A week ago while filming our most exciting, first ever casting video for the Travel Channel we went to a local boutique produce store. Whenever I am looking for the unique…the best of the best, I go to this store. Photo By: S. Duquet While there we found maroon carrots. I had never seen a […]
Tags: carrot salad, compassionate eating, going veg, maroon carrots, plant based diet, plant strong, vegan experience, vegan wannabe
I have always been a lover of bake sales. The elementary school in our neighborhood where we vote always has one situated perfectly outside the gymnasium, where the voting booths are located. Our favorite church rummage sales also have them. Tables overflowing with beloved baked goods looking for a home. There are always antique baked […]
Tags: baking for a cause, compassionate eating, exploits of a vegan wannabe, vegan challenge, vegan experience, vegan wannabe, Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale
~Ice your cookies, let dry and enjoy. I had one while Sandy was gone then pretended I hadn’t. I had another as I was photographing them, then I made myself a pot of tea so I could enjoy another one. They made my heart smile really big. Have a delicious Love Yourself Day.
Tags: 30 day challenge, compassionate eating, dairy free, iced sugar cookies, Peas and Thank You, plant based diet, sugar cookies, trying vegan, valentine sugar cookies, vegan, vegan challenge, vegan cookies, vegan recipe, vegan sugar cookies, vegan wannabe
Happy Meatless Monday and day before Valentine’s. I have a two part Love Yourself Valentines special for you. Two recipes to love that will absolutely love you back. Thank you for all of your comments to win The Inspired Vegan by Bryant Terry. The book is beautiful and I am honored to have a copy […]
Tags: 30 day challenge, compassionate eating, going veg, lentil soup, Lentil stew, Meatless Monday, plant based diet, plant strong, trying vegan, trying vegetarian, vegan, vegan entree, vegan experience, vegan lentil soup, vegan soup, vegan wannabe
In the past few days, I have been having a difficult time with reruns of my old mental tapes. They have been stuck on repeat and are painful and exhausting. The tapes star negativity with cameos by insecurity and self doubt. They are so familiar to me that I don’t even know they are playing […]
Tags: living compassionately, negative self talk, Operation Beautiful, positive affirmations
This week was the first time I have ever created a dish using Pearl Couscous. I had heard of it before, but had not yet sought it out or tried to cook with it. In all honesty, until I became vegan a year and a half ago, I wasn’t really familiar with anything more scandalous […]
Tags: compassionate eating, cooking with herbs, going veg, Pear; couscous with asparagus lemon and brussel sprouts, Pearl couscous, plant based diet, plant strong, vegan challenge, vegan entree, vegan sde dish, vegan wannabe, vegetarian recipe, vegetarian transition
Courtesy of tripadvisor.com I have the most phenomenal news to share….Sandy and I have made it through the first filter and are being considered to be in an episode of a new show on the Travel Channel debuting this fall. This would require us to go to The Virgin Islands the first week of March, […]
Tags: 30 day challenge, Bryant Terry, compassionate eating, The Inspired Vegan, The Inspired vegan cookbook giveaway, trying vegan, vegan wannabe
Courtesy of westphillylocal.com This week the school lunch programs in our community came up in a conversation Sandy was having with a colleague. He told her that 75% of all the children in our public school district participated in the low cost-no cost lunch program. That means to me that if the socioeconomic status of […]
Tags: compassionate eating, PCRM, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, plant based diet, USDA lunch program guidelines, vegan wannabe
Happy Meatless Monday and decadent dessert day. I love spicy hot chocolate. If ecstasy and passion could have a taste…this would be it. The heat and the bitter, the slightly sweet. Then I thought, take the heat and make it cold….like life and passion and lusty things. I give to you the most sensory pleasing […]
Tags: compassionate eating, dairy free, dairy free desserts, hot chocolate cookies, Meatless Monday, Meatless Monday dessert recipe, Meatless Monday recipe, Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookie ice cream sandwiches, Mexican Hot Chocolate cookies, plant based diet, savory chocolate recipes, vegan challenge, vegan dessert, vegan ice cookie sandwiches, vegan wannabe
I have shared animal sponsorship with you before, but when this came across my desk in a new way with a new spin, I fell in love all over again. Looking for an imaginative and legendary way to say,”You make my world spin with joy,” to your sweetie this Valentines Day? Consider adopting a farm […]
Tags: adopt a farm animal, Farm Sanctuary, unique Valentines Day gift ideas, vegan gift ideas, vegan Valentines Day gift ideas
