It’s my party, and I’ll nosh if I want to…

Happy Birthday to Me!!! I’ve had a wonderful day thus far. I slept in, executed Operation Cupcake, awaiting Indian food tonight…wait, did you say Operation Cupcake? Oh yeah, baby! For the first time in a long time, I haven’t had to bake my own birthday cake!! Thank you Sticky Fingers!! For those who aren’t aware, [...]

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Blueberry Jam Thumbprints

I decided to make a cookie for Jo to take to her buds at work…and since Jo has this wonderful Blueberry-Lime Jam, I thought I’d do thumbprints! The cookie itself is very butter cookie/sugar cookie-esque. It’s got the flakiness of the butter cookie, but all the goodness of a sugar cookie. This recipe, for me, [...]

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Squash Pancakes

These tasty farmer’s market – inspired patties can work as a veggie burger, finger food, or accompaniment to any rice or quinoa dish you like.  Make them silver dollar sized for a party appetizer, or the size of a slice of bread for a sandwich maker.   Ingredients: 1 C chickpea flour  1/2 C water [...]

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Stars and Stripes Menu

It’s holiday time again, and that means another menu to inspire your 4th of July festivities. Since I’m spending the fourth in DC..I’m feeling rather patriotic. So here’s a few ideas to help you celebrate our Independence, while simultaneously celebrating your own independence from animal cruelty. There are some obvious choices because of color scheme [...]

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Blueberries & Cream Ice Cream

This is an ice cream recipe that I’ve been making for ages…of course, pregan I used heavy cream. But I find it to be even more enjoyable using coconut milk! Putting a scoop of this ice cream with scoops of White Chocolate gelato and Strawberry Fields Forever, and you’ve got a tasty and patriotic dessert! [...]

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Sicilian White Chocolate Gelato

I was craving something with white chocolate, and I came across a recipe (non-vegan, of course) in my Bittersweet cookbook by Alice Medrich. It’s a cookbook devoted to all things chocolate! So the recipe I stumbled upon was for a chocolate gelato. With the heat outside, and my recent successful experimentation with pastry cream, I [...]

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Beating the Heat the Herbal way…

Summer is in full swing, as exemplified by the rising temperatures and the rising hemlines. July, August, these are months that make you wish you lived under the sea where the water is always cool and little crabs orchestrated a calypso band (Little Mermaid reference for those not with me). So what is a young, [...]

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Creamy Watermelon Crush Smoothie

Okay mango haters, this is the smoothie for you (and you know who you are). All the benefits of the mango, none of the flavor. Of course, for the mango lovers in the house, you can increase the mango to taste some of it – plus it’ll increase the creaminess of the smoothie with more [...]

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Vegan Pastry Cream

There are few things that are amazing enough to blow my top off these days, but I have to say…this past weekend, I created this pastry cream that got me pretty ecstatic! It’s been a while since I’ve created something that has wowed me as much as this pastry cream did (well, there was another [...]

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Liz Lovely Cookies: GF Snickerdoodles

I didn’t think it could be done, but the geniuses at Liz Lovely have outdone themselves with the Gluten-free collection of cookies. I recently ordered the GF Snickerdoodles from the glorious Cosmo’s Vegan Shoppe. Since the Snickerdudes are my favorite – running neck and neck with the Ginger Snapdragons – I thought I’d give the [...]

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