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Decadent Gluten-free Vegan Baking Giveaway and Meet Cara!
You know that panicked feeling you get when a special person is coming over to your house and you look around and realize that dust has settled over every flat surface, there’s a pile of clean …
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Double Chocolate Hazelnut Shookie
This warm weather drink is an “outtake” recipe from my upcoming cookbook; just couldn’t squeeze it in, so I thought I’d share it here. This rich drink is not quite thick enough to be a …
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Cantaloupe Cream Shooters
Kel didn’t plant cantaloupe this year. And yet we have a veritable army of volunteer plants and a steady stream of melons. Along with its real estate-hogging pals watermelon, zucchini, acorn squash, and butternut squash – …
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Fudgey Brownie Bites, Gluten- and Sugar-free + A NuNaturals Giveaway
I always look forward to hosting NuNaturals giveaways not only because I love their products so much – but also because they’ve been so generous with me and my readers. They love sharing their products with …
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Guest Post on Chic Vegan: Pine Bark
You remember Paula Deen, right? She of the sticks of butter, sparkling cups of granulated sugar, and piles of bacon? Yeah, this recipe was inspired by hers. It’s just a smidgen healthier and it’s 100% …
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Spicy Chipotle Salad Dressing. Oil-free.
The past few days I’ve had one recipe failure after another: the waffles stuck to the non-stick iron; the gluten-free cupcakes turned into spongy hockey pucks; the pecans burned in the pan, and the “creamy” …
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BabagaHummus. Oil- and Gluten-free.
Have you ever made a recipe based solely a name? This was the case here. One morning I made hummus and I made babaganoush. As the food processor was doing its thing, the frankenword babagahummus …
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Sweet Potato Apple Pie Ice Cream (Only On Cowgirls & Collard Greens)
Saddle up and ride on over to Cowgirls & Collard Greens to meet Ms. Kayle Martin and then slurp up my simple, seasonal recipe for Sweet Potato Apple Ice Cream. While you’re there be sure …
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Quick Chocolate Chip Banana Squares (only on Vedged Out)
Woohoo! Today is the second anniversary of An Unrefined Vegan and I would really love to be celebrating in person with my friend, Somer, instead of virtually – but the next best thing is guest-posting on …
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Peanut Butter-Maple-Pecan & Coconut Bacon Granola
This granola was to be the crowning glory on top of one of my Vegan MoFo 2013 recipes, but the base – ice cream – failed. Not once, but twice. The third recipe, Peanut Butter …
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Vegan MoFo 17: Peanut Butter-Banana “Ice Cream” with Mixed Berry Sauce. Sugar- & Gluten-free.
This MoFo recipe taught me that the simplest method is almost always the best method. I went through three incarnations of ice cream – two that were too fussy and required ingredients that made me …
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Practically Raw Desserts: A Review, Giveaway, & Dulce de Leche “Spooncream”
Besides being refreshingly flexible, every recipe in this book has the added bonus of being free of dairy, eggs, gluten, wheat, soy, peanuts, corn, refined grains, refined sugars, yeast, starch, and other nutrient-poor ingredients. Many …
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Vegan MoFo 14: Baked Peanut Butter & Jelly Oatmeal
When my favorite breakfast and my beloved flavor combination come together it’s a heavenly collision of warm, creamy, nutty, jammy breakfast-goodness. Making its way onto Buzzfeed’s 29 Ways to Honor the Glory of Peanut Butter & …
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Vegan MoFo 8: Chocolate Peanut Butter & Jelly Muffins
Twelve years ago today I was sitting at my desk at Harvard Law School where I worked as a faculty assistant for Elizabeth Warren when my mom called to tell me that a plane …
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Vegan Mofo 7: Peanut Butter & Jelly Chocolate Bars (or Bark)
As much as I love how the salty creaminess of peanut butter whispers sweet nothings to the fruity innocence of jelly, it’s peanut butter and chocolate that really gets me hot and bothered. PB & …
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Mint Gone Wild: Cocoa-Coconut-Mint Smoothie
The tiny mint plant was so cute, so cheerfully green and enchanting-smelling that I had to get it. It was barely 3″ high and had such delicate and tender little leaves! But a shadow hung …
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Oil-free Banana Fig Cakes with Date-Coconut Drizzle
Last week I spotted a gigantic purple fig hiding amongst the leaves in one of our potted plants. Kel and I watched its progress carefully; we didn’t want to let this one go to the …
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Bloody Mary Green Smoothie
Look at that bad boy!! That’s a humongous Brandywine that came out of our garden. I have no idea how it didn’t break the vine on which it was growing. State Fair material, don’t you …
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Sweet & Tangy Green Chile-Chipotle-Cilantro Dressing. Oil-free.
One of the biggest stumbling blocks I encountered after making the decision to severely reduce the amount of oil I used in cooking and baking was how to make salad dressing. I was completely stumped. …
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A Weird & Wonderful Salad: Paulie’s Slaw. Oil-free.
My friend Paul sifts through the raw, rocky ore of the Internet like Yukon Cornelius searched for silver. You might remember Paul from my Hibiscus-Cherry Cooler post – he’s the one who sent me 3 …
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Raw Double Chocolate Mint Bars. Sugar-, Oil-, & Gluten-Free.
Among the many fun things about receiving a Vegan Cuts Snack Box each month is that it’s a treasure trove of inspiration. A lot of the goodies inside are not readily available to me so …
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Oil- and Nut-free Berry-Miso Salad Dressing
Kel and I average 5 salads per week which means about 20 salads each month – hey, that’s a lot of greens, sure – but it also means preparing and consuming a lot of salad …
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Plum & Mango Tart with Gluten-Free Crust. Sugar-free, Oil-free
The standard pastry crust makes me feel guilty. Me, the one who snarfed down the cinnamon-sugar coated scraps that my mom baked up after completing an apple pie. Me, the one who carefully ate around …
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Chai-Chocolate Green Smoothie
My favorite hot beverage transitions right into summer with a cool, creamy version that also features another favorite: chocolate. Kale included at no extra charge. You’ll need a spoon for this one. Sharing this on …
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The Great Vegan Bean Book Tour: Enchanted Vanilla Pancakes w/ Chai-Spiced Peach Compote (and a giveaway)
I love the noble sound of Kathy Hester’s newest cookbook, The Great Vegan Bean Book. I know beans are considered to be one of the humblest of foods, but considering how often I eat them …
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Super-Quick Poppyseed-Orange-Coconut Cakes for Two
I’ve been sticking like (well, something like) glue to my Sweets Only On Days That Begin With An S commitment, but even on those days, I’m finding that I don’t have a craving for over-the-top, …
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Sunshine Smoothie: Anti-Cancer Superhero
When it comes to smoothies it seems like green gets all of the attention. Don’t get me wrong, I think a proper green smoothie is a sight to behold, but every once in a while, …
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The Fixings Sandwich: That Lunch You Have to Get At The Deli (only better) Cuz They Don’t Have Any Vegan Stuff
That sinking feeling when – desperate for food – you walk into a deli, knowing that all you’ll be able to get is a sandwich with the veggie fixings… What does a vegan sandwich look …
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Loaded Morning Muffins with Crumb Topping
You can see from the long ingredient list why these are called “loaded” muffins, but gosh, they’re delicious. It’s crunch time over at Ethical Ocean and their Eat What’s Good vegan recipe contest. I’ve been …
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Hibiscus-Cherry Cooler
For months a friend of mine had been extolling the virtues of a daily cup of hibiscus tea. He told me that drinking it regularly could lower one’s blood pressure and some studies have shown …
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