Eating From Scratch: Vegan Journey
"Reinventing Indulgence" One meal at a time!
My second time making this granola– not sure if I officially blogged it yet! I have to fully credit Celine Beitchman from the Natural Gourmet Institute for Food & Health. It was here during a Living & Raw Food Intensive that I learned and practiced this original recipe. From this recipe, I varied slightly over to my own style. Of […]
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Raw vegan dining- two days back to back! This time it’s Quintessence– another restaurant which is mainly all about the raw vegan dining experience. Wait… they recently added a few non-raw items to the menu due to a shift in beliefs about including some cooked grains to ones diet. I wrote a little about it in an earlier blog during […]
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Pure Food and WineThis is my second visit to Pure Food and Wine- the first time for this blog and certainly not the last. This is a wonderful restaurant and well worth the experience for any open minded person who is ready to try something new and different. It’s raw.. organic.. and vegan. Pure Food and Wine is also the […]
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There is truly nothing better than pulling the vegetables from your own garden. The next best thing though is a surprise visit from your neighbor who happens to be an organic farmer. My neighbor and friend Lisa had a huge bunch of swiss chard just pulled from the soil. Gestures like this for sure make my day- or I should […]
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I love when I see kids today eating salads. I had even heard recently of a NYC school by me including full salad bar options in their cafeterias. Clearly the movement is set in motion to the need for a healthier nation. As a child, I was not a fan of most vegetables nor of salads. Luckily, I grew out […]
Read moreINSTAGRAM has a way of making things look really good! I think I have become even more infatuated with food and photos with this new social media outlet. I love my food and post pictures all the time on Facebook! I love photography too! Mix the two together and yet another media distraction and here you have one of […]
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My friends were about to do Pickle Back Shots… yes we are still on a holiday week! They glanced over at me.. some with that “aww you can’t eat or drink” look and others just flat out laughing at me. They were snacking and getting in “shot” mode! I’m like.. don’t even look at me that way– I could drink most […]
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Back to the PRESS + BLEND– my new favorite raw vegan stop while I am upstate visiting Woodstock! I came in here the other day for a smoothie.. and left with inspiration! The inspiration and motivation is what I had needed to to begin my challenge to a one month raw vegan food experience.. and my continued efforts on my […]
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I had this dehydrator gift from a friend of mine for one whole year and a half. Now that I learned all about dehydration… it was time to open my present (besides the fact that she was really beginning to get mad that I hadn’t used it yet lol)- thanks Dawn! It was perfect timing since the girls were with […]
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macadamia-pine nut ricotta cheese with basil and garlic spicesfresh farm strawberries and raw dehydrated crackers Interesting nut cheese experiment today– I wanted to make a nut cheese from the soaked macadamia and pine nuts that I prepped the night before. I made this two different ways- they both came out very good. Batch 1- from the soaked nuts (no fermentation) […]
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