C'est La Vegan

For some reason I’ve really been wanting to cook with chestnut this year.  I have to admit that I’m intimidated to roast them myself, and they can also be a bit pricey.  Fortunately Trader Joe’s has pre-cooked vacuum-sealed packages of them that are so convenient to use and are also reasonable priced.  Aw yeah! I [...]

Happy 4th Vegan Month of Food!  This is my second year participating in Vegan MoFo, and I’m really excited to be a part of it again.  I’ll be posting every day of the week, along with literally hundreds of other bloggers from all over the world!  It’s big, ya’all. I decided to kick off MoFo [...]

As I’ve said many times before, I love me a good, creamy soup!  With asparagus in season, I couldn’t resist trying this asparagus soup from Tal Ronnen’s The Conscious Cook.  For some reason I was thinking it was going to be harder to make than it actually turned out to be.  You do have to [...]

The other night we had some friends over for dinner, and I thought I’d make a soup and salad type meal featuring this Cauliflower Bisque.  I’m constantly saving recipes that I find online, but I often forget to go back and actually make them.  I found this one in an old email I’d sent to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I don’t know about you, but I always overdo it during the holidays.  An extra piece of cake?  Sure, it’s the holidays!  Another glass of wine?  Why not!  It is the holidays!  An entire log of cashew goat cheese?!  ’Tis the season! That kind of logic happens in my brain from probably before Thanksgiving until [...]

Awwww… look how much the squash and apples love each other.  They know that they taste really good together, as evidenced in this delicious soup.  I first made this years ago, back when I was watching Food Network all the time.  My favorite show was Easy Entertaining with Michael Chiarello, because I think that was the [...]

Remember how I said I’d write about what we served for dinner the night I made balsamic strawberries? Well here’s the first thing we served – Delicata Squash Bisque from VeganYumYum.  This is one of my all-time favorite soups from one of my all-time favorite blogs.  I’ve made so many of Lolo’s amazing recipes, and [...]

A lot of times I’ll have a recipe that calls for one or two celery stalks, and then I have a whole bunch left over.  I don’t really like to eat raw celery.  In fact, I kind of hate it.  Even smearing it with peanut butter when I was a kid couldn’t get me to [...]

This soup is from a cookbook that was pretty life-changing for me – Marilu Henner’s “Healthy Life Kitchen”.  I stumbled upon it at a book store years ago, and found the information it contained fascinating.  It’s not a vegan cookbook – but it is dairy free.  There are recipes for chicken and fish (which we [...]