Simplicity at its best.
No tricks, just water & fruit.
Use white grape juice, coconut water or seltzer to change it up if you like. Otherwise I love these just as they are!
Who can say no to a fruit popsicle, honestly…
28 Sunday Apr 2013
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inSimplicity at its best.
No tricks, just water & fruit.
Use white grape juice, coconut water or seltzer to change it up if you like. Otherwise I love these just as they are!
Who can say no to a fruit popsicle, honestly…
28 Sunday Apr 2013
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inGrowing up (I decided I wanted to be a vegetarian at age 12 – with a lot of conviction, on my part, to my parents), I never liked tofu. I tried it plenty of times and it was never my cup of tea. The texture and the taste was just so plain and hard to cook with.
However, now that my skills and creativity have widened a bit, I’ve come to welcome tofu with open arms.
Ideas for Cooking and Baking with Tofu:
Before cooking, you need to drain the tofu. To do this, you can place tofu on a plate with paper towel. Place another piece of paper towel on top and place another plate over top. Press down until liquid is contracted.
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28 Sunday Apr 2013
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inScott Jurek speaks about his book Eat & Run at the Reading Room at Bryant Park in NYC alongside Author of Born to Run Christopher Mcdougall, cowriter of Eat & Run Steve Friedman
28 Sunday Apr 2013
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inIngredients
Instructions
To the gluten flour, add dry spices in a medium sized bowl.
Mix soy sauce and 3/4 cup broth in a jug.
Add liquid to dry ingredients and stir gently to combine. After a few initial stirs, you’ll need to use your hands to kneed. It will start to feel kind of rubbery but you can add more water if you need to. I recommend adding the water in small amounts e.g. a tbsp at a time.
Knead until everything it properly combined, then leave it to sit for 5 – 10 minutes.
At this point you can either break seitan up into pieces, make it into cubes, roll it into slices etc or just leave it as is…
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28 Sunday Apr 2013
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inI went out with some friends last night! Good dancing, good friends, good food, good conversation… We obviously ended up talking about cooking at some point. One of my friends told me about a wicked easy chocolate pudding recipe she found. Interestingly, it was also vegan and completely raw. This intrigued me, as I have never made any raw meals before. And this was incredibly easy to make.
Ingredients:
1 ripe avocado
1/4 cup Dutch cocoa powder
1/4 cup maple syrup (honey would be really good here, too)
6 tbsp milk of choice (my friend used real milk, I used almond. Not sure how others would taste, but let me know if you try it!)
To do:
1. Place all ingredients into a food processor, like so:
2. Blend until completely smooth. Make sure that there are no chunks of avocado left. That just becomes a strange surprise!
This…
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21 Sunday Apr 2013
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inSome time around summer of last year, my daughter, Cambria, and I started eating less meat when she was with me. Based on my general health and budget concerns, first we cut out red meat for a while. Then Cambria made a comment based on a Chick-fil-a ad to the effect of, why would we save cows and not chickens? I really just hadn’t thought much about it, and chicken was more integrated into our diet. She still eats meat when she’s with her dad, but we then cut out buying chicken when we grocery shop, and stopped going out to eat to save money.
I had heard about veganism from various sources by that time, e.g., friends and work, and started to research more online about how and why one would choose to go vegan. The information I found made a lot of sense, and I was already feeling better after giving up meat and finding more room for fresh fruits and vegetables in our diet. At that point, I started considering giving up eggs and dairy, which I did around September of 2012. I loved butter and cheese, so I thought that would be really hard to do, but then I discovered Earth Balance buttery spread and Daiya mozzarella shreds, which are used in American Flatbread vegan pizza, and all was right in the world. Cambria loves the vegan pizza, and her willingness to embrace a vegan diet when she’s with me makes all the difference in my motivation to stick with it, as well as the idea that it is good for us.
We started going to the library quite a bit, so I’ve been checking out vegan cookbooks and learning about all the different options for main dishes that don’t include meat, dairy or eggs, and expanding my knowledge of food in the process, which has kept me interested and excited about the idea.
I jog, so one of the books I checked out and read was Scott Jurek’s Eat and Run. Lately I’ve had to go without driving my car, so I’ve been walk/jogging around 50 miles per week to and from the train station to go to work, so Scott’s Book was encouraging both from a veganism perspective and to help me keep up the motivation to accomplish the mileage that may ultimately lead me to run an ultramarathon, who knows 🙂
After learning that sugar may be processed using animal products, I started buying agave nectar instead and use it in all recipes that call for sugar. It has become a habit for me to read ingredient lists when grocery shopping, and in doing so, have noticed that sugar is included in so many processed foods where it doesn’t seem necessary and/or you wouldn’t intuitively think it would be, e.g., peanut butter, jam and hummus. Our staples are now whole grain flours and breads, Food Should Taste Good chips, Wholly guacamole and salsa, Whole Soy yogurt with nuts, raisins and 365 vegan chocolate chips, Earth Balance peanut butter and 365 jam, brown rice, black beans, and fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables. I love the simplicity of the base of our diet, while still allowing for experimentation with items like quinoa, flax seed, and exotic fruits and veggies that I have recently learned about, and there is so much more to learn.
I’m just starting to learn about applying veganism to the rest of my life. Since the basis for my transition was health and budget, with concern for animals honestly secondary, it wasn’t until I started reading more about veganism that concern for animals and the environment came more into focus in my life. Cutting out leather shoes wasn’t difficult, and still in line with my budget consciousness. However, considering I don’t know what half the ingredients in many household products are (which is concerning in itself), it is difficult for me to tell if they are derived from animal products. I’ve given away all my leather handbags and accessories, but I still have a giant leather couch that I sleep on and is a central piece of furniture in my apartment, which I don’t foresee going away any time soon, again due to budget concerns. So, a lot of learning left to do in this area as well, but I do see the benefit of continuing on this path for the health of myself, my daughter, animals and the environment.
06 Saturday Apr 2013
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inpretty people, pretty music 🙂
Justin Miner claims he had a breakdown in which he dissolved his band Fight From Above, traveled north to the redwoods, then south to Central America, bought a tambourine and banjo, listened to nothing but Neil Young and read nothing but Kerouac. Upon his return to Silver Lake, he formed a new band by recruiting two longtime friends, his wife, his brother, and his cousin and aptly named them Miner. Together they make delicate pop folk rock that evokes heartfelt earnestness by accessing the folk elements (mandolin, harmonica, banjo). But unlike their neighbors and genre peers (Milo Greene, The Ross Sea Party, The New Limb) Miner isn’t afraid to get a little rowdy by stomping and clapping which brings their sound to a whole new level of grandeur fun. See for yourself in the music video for “Hey Love” which was shot at…
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