Happy Meatless Monday. Hope you had a gorgeous weekend full of great food and fun things. Sandy made up a snack that is dairy free, sodium free, hassle free and will blow you away. If you don’t already have a food dehydrator you will want to look for one at a garage sale or borrow […]
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Yesterday we went to our local farmer’s market and found the most exquisite edible flower and greens. This organically grown blossom is tiny, delicate and abundant in peppery flavor. One little flower was like a mouthful of Arugula. Yum. Introducing mustard flowers (from Flowerinfo.org) The mustard flower is one of the more elusive blossoms […]
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As the story goes, Stephen grew up enjoying his moms legendary tofu steaks. Out of all the veg dishes in Helen’s repertoire, her tofu steaks were the most requested by friends and family. Stephen asked his mom if he could turn her specialty into a family business and she obliged, on one condition, ” if you […]
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Last night the air was still perfectly warm and sultry at 9 P.M. so it became an evening for dinner on the grill. I have been wanting to grill Jicama to see how it would taste, since I’ve only had it uncooked, so that is exactly what we did. The result was a side dish […]
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I am a newbie sprouter and really enjoying it. It is easier and less expensive than I imagined it would be. It has been exciting and almost immediately satisfying to grow your own food on your kitchen counter in a mason jar. A good friend of Exploits and writer of the blog JL Goes Vegan, […]
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Shortly after the beginning of our vegan journey last year, Sandy and I attended a Vegan Retreat at the Leaven Center in west Michigan. It was an amazing weekend with new found best friends and some of the most sensational food I had ever experienced, each meal cooked together joyously and enjoyed like vegan royalty. […]
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A few years ago while visiting Sandy’s parents in the South we went to a tiny restaurant called The Fickle Pickle. Their shining star is the fried green tomato sandwich. At the time, tomatoes topped my list of food foes. But here I was, given the opportunity to taste a historically amazing sandwich with a […]
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A few days ago at the store where I work, I rang up a Carrot Cake for a customer and thought, yum. I would love to eat you if you were vegan, made without oil and a more compassionate version of yourself. So, that day I decided to take it a step further and invite […]
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Only a few short months ago, making an entire meal out of a mushroom would have been unheard of. I was relatively ambivalent about the fungi but I could have gotten Sandy to eat a live goldfish before she would have eaten a mushroom. But now, here we are with constantly changing taste-buds and new […]
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In honor of Cinco De Mayo I would like to share a few of my fave recipes in this celebratory profile of flavors. Try something new today. Have your first vegetarian Cinco De Mayo or if you are already veg, try a new recipe for fun. If you have some faves of your own, please […]
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