I like avocados for their taste, texture, and healthy nutritional profile. I eat them in salads, on crusty dense bread, mashed into a chunky guacamole, or simply halved and sprinkled with lime juice and flaked sea salt. Then, there is avocado-based ice cream! You may have already enjoyed some of the naturally vegan avocado ice […]
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Fran Costigan’s Vegan Chocolate-Dipped Coconut Macaroons
Passover, like all of my family’s gatherings, was food-centric, and dessert was no exception. After dinner, we always had two kinds of Passover macaroons on the table: a bakery version and a canned version. The ones from the bakery were certainly better than the canned, but I admit to favoring the latter as a child. […]
Vegan Watermelon Granita with Chocolate Seeds
On a hot and humid New York City summer day, nothing beats a couple of slices of ice-cold watermelon to cool me off (as much as possible, anyway). Nothing, that is, until I made this rosy pink, icy cold, lime-scented watermelon granita for my frozen dessert class at the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and […]
Recipe: Chocolate, Orange, and Almond Olive Oil Cake
If you have ground almonds in your freezer, it takes almost no time to prep. But don’t rush the baking and final steps: it is important to bake the cake until it is dark golden-brown for the best texture, and to sprinkle a layer of chopped almonds on the serving plate so that the bottom […]