January 11, 2011
With the day off, the list of to-do’s was long and scroll-like, starting with two classes at the gym. I did the pilates stretch and alignment class. Given the early morning hour and Park avenue address, it was me and a studio filled with lively blossomed senior ladies. The instructor Read more…
December 26, 2010
Snowflake time. Christmas morning and Santa came! Making quick use of the Electrician‘s new waffle maker and Williams Sonoma waffle tongs. Christmas sugar cookies. All dressed up. Banana everything cookies from Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar Santa came again at my folks’. Pancake in her festive collar.
September 27, 2010
I’ve been working on my layer of blubber, getting myself ready. Inadvertently. Here’s what’s anchoring me in for a long winter: Roasted zucchini sandwich with way too big a bun X’s 5 days a week. Huge tofu dosa from House of Dosas in Hicksville, Long Island. Vegan cheese whiz. What Read more…
March 3, 2010
Luckily many are fluent in this language.
December 25, 2009
I had to be very selective about who received a holiday cookie care package this year. Next year, when I am through studying to be a master of the universe, you’ll all get them. The chocolate chip cookie is a must in any cookie assortment. Using Vegan Cookies Invade Your Read more…
December 23, 2009
Having a big, fat still-healthy pumpkin leftover from October, I decided against purchasing the easy can of pumpkin puree for my chocolate pumpkin pie for my class’s holiday breakfast. No, no no, I would process the big gourd myself! Sure, I have a whole day to kill. Sure, I love Read more…
November 27, 2009
I am thankful to survive, and thrive, through the love and support of friends. Thanksgiving plans changed drastically at the last minute due to reasons a trained psychologist will need to help me understand. Luckily, I was able to find a place to feast. Here are the highlights: CP‘s almond Read more…
May 10, 2009
I used to work a few blocks away from ‘Snice, Manhattan’s awesome veg sandwich shop, and have frequented it many times. Yet through all the work lunches and meet-ups, I have stayed monogamous to their Vegan Panini. It is just perfect: a warm, toasted, roof-of-the-mouth-scraping flatbread smeared with green pesto Read more…
March 28, 2009
The Valentina exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York. I’ve always found fashion to be the most trivial of the arts… but then again I’ve been wearing the same clothes and shoes for at least ten years. Had I been amongst New York’s high society in the Read more…
March 7, 2009
After a terrible morning, my first consoling thought was that of brunch. I was going to treat myself to Counter‘s yummy banana flambé vegan french toast when I realized… I had never made french toast myself! I found a very simple recipe for… Banana Coconut French Toast 2 ripe bananas, Read more…
December 25, 2008
Sugar Cookies These were certainly the most time consuming. Using this recipe from blogger couple John & Kristie I churned out 36 glorious evergreens, doused them with the sweet almond icing and dipped them into a pool of nonpareils. Sweet sugar overload! And just in time as one of 2009’s food Read more…
December 18, 2008
It was a bit ambitious to attempt a vegan version of a gingerbread house, mostly because not much can impersonate the disturbingly hardening power of the egg white “royal icing” cement of tradition. Still, I had to give Vegan Dad‘s recipe a try. A fan of baking, brash haphazard decorating, Read more…
October 9, 2008
Yesterday being the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, I had no school: job or graduate school. So while those who practice fast, I practiced creating gluttonous vegan treats. Bakery staple, the black & white cookie! I remember having these when I was a kid… half of them, I should say, Read more…
June 11, 2008
After this recipe incubated in my “inbox” for weeks, it was time to put my unemployed hours to greater use and get crackin’ on it. This messy cookie assembly required the patience of idle weekday hours and itunes at no one-in-my-building-is-home levels. The culmination: a king-sized, slightly fatter vegan version Read more…
June 6, 2008
1) Pre-heat 350 degrees 2) Mix dry ingredients in large bowl: 1 cup flour (1/2 white & 1/2 whole wheat) 1/4 cup sugar 1/2 tsp. baking soda 1 tsp. baking powder 1/4 tsp. sea salt 1/3 cup cho cho chips 3) Mix wet ingredients in small bowl: 1&1/2 tsp. vanilla Read more…