Archive for September, 2011
This flavorful mushroom soup gets its creamy texture from a base of pureed white beans. Serve either with fresh bread and a big, colorful salad, or with a veggie-filled wrap.
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Admittedly rich, this Southern-style peanut soup has an intense and unusual flavor. Adapted from Great American Vegetarian by Nava Atlas. Read More→
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Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine by Bryant Terry fills a niche that’s been long left empty: good, healthy vegan food rooted in traditional African-American cuisine. It’s one of many excellent cookbooks released this year and is definitely one that belongs on your shelf if you’re looking to get more veggies into your diet.
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Week of Sept. 26, 2011
The Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah) is coming up this Wednesday, September 28. See the complete listing of VegKitchen’s recipes here.
Recipes:
- Tempeh, Cauliflower, and Cashew Curry
- Easy Mushroom Gravy
- Spicy and Garlicky Green Beans with Walnuts
- Stuffed Avocados
- Korean Japchae
- Asian-Flavored Quinoa Wraps
- Mexican-Style Quinoa Salad
- Vegan Gooda Cheez
- Vegan Brie Cheez
- Almost-Raw Cheez Sauce
- Almost-Raw Zucchini “Macaroni” and Cheez
- Bread Stuffing Casserole
- Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Roasted Eggplant Curry
- Coconut Creamed Corn
- Pineapple Rice Salad
- Gingery Rice with Sweet Potatoes and Peas
- Vietnamese Tofu Wraps
- Tiramisu Parfaits
- Black-Eyed Peas with Spinach and Herbs
- Sweet and Savory Nuts and Pretzels
- Green Pea, Parsley, and Pistachio Dip
Articles:
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When the documentary film Forks Over Knives premiered in New York City this past spring, I was honored to be invited to speak on a post-screening panel. Now this important film about how plant-based diets can prevent as well as reverse disease is available on DVD. The “stars” of this film are Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, known for encouraging former President Bill Clinton to adopt a vegan diet, and. Dr. T. Colin Campbell, author of the groundbreaking book The China Study.For anyone interested in how a vegan diet can reverse heart disease and other life-threatening illnesses, this is a must see film. Here’s a description from its producers:
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Have you been looking for a good, easy, nearly raw macaroni and cheez recipe? As with a lot of fancier raw recipes, I regret that this one needs machines—a high speed blender to make the sauce, and a spiral slicer (I love the World Cuisine Spiral Slicer) to make “noodles” from zucchini. But if you have those in your kitchen, you’ll enjoy this dish. I’m not a raw foodist, but I try for more than 50% raw per day; and this is recipe says “comfort food” like raw foods rarely do. Read More→
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The only items in this sauce that aren’t raw in this luscious almost-raw vegan cheese sauce are the nutritional yeast and the rice milk or hemp milk. There’s no non-dairy cheese of any sort in this; so it’s amazing how very cheesy it tastes! Read More→
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Serve this bright green dip surrounded by brightly colored vegetables—baby carrots, sliced red bell peppers, rounds of yellow squash, and thin wedges of raw sweet potato. Read More→
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