by Esther | Oct 16, 2012 | Drinks, Ingredients, Recipes
This one is relatively new for me, but I’m loving it so far, and loving it more the more I learn about it. Hemp milk still has a bit of that nutty flavor that makes it not quite like dairy milks, but it makes an excellent creamy smoothie base – just...
by Esther | Oct 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
My head is all over the place today with the Orioles playing the Yankees at 5PM in game 5 to determine the ALDS winner… but I’m going to try to get this out for you even though I’m a total scatterbrain. Greens are a huge topic so we will continue to...
by Esther | Oct 10, 2012 | Breakfast, Desserts, Ingredients, Recipe reviews, Recipes
Back to the alphabet, and continuing on the theme of egg replacer, we come to flax seed. I came to know and love flax seed as a natural egg replacer, but it has so many other benefits. Flax is extraordinarily high in Omega-3s, so on that alone it is recommended to...
by Esther | Oct 10, 2012 | Recipe reviews, Recipes, Sauces and Dressings, Stir-fry
We will get back to ‘F’ shortly, but I loved this so much that I had to interrupt your regularly scheduled programming. I was inspired by this recipe to make a creamy pumpkin sauce, but wasn’t sure what to put it over since I’m doing a...
by Esther | Oct 8, 2012 | Ingredients
I think the last thing I gave up as a vegan was eggs – and not uncoincidentally, the hardest frontier for me as a vegan chef was baking. So many ingredients needed for baking are not vegan, and I just couldn’t wrap my head around baking without them....
by Esther | Oct 4, 2012 | Recipe reviews, Recipes, Salads
Whatever you’re doing, you need to stop immediately and make this tempeh bacon. It’s so good, and so… like bacon (as far as I can tell from turkey bacon, smell, texture, etc – being Jewish and never having actually HAD real bacon :) ), that I...
by Esther | Oct 4, 2012 | Ingredients, Recipes
Ok, time for a little indulgence. There were so many options for what to write about for ‘D’, but I have to go with Daiya. This detours me slightly off the whole foods path I am trying hard to stick with lately, but… Daiya. So good. And you know...
by Esther | Oct 3, 2012 | Ingredients, Recipe reviews, Recipes
Chia seeds. One of those wonderful new super foods that seem to be taking the world by storm, but yet something that you may be a bit skeptical to try. Don’t be. I was introduced to chia at the magical breakfast buffet at VidaVeganCon last summer, and while...
by Esther | Oct 2, 2012 | Desserts, Ingredients, Recipes
I know, I know, “banana?” you’re thinking. “Everyone knows what a banana is.” Yes, yes they do. But do non-vegans know the surprising culinary ways you can use a banana (aside from banana bread and ya know, just eating one :) )?...
by Esther | Oct 1, 2012 | Ingredients
It’s VeganMoFo! Yup, amazingly it’s been a full year since I got this blog started for MoFo 2011, and it’s time to play again. This year I even have a theme. In keeping with the revamping of the blog and moving to the new site, I’m going...
