C'est La Vegan

If you’ve never tried this dessert it might seem a little strange – but trust me when I tell you that it’s delicious!  I had a non-vegan version of this grape salad years ago at a potluck, and I was so excited when I came across this recipe on skinnytaste.com. (Although I’m not sure how “skinny” [...]

Every time I sit down to write this post looking at the picture makes me so hungry that I have to go to the kitchen to eat something.  But nothing I’m eating compares to these nachos!  After making these I realized that I haven’t made nachos since going vegan.  It’s probably a cheese thing, especially [...]

I came across these gorgeous miniature eggplants at the Farmers’ Market yesterday morning and just couldn’t resist them. I’ve never had them before and had no idea what I was going to do with them, but I knew I could probably figure something out.  You might not be able to tell from the photo, but [...]

I love artichokes, but I so rarely buy them fresh.  Maybe it’s because I think it’ll be too much work to prep and steam them.  Once I do it though, I realize that it really isn’t that hard, and it’s so worth it.  They’re delicious, and they’re also really fun to eat.
I’d been thinking about [...]

In my last post I wrote about the Teese challenge put forth by the people at Chicago Soy Dairy.  I mentioned that one of the things I struggled with was coming up with something “different” to use the mozzarella in, when I honestly just wanted to make a pizza!  After making the potato cakes, I [...]

Recently Chicago Soy Dairy put a challenge out to vegan bloggers to come up with some unique ways to use Teese, their vegan version of cheese.  They’d send some complimentary Teese your way, and asked that in return you’d find a fun way to use it and post about it on your blog.
I’m a big [...]

Here it is – the last of the posts from our Oscar Party, and my favorite… “An Eggplant Cajun” for the film “An Education”.  For some reason we didn’t have any trouble with this title, and once we thought of the name Ryan found this recipe online. While it was super easy to veganize, I [...]

These Pretzel bites were what we served for the film “Precious: Based on the novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”.  I’ve made them before in classic pretzel shape, and they were so good that I was looking for a chance to make them again.
I was originally going to do these for “Inglourious Basterds” as “Inglourious Dough Turds”. [...]

We’re into the second week of Oscar posts!  Doesn’t it feel like the Oscars was a year ago?  Maybe it’s just because I had a busy week, or maybe it’s because there were TEN best picture nominees that we made dishes for!  Either way, still going… Just a couple left and then on to St. [...]

I mentioned in my first post from our Oscar party that I made a couple old favorites in addition to some new recipes.  This is one of the former, definitely worth making over and over again!  These fried chicken bites are what we served for the film “The Blind Side.”  You might recognize the photo [...]

I love entertaining  – making lots of appetizers for parties, making dinner for friends, etc., and I really like to go all out when I do it.  In the past, I wasn’t that up for taking short-cuts when I entertained.  I guess I looked at it as cheating.
Now, with my business to run (and bake [...]

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 [...]