Everyone loves red and green cookies for the holidays, but not everyone knows what chemicals are lurking in those store-bought food dyes. I know, harsh way to start off a recipe post, but I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t be here on my blog if you didn’t care about what’s in your food, right? These Tri-Color…
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The Best Vegan Holiday Cookies
I have searched high and low for the perfect holiday cookie, and every recipe I found was overly complicated, overly sweetened, and overly not-vegan! I created this recipe to be the opposite of those three things; easy, perfectly sweet, and of course, free of eggs and dairy. These chocolate-dipped sugar cookies take just fifteen minutes…
Creamy Vegan Mushroom Gravy
Mushrooms are one of those love-or-hate kind of foods. Growing up, I hated them. Now that I’ve been vegan for almost ten years, mushrooms have become one of my favorite foods. It’s funny how our palates change as we age and as our eating habits evolve. Raw mushrooms, sauteed mushrooms, mushroom ‘bacon,’ you name it,…
Superfood Goji-Cranberry Sauce
Confession: before recipe-testing this goji cranberry sauce, I had never cooked with fresh cranberries in my life. In fact, I don’t think I had ever even touched a fresh cranberry! I have always been intimidated by them, for no good reason. Deciding to make my own sauce this year was totally out of my comfort…
2016 Vegan Holiday Gift Ideas
Tis the season! For stressing over holiday gifts, that is. It’s always hard to find that perfect gift for a loved one, and shopping for a vegan can make things a little trickier if you aren’t familiar with vegan products or companies. But vegan gift-shopping isn’t hard if you know the right places to look. I rounded up a few of my favorite items of the year to help you find something for everyone on your list, and for every budget, from steal to splurge.
How to Have a Vegan Halloween
Guys! I cannot believe it is October! I get a lot of questions about how to handle holidays as a vegan, so for you newbies out there, here’s a little help for Halloween! VEGAN HALLOWEEN CANDY: Yummy Earth is one of my favorite brands for vegan candy. If you are expecting a lot of trick-or-treaters, Amazon…
