Welcome to another day of VeganMoFo, the month of vegan food. VeganMoFo is an annual event where bloggers from all over the globe dedicate themselves and their blogs to posting about vegan food every day for a month. This year, The “V” Word is highlighting vegan products that are worth talking about, writing about, buying, […]
Welcome to another day of VeganMoFo, the month of vegan food. VeganMoFo is an annual event where bloggers from all over the globe dedicate their time and blog posts to vegan food everyday for a month. The “V” Word’s theme this year is vegan products worth writing about, reading about, buying, trying and […]
Welcome to another day of VeganMoFo, the month of vegan food. VeganMoFo is an annual event where bloggers from all over the planet dedicate their posts to vegan food for the entire month. This year, The “V” Word is celebrating VeganMoFo by blogging about vegan products I love. These are products that everyone should […]
Welcome to another day of VeganMoFo, the month of vegan food. VeganMoFo is an annual event where bloggers all over the world dedicate their posts to vegan food for an entire month. This month, The “V” Word is dedicating its posts to “Vegan Products I Love.” These are products worth writing about, reading about and […]
I can’t believe it’s here already but it is. This year, VeganMoFo, the month of vegan food, falls in September. During VeganMoFo, bloggers from all around the world dedicate an entire month to blogging about vegan food. This is my 4th year participating. The first year I participated, my theme was “A to Z but […]
Once upon a time, a vegan cook was cleaning out her pantry when she came across an old, dusty bottle. She wasn’t sure what had been in the bottle – maybe soy sauce or vinegar. There was no label on the bottle and it was not glass so she couldn’t see through it. The bottle […]
Normally, I don’t make a lot of cold dishes or pasta salads but the weather has been so hot lately, it seemed like a good idea. Of course, I still have to deal with the heat in the kitchen since this is a cooked dish even if it’s served cold but at least it feels […]
Reason #693,984,224,877,113,989,303,485 Why I Miss NYC: the summer menu at Blossom on Carmine. As if I needed another reason to miss the city, it’s time for all the wonderful vegan restaurants to unveil their summer menus highlighting the beautiful bounty of seasonal fruits and vegetables. Blossom on Carmine sent me an e-mail asking me to […]
Remember when I told you how amazing Vegan Cuts is when I reviewed their awesome snack box? Well, now I’m here to tell you that Vegan Cuts has gone to the dogs…literally. Vegan Cuts is offering the Dog Lovers Box which is packed with a bunch of canine goodies that will have your dog […]
When I received my cans of Meatless Select Fishless Tuna from Atlantic Natural Foods, I have to admit I hesitated. Fishless tuna? It seemed strange to me and I’m not quite sure why. After all, I eat and love vegan versions of chicken, beef, sausage, and other fishy-type foods like vegan shrimp and calamari. When […]
When I saw that there was a So Delicious and Go Dairy-Free Spring Fling Dairy-Free Recipe Contest, I knew I wanted to enter. After all, So Delicious is one of my very favorite companies EVER! So I looked through my recipes – those I’ve posted and those not yet shared – to find the ones […]
Oh, do I love Bee Free Honee! And I find it funny because I was never a fan of honey. When I was sick as a child, my mother would put it in my tea but other than that, I didn’t really like it. So when I became vegan, the fact that honey was […]
Now that I’ve gotten better at baking, making cakes and cookies doesn’t seem so scary to me. Still, sometimes it’s nice to take a little help from the experts and use a prepared baking mix. With a mix, all the dry ingredients have already been chosen, measured and combined. As long as the ingredients in […]
It used to feel that the only options one had when it came to pasta was which shape to buy – spaghetti, ziti, bowties, elbows, etc. Then when I began eating gluten-free, the number of choices I had dropped significantly – spaghetti, rotini and maybe fettuccine. But then I discovered eating other types of […]
“Easy as pie.” I’ve always had issues with this saying. Tom uses it a lot and it’s become a sort of bit between us. He says something is as “easy as pie” and I reply, “Pie is not easy!” Because to me, baking is not easy. While I am not as baking-challenged as I […]
As my followers know, the food I thought I “couldn’t live without” was chicken. My father used to say I ate so much chicken that one day I would sprout feathers. When I gave up meat, I wasn’t sure how I was going to survive without chicken. Over the years, however, I have learned […]
Whenever we go out for a long drive or need to run errands we know we have to bring along some snacks because it’s hard to find healthy, vegan snacks out there. Even at the college where I teach, there is little to choose from. The vending machines are filled with chips, cookies and […]
It’s awards season – a time to acknowledge the best of the best in so many venues. There is the Superbowl, the Puppy Bowl, the Olympics, the Golden Globes, the Grammys, the Emmys and the Oscars! It’s a season of competition and winners!!! For a lot of people, that means a lot of parties and […]
Over the years I have developed about a dozen vegan burger recipes – partly because I love burgers and partly because there aren’t many prepared vegan burgers that I like enough to buy. To me, most of them don’t have a lot of flavor and the texture leaves a lot to be desired. And finding […]
The Feast of the Seven Fishes is an Italian-American Christmas Eve tradition. It dates back to the Roman Catholic tradition of abstaining from meat and dairy on Fridays, during Lent and on the eves of certain holidays. People would instead eat fish that was usually fried in oil. Over the years, many types of fish […]
Did you hear the news about Santa? If the word on the strip mall circuit is correct, Santa has gone gluten-free! Apparently, all the flour from all the cookies all these years has taken a toll on his intestines. Maybe Santa’s round belly is filled with more bloating gases than jelly. I also hear that […]
I came to like eating fish later in life. Other than frozen fish sticks, I just never liked eating fish. Later, however, I came to love eating shrimp, salmon, catfish, sole, and calamari. I remember the first time I ate calamari. Sitting in a restaurant, I was munching away on the fried, breaded rings, […]
It’s time again for me to compile a list of my favorite things. I can be pretty hard to please so the things that made this list are pretty special. And many of them are gifts that keep giving and give back because those are the very best gifts of all. Books will be […]
As many of you know, I didn’t cook much before I became vegan. Most of my meals were take-out or eaten out. When I did cook, my version of “homemade” involved a lot of boxes and envelopes. My vegetables were the frozen kind that came with the little packet of sauce. My mashed potatoes […]
