The winter holidays are my favorite. I love Christmas, and New Year’s is always fun, but that other holiday that happens at around this time, well, it’s a super close second. What holiday, you ask? Festivus. That’s right, my friends, Festivus. It’s a Festivus for the rest of us. Every year, for the last 8 … Continue reading »
I have to commute pretty far to and from work for the project I’m on right now. After working all day and then driving over an hour to get home, cooking an elaborate dinner is not something that interests me. I would much prefer that I had a 1950′s housewife to have dinner ready and … 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 »
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 »
Want to read more about the delicious soup behind these photographs? Head over to Vegan Bloggers Unite to see my guest post! All Photos taken by Chris Miller © Kristy Turner and Keepin’ It Kind, 2012. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material (content and images) without express and written permission from this blog’s … Continue reading »
Do you ever prepare a meal, and when you look at the finished product, you’re like “Daaaaaamn gurl! You lookin’ so purdy!” No? Either it’s just me or you’ve never made this pizza. Let me start from the beginning. I like to use as much of the plant as possible in my cooking, so when … Continue reading »
Some of my most favorite dishes are born out of just grabbing some ingredients that I have on hand and going to town without a finished product in mind. Those times when you just work on instinct and purely create. This is one of those creations. I had an open can of pureed pumpkin in … 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 »
A week ago, Cara over at Fork and Beans had Caitlin, The Vegan Chickpea, do a guest post. These two ladies are already two of my favorite bloggers, and to have them together in one place was pretty great. It’s like when you’re watching one of your favorite TV shows and a character from … Continue reading »
That first year of high school is rough. Add starting high school in a new town, only knowing one person (a cousin), while transitioning to living with your grandparents, and you’ve got enough to give a hormonal fourteen year old girl a nervous breakdown. Every day was a crazy whirlwind of emotions from trying to … 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 »
When I was a little kid, I would eat anything. I was a parent’s dream- any vegetable they wanted me to try, I was totally game. Whatever my dad cooked, I ate. The only thing I remember ever not wanting to try were beets, but my parent’s tricked me, saying “Oh well, more for us. … Continue reading »
I don’t know where my obsession with pureéd soups came from. I know it started somewhere around the time I had my wisdom teeth pulled, a couple weeks before this last Christmas. It only intensified with the gift of an immersion blender from my husband. Long after I was able to comfortably eat solid foods … Continue reading »
When we first became vegan, I was a tofu-scrambling machine. I researched the basics online and taught myself along the way. It was a good, easy go-to for any meal when we were still learning this new way of life, and we ate a lot of it. I scrambled the heck out of some tofu! … Continue reading »
You know how some days, even the most mundane tasks seem incredibly daunting? Laundry. Making a pot of coffee. Putting on shoes. And to top it off, its super cold and blustery outside. You know those days. Yesterday was one of those days for me. Everything seemed to require a huge amount of energy and … Continue reading »
Chris and I don’t exchange gifts for holidays or birthdays. We feel that it has more impact when we give gifts on normal days, rather than a day that demands gift-giving. We do, however, give “Non-Christmas Gifts” somewhere in the general vicinity of Christmas time, and Chris gives THE best Non-Christmas Gifts. Last year, he … Continue reading »