C'est La Vegan

I sometimes forget how great a simple salad can be.  This one is from Janet Fletcher’s “Fresh From the Farmers’ Market”, and I used a mix of baby escarole and frisee lettuces.  Combined with the shallot vinaigrette, avocados, and oranges, this salad is full of different textures and flavors, all of them fantastic.  It calls [...]

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 [...]

December has already been a pretty crazy month – as evidenced by my total lack of blog posts.  I do have a couple excuses, in case you’d like to hear them…  My photographer (and his camera) was in London until just a couple of days ago.  Ryan was over filming a documentary on Duke Special and [...]

The end of Vegan MoFo just happened to coincide with a vacation that Ryan and I had been planning for a few months.  We went down to Venice, Florida, where my parents have a house in which they spend a good part of the winter.  (If you’ve ever been through a Chicago winter, you understand [...]

On Sunday (the 23rd) Ryan and I celebrated our sixth wedding anniversary, and eleven years together.  Last year, for our tenth (dating) anniversary we took a trip to one of our favorite places in the whole world – Ireland.  We have many great friends there, and we’ve been thinking of them all week as we [...]

We went to Vegas for my cousin’s wedding this past weekend (congrats Michael and Sheraleen!) and of course made a stop at Ronald’s Donuts!  I’d never been there before, but Ryan had brought some back for me on a past trip.  Normally I’m more a fan of cake donuts, but these things are pretty amazing.  [...]

We’ve been trying to go camping all month, and last week we miraculously had a free day and a few friends up for joining us for a night of camping in the Angeles National Forest.  (Our friend, Justin, took the first two photos in this post).  Ryan has been camping his whole life, but I [...]

I love a good sandwich, and The Fantastic Picnic Sub is our camping sandwich of choice.  This sandwich is really tasty, and even though it has a lot of veggie meat, even non-vegetarians love it.  I found this recipe somewhere online years ago (I thought on the PETA site, but when I just looked for [...]

After years of going without, we finally had s’mores on our camping trip!  Every time we go camping I always mean to buy some vegan marshmallows (regular marshmallows contain gelatin), and then I always forget about it until we’re packing up.  This time I planned ahead and bought some Sweet & Sara Marshmallows from Follow [...]