My mother-in-law lives in Florida where the sun is warm and the snow is non-existent. It’s also where citrus trees are abundant. My mother-in-law has a few growing in her yard and she always brings me organic grapefruit and oranges whenever she comes to visit. I’m lucky, I know! Last week my mother-in-law came to […]
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Cookbook Review and Recipe: Food Love by Tess Challis
Food Love: Nourishing Yourself, Your Family, and the Planet by Tess Challis is a beautiful book with over 100 delicious and healthy recipes. With foreword by Victoria Moran of Main Street Vegan and gorgeous food photography by Michelle Donner, Tess makes the reader immediately feel welcome by sharing her personal story of her unhealthy childhood and her journey […]
Time to Bee Free
Last summer I decided I needed to make some big changes in my life. Another birthday had come, another season was approaching, another health related moment that made me stop and take a good hard look at where my days had taken me, where I wanted to be and what was up ahead. I got […]
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 Cheese from The Sanctuary at Soledad
I first read about The Sanctuary at Soledad last year, when Carol and Julien Pearce decided to retire from their careers as award-winner goat cheese farmers and transition their goat farm into an animal sanctuary. They weren’t giving up their cheese-making ways for good though – they announced that they were going to start making vegan […]