We had plans for an early morning hike at an expected 50 degrees so I was slightly surprised to see it flurrying when I woke up at 6:30. I don’t keep up on the weather, it’s going to do what it’s going to do and I won’t really prepare any differently. It’s my little way of […]
There Can Even Be Growth in Sourdough
My husband often says I often put myself in these situations that I dread, but it’s not that I dread them, it’s that what initially sounded like an awesome idea quickly turns to an anxiety fueled countdown to the event. So I guess I can see why he may be a little confused, but I […]
That One Time I Caught a Bird
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 […]
World’s Easiest Beefy Chili
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, […]
Food Inspo: Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Brownies
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 […]
Food Inspo: Jiaozi / Vegan Chinese Dumplings (link to recipe)
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 […]
“Your Blog is Wrong”
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 […]
5-Spice Chinese Molasses Cookies
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 […]
Egg(less) Salad
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 […]
Shout Out In -and To- Glamour UK Magazine
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 […]