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Cupcake Camp NYC
CupcakeCamp NYC was a total blast! Below is one of my offerings… the marsh-nilla cupcake: golden vanilla cake with a oozing layer of marshmallow topping (from My Sweet Vegan‘s marshmallow mudpie recipe) and dandies on top. Here, CandyPenny and I represent the vegans well in our separate table. She offers cupcake fiends chocolate peanut butter babies [...]
Wine is Fine But Marshmallows are Dandy
All hail Chicago Soydairy! By golly they’ve done it again. Not only have they raised the bar stories high for what one can consider a vegan cheese (Teese) but now they have dropped my marshmallow-missing jaw with their air-puffed Dandies. Their vegan marshmallow just nabbed Veg News‘ Best of Show awards at the Natural Products [...]
Spring Cleaning Tidbits, Part II (Photo version)
The Valentina exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York. I’ve always found fashion to be the most trivial of the arts… but then again I’ve been wearing the same clothes and shoes for at least ten years. Had I been amongst New York’s high society in the 1940′s, I may of worn [...]
Vegan Mofo #23: Lula’s Sweet Apothecary
When CandyPenny sent me the link to Lula’s Sweet Apothecary in Manhattan’s East Village, I thought: this could be the one! The one I’ve been waiting for. Can New York City finally represent on the vegan ice cream front? Could the little truck that could in West Philly do it in the streets of New [...]
Ba Fondue!
For about 7 months the kitsch mushroom emblazoned fondue set I purchased at a thrift store in Jacksonville, Florida, partly to meet the card minimum, has sat high on my kitchen shelf, a witness and not a participant of the magic inside the Olive kitchen. I arbitrarily selected this date, September 19, 2008, to break [...]
Gourmet Cooking, Bag #1: Vegan Rice Crispy Treats
With five bags of vegan marshmallows to use before their expiration date on 2/14/07, crispy rice treats (a.k.a. Rice Krispy treats) were in order. Materials:5 cups storebrand crisp rice cereal1 bag VeganSweets marshmallows6 Tbsp. Earth Balance magarine9″ non-stick pan Step 1: Melt margarine in a large non-stick saucepan over very low heat. Once the margarine [...]
Gelatin-Free Marshmallows
I really crave confectionery sweets, more so than chocolate, and have always been a huge fan of the marshmallow. Boiled animal tendons, cartilage and bone by-products make standard marshfare unvegan but how would a vegan marshmallow compare to the characteristic spring and texture of the jet-puffed campfires of youth. Being as there are only 3 [...]
