C’est La Vegan

A few years ago I was in Manhattan for some improv shows, staying with my best friend, the beautiful and talented Jennifer Valle.  We took a raw foods dessert class at Matthew Kenny’s The Plant in Brooklyn.  Those desserts were some of the best I’ve ever had, and it definitely peaked my interest in raw foods. [...]

I was trying to think of what to make for dinner the other day, and it was one of those hot days when you know you’re not going to feel like cooking, but you want something good to eat.  I’d gone to Whole Foods and saw a chicken salad they make that I actually used [...]

Ryan and I had another chance to head over to SunPower Natural Cafe, and I guess I’m a fan of their drinks since this is the second one that I’m posting about! This is the Fresh Squeezed Lemonade with Agave, and I think I can say without exaggeration, that this is the best lemonade I’ve [...]

Now for the best part of going to The Hollywood Bowl – the food!  It’s been a while since we’ve entertained or since I’ve cooked real food, so I was excited to try some new recipes.  I looked through Veganomicon because I hadn’t done that in a while, and tried to find some things that [...]

The next dish that I made for our Hollywood Bowl Picnic was the tempeh pate from the Native Foods Cookbook.  This is one of my favorite recipes, and I can’t even count how many times I’ve made this.  We’ve eaten it in Palm Springs wraps (Ryan’s favorite), I’ve baked it in puff pastry, served it [...]

The title of this dish is a mouthful, but it’s actually much simpler than it sounds.  It’s really just a mish-mosh of recipes I’ve been wanting to try for awhile now.  The first recipe is the Almond Feta with Herb Oil from the April edition of Vegetarian Times magazine.  This recipe takes patience, but [...]

One thing I really miss since giving up meat is a good tuna sandwich.  There were a lot of reasons that we finally gave up fish (and said goodbye to non-veggie sushi, which is really what was holding us back), but one thing that was freaking us out was the amount of mercury we were [...]

I’m very excited to announce that a website I’ve been contributing to for Citysearch launched today!  It’s called Veggie Thing, and it features great vegan dishes in different towns across the country.  It also has links to lots of other great blogs, and my favorite part – tons of photos of amazing looking food.  I’ve [...]

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 [...]