This soup looked like sunshine in a bowl. I sauteed sweet onion in olive oil until translucent and then added carrots, celery, garlic, bay leaves, a splash of liquid smoke, sea salt and pepper. Once that all cooked together for a while I added a can of garbanzo beans, yukon gold potatoes and good amount of dried rosemary. I mashed up some of the ( Read more... )

Jared and I juice about twice a day, each. It takes a lot of produce to make four 10 ounce juices a day. I went to the farmers market to up our juicing (and cooking) supplies. Starting from the right we have an english cucumber, celery, pineapple, cantaloupe, blueberries, broccoli, kale, beets with their lovely greens, green bell pepper, tomatoes, ( Read more... )

Recently, I was sadden to discover that most thai peanut sauce has fish sauce. I kinda always assumed it did, but now that I am vegan I had to come to the sad realization that this is now off the menu when we go out to eat. Not so much a problem in Decatur, since we haven't found one Thai restaurant that has peanut curry sauce on their menu except ( Read more... )

Man! This salad was out of this world and I had the dressing and fresh strawberries on top to thank for it! The salad had chopped romaine lettuce, halved grape tomatoes, thinly sliced red onion, strips of yellow bell pepper and sliced strawberries ( Read more... )

Today we were out exploring Atlanta more and went to this awesome Mediterranean restaurant called the Olive Bistro. It was reasonably priced and really, really great! Jared and I shared a Jerusalem salad which had chopped cucumbers, chopped tomatoes, diced red onion, parsley and some of the best tahini dressing I have ever had. We ate the salad so ( Read more... )

WOW! I even impress myself sometimes. Tonight I made these summer rolls since Jared has been talking about them since I got up to Georgia over a month ago. The spring rolls wrappers are made out of tapioca flour and in order to become pliable, must be soaked in water. I thinly cut up cucumber and green onion, grated carrots and fried some strips of ( Read more... )

I have worked at 3 smoothie places in my years past and I am here to tell you . . . I am still the smoothie queen! It is almost impossible to get a vegan smoothie out, since so often smoothies are filled with white sugar, honey and/or yogurt. Since we have a fantastic blender (shaped like a beehive . . . come on!) I decided to make this lovely ( Read more... )

Fennel is used in some cultures as a digestive aid and/or as a breath freshener. Me, I just really like the taste, which if you have never had it before (shame on you!) it taste like very mellow licorice or anise. I do not like licorice candy, so that should be an indication as to the mellowness of fresh fennel bulb. A lot of people roast fennel ( Read more... )

Oh the galette! A galette is a rustic pastry that can either be sweet (apple, apricot, peach) or savory (mushroom, onion). The crust on a typical galette is puff pastry, which is definitely not vegan. I have been experimenting with doughs the past few days and decided to make an apple galette, veganized ( Read more... )

After too many days of eating out with Jared and the in laws, I am happy to show this lovely spread to get me back to the kitchen. Today I got green onions, tofu (made in Decatur), Georgia peaches, bananas, zucchini, grape tomatoes, blueberries, lemons, pineapple, watermelon, sweet white corn, romaine, shallots, chives, parsley, plutos, micro ( Read more... )