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Vegan Potato Pancakes with
Vegan Polish Goulash at Polska Chata πŸ‡΅πŸ‡±
Rochester, New York

Polska Chata offers a potato pancake special on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturday. It’s two spectacular potato pancakes topped with a vegan version of the traditional Polish Goulash. After some Christmas shopping I just had to partake. Polska Chata is such a wonderful eatery in Rochester, New York. With thoughtful and Read more…


Apple Haul, Part 9 🍎
Deep Fried Apple Fritters

Since we have deep fryer capabilities, I thought I’d whip up a deep-fried recipe for my next apple endeavor. Using Make It Dairy Free’s recipe, I prepped an easy dough then waited for the oil to come to temperature. Once the oil was ready, the greasy fun began! Ah, glistening Read more…


Apple Haul, Part 8 🍎
Easy Apple Pop Tarts

Using the last of the store-bought puff pastry, these very easy apple pop tarts. The apple stash is dwindling! I do believe I will meet my goal of using all the apples we picked. Many recipes have these made with honey, but I just used maple syrup. The pastry dough Read more…


Using the Apple Haul, Part 6 🍎
Candy Apples

Yes, I coated a perfectly sweet and wholesome apple with a sticky candy coating. I am guilty. And once they were made, I basked in their candy apple red but had no desire to eat ’em. So let’s just look and save ourselves a trip to the dentist.


Using the Apple Haul, Part 5 🍎
Applesauce

Every apple haul needs to include a batch of applesauce, the O.G. apple dish with deep nostalgic ties. Considering I wanted to get way more creative with my apples, I opted for a small portion with the goal of eating with some yummy vegan pierogis from Polska Chata. First I Read more…


Using the Apple Haul, Part 4 🍎
Apple Butter

Making apple butter would use a whopping 5 1/2 pounds of apples! No peeling, no hands on work at all until after many hours of baking in the slow cooker. This recipe was easy peasy… The fresh apples ready for their fate Spiced and sugared After the overnight… zombie apples! Read more…


Using the Apple Haul, Part 3 🍎
Apple Roses

These Apple Rose tarts might be the easiest and prettiest of apple baking. All you need are some strips of pastry dough. You can purchase premade for an extremely easy endeavor or make your own! Pepperidge Farms puff pastry dough is vegan, though pumped with garbagey stuff. I would use Read more…


Using the Apple Haul, Part 2 🍎
An Apple Strudel

For my second usage of our haul of apples, a shockingly easy vegan apple strudel! The recipe from Connoisseurus Veg utilizes store-bought puff pastry dough and a delicious filling mixture of apples, sugar, raisins, pecans, rum, cinnamon, vanilla and lemon juice. I sliced them thin on the mandoline, though you Read more…


Using the Apple Haul, Part 1 🍎
An Apple Tart

Now that I have a slew of apples to use, my first undertaking would be from Rainbow Nourishment, one of my favorite vegan blogs to hunt for recipes. It starts with a quick crust in the food processor. I made two tarts. This is the first, the circle. As a Read more…


Happy Autumn!
🍎 Apple Picking at Wickham Farms 🍎

What is Fall without apple picking? Now that I am not stuck in a grimy metropolis, it would be easier to embrace this autumn tradition. So we packed the gang to pick a massive haul of apples from Wickham Farms. Don’t waste time with the low hanging fruit! The Gala Read more…


Rochester Parks Exploration, Part 1

Seeking beauty, I am diving into exploring Rochester’s parks in a big way. To follow, pieces of beauty found and frolicked in. Ellison Park The word “lush” comes to mind. No not someone who drinks too much but teeming with green. Ellison Park is a gorgeous park. In a tree Read more…


And So Are the Days of Our Lives…

This year, the summer seems endless. I never know what day is and thus time is passing in giant chunks of leisure. This is my daily life right now. Until it isn’t. So I am basking. Above, an amazing tempeh rib special from Red Fern. Cornbread, sweet potato mash, pilaf Read more…


Lots of Vegan Food in Rochester, NY {Part 6.5}

Yet another mini-report on Rochester, New York’s vegan offerings! My quick trip had some yummy bites… starting with brunch at Voula’s Greek Sweets. Their food really blew me away last time I visited, so I knew I would have to try their brunch. First, their vegan sweet case, including Melomakarona, Read more…


Some Rochester Outtakes

With a quick trip to Rochester, here are some outtakes. Starting with this great meal from Red Fern–their Oktober Fest Special: Vegan bratwurst with sauerkraut, apple-raisin chutney & creamy mustard mayo on a Pretzel Roll with a side of German potato salad. Very yum. Goodbye, NYC. Almost there after a Read more…


⚠️ Explicit Content Warning ⚠️
Kinky’s Dessert Bar, Lower East Side

{18 and older for this post, please.} Despite the growing realm of vegan options, we were not with many options for vegan x-rated baked goods. Then Kinky’s Dessert Bar came along with its tantalizing space on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. To follow, the explicit images from my visit. Read more…


End of Spring Photo Purge

Time is divided in pictures, like blondies. A 90’s day, I binged grunge documentaries and made a tofu scramble Hello, berry season Waiting for a mermaid on South Beach, Staten Island Tried these Kite Hill tortellini. Good flavor and texture… If you need to use up a lot of apples, Read more…


Apples To Apple Pie 🍏

My sweet landlady always gives me the surplus produce from her weekly delivery from the senior center. Though I don’t always need it, I know it makes her feel good to share. This time, when she knocked on my door with her hands full of apples, I knew I’d be Read more…


You want a piece of me? πŸ₯§
Apple Pie Explorations

In a moment of thinking “I need to improve my pie game…” I bought a slew of Granny Smith apples. Then there they sat in my fruit bowl staring at me. But already mourning the impending loss of endless hours at home, since school would commence in the classroom next Read more…


Grow a Pear 🍐
Vegan Rustic Pear Galette

With so many pears sitting in my fruit bowl from my latest Misfits box, I new I needed to utilize them all in one fell swoop… packing them with warming spices for these cold days. Using them in a galette appealed to me as it is more rustic and forgiving Read more…


My TV Dinner
Apartment-made Seitan Loaf,
Mashed Celeriac & Apple Pear Sauce

Using up my produce makes up a good amount of my home to-do’s. This week, some of the scratch-made seitan loaves would find delicious partnership with the contents of my fruit and vegetable bowls: apples, pears and the gnarly bulbous celeriac… or celery root. Perhaps you’ve seen these beauties in Read more…


Veggies for the Road πŸš—πŸ’¨

Sunday’s produce delivery will not go to waste! Since freshness is difficult to get on the road, I prepared some snacks that will hopefully survive my cooler. Firstly, fruits with skins are generally good travelers. So apples, oranges, and plums are already prepped. But this huge beet would need some Read more…


Mid-March Photo Purge & Related Rambling

With this year’s Pi Ο€ Day not falling on a school day, this middle school math teacher was not motivated to make a pie, my least favorite sweet treat to eat. It also took an alarm and early morning door bust to manage to grab one of the last things Read more…


Food From Food

It’s time for my annual pumpkin processing. This year I do not have half as much pumpkin as I usually have, just a small one in classroom and a small one outside my apartment door. Nevertheless I cannot make my 11th year of classroom pumpkin cupcakes without this lazy day Read more…


School Apple 🍎 Tamarind Chutney

My work peeps give me the apples their students don’t eat for breakfast. Maybe because I am a vegan, maybe because they know I bake, maybe because they know I hate waste. Either way it’s more lucrative than going apple picking! This week I made an apple-tamarind Indian-spiced chutney with Read more…


Bedford Stuyvesant Vegan Eats

Fermento is an Italian cafe in Bed-Stuy. And it is this vegan gal’s dream. And so, this Memorial Day, two Italian ladies stopped in for colazione and left floored by the quality and breadth of their options. I got the Turmeric Tofu Scramble on a multigrain croissant (“cornetto”) with spinach Read more…


Birthdaze: Fancy Pants Dinner 🎁🎈

I got my favorite kind of sky on my birthday.  Bright blue with bright white clouds.  And a very cold wind.  A fancy dinner with friends at Sans in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.  This “worship the vegetable” eatery is only going to be around for a year as a test of Read more…