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What Vegans Eat – Day 336

Breakfast: One of my favorite breakfasts, cold rolled oats topped with walnuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, plump blueberries and soy milk. Served with Bai Mu Dan tea.   Dinner: We were invited to Dr. Michael Greger‘s book launch party for his New York Times best-seller How Not To Die at the home of co-author, Gene…

What Vegans Eat – Day 335

Breakfast: We had the Oats Breakfast Bar this morning. That’s where we put 1/2 cup of rolled oats in our bowl and bring out all the toppings. I put coconut, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, apricot butter and soy milk on mine and enjoyed it with green kukitcha tea.   Daily Green Juice: Kale, Collards,…

What Vegans Eat – Day 334

Breakfast: This was a simple repeat of yesterday’s breakfast, our Blueberry Walnut Upside Down Muffins served with homemade vegan butter and Apricot Butter along with Bananas and Peanut Butter, a family favorite. The tea was Bai Mu Dan.   Daily Green Juice: Kale, Collards, Celery, Carrots   Dinner: Ah, Kale Salad, how do I love…

Vegan Angela Pia

Angela Pia means Pious Angel and it’s is a rich, luscious Italian dessert. It’s typically made with brandy and rum. We didn’t have either so we substituted Bourbon and Vermouth. It’s fabulous and so easy to make. You may also make the virgin version, without Bourbon or Vermouth and you’ll have a lovely vanilla pudding.…

What Vegans Eat – Day 333

Breakfast: We got up wanting to create a new muffin recipe. It’s an Upside Down Muffin with Cinnamon, Walnuts and Blueberries on the bottom. We’ll be perfecting this muffin and then we’ll post the recipe for you. Stayed tuned. We enjoyed them with Apricot Butter and homemade Vegan Butter (another recipe we are working on)…

Oven Baked Vegetables

I didn’t have a backyard to dig a fire pit to cook my vegetables so I baked them in our oven instead. Vedure Al Forno All vegetables used were organic from GoOrganicNYC. We used za’atar, a mix of ground thyme, oregano, marjoram, toasted sesame seeds, and sumac. You can use any herb mix that you…

What Vegans Eat – Day 332

Breakfast: It’s an easy breakfast when you’ve made Gooey Apricot Danish the day before. I think this has to be our best quick bread recipe so far. There’s a small market across the street from us that has been selling organic, fair trade fresh blueberries for an incredibly inexpensive price so we have been blueberrying…

What Vegans Eat – Day 331

Breakfast: Gary was describing an apricot bread he used to get from the Acme Bakery in Berkeley. I had never had anything like it and it sounded wonderful. I thought we would make some this morning and we did. I prepared the dough and Gary made the apricot glaze and nut filling. This is a…

Homemade Tofu and Chocolate Mousse

I was given samples of Morinaga’s Make Your Own Tofu Kit, consisting of two 12 ounce containers of soy milk and two packets of nigari along with instructions on how to make tofu. I had made one portion of tofu a few weeks ago. It was very, very soft. I like soft tofu, but this…