I have been wanting to create a pasta dish with a butternut sage sauce. I saw an entree once with that sauce and thought it sounded so rich and beautiful. I paired whole wheat gnocchi, (which I have never made until now) with roasted butternut squash, fresh sage and raw cashews for the creamiest, dreamiest […]
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While surfing the web yesterday afternoon I found an article that resonated with me for two reasons: 1. because it involves great vegan eateries 2. travel in order to get to them. Combining my two favorite pastimes into one story? Rock on. It is a story out of VegNews and written by Carolyn Scott-Hamilton, aka […]
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Last weekend we were in Cleveland, Ohio for a wedding. The morning we left the hotel, I searched Happy Cow for a nearby vegan option and found The Root Cafe in a neighboring suburb called Lakewood. The menu was overflowing with vegan options. So much so, that I kept ordering food and baked goods like […]
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Image courtesy of Dontai.com Image courtesy of Flickr.com The night before last I read and article from This Dish is Veg that seemed surreal. As I read on, I had hoped that it was an April Fools prank, but it was not. Evidently, Starbucks has been using Cochineal Extract to color their Strawberries and Creme […]
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Happy Meatless Tuesday. We were out of town for a wedding. It feels nice to be writing again. Two weeks ago or so we found vegan Lettuce Wraps on the menu at a local Chinese restaurant. They were made with mock chicken, water chestnuts and what tasted like a perceptible amount of love. They were […]
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