Category: Health

  • To Natural Kitchen Cooking School, With Love

    I am participating for the third year in Vegan MoFo, a month long vegan food extravaganza from vegan bloggers around the globe focusing on delicious food for the month of September! I was fortunate enough to recently graduate from the Natural Kitchen Cooking School, one of the few vegan chef culinary programs in the United […]

  • Kinpira Style Vegetables

    My last weekend of homework for the Natural Kitchen Cooking School is quite bittersweet. This weekend of recipes was titled “Kitchen Pharmacies” and focused around home remedies and other great-for-you foods. An interesting dish that I never made or tried before attending this culinary program was kinpira style vegetables, which is a Japanese style of […]

  • Erin go Vegan: St. Paddy’s Day 2013

    “She sneezes once, she sneezes twice, she’ll be me bride when she sneezes thrice.” -Leprechaun* Wanting to depart from a super carb and calorie heavy St. Patrick’s Day meal, I opted on the lighter side this year. Traditional Irish meals are meat, potatoes, and hearty breads. I decided to keep the potatoes, omit the bread, […]

  • Minestrone

    If you are looking for a healthy, low-cal soup favorite, this dish has what you need. I have never been on a diet in my life, nor have I ever been one to really count calories. Lately though I have been more cognizant of my calorie intake as I have been having difficulty fitting into […]

  • My Top 5 Vegan/Animal Rights Documentaries

    Since it is the end of the year and so many are making “top 5” lists, I felt compelled to make a few myself, starting with my top five vegan and/or animal rights themed documentaries. Watching documentaries such as A Cow at My Table and Meet Your Meat made me go vegetarian 10 years ago […]