Eating From Scratch: Vegan Journey
"Reinventing Indulgence" One meal at a time!
The vegan restaurants that I frequent really make the best japanese squash or acorn squash. It’s so good that I crave to prepare it on my own. Without researching recipes, I just automatically picked out an acorn squash, cut it into cubes and steamed it. Wrong! Well.. not really because this squash is good regardless but that’s not how […]
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Spaghetti squash is really a pasta-holic’s savior. It resembles pasta yet it is simply a vegetable. I often come across mac and cheese recipes and skip over them because I don’t want to engage in pasta and fake cheese dishes. This one however, caught me off guard. It was vegan mac and cheese with vegetables- the catch is that the […]
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It’s butternut squash season! I come upstate in the fall mostly for the “honeycrisp” apples and the beautiful fall foliage! The gorgeous wooden oversized crates of endless varieties of squash then lure me in. I buy them all and then figure out how to cook them later. For this particular version of a hearty butternut squash soup I used 2 butternut […]
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Just how many vegetables are there? When variations and breeds come into play, the numbers skyrocket I’m sure. Try googling that.. the answers are everywhere and nowhere lol! Cauliflower was my 2nd most hated veggie as a kid. Brussels sprouts being first. Who knew that I would learn to love it! I never conceived of all the dishes that could […]
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When I was a kid, it was all about shake and bake chicken. There is always a fad.. a shortcut.. and something processed. All the big supplier companies have to do is make it about convenience and competitive pricing… and it’s a wrap! It’s also fun! They made it fun- shake and bake was/ is fun and now this fake […]
Read morePerhaps one birthday dinner IS better than a week full of birthday dinners… or perhaps not! One thing for sure, if balance is the key and I believe it is, then I need to tip the scale in the other direction soon because dining out every night is not the healthiest practice for optimum health. It is my birthday and […]
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TEANY has been on my go to list for months– finally made it over to the lower east side. Teany is located at 90 Rivington between Ludlow and Orchard. Between it’s name and the fact that many vegan restaurants are tiny, I figured it may be just that. I was actually pleasantly surprised. It was small but not too small at […]
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Finding a vegan restaurant in a non-vegan town is like finding a gay bar back in the day in a republican right wing neighborhood. That means back roads.. dark alleys.. and misinformed GPS tracking. I almost felt unsafe. First it took us 10 miles and 20 minutes of circling out of the Queens Center Mall and it’s surrounding triple lanes […]
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This is the type of smoothie that needs to be in a cute booklet featuring 101 of the best vegan smoothies. I love it when a simple yet exciting recipe crosses my path. As far as social media goes, I am still a major Facebook person. I get recipes and info from several fun Facebook pages. This RECIPE is from the Young […]
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The challenge was on! It’s that time of year (still on my birthday week for the record!) San Gennaro is one of those things that you really aren’t sure why you go but you go anyway! It’s the Italian feast in Little Italy, NYC. I asked on Facebook if anyone thought I would find anything vegan and the answer was […]
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