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Vegan Doughnuts (or donuts, whichever I feel like typing)
Vegan Treats makes some damn good doughnuts. Good, like, a decadent pillow of fried goodness, damn good donut. Not a circular airy cake but a cream-filled, ooey, gooey, cover-your-mouth-in-fantastic-film… needing to gargle with black coffee kind of damn good. A donut. Like I remember from my non-vegan days. After eating a few lifetimes worth of [...]
Giving It Away
Still getting acclimated with my breadmaker, I’ve learned that I can barely put a dent in a 2 lb. loaf during the week. My olive and kale-pesto loafs had to find new life as croutons and, given my limited use of croutons, new homes. Determined to not waste them I tripped to an office building [...]
Beating the Hangover [Vegan Version]
Bliss‘s Vegan Breakfast Burrito I don’t know about you but the morning after a night of drinking, I am nutrient-starved. I crave a variety of tastes and textures, and their accompanying nourishment. Hangover remedies are much like old wives tales. But through the years of trial and error after a night of drinking errors, I [...]
A Nibble Here, A Nibble There
What a delight to find Caserta Vecchia on a nice spring-I-don’t- want-to-go-underground-to-the-subway-yet walk after work. It quickly made my list of things to do. Caserta Vecchia, named after a medieval village in Italy, offers cashew-based vegan cheese substitution on all their pizzas. Again, indicating the coolness of a neighborhood. Cinnamon cake in shape of a [...]
What’s the Best Vegan Burger in New York City? [Part 2]
The search continues, in intervals of 12. What is all this burger-eating leading up to? My decision on who makes the best vegan burger in New York City, of course. It is forthcoming. The Organic Grill‘s Organic Grill Burger (East Village) Pro: Very tasty, housemade, great fixings, a very good vegan burger Con: Mushy but [...]
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain {A Pictorial}
It rained all day and all night. Weather so bad it was humorous. Weather so bad I g0t my morning coffee delivered with my lunch and fresh-squeezed juice. In the evening, I somehow rationalized leaving my apartment and met other bold travelers. We all screamed with the angry gusts and taxi splashes. Bad weather in [...]
East Side, Represent
Counter is the East Village’s best veg spot in my humble opinion. It is a bit on the costly side so I haven’t been there but twice. Once in 2008, which seems like 5 minutes, ago for their spectacular brunch, and again in the twenty-ten with my dear CandyPenny for a catch-up /I can’t believe [...]
Purple People Eater
I feel immense pressure when visiting a new and all-vegan eatery. So many things to choose from, I wish I had like 9 stomaches, like the cows do. I have the uncanny knack of taking risks with new menus and often end up ordering the “wrong” thing. I do this in many avenues in my [...]
{Sandwich Wars} Point: Urban Rustic
Delivery options are the cornerstone of any city’s offerings. And with the ease of online ordering, a busy gal with an empty fridge can satisfy a whim almost too easily. In my locale of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, there are many cuisines to chose from. But what I need most is a hearty and reliable ‘go-to’ for [...]
Lions and Lambs
This winter broke New York City’s 114-year snowfall record, leaving me with 2, yes 2, snow days. But pay no mind to Punxsutawney Phil’s shadow or the Sonny & Cher on your clock radio because a taste of Spring came early. The coming of Spring is always exciting in the big city. The chatter of [...]
I Am Never Eating Daiya Again.
Since Daiya‘s first buzz in March ’09 to my first taste of it in August (read here), the vegan wonder has turned the vegan cheese world upside down. Now it is the winner of VegNews’s Product of the Year, although Vegan Gourmet (Follow Your Heart) won the reader’s choice. I have watched area eateries thrive [...]
