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Why Eating Dairy Is Simply Heartless

VEGdaily — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:35:00 +0000

After watching a buncha kids chow down on cheese slices yesterday in the Park, we thought we’d reiterate a few reasons why feeding our children dairy is just absolutely disgusting – from a place of health, a place of compassion, and a place of basic human decency.

We’d like to acknowledge all the wonderful mothers out there, both human and animal. In particular and as a bit of a contrast, though, we’d like to highlight the plight of mother cows (via the always articulate Mary Max of Kind Green Planet.)

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Parked Food Truck Event NYC: Cinnamon Snail

VEGdaily — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:11:24 +0000

I’m a little sunburnt, a lot tired and incredibly satisfied by my long Labor Day weekend I spent gallivanting around NYC.

Labor Day Monday: US Open. But the #foodie highlight of my weekend had to be on Sunday – a crazy adventure all in name of NYC Food Trucks.

And one vegan food truck in particular: The Cinnamon Snail.

Story Time! .. Parked Food Truck event: Quest for the Cinnamon Snail Vegan Truck!…

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Eating Local Is Easy (And Cheap!) With Windowsill Farming

VEGdaily — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:09:20 +0000

Every environmentalist knows that being green means eating local foods. Buying an organic apple is great, but if it’s shipping from New Zealand to NY, then the organic part doesn’t mean a thing. Location is everything.
The average meal travels 1500 miles from farm to plate. That’s insane. I do my best to buy local foods. Like the red bell pepper grown in New Jersey that I bought this morning. But even better than getting my food from a nearby farm would be growing it myself. Sadly, I don’t have a garden. I live in an apartment and don’t have a patch of earth to call my own.

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Meatless Mondays: A List Of Vegan Pantry Must-Haves

VEGdaily — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:11:21 +0000

How many times have you drooled over a recipe only to realize that you have two of the ten ingredients? So often, it’s the little things that get in our way of making a delicious dish. Here’s a little secret: the more you cook, the more ingredients you have, the more you cook. It’s as easy as that. Your pantry expands naturally over time as you fill it up with ingredients that recipes require. My pantry has taken years to build. But to kickstart your pantry so that you’ll have more ingredients now and will be more likely to prepare healthy, delicious foods, add some of the following vegan staples to your shopping list.

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Meatless, Dairy-Less Lasagna Recipes

VEGdaily — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:10:16 +0000

A non-vegan friend of mine told me he’d have a hard time going vegan because he loves lasagna. Little does he know, plant-based lasagna can be incredible if you have the right recipe. I reached out to my Facebook friends for their favorites, and 2 of them responded with incredible recipes. I haven’t tried them, but they look delicious and fun to make.

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Raw Vegan Asian Lettuce Wraps

VEGdaily — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:00:37 +0000

Any top chef fans out there? Though my loyalty to the show wavered significantlywhen they awarded the title to season 5’s aging frat boy, Hosea, I’m still a devoted fan. I’ve actually been enjoying this season. I’m rooting for Angelo. Why? Because he’s arrogant, and arrogant cheftestants are by far the most fun to watch. I still miss Stefan like crazy.

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Eating Local Is Easy (And Cheap!) With Windowsill Farming

VEGdaily — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:56:40 +0000

The average meal travels 1500 miles from farm to plate. That’s insane. I do my best to buy local foods. Like the red bell pepper grown in New Jersey that I bought this morning. But even better than getting my food from a nearby farm would be growing it myself. Sadly, I don’t have a garden. I live in an apartment and don’t have a patch of earth to call my own.

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Basic Low-Fat Coleslaw

VEGdaily — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:39:43 +0000

There’s been a surprising development in the V family kitchen. My daughter E has actually been asking for coleslaw, a food she used to have to be bribed to eat. This phenomenon began after I stopped buying bagged coleslaw and starting using fresh heads of cabbage. I could say that E likes the fresher taste of home-shredded cabbage, but that’s not it at all. The truth is that there’s something about pushing a wedge of cabbage through the shredding blade of a food processor that she enjoys, so I let her have her fun.

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Island Style Sweet And Spicy Cabbage

VEGdaily — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:34:02 +0000

More than 20 years ago, I lived in an odd little shared house in Oakland, and one of the other renters was a guy named John, from one of the Caribbean islands. Sad to say, I can’t recall which island (possibly Barbados?), but I do remember that he moonlighted in a steel drum band, and we would often cook simple dinners together and hang out in his room watching Golden State Warriors games.

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Vegan Corn And Zucchini Pancakes

VEGdaily — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:06:03 +0000

It’s always nice when a recipe you like seems to “take off” with other bloggers. This has been true recently of my sweet potato and chickpea burgers, which Matt and Katie have made recently, as well as a bunch of other bloggers and readers who have emailed me or left comments on the original post. Thank you guys for trying the recipe out! I hope you’ve enjoyed the sweet, dense taste and texture as much as I did when I first made the burgers.

My experience with the sweet potato burgers got me hooked on chickpea flour. Versatile, high-protein, and possessed of a starchy texture that’s fairly unique, chickpea flour is ideal for all sorts of pancakes, burgers, and bread recipes. Just check out the Twins’ socca adventures if you’re looking to be inspired!

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