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Divvies / Allergen-stricken & Vegans Unite
I’m always on the hunt for new vegan items and brands! If they happen to be new vegan chocolate chip cookies, well even better. The story of Divvies is much like many of the allergen-free baking companies… someone wanting to make sure the allergen-stricken has satisfying and yummy treats. Being a vegan, I appreciate the [...]
Vegan Linden’s Cookies
Do you remember these packaged cookies? I sure do. I loved them as a child. My mom used to bring them home from her job. I devoured them slowly, breaking off portions of each of the three cookies’ circumferences. I placed each piece on my tongue, like communion. Years later I found my high school cafeteria [...]
Chocolate Memories
Does anyone remember the Sky Bar chocolate bar? The chocolate bar with four distinct sections (peanut butter, caramel, vanilla and fudge) put out by Necco? When I was a little girl on Long Island and my pop worked in midtown Manhattan, he used to bring them home for us kids. Because they came from New [...]
Days of Daiya
I have Daiya, among other vegan treats for my upcoming holiday cookie marathon. But yes, Daiya–the hot topic vegan cheese. I have taken it apart before but never had a stash of my own to experiment with.I don’t know what to make with shredded cheese. It’s been so long! Starting basic, I whipped up a [...]
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, [...]
A Tofu Omelet Grows in Brooklyn
Before you even see these gorgeous little beasts, let me say a word about this fine piece of rock in my palm: black salt or, in its native Hindi, kala namak. No, black salt isn’t street code for heroin. It’s a special smokey salt. In Vegan Brunch Isa gives this specialty salt time to shine, [...]
Happy Dad Day Pink Cake
What better way to say thanks, dad than a lemon layer cake with a strawberry and cream center and lemony-sweet icing? That’s right, there is no better way! Adapted from this recipe, my cake was a soft, ultra-moist and delicate sponge of sweetness. Far too much sugar for my tastebuds, I was a bit dizzy [...]
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 [...]
Cool Cups Vegan “Jello” Cups
Hi, Welcome to my new blog label “product reviews”! Here I’ll be risking my hard-earned dollars in the name of vegan product exploration. The vegan food market is growing in leaps and bounds. A trip to the health food store reveals more and more new products geared towards us ethical eaters. I plan to take [...]
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 [...]
