Tag: beets

  • Green Bean Beet Salad

    The consistent assumption about vegans is that we must eat boring salads all the time. During our April weekend of “Foods in a Flash” at the Natural Kitchen Cooking School, we learned how to make an amazing salad that was far from the normal green house salad one would expect us to be munching on. […]

  • Popcorn Tofu Hoagie

    On a trip to Austin, Texas last year I was blown away by the well-known and beloved Popcorn Tofu Po’Boy from Wheatsville Co-op. For Valentine’s Day this here, Mr. Tuxedo Cat decided to re-create the sandwich for our dinner from the original Wheatsville recipe which can be found in Sunny Days in Texas (a vegan cookzine […]

  • Beet Burgers

    One of the many exciting things we get in our goodie bags during our monthly cooking classes at the NKCS is a vegan cookbook. Our most recent surprise to go along with “The World of Beans” weekend was a book I have never heard of before called Meatless Burgers by Louise Hagler. I enjoy Hagler’s […]

  • Pousse-Pousse, Paris, France

    Whenever I run across a raw restaurant in my travels, I feel compelled to try it. Raw food often times is prepared very creatively in gourmet restaurants. Upon reading about Pousse-Pousse, a small vegetarian restaurant and juice bar with mostly raw and vegan selections, I was eager to try it. We took 4 connections on […]

  • Corn Fritters with Sweet Chili Sauce, Black Beans, Beets, & Collard Greens

    Finding a new recipe that coincides with a beloved treat such as corn fritters is true bliss! We had recently enjoyed corn fritters from Macro Mamas at the Ithaca Farmers Market. I thought I’d surprise the man by making them homemade when I stumbled upon this amazing recipe for corn fritters with homemade sweet chili […]