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Goodbye, Summer
Goodbye, dear summer. You moved so swiftly through your weeks. But first, a few more bites… Goodbye, peak season for juicy and tender summer fruits. Soon it’ll be time for apples, pumpkins and figs. Goodbye, peaches and characteristically-summer stone fruit, best warm-skinned and taunt on the beach. Goodbye, grilled peaches, a different entity altogether, may [...]
Supermarket [Bananer] Split
Splitting my time between the boroughs and the ‘burbs, the local availability of vegan treats fluctuates. When hit with the craving for an elaborate banana split, it was a quest… and test: How are the mainstream supermarkets keeping up with healthier food trends? I was impressed with what was available! From vegan Maraschino cherries free [...]
Packing
Spending an overnight with the entire 5th grade class of 2011 at a Club Getaway, I knew food selection would be lacking. I packed some goodies to ensure I wouldn’t waste away. Packing essentials: glycerine soap, hand sanitizer, soymilk, corn nuts, sesame sticks, Happy Baby mango puree, Plum Organics super puffs–purples, Sweet & Sara‘s marshmallows, [...]
¬ ¬ Vegan Scooter Pies (a.k.a. Vegan Moon Pies)
I’ve made scrumptious strawberry shortcakes, heavenly black and white cookies, the vegan-elusive rainbow cookie, delectable Milano cookies, huge and fatty cinnamon buns, savory Red Lobster cheese and garlic biscuits, sweet bread, even cashew-cream-based vegan cannoli… all-vegan versions of the tempting treats I grew up craving. Treats I once had given up on. Twinkies, cupcakes, whoopie [...]
What’s New: Food Update
There is a little Indian convenience store next to my Sunday restaurant favorite, Dosa Diner, in Hicksville, Long Island. In this store you can find a ton of cheaply priced pantry staples, many aligned with Hindu vegetarianism. It is worth a stopping by– their products are tremendously cheaper than the very same items sold at [...]
Here’s the Scoop
Listen Staples commericals and every Sunday newspaper circular: “It is still summer!” I cry out, grasping at every hour, every minute of my dwindling summer vacation. So while it is still appropriate, homemade ice cream! I headed home to Long Island to try out Wheeler‘s Vegan Scoop chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream with my Mom’s [...]
Spoiled Sweet
I am going to try to milk the graduation thing much longer than today. Yeah, why the heck not? I’ll have it preemptively excuse my raucous behavior come Friday, when the official celebratory drinks are set, and use it to collect long complimentary comment strands on Facebook. I’ll accumulate kid-hugs from my class who are [...]
Vegan Cupcakes For Haiti
With a generous contribution of ingredient mula from J. “Whoa Whoa Whoa” Roth and a pint of midnight oil, I whipped up 2 batches of vegan cupcakes (VCTOTW‘s basic vanilla with chocolate ganache and basic chocolate with buttercream) for Vegan Drinks‘ Vegan Bake Sale for Haiti. Said cupcakes were made after a full day of [...]
Vegan MoFo #24: Vegan on the I-5 South
I had some unfinished business in the Pacific Northwest. And by business I mean vegan food to eat. This time I flew into Seattle only to head straight to Portland, Oregon, thee vegan capital of the country. But after a long transatlantic flight, we weren’t going to make it all the way to Portland without [...]
I am One Lucky Duck
One Lucky Duck juice and takeaway is Pure Food & Wine‘s to-go counter. Like PF&W, the high-end raw joint, One Lucky Duck is all raw but the focus is on sweet treats, quick juices and snacks. And much like the slew of eateries doing this type of thing (Candle 79/Candle Cafe, Blossom/Cafe Blossom, that Zen [...]
Vegan Drinks @ Angels & Kings, July 30
I had never been to a Vegan Drinks event before although the event, held monthly at the East Village’s Angels & Kings, has graced my calendar plenty of times since they started in May of 2008. As soon as I heard this month’s social gathering of like-minded veg-friendlies would include free Sweet & Sara‘s vegan [...]
Sweet & Sara’s Cinnamon Pecan Marshmallows
In June Sweet & Sara introduced some new flavors to her already amazing line of vegan marshmallows. Along with the delicious vanilla and toasted coconut flavors {The Mexican chocolate flavor is now “out-of-print” and I never got to try it!}, she added strawberry and… cinnamon pecan. I picked up these scrumptious little cinnamon-dusted pillows today, [...]
