Exciting News!! Last night our own Detroit Tigers baseball team won the American League Championship and are now headed to the World Series. The Tigers are the first team in history to Sweep the Yankees for an AL Championship. The last time we won a World Series was 1984. I remember it as if it […]
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For the second exciting installment of modernizing vintage foods, I give to you, the vegan Waldorf Salad. For a brief history, I went to The Kitchen Project.com. “Waldorf salad [WAWL-dorf] (was) created at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in 1896 not by a chef but by the maître d’hôtel, (dining room manager) Oscar Tschirky, the Waldorf salad […]
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Happy Meatless Monday. It is officially cold in Michigan, so I’m ready for comfort food. There was frost worthy of scraping on my windshield this morning. This week we are going Glamping (glamour camping in an RV) for the first time ever. A crazy, adventuresome and generous friend of ours rented a 30 foot RV […]
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Have you ever seen a documentary that rocked your world so hard you wanted to share it with everyone you knew? Maybe it was the first time you saw Forks Over Knives, King Corn or Supersize Me. There are now more documentaries then ever about our food. They span from how we grow i,t to […]
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Sweet potatoes are one of my favorite foods. They are overachievers in that they can be both sweet and savory, decadent and healing. They are bright orange, signifying that they contain an abundance of nutrients and they are so inexpensive. I enjoy them for breakfast in my muffins and for dinner in my lasagna. They […]
Tags: exploits of a vegan wannabe, healthy dessert, Meatless Monday recipe, Mini sweet potato pistachio pies, vegan dessert recipes, vegan pie, vegan sweet potato pie, vegan sweet potato pistachio pie, vegan wannabe
Happy Meatless Monday. Today instead of a recipe I thought I would share a meatless experience with you. Last weekend we attended the annual vegan chili cook-off at Sasha Farm animal sanctuary. Sasha stands for Sanctuary and Safe Haven For Animals. They shelter over 200 animals including sheep, cows, pigs, turkeys and kitties. Every kind of […]
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One of my favorite parts of the weekend is having more time for breakfast. Here is a bundle of my favorite vegan breakfast recipes. I hope one or two of them fit into your weekend. Many of them can be made and enjoyed more than once. You need fuel for play, work and running errands. […]
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Last night as I was perusing my new LARABAR Fall Newsletter I saw that they had partnered with Green America for project Green Halloween. Among other details, they were of course recommending that you hand out LARABAR minis to your trick-or-treaters. Andy yes, I would don a costume for that. Okay, I’ll bite, what […]
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I recently picked up the Guide to Veg Living which is a free mini magazine created for Veg For life, a Farm Sanctuary campaign. It is a complimentary, mini magazine that has tips and tricks for the vegan wannabe. Inside I found a recipe for Phenomenal French Toast. I thought…wow, they are really confident about […]
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In a few weeks Sandy and I will be participating in our local Walk For Farm Animals event to benefit Farm Sanctuary. They host walks all over the country from September 8th to November 3rd to support the work they do caring for and rescuing farm animals. In addition to their sanctuary in Watkins Glen, […]
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