I know how amazing and vibrant food can make you feel. But I did not always know this. Growing up in a typical working class British family food had one main purpose – to stop hunger. The solution to that problem had neither time nor money on its side – both were in short supply. […]
vegan food
Tasting the Dream: DREAM yogurts
Coming off another “what did I eat to trigger it this time” blitz, I was scrambling through the kitchen to find something to soothe the pain quick, or at least to start to calm it before it got worse, and get me on my way. Some background for you: Navigating through a gluten free diet […]
Laiki Rice Crackers
Laiki Rice Crackers are vegan and gluten free, yet full of flavor and crunch from red and black rice, oil, salt, and nothing else! If you follow a gluten-free diet, you know how hard it can be to find good crackers. Some of them taste like cardboard, especially ones made from white rice. So when […]
Vegan Chipotle Lentil Burgers
You never know what could be lurking in store-bought veggie burgers. What exactly is modified cellulose? Where does caramel color come from? Should we be eating l-cysteine hydrochloride? I recently discovered a new brand of veggie burger that I really liked, only to discover that the third ingredient listed on the package was oil. That’s […]
Sous Vide Cooking is a Breeze with the Tribest Sousvant
Despite being an avid cook, I hadn’t heard of sous vide cooking until Tribest Corporation contacted me and asked if I’d be interested in receiving their Sousvant to review. I looked it up, and found out that sous vide is a method of cooking where food is sealed in airtight plastic and then heated in […]