October 14, 2023
Cat sitting this guy, I was relaxing on Long Island’s North Shore. So I started each morning with a bite and coffee from the area’s high quality coffee shops… This guy made sure I was up early. A latte from Southdown Coffee in Glen Cove… just perfection. $14 for one Read more…
September 19, 2023
When a camping spot in the coveted J-section at Hither Hills State Park opened up, I booked it for two nights knowing there wouldn’t be a better way to spend the evening on my visit back to the metro area of New York. And it would be a perfect location Read more…
September 1, 2023
With a friend in town, we had to see some sites and we had to eat well! So first, Red Fern–with wide ranging dishes and sweet treats, it’s a vegan go-to. I took a risk on the special, the po’ boy made with battered soy curls. It was tasty but Read more…
August 22, 2023
Ok, so part of the reason I was so psyched about St. George, Utah was the vegan options. Starting with a good breakfast that hits all the notes from Gaia’s Garden Cafe… The Buddha Toast with avocado, curried chickpeas, radish, cilantro & house-made tahini dressing on Organic artisan sourdough. Just Read more…
June 24, 2023
Southdown Coffee in Glen Cove was the start of a day inside Long Island’s wonders. This cute coffee shop chain does things right. This is the Granita topped with dreamy coconut whip. Avocado Toast that was absolute perfection. The delicious Chickpea Salad Sandwich: Sourdough bread with arugula, alfalfa sprouts, roasted Read more…
April 30, 2023
JÜS Organic was a breakfast dream come true for a couple of famished explorers. Vibrant and healthful options for the nutrient starved, our tastebuds rejoiced at each bite. We enjoyed our food so much that we made a point to return the next morning. First juice and a ginger shot Read more…
April 16, 2023
More vegan food reporting from Rochester! Though there are some oldies but goodies included, there are some notable new recommendations as I eat my way through the Flour City. Unlike many eateries in New York City, most eateries in Rochester have thoughtful vegan options on their omni-menus. Sure, they’ve got Read more…
February 20, 2023
After a couple of days of eating nothing more than trail mix, Yuma, Arizona offered some great vegan eats. I had one day in town, so here is what I chose: Sunshine Cafe would be the hip coffee spot I could grab an oat milk latte and avocado toast from… Read more…
June 11, 2022
I’m so pleased a place like Lively is so close to my job. Good healthy eats are readily available. Here is my Green Sandwich–Gluten free bread, kale, collard greens, spinach, celery, cucumber, chickpeas, almond, olive oil, and vegan mayo. And that delicious tahini bite that I now think taste a Read more…
May 30, 2022
Summer is excursions… …with views along the way. The sailors in town for Fleet Week. Road food (Dunkin Donuts LOL) The road before me… Bearing cookie gifts. The irises. Water in any form. In this case, fresh. Chimney Bluffs State Park from Lake Ontario Sand castles. View from the deck. Read more…
May 6, 2022
Though many of these are repeats from previous visits, a second visit is a nice progression to developing reliability for cravings. Like the chocolate chip cookie from Balsam Bagels. Thick and just barely cooked like I like… And their breakfast bagel is also an easy pleaser There is not a Read more…
March 26, 2022
What can I say about Veg On Board‘s magnificent charcuterie boards that images don’t make abundantly clear? This time, a brunch-themed board. Let’s look at the artistry that is Veg On Board. What do you see? In no particular order: Mini corn muffins, overnight oats, mini pancake kabobs, mini avocado Read more…
December 11, 2021
This is one of my favorite types of eateries… great, thoughtful breakfast selections done well with minimal packaged processed food on the menu. The Stand Vegan Cafe in Fairfield, Connecticut does it right. My Seitan Bagel Sandwich, an everything with maple-mustard marinated seitan, grilled tofu, chive cashew spread, and tarragon Read more…
November 15, 2021
L’Artisane Bakery & Bistro in Miami, Florida is just perfection. I might have said, as I ate my Avocado Toast Croissant, “This is the best vegan thing I ever ate.” And as I took more bites, I may have said it again. Just look: This was my Dulce de Leche Read more…
November 5, 2021
How is it November, just a couple of months away from the new year? Every year seems to go faster and faster. Here, some shots in time… things I’ve eaten within time. A beautiful morning Treat Me Thursday at my new favorite coffee shop on the way to work: Yardsale. Read more…
October 23, 2021
Finally, all the vegan food from my Rochester trip! Starting at Balsam Bagels, which offers next level vegan options like more than 10 varieties of vegan cream cheese, Just Egg breakfast sandwiches with their house made coconut bacon, vegan bagel dogs and carrot lox, as well as vegan sweet treats. Read more…
July 2, 2021
After a few nights roughing it, a self-care day in San Diego. It started with Split Bakehouse, an all-vegan bakery I was really looking forward to. It’s inside a food court in a mall, but the food court has a bunch of dediacted vegan eateries. That is vegan friendly! Take Read more…
May 14, 2021
It’s the season of pretty, when color comes back to captivate. Spring has a haunting power that beckons, that determines winter’s way of life no longer tolerable. Inside the inability to capture this intangible, pictures of colorful things that impart a small fraction of its feeling. Counting the colors of Read more…
April 3, 2021
Pool blue is such a pretty color. The sun in the palm. In the archives, my friend’s art medium Oh you got green eyes; oh you got blue eyes; oh you got grey eyes… and I’ve never seen anyone quite like you before… Layers of green Avocado toast from Celis Read more…
January 7, 2021
As we enter 2021 still within this health crisis, still within political insanity, the Scenes continue! Freshly testing out of a quarantine, to follow are Scenes from several quarantines past, in-between negative Covid tests… the ones before seeing my family for both Thanksgiving and Christmas, as well as after my Read more…
January 3, 2021
There’s only one thing to do after a trip. Well, besides now quarantining. And that is to plan another. But before that, some outtakes from Florida, which already seems months ago. In the sky Welcoming treat from my generous host–some cupcakes from Blondie’s Vegan Bakery in Boynton Beach. For some Read more…
December 31, 2020
We would need this heavenly breakfast from Perk Coffee House in Tequesta to make it through the day’s activity: two hours of certainly more than beginner level glass-bottom kayaking through narrow mangrove tunnels in the Fort Pierce inlet. A perfect Avocado Toast In the kayak. Having little experience even rowing Read more…
October 21, 2020
Autumn is my favorite season for so many reasons. A short stop before holiday hoopla, the glorious seasonal transition brings the goods–by way of my favorite tones in the trees and rustling at my feet, tights weather, sweater weather, pumpkins, my birthday, Libra sun, Halloween, giving thanks to all the Read more…
October 16, 2020
The last few weeks has felt like 6 months. But I am eating well. Luckily I have some upcoming escapes on the calendar to balance my tremendous workload. In the meantime, these signs of the time. My perfecto pancakes. Ginger garnish in the works Pan-fried till crispy. Week 2, test Read more…
October 6, 2020
Fall is for roasted roots and vegetables the hue of the Earth in all its vibrance. And, thankfully, the busiest time of the year calls for the easiest dinner preparation–coat in olive oil, salt and pepper and set in the oven. Repeat. If only I can lesson plan this way. Read more…
September 7, 2020
First: Coffee, then Kayak. What am I saying, I have been in a kayak exactly twice in my life, including this time. 😂 And just like the first time, I barely contributed anything to the rowing process. Water: I just enjoy being around it, within in, on top of it–any Read more…