C’est La Vegan

Ah, the Oscars… so many stars, and such a great opportunity to get together with friends and make fun of them.  Okay, not all of them, just most of them.  If you’ve read my posts from last year’s Oscars, you know that for the past three years Ryan and I have hosted a little soiree [...]

Whenever I get my new issues of Vegetarian Times or VegNews in the mail, the first thing I do is check out all the recipes and mark what I want to try.  Unfortunately I usually forget all about them in the chaos of Saturday baking, and then I find myself at our Farmers’ Market booth [...]

That lucky Peanut Butter Brownie!  It got to go to the Olympics, and I didn’t…  Such is life.  Ryan was in Vancouver to shoot some stuff for a documentary he’s working on, and he was able to get a shot of one of his favorite treats getting in on the action too!
Between organizing everything for [...]

Today is C’est La Vegan’s first birthday!  Part of me feels the year flew by, while the other part feels like it’s been a really long time since I published that first post.  I’m so grateful to our amazing web designer, Robert of looplava, and also to my husband, Ryan, who spent so many hours [...]

When I think of desserts for Valentine’s Day, what comes to mind more often that not are over-the-top-decadent chocolate concoctions.  And while I’m all for that (who isn’t?), I wanted to craft a unique meal that ends with something more unexpected.  And let’s face it, there ain’t gonna be no “romance” on Valentine’s night if [...]

I know Valentine’s Day is supposed to be a huge deal, with a killer meal that’s absolutely perfect.  As I explained in yesterday’s post, we sometimes celebrate and sometimes don’t (usually depending on how busy we are at the time), and since our time off is precious, the last thing we want to do is [...]

Neither my husband nor I are really into Valentine’s Day.  We’ve done some fun stuff in the past and some years decide to do gifts, but the idea of going out for dinner on one of the busiest nights of the year just doesn’t appeal to us.  Why does it have to be that one [...]

We have a new addition to the family – meet Omar Little Suffern!  What a face on that guy!  Maya is still not sure what to make of him, but we’ve fallen in love.  We adopted him last week from the rescue organization All the Same, Wild and Tame, who had saved him from a kill [...]

Before going vegan, magic cookie bars (or 7-layer bars, or dream bars or whatever you called them where you were from) were one of my favorite treats.  Looking back, I realize I never actually baked them when I was younger, and I did a lot of baking.  Maybe they were even more special because I [...]

I’m a huge fan of hot and creamy baked dips.  They’re perfect for entertaining in that they’re not much harder to make than cold dips, but they’re so much more impressive.  They’re also especially great for this time of year when the weather’s chilly and there’s lots of football on the tube!
I have a favorite [...]

Just looking at this photo makes my mouth water.  I really, really, really used to love fried chicken.  Love it like it was actually my favorite food kind of love.  Throw in some mashed potatoes and biscuits and I was in heaven. Fried chicken was definitely one of the hardest foods for me to give [...]

I first had these crackers at a vegan bake sale in Los Angeles last year.  They were made by the adorable Celine Steen of Have Cake Will Travel.  I’m around sweet stuff all the time, so I opted for one of the savory options on the table, and then I proceeded to inhale the entire [...]