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California Desert Adventure β˜€οΈ
Eating A Lot In Los Angeles

As usual, I have to eat a lot in LA. This time I tried to put a dent in the tons of vegan fried chicken places I have been drooling over from afar. Starting with Uncool Burgers… on my list because I thought I could get an Atlas Monroe chicken Read more…


Vegan Wonders of the Tri-State Area
Connecticut’s Divine Treasures

It’s been about 10 years since I discovered Manchester, Connecticut’s Divine Treasures. And it’s time I make a declaration about their vegan soft serve ice cream: It is the best I’ve ever have. πŸ† The nut-based small batch delight is even more fantastic when topped with their own hot fudge Read more…


Non-Dairy Queen πŸ‘‘
Vegan Option Now at Dairy Queen

File this under lowbrow, Dairy Queen has a non-dairy option. Sure, the packaged chocolate-covered “Dilly Bar” is not all that exciting an option… but it’s a pretty clear indicator of vegan options spreading far and wide. Dorking it up, non-dairy style. And it’s got the V-word right there on the Read more…


Vegan Florida Eats 🌴
Christopher’s Kitchen, Palm Beach Gardens

The all-vegan Christopher’s Kitchen was a perfect first dinner in West Palm area. Elevated without being stuffy, their food is an example of the best food can be–close to its original form yet deliciously treated with care–delivering on all fronts: taste, texture and presentation. For starters, the Avocado Ginger Roll, Read more…


Coconut Spookybread at Spot Dessert BarπŸ•·οΈ

For a limited time, Spot Dessert Bar was serving a pretty gorgeous instagramable dessert. Though this may describe many of the exclusive Asian-fused treats they serve on St. Marks Place in the East Village, their Coconut Spookybread was particularly striking: bright white, bright purple and deep black… colors of Halloween. Read more…


Saying Goodbye to Summer

The worst part about the last days of summer is that you are farthest away from her return. But she is not quite gone yet. There is still time to worship, to lay under her—for hours as she roasts you good and well, imparting her powerful rays onto your surface Read more…


One of the 31 πŸ₯„
Vegan Options at Baskin Robbins

So happy to discover one of the vegan Baskin Robbins flavors during a pit stop. I was even happier that the ice cream was creamy, decadently dressed in chocolate fudge and packed with chocolate chip cookie dough. So, here it is to cool off your eyes. Word is that the Read more…


Bay Ridge Bites
❄️ Snowdays Shaved Ice

Snowdays is a delicious Japanese-inspired franchise that offers two vegan flavors of their airy frozen treat–coconut and strawberry. I have been wanting to try them for quite some time so I was happy to learn that they had a shop in Bay Ridge! Service was great and totally in-the-know with Read more…


Trying to Eat Vegan Food in Illinois and Indianapolis

I have only been to Indiana once before in 2014 and was looking forward to reporting on vegan eats. But my best food plans needed to be flexible considering the current pandemic and what it has done to supply and demand of vegan options. Here is what I wanted to Read more…


Move Vegan Bites & Delights on Staten Island

As a blogger, I am excited about uncovering vegan options in sneaky places. “Sneaky” as in places where you would least expect it. So vegan options in the East Village? Yeah, yeah. But vegan options in Staten Island? How amazing! To follow is yet another report on vegan treasures on Read more…


Sugar Hill Creamery
Vegan Ice Cream in Harlem

I’m happy to see vegan options far and wide, especially when they are made from scratch with loving care in small batches. Sugar Hill Creamery is a family-owned ice cream shop whose unique flavors are a breath of fresh air. I got a scoop of the Gone Till November, inspired Read more…


And on the 10th Day
She Rested…

Ah, a day of rest. Having settled into West Palm Beach, all that was on the itinerary was some food and some rest. We stayed local, sampling some of her new neighborhood’s eats. A light lunch at Celis Produce: Here is the TATA: tempeh, avocado, tomato, arugula with sunflower seeds Read more…


What the Shell?!
Photo Purge For the Road

Phew! I cleared out all my blog drafts. Just one of many ‘to do’s in advance of my trip. Now just a quick photo purge with just a smattering of words. Starting with some shelling at Fort Tilden in Queens. Stuck between a rock… I am hoping for better shelling Read more…


Vegan Stuff at North 3rd Street Market

Williamsburg has a new little food court in the thick of the area’s hullabaloo, North 3rd Street Market, and it has some good vegan options! Manhattan’s delicious all-vegan Mexican Jajaja has a Brooklyn outpost there. Since it was Tuesday, I had to make it a Taco Tuesday. Everything is so Read more…


Home Stuff

I want desperately to be gone, yet here I am thanks to a terrible decision to teach summer school. So while I lay low, some home stuff. Like the strange orange glow that lured me out of my apartment. Magic. Pancakes are an easy dinner, especially when you don’t want Read more…


I’ll be on the water.

There is no better place than right next to the water. I’ll take any and all kinds of water. Even better is being with friends next to the water. To follow is some of the water I love near loved ones. The Greek‘s backyard in Broad Channel, Queens. Grapes! An Read more…


Pretty New Jersey
And Vegan Food

New Jersey often gets a bad rap. But it has so many wonderful places! And I just love to uncover and report on them. Plus, really great vegan options. So prepare yourself for tons of pictures on my pretty journey south to Atlantic City. Because Jersey deserves some cred. One Read more…


NYC Ranting πŸ—£
& Vegan Eats in Port Jervis
and Port Chester

Dear New York City, Where is your housemade eggy breakfast sandwich with housemade cashew cheese and housemade coconut bacon? Where is your housemade toasted meringue topped vegan ice cream? You can keep your packaged vegan options, NYC, while I head north. The packaged food options are getting to be a Read more…


Plants, Then Ice Cream Plants.
(Carroll Gardens Vegan)

The all-vegan Planted in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn has some great bites. It is a nice addition to a neighborhood I’m often in, given its proximity to my hair gal and my old job. My Vegan Egg Sandwich with its cashew cheese eggs, some greens, pickled beet, avocado, and some dried Read more…


Vegan KITH & Kin

Kith Treats is a cereal bar a few steps from the Barclays Centers in Downtown Brooklyn that mixes up childhood classic cereals with ice cream in cones, cups, milkshakes and bowls. And they’ve got a coconut ice cream vegan option! I enjoyed a delicious blizzard of Cap’N Crunch on a Read more…


I Drove All Day.
Day 4 in Texas

When you drive all day, the path of your thoughts can be amusing. Like this morning–I took a picture of this stop sign in Marfa before I hit the road. I thought I could get it printed all nice and big for my classroom. But as the day progressed, the Read more…


Some Vermont Eats

With “Big Ice Cream” beginning to offer dairy-free options, vegan ice cream… or, as Ben & Jerry calls in Non-dairy Frozen Dessert… is sweeping the nation. So I visited the Ben & Jerry Factory while it was only 20 minutes away to have the breakfast of champions: an ice cream Read more…


3 Cemeteries in Vermont

My only full day in Vermont would be full of trudging about in the snow… which is the only way to do Vermont in the winter. After staying in Barre overnight, I took advantage of my locale by throwing in a early morning stop at a unique tourist attraction, Barre’s Read more…


Rip’s Malt Shop

Besides really enjoying the opportunity to step into a learner’s role during off-site teacher professional development, I also enjoy getting to see the New York City views atop various high rises about Brooklyn and/or Manhattan.Β  It has become a bit of a past time of mine.Β  This time, the top 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…