Do you ever wonder how you could get more chocolate into your life? It’s a thought that crosses my mind often. It’s right up there with “I wonder what the new season of Arrested Development will be like?” (Answer: If it’s anything like the first 3 seasons, it will totally rock my world) and “Is … Continue reading »
Tomorrow is National Vegan Pizza Day! Are you as excited as I am? Because I care about all of you, I want you to get this holiday started off right. For this special day, to make sure you have the proper fuel to get you though the day of eating vegan pizza, and to do … Continue reading »
Today, the twins are twelve years old. The greatest blessing in my life is that I get to watch these two amazing human beings grow and develop and become more and more amazing. Maxwell and Sophia are both so intelligent and kind-hearted and just all-around good people, and it is a pleasure just to know … Continue reading »
Broccoli and I used to be on not such great terms. It wasn’t as bad as my past relationship with grapefruit, but I generally just avoided it. After becoming vegan, I decided to bring more broccoli into my life (grapefruit could stay out, as far as I was concerned). My search for broccoli recipes led … Continue reading »
“What’s a Cuppin,” you ask? Well, it’s what would happen if a muffin and a cupcake got together and had a baby. A super-rad, totally scrumptious baby. I recently wanted to recreate this recipe, but with blackberries. Blackberries are one of Chris’s favorites, so I thought it would be a nice way to say “thank … Continue reading »
Recently, I returned home from yoga to find a huge box on our doorstep. In this box, I found a Vitamix. For me. From my husband. I feel like an official vegan now. An official vegan with the most amazing partner anyone could ever ask for. It’s not just this gift, though. Have you seen … Continue reading »
Trifecta. Isn’t that a fantastic word?! I’m not enirely sure it is an appropriate term for what I am describing, but as I’ve said before, I love words. This one gets stuck in my head more than any other word I can think of right now (Weird Fact: It is usually James Franco’s voice saying … Continue reading »
I am the type of person that can eat the same thing for months, sometimes even years, then get tired of it suddenly and replace it with something else. My entire junior year of college, I had tomato soup (from a box) with a grilled cheese sandwich (on white bread, usually with Kraft singles) for … Continue reading »
One of my favorite yoga teachers has all of us choose a “Fairy Oracle” card from a deck at the beginning of each class. Each card has a concept or idea on it that we can use to focus on during our practice, if we so choose. At the end of class, you can look … Continue reading »
I am so excited today! Why, you ask? Well, the answer is two-fold: 1.) My tummy is full of these scrumptious little muffins, and 2.) You can read all about them in my guest post over at Fork and Beans! Go there now and enjoy!
My relationship with grapefruit has come a long way. There’s no nice way of saying this, but I used to detest grapefruit. When I joined a CSA, they started sending me different varieties of grapefruit, and I forced myself to use them. I soon found that if you put them in salads, along with a … Continue reading »
Chris loves carrot cake. He also loves a big bowl of clustery granola cereal in the morning. It was only a matter of time before I put the two together. Fresh, organic, flavor-packed carrots from our CSA really put this carrot cake granola over the edge. From the look of it, it looks like just … Continue reading »
Ever since chia seeds became uber-popular, all I think of when I hear their name is those silly Chia Pets. My brain rarely lets me just say “chia” with out it being preceded with the old commercial jingle. I apologize for being obnoxious. I could tell you that I created this granola because I wanted … Continue reading »
Growing up, my parents never told me what the ice cream man was because they didn’t want me running into the street every time I saw him. They also probably didn’t want me always begging for ice cream. Either way, up until the age of 9 or 10, I always thought the ice cream man … Continue reading »
I like small kitchen appliances. I always have. The first kitchen appliance I ever remember being kind of crazy about was one of those sandwich-pocket maker things. I learned how to operate it by the age of six and was making my own crazy sandwich creations every chance I got (probably where my later passion … Continue reading »
When we first became vegan, and I began researching how to cook certain things, there were ingredients that would come up that always made me uneasy. Either I’d never heard of that particular ingredient before, or maybe I’d heard of it, but didn’t know what it was for or how to use it. The first … Continue reading »
In my book, the word “brunch” is a verb. Breakfast is a meal, but brunch is an action. You eat breakfast, but you do brunch. Brunching is best done on the weekends, but there are certain special days- holidays, if you will- which provide the perfect opportunity to take brunching to the next level: Christmas, … Continue reading »
I am on spring break! Or, my stepkids are, rather, and I am lucky enough to be able to hang with them while they enjoy their week off. My favorite spring breaks were when I was in college. I never did the hard-core, crazy partying at some tropical beach town. I was never seen on … Continue reading »
One of my most favorite cities in the world is Barcelona. It is such a beautiful, whimsical city, complete with insane architecture, gorgeous beaches, the best farmer’s market you’ll ever go to, nap time, and tapas. I’ve not been to Barcelona since becoming vegan, but as a vegetarian, there were a few staple tapas that … Continue reading »