"Reinventing Indulgence" One meal at a time!
Pizza, pizza, pizza… Lately, it seems to be all I can talk or instagram about! When I posted today that I am making my first raw vegan pizza– even I couldn’t believe it. A friend of mine bought this book for me today, Raw Food Kitchen, by Dunja Gulin. We both stopped short in our tracks when we saw the […]
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VEGANOMICON is an amazing vegan cookbook that I was delighted to receive as a birthday gift not too long ago! My friend said.. “page 164.. MOUSSAKA”. First of all, I was impressed that a non-vegan friend of mine even opened the book! Then to say moussaka, ok.. you have my attention. I remember the last time I made moussaka and […]
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No doubt.. I am a yogurt lover. It was probably one of the most difficult items to release before entering my veganhood lol! I have tried the other yogurts on the market that are made from soy, coconut and almond. It’s almost there in taste but I try to avoid processed foods for my daily food items. I guess by […]
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Looks great… but it wasn’t! Not yet anyway! Of course now I will have pizza on my brain until I get this crust right. It was like eating a pizza crumb pie. It tasted good but not the way I wanted it. I am already a certified pizza-holic. Add that to my long list of food addictions and my 4am cravings and you […]
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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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