With the explosion of vegan cookbooks and blogs over the past decade, it’s never been easier to follow a plant-based diet. Whether you want simple, no-nonsense recipes or sumptuous desserts and meals that you can just toss in your Instant Pot, there’s a vegan cookbook for everyone. But what’s the best vegan cookbook out there?…
I’m a firm believer in having dessert after every meal. You know, mostly for stress reduction, and not at all because I’m so addicted to sugar that I would do anything for it. I’m currently recipe testing a chocolate blackberry cake for a black and purple tea party I’m attending next month, and I’ve been…
We’re so excited about the new Wicked Healthy Cookbook by Chad Sarno, Derek Sarno, and David Joachim. The Sarno brothers have long been making us drool over their creative concoctions. Their food philosophy is simple: shoot for 80% healthy and 20% wicked. The Wicked Healthy cookbook is inspired by ingredients and flavor, and shows you how to…
Growing up I always felt a rush of excitement when my dad would pull out the waffle iron and announce, “I’m making waffles!” It wasn’t an every weekend tradition or something that followed any sort of predictable schedule. So when the smell of batter baking on the waffle iron would start wafting through the house,…
Los Angeles-based Spork Foods is a gourmet vegan food company owned and operated by sisters Heather Bell and Jenny Engel. They offer vegan organic cooking classes, chef trainings, recipe development and private chef work in Los Angeles and worldwide. Their cookbook, Spork-Fed, is currently in stores, with a foreword by fellow fans, actors and sisters, Emily…
Independence Day is just around the corner in the United States, which means people across the country are getting ready to fire up their grills. While July 4th has traditionally been a notoriously unfortunate occasion for animals who are skewered and charred in the name of patriotism, it’s also a great opportunity to practice and provide the very freedom that we come…
One of my favorite Jewish holidays is here—Passover! I love Passover for many reasons, but the most delicious is the multitude of ways to eat matzo over the course of the week. Jewish observance of this holiday dictates that we cannot eat leavened bread. Instead, we get to eat matzah—a flat cracker made without yeast so…
Have you ever tried making your own tortillas? These three-ingredient homemade corn tortillas are easy as uno…dos…tres! All you need is masa harina, salt, hot water, and a tortilla press. Cover photo by George Dolgikh (Canva.com) and step-by-step tortilla making photos by Kristie Middleton.
You know the secret to any vegan’s heart, right? It’s food! And that’s exactly why we’ve fallen so deeply in love with these miniature heart-shaped vegan pizzas. The little extra bits of TLC that you will put into making these vegan pizzas will go a long way toward making your honey feel special and loved. Vegan Pizza…