Yesterday was our first full day of the E2 (Engine 2 Diet) plan. We were at an all day conference so we brown bagged it. The Power Lunch sandwich spread came out amazing and I felt veg-rific and cool eating it at a Food Summit. I have to be honest though, I was envious that […]
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Today is the first day of our 28 day whole food, no oil eating plan. Today is also the day that we are attending an all day seminar called The Local Food Summit. There will be speakers, breakout sessions and limited access to vegan, no oil, sugar and sodium free foods unless we carry them […]
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Vegan cooking class this weekend was ridiculously fun. We had nine students and only two were already vegetarian. The rest of the class was mostly interested in learning some new veg dishes and shifting to a more veg friendly diet for their health. We were in a culinary arts classroom so the prep table had […]
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Thank you friends for the birthday wishes. I had the most wonderful birthday I can ever remember having. It included turtle brownies, dark chocolate caramel turtles and turtle Voopee Pies from Veganville Bakery that were to live for. The postal carrier dropped them off at exactly the right moment like he had some sort of […]
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Since yesterday’s post was about avoiding salt I thought it would be fun for today’s post to embrace pepper. I used a low sodium veg broth and black pepper a go-go to create this wacky green nest noodle dish. During the experimental phase of this recipe creation I added 2 Tsp of pepper to the […]
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February is the month to celebrate love and affairs of the heart. No surprise it is also American Heart Month. Messages about Go Red for Women are peppered everywhere and many businesses are helping to raise awareness about the dangers of heart disease while sharing ways to eliminate those dangers all together. One of the things […]
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Happy Meatless Monday. Here is a plant lovin recipe for a simple au gratin. You can replace the veggies for others to create a different dish every time. We are in the process of working the plant strong, oil and sugar free dishes of the Engine 2 Diet (E2) into our kitchen. Last night Sandy […]
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I was standing in the kitchen making a pot of tea while noodling what to have for dinner. Suddenly, it came to me….make an Eggplant Stack. I don’t really even know what that means, but there it was brewing in my mind along with the tea in the pot. I started to picture it as […]
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Last week at the screening of Forks Over Knives I had the opportunity to meet Rip Esselstyn, former Austin firefighter and author of the Engine 2 Diet (read Sandy and I made a human road block to tell him about Exploits) . Rip is the son of esteemed researcher and committed plant based diet advocate, Dr. […]
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When I was a little girl my parents owned a boat. It was a magnificent boat with a master bedroom, two bathrooms and a living room big enough to have fun in. It was my dads greatest source of joy and where he would take his last breath. The three of us traversed the Great […]
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