vegan food and stuff.

library snacks

earl grey tea in a jar,

a persimmon.

studying french.

listening to iron & wine; the tallest man on earth.

I don’t have any recipes for you, because cooking rarely happens during the semester for me. :(

But I wanted to point out this site that I came across! It’s pretty impressive, and I’m really surprised that warner brothers owns it, it amazes me that they would do that. (Well, except that they probably realize there’s a growing vegan market/area to make money.)

But I digress…here it is! Enjoy.

http://vegan.ellen.warnerbros.com/

I’ll be posting a pumpkin dessert sometime soon, and then I will blog my Thanksgiving, which I have no idea what it will look like being gluten free this year, but it WILL be good. :)

Wannabe Mango Lassi (Inspired mango smoothie.)

…That reminds me of Trix cereal.

I do not know why.

Also, I apologize for another smoothie post. I just couldn’t help myself.

I was trying to make mango lassi because I went to an Indian Restaurant the other night and sadly it was mostly a non-vegan Indian place. They used ghee, cheese, and yogurt in a lot of their recipes. They did however make one of their okra entrees vegan for me, and it was pretty tasty.

Anyways, onto the drink! This probably does not have the taste of normal mango lassi, but it is inspired by it. Instead of yogurt I used avocado for a creamy, somewhat neutral base.

Mango Trix Lassi Smoothie Drink

Serves 1

1 Mango

1/2 Avocado

1 Cup or so Almond/non-dairy milk

1. Slice out your mango meat.

2. Slice our your ‘cado meat.

3. Blend it all up and enjoy.

Eats today.

1. Breakfast: banana and pb, coffee with anise molasses coconut milk ice cream.

2. Lunch: brown rice pasta with yumm sauce and kale. Sauce recipe: http://peasandthankyou.com/2011/04/12/wannabe-recipea-mmmm-sauce/

3. Photo of the lovely produce we bought today! Kale, romaine, a fennel bulb, carrots (lots! lol), tomatoes, butternut squash, avocados, bananas, peaches, nectarines, grapefruit, and mangoes. Mostly organic. Needless to say, I am happy.

4. Salad (romaine) with sunflower seeds, tomato, roasted eggplant, red onions, and fennel. The best tempeh ever: http://www.food.com/recipe/italian-flavored-tempeh-nuggets-315262 Don’t worry, I didn’t eat all of this, haha. It was for 3 other people. :)

So Nom!

Vegan food and guys.

Please read this excellent post!

http://peasandthankyou.com/2011/06/21/pea-mail-make-my-man-eat-plants/

Its not long and really good. I’ve read quite a few stories like this and they always reinforce the fact that healthy eating and veganism is not unmanly. Meat does not equal masculinity. Well, human masculinity at least (dead animal muscles, obviously…). 

Other posts/people you may want to check out:

http://vegandad.blogspot.com/

http://www.thediscerningbrute.com/

http://www.brendanbrazier.com/

http://www.robertcheeke.com/

I will add more resources as I find them/remember them. Haha :)

Also, you may be interested to know that these male celebrities/musicians are vegan: Mike Tyson, Leo-freaking-nardo Da Vinci (I just just found out…haha), Woody Harrelson, Robin Gib of the Bee Gees, Bill Ward of Black Sabbath, Thom Yorke of Radiohead, Andre 3000, Casey Afleck, Alec Baldwin, Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Toby Macguire, Matisyahu, Jason Mraz, Joaquin Pheonix, Brad Pitt, Prince, Steve-O, Ruben Studdard, and tons more!! I only chose ones I reconized that were very famous. There a tons of male athletes on the list too, but I didn’t list any because I don’t know who they are. Haha. See the whole list I used here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vegans

In other news, it’s been a while since I’ve posted a recipe! Im about to make some more ice cream, and I think it’s going to be successful, so look out for that.

Not really food related, but if you like the photos here I think you’ll like the photos on my NEW WEBSITE even more.

YES! My photography website is up now!!

party time. excellent.

http://sarahcroswhite.com/

Smoothies!

My mom brought home some carrot juice the other day so I got all inspired about smoothies. Now you may be thinking “What? Ew.” But it was inspirational to me because I make smoothies all the time so when I get a new idea for one its super fun! And also because of two words: carrot. cake.

Seereeuzz noms yallz. So Im gonna give you that recipe, but Im not a HUGE recipe person, if you haven’t caught on yet. I dislike measuring things. (Hence the “~“‘s flowing in abundance on this blog.) So Im gonna just give you some other ideas as well, some tips, and some other combos that I like lots.

Carrot Cake Smoothie (pictured)

1-2 C Carrot Juice

1 Frozen banana

1 TBSP nut butter (any kind!)

1/2 tsp cinnamon (or your preference..im a cinnamon fiend so i put LOTS)

1/16 tsp pumpkin pie spice

Other add ins that i havent tried, but would realllyy want to, since they’re carrot cake-y:

-raisins

-plain nondairy yogurt (perhaps to give it that cream cheesey tartness? (you can make your own SUPER easily with nondairy milk, lemon juice, sweetner, and cornstarch…it just wont have the probiotics here you go if your interested: http://havecakewilltravel.com/2009/05/26/homemade-sorta-soygurt/)

-walnuts (because thats the classic, though personally I like lots of other nuts better…just do what you like)

Other smoothie ideas/tips:

*The other day my friend was over and wanted a smoothie. She was also drinking some coffee. I suggested she throw the coffee into the simple banana-almond milk one that I had blended up for her already. She did and it was awesome!

Moral of the story, if you like/drink coffee, throw it in.

*I really DISLIKE putting ice in my smoothies. It waters it down and makes it…well…icy. Haha. So I suggest freezing your fruit. ESPECIALLY BANANAS. :) Frozen bananas give smoothies creamy, smooth, delicious, thick awesomeness.

*If you have enough fruit or sweetner in your smoothie, and you are feeling a bit brave, try putting in 1/2 an avocado also for a smootthhh creamy consistency.

Recent Eats

Molasses Licorice Ice Cream

Recipe still needs tweaking, as you can see the texture is not quite right! Never the less it was still quite tasty, especially with bananas and peanut butter. :)

Raw corn

Gluten free Chocolate Chip Cookies 

(Recipe still needs to be perfected.)

Artichoke and Heirloom Tomato Polenta Pizza

Sorry for the bad photo! I tend to eat my dinner after sundown, so there’s no pretty light. But I just had to show you, it was sooo delicious!

This is what I did:

I used trader Joe’s premade polenta and mashed it up with some salt, pepper, rosemary, garlic powder, and olive oil. First I spread the mixture out fairly evenly on a pan (or baking sheet) with my hands. Then I took some of Trader Joe’s artichoke antipasto and spread that on top. Finally, I cut up a farmers market organic heirloom tomato, arranged that on top, then sprinkled some nutritional yeast on top (optional).

Sooo tasty, creamy, comforting, and delicious! I recommend you eat with a fork. :)

If you don’t want to buy premade polenta, I hear its super easy to make:

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/polenta/detail.aspx

Also, I dont have the recipe for the antipasto, these are the ingredients. It seems pretty simple:

Artichokes, water, canola oil, parsley, garlic, extra virgin oilive oil, salt, distilled vinegar, spices.

Other noms not pictured:

-KALE. Chips, salads, etc.

-Chickpea salad (satisfies me when I think about the tuna sandwiches I used to eat):

http://veganyumyum.com/2007/12/chickpea-radish-hors-doeuvres/

(I always add dill to this! I also didnt have lemon…still tasty :))

-Zucchini

-Smooothies!! (They get their own upcoming post. :D)