February 2011
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Good Housekeeping's vegan cookbook has ARRIVED!
Remember how excited we were? Well, NOTHING HAS CHANGED. Except that it’s here and you can order it! Now, go forward and get it for every grandma, grandaunt, great dame, great great grandma, and great grandcousin in your life TODAY. Point is, they should be old. Actually, I’m interested in cooking out of it because I’m dying to make a vegan Broiled Steak with Parsley Butter and...
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Guest recipe: Raw vegan cherry Jell-O!
Raw vegan Jell-O. This is just a recipe, there is no witty/tedious intro. Enjoy!
Ingredients 12 ounces frozen or fresh cherries Handful Irish moss Sea salt, to taste Stevia, to taste Xylitol (optional, to taste)
Instructions Soak the Irish moss overnight. When it’s all plumped up with water, Vitamix the shit out of it with a little bit of water until it’s an even, gooey consistency. Then,...
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February East Bay Vegan Bakesale needs volunteers...
The delightful ladies over at Fat Bottom Bakery are putting together the list of bakers and volunteers for the Saturday, Feb. 26 East Bay Vegan Bakesale! The sale will benefit Home at Last Rescue and Lyon Martin Health Services, so you’re baking it out for two super-fantastic causes. If you’re interested in helping out (you are because you’re an amazing person, I KNOW you),...
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Goodbye to all that
This is Petunia, Farm Sanctuary’s “newest valentine.” Are you dying yet? She was donated to a veterinary teaching hospital because, as the runt of her litter, she was too small and needy, AND needed an operation, and from there she was rescued by Farm Sanctuary, given her operation, and is living as happy a life as a tiny piglet could live. CHARMING.
Now onto some less-adorable...
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Guest recipe: Hungarian Cauliflower Soup with...
For me, Hungarian food is not only comforting, it’s also the only type of cuisine I can cook without referencing recipes. Growing up, I learned from my mom as she cooked green pea soup with nokedli, layered potatoes, cucumber salad, stuffed cabbage, plum dumplings, walnut noodles, and paprikás.
The cool thing about Hungarian food is that not only are many dishes naturally vegan, but many others...
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Guest post: Vegan in St. Louis: because you might...
As a born-and-raised Midwesterner, I developed a country-mouse inferiority complex at a young age, and like Janice Dickinson before me, I was all “I’M A CELEBRITY, GET ME OUT OF HERE.” So that’s what I did, for a while. Now I’m back, living in my hometown of St. Louis, Mo., and surprise, surprise, vegan food is now almost as ubiquitous here as getting a DWI in the...
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Vegansaurus is speaking at SXSW! Are you an...
Guess what? Vegansaurus is going to SXSW! I’ll be representing in a conversation about vegans online and online veganism with the lovely Stephanie of the delightful Lazy Smurf’s Guide to Life. I will also be eating all of the vegan food in Austin proper. You better lock up your chicken fried seitan and hide your tempeh reubens because I’m comin’ to getcha, TEXAS-STYLE.
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Guest post: personalized Valentine's videos from...
The coolest gift since the mix tape was invented: a personalized video dedicated to your loved one, featuring an adorable rescued animal, from a totally rad animal rights organization. Customizing your gift is easy: just tell them your loved one’s name, and pick the animal you want to sponsor—you even get to pick the song that will play in the background. Then, after a donation of just $100, plus...
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Puppy Bowl wrap-up!
Animal Planet reported record highs in Puppy Bowl viewership! The premier drew in 1.7 million people and the total viewers for the entire day of re-airings was 9.2 million. Yowza! That’s kind of hilarious. I watched for a bit and it was mesmerizing. The kitty halftime show was a must-see! CB, Jonas’ pick, was declared MVP! Big deal—Calvin should have won. But whatevs.
I wanted...
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WatchPopSugar TV posted this video last week of Ann Gentry making some vegan buckwheat salad from her new book Vegan Family Meals. NO THANKS!
Just kidding! Not really. I’m just saying, this is the type of food people think “those crazy vegans” eat (literally!) all day. Buckwheat salad with stupid cucumbers (the bane of my existence!) is not how I spell fun! It sounds healthy and...
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Interview with a vegan: Sonya Cotton!
Sonya Cotton is a vegan and musician with a serious animal-rights agenda. She’s close to releasing a six-song EP and raising money for an eco-friendly tour through Kickstarter. Laura interviewed Sonya about her musical projects and vegan lifestyle, and why she dedicated her new album to her animal-rescuing mother.
Vegansaurus: Are you vegan for health, environmental, animal-rights reasons,...
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Happy Hours, Movies, & Bakesales: Vegan...
Whether you’re in love with love or hate everyone (or both! it’s possible!), here are some ways you might wish to celebrate V-Day.
1) Vegan Happy Hour on Friday, Feb. 11! It’s got a romantical theme, too. And don’t forget, two awesome vegan cookbook authors are in town for events so maybe they’ll be there and you can woo them with your sweet words/tasty potluck...
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“IT HAS ALWAYS been crucial to the gourmet’s pleasure that he eat in ways the...”
– A truly excellent take down of “foodies” by B.R. Myers over at The Atlantic. Warning: it contains a NSFW/Life bit about Anthony Bourdain grossly eating endangered songbirds and then exchanging “just fucked” glances with fellow diners/psychopaths. Seriously, my eyes started to...
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Matt & Nat, Vaute Couture on sale at Pure Citizen!
Pure Citizen, which is like Gilt Groupe for eco/humane/fair-trade/etc. companies, is featuring vegan products! Every week they choose a nonprofit to highlight, and this week’s is Peta, so all their merchandise is vegan. Vaute Couture stuff is on sale until tomorrow; Matt and Nat until Friday, Feb. 11 (the sales last 72 hours). They also have a sale on cool vegan perfume company A Perfume...
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Homeroom, a new mac 'n' cheese restaurant in...
Oh hellllll yeah. Finally some vegan mac and cheese action up in this joint! I know of only two other places serving vegan mac and cheese in the entire Bay Area: Souley Vegan (some people love it, some people leave it) and Herbivore (If you held a gun to my head and forced me to eat either Herbivore mac and cheese or Hazel’s dog shit, I’d think reallllllly hard. And then I’d eat...
