We live our entire lives among some of nature’s most beautiful and skilled creatures and they nearly fade entirely from our awareness. Birds, for example. At least in this part of the world, you can’t really go a minute outside without a sighting, they are as commonplace as grass and as such, we often treat […]
My dad is the amateur chef in the family. He’s the one spending hours in the kitchen and experimenting with new recipes and veganizing old family favorites for me. He hosts themed dinner parties for his neighbors and has the kitchen tools and serving ware that can rival a small catering company. But growing up, […]
I had yet to experience the most perfect brownie since I went vegan. It’s not because I’m vegan, I just don’t often come across as many vegan brownies as I’d like and I apparently have very specific expectations of the perfect brownie that few fail to meet, even long before veganism was a thing in […]
I had previously mentioned that I wanted to bring food along to the book club happening at my Kung Fu school. I had finalized the Chines 5-spice molasses cookie recipe and it was time to try my hand at Jiaozi making, the Chinese style dumpling. I was originally contemplating this vegan recipe from One Green Planet […]
Scrolling my Facebook feed, a post caught my eye from an Animal Rights Activist I really admire. In the midst of political chaos and discontentment, it was a nice change of topic – food photos! Of course I stopped to read the post that was somewhat innocently venting about how annoying it is when food […]
My kung fu school is having their first book club, and like any good martial arts school, everything is martial arts related. So for our first book, we’re reading American Shaolin by Matthew Perry which is an easy and entertaining read because our school is pretty much all ages (oh, those tiny kung fu martial […]
For whatever reason, egg salad brings back fond childhood memories. I distinctly remember my mom packing up a picnic lunch of egg salad sandwiches on that glorious, cheap, soft white bread, and taking me to the zoo. We would eat it outside of the zoo gates, my young mind thought it was to make the […]
Alternate title: Veganism is not a diet. For the folks in the back – Veganism is not a diet. Alternate-Alternate Title: Of all the magazines, how did I get here, but okay! I thought it was weird to have my name in Vegan Health and Fitness magazine. Me, the person that ate 3 doughnuts, a […]
Like many folks here, my husband and I have a goal to travel to all 50 states in the USA. Between the two of us, we’ve already hit most of them long before we met and our earlier travels together we spent mostly in the various tropical islands. In order to make the 50 state […]
Before I even get to the food, can we talk about vegan food terminology? It’s annoying, isn’t it? I feel like there really isn’t a perfect way to word vegan versions of traditionally animal-based products. I mean, I’m totally comfortable calling my tempeh bacon simply “bacon” and my tofu scramble “eggs” but damn if some […]
