C'est La Vegan

I was shopping at Whole Foods a few weeks ago and I was so excited to see that they were carrying sunergia mediterranean herb soy feta.  On it’s own I thought it was just okay, so I ended up using it in this simple salad.  It’s romaine, sun dried tomatoes, sliced red onion and a [...]

This is the walnut lentil salad from Alex Jamieson’s “The Great American Detox Diet”, and like all the recipes I’ve tried from this book, it is so good!  Her recipes have such simple ingredients but so much flavor.  It’s definitely one of my go-to cookbooks and since all the recipes are so healthy, I can [...]

The past couple of years my husband and I have hosted an Oscar party, and last year we thought it would be fun to make dishes that had names punning (is that a word?) the best picture nominees.  Two examples from last year were “There Will Not Be Blood Meatballs” and “No Dairy For Old [...]

These couldn’t be simpler.  Cut soy hot dogs into pieces, wrap in crescent roll dough, and bake.  I know that crescent rolls are full of chemicals and not-so-great-for-you ingredients, but they happen to be vegan, they’re easy and pretty yummy.  I was nervous about using faux hot dogs because in the past I’ve never really [...]

Everyone expected us to do “SoyMILK” or something like that for this one.  When you’re making vegan food and playing on the name “MILK”, it’s kind of too easy, but I didn’t want to do something really obvious.  This is Vegan Explosion‘s queso recipe.  It’s awesome.  No one would know it’s vegan, and it’s really [...]

My mom used to get tubs of Rugelach that we would eat way too much of.  I really missed it, so I was happy to find this recipe in “The Joy of Vegan Baking” by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau.  We had some people at the party who are the farthest thing from vegan, and they couldn’t stop [...]

This is another recipe from “The Joy of Vegan Baking”.  It’s pretty easy to make, but I would use a different technique next time.  It calls for everything to be added to the double boiler at once, but I would try melting the margarine and chocolate together first before adding the rest of the ingredients.  [...]

This is a plum kuchen that I made last summer from Deborah Madison’s “Local Flavors” cookbook.  I had a bunch of pluots from the farmer’s market that were about to go off, and I found this recipe which seemed easy enough to veganize.  I love fruit based desserts, not only because they’re usually so easy, [...]

I’m still testing recipes for the new business and I can never leave well enough alone.  We had a great snickerdoodle at Leda’s that was really popular and always tricked non-vegans, but for some reason I feel like I still have to test other recipes to make sure that it really was the one I [...]

Yes, I am yelling the word “nuts.”  This is a recipe that I saw Nigella Lawson make on one of her shows for the Union Square Cafe’s bar nuts.  I make these for parties all the time, and everyone loves them.  The only problem is that I can’t stop eating them before people arrive!  They’re [...]

During the summertime, these berry parfaits are one of my favorite things to make for dinner guests.  I love these parfaits.  And I love Bryanna Clark Grogan.  The cashew pastry cream in these is her recipe from “Nonna’s Italian Kitchen”, which I also love.  I do the variation with amaretto to make an almond flavored [...]

We’re so lucky to have fruit trees in front of our apartment!  We have a grapefruit, clementine and kumquat tree.  Both my husband and I grew up in the freezing midwest, so an actually citrus tree in the yard is pretty special.  A few weeks ago we brought in a ton of clementines to enjoy [...]