Things We Love: Purple Carrot Plant-Based Meal Kits

Purple Carrot provides a wonderful source of vegan recipe inspiration. One of my favorite activities is looking up vegan recipes and also turning non-vegan recipes into plant-based meals — “veganizing” them. There are a lot of recipe ideas from vegan chefs, bloggers and YouTube channels. However, I Purple Carrot provides a wonderful source of recipe […]

Weeknight Dinner: Green Pasta

For a vegan, green pasta seems perfectly normal. Does green pasta sound yucky? Does it mean that you add a few drops of food coloring to your pasta water? Not at all. For a vegan, green pasta seems perfectly normal. In the post from Heated recommended by Mark Bittman, I was fascinated by these approaches […]

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Pumpkin Pie Chia Pudding

Chia pudding is a staple snack and delicious dessert. Ch-Ch-Chia! Chia pudding is not new, but it is still one of my favorite snacks. Chia seeds are a superfood and a staple in vegan (plant-based) diets, in part because they are a great source of protein. They are also high in fiber and a rich […]

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Confessions of a Vegan

I don’t think of a meal as meat + starch + vegetables. My meals are not the absence of meat, they are compilations of many components with lots of variety, colors and textures. What do I eat as a vegan? For me it’s what don’t I eat! My choices feel almost limitless.