do you guys think? I know the idea of packing lunch every single day is a bit daunting, but what if you were committing to just 10 days in a row, with a lunch out as the reward? I bet that, on top of that lunch out feeling extra special, you could splurge on something delicious and a bit more healthy than the usual fast food lunch.

Shameless self-promotion: If you need a little bit more lunch-packing inspiration, you can also check out my handmade Lunch Kits on Etsy!

Via: CRAFT

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Man oh man, there have been a ton of delicious recipes showing up in my rss reader this morning! Don’t you love Vegan MoFo?

This morning was super insane for me between shopping for my crafting class, voting, restocking at The Beehive, and giving Dave a ride to work so that he [...]]]>

Man oh man, there have been a ton of delicious recipes showing up in my rss reader this morning! Don’t you love Vegan MoFo?

This morning was super insane for me between shopping for my crafting class, voting, restocking at The Beehive, and giving Dave a ride to work so that he could vote without being super late. About halfway through my errands, I realized that I needed food ASAP. Luckily, there was a Whole Foods right next to one of the places I needed to be, so I picked up a to go salad.

Did you know that Whole Foods has Daiya cheese on the salad bar now? Aaaaah! I may or may not have covered my salad in those cheddary shreds along with lots of beans, corn, artichoke hearts, gingery beets, and lemon herb dressing. Holy yum! This is definitely a salad I’m going to be recreating in my kitchen.

Coming Soon: Sea Vegetable Salad Experiment

In other salady news, Dave is obsessed with the sea vegetable salad from Rosetta’s Kitchen in Asheville, so I picked up dried wakame and arame while I was there. We’ll see how that goes! This is going to be extra tricky to re-create, because it’s been a while since I’ve eaten this salad.

Right now, the plan is to shred up some veggies, soak the dried seaweed, toss it all together with some dressing, and serve with sliced avocado and maybe baked tofu on the side. I mean, even if it’s not the same, it’s going to be delicious, right?

If anyone here has made a yummy sea vegetable salad, I’d love to hear your tips in the comments! If it turns out how I want, I’ll share my recipe!

Image Credit: Creative Commons photo by foonus

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The fourth annual Vegan Month of Food is here! It’s the Vegan MoFo, and I couldn’t be more excited! You might remember my MoFo posts from last year. Basically, vegans across the internet pledge to post every day about the awesome power of vegan eats.

Hurrah!

Since I think there are a lot [...]]]>

The fourth annual Vegan Month of Food is here! It’s the Vegan MoFo, and I couldn’t be more excited! You might remember my MoFo posts from last year. Basically, vegans across the internet pledge to post every day about the awesome power of vegan eats.

Hurrah!

Since I think there are a lot of new readers in this space, I’m going to kick off the MoFo this year just like I did last year: talking a little bit about why I went vegan. I know a lot of you guys are vegan, too, and I’d love to hear your stories in the comments! Please, feel free to share – this kind of discourse is what the MoFo is all about!

Actually, I have another reason for re-hatching this story. There’s a person in my life that’s going through exactly the same thing I did back when I went vegan, and she and I have been talking a lot about food.

Back in…what? 2005? I was pescatarian and super duper into riding my bike. I rode that thing everywhere. Seriously, I’ve never been in better shape than back then. So, you can imagine my surprise when my doctor told me that my cholesterol was high. And not just kind of high. It was seriously high. He wanted me to start taking Lipitor.

Lipitor?? I was 25! No freaking way was I going to start a daily drug regimen at 25. Instead, I told my doc that I’d try changing up my diet. We scheduled a follow up appointment for 3 months later, and I cut eggs and dairy out of my diet the same day.

It all started for health reasons, but the more I read about how those eggs and dairy products made it from the farm to my fridge, the less I wanted to do with any of it. I’ve always loved animals, and reading about horrors like debeaking made me never want to go back. What’s debeaking? In factory farming environments, chickens will often peck each other. The solution, of course, isn’t to give the chickens more space. Instead, they use a machine to cut the ends of their beaks off:

Three months went by, and my cholesterol retest came back normal. It’s been normal ever since! No drugs required. Nice try, Pfizer!

So, for a little while there, I was eating seafood but no other meat, eggs, or dairy. Meanwhile, I was reading more and more about mercury in seafood, pollution from fish farms, and the way that overfishing was destroying our oceans. Every time I ate seafood, I started feeling sort of ill. Finally, I decided to quit animal products all together. It felt like the right choice for my health, the environment, and for animals.

I’ve never looked back.

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Hey, remember when I used to post recipes here? Things have gotten really hectic for me, so most of my cooking has been quickie recipes and repeats, so I haven’t had much to share with you. Today’s lunch, though, was something special. It started as a fridge dump, but this pesto rocked my socks! [...]]]>

Hey, remember when I used to post recipes here? Things have gotten really hectic for me, so most of my cooking has been quickie recipes and repeats, so I haven’t had much to share with you. Today’s lunch, though, was something special. It started as a fridge dump, but this pesto rocked my socks! The secret was adding a bunch of tangy arugula and substituting something different for the pine nuts. Yum!
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