October 12, 2024
There I am in my current DC apartment… but we are moving in a few days. I always need to have a go-to Thai place and I was happy to find Charm Thai Restaurant in Silver Spring, MD on my walk. I got the usual Pad See Ew with spring Read more…
May 30, 2023
Another report of vegan eats in Rochester and I still haven’t eaten my way entirely through the city! Though there were a couple of repeats, I am reporting on yummy new options at those spots. Can’t wait to return and eat some more… Crisp I love that Crisp is right Read more…
January 14, 2023
I first learned of Green Street Eatery a few years ago when it was a food truck. Even though it wasn’t that long ago, I was way more on top of all-vegan eats then, especially on Long Island. But it wasn’t until January of 2023 that I found my way Read more…
November 15, 2021
Minty Z is home to one of the most impressive version of seitan wings I’ve ever had. I was blown away, in general, by the extensive and scrumptious menu. I highly recommend tolerating an evening in the brash Coconut Grove for some pretty spectacular vegan dim sum. First, the Cuban Read more…
August 20, 2021
Jmart in Bensonhurst, like many Asian grocers, has a plethora of vegan items within its aisles. To follow, a pictorial to remind myself to go back and experiment often. What I got…
August 2, 2021
Peach & Pine Cafe is some of the best vegan food in the NYC area… but they’re on Long Island, throwing down impressive pop-ups in Suffolk county with their new food truck. On a day with a packed Long Island itinerary, getting to their BBQ pop-up at North Fork Brewery Read more…
July 6, 2021
The last day of the desert adventure… before I would spend hours in the air waiting for New York City storms to clear the atmosphere before landing in Buffalo to refuel and finally seeing my bed in Brooklyn at 2:00 am as opposed to 8:00 pm as originally scheduled. It Read more…
February 16, 2021
I am hitting all the boroughs up for their vegan sandwiches! This stop would take me to Sunnyside, Queens–a locale I hadn’t been to since another vegan mission 10 years ago. There are plenty of eateries that you’d assume would throw a vegan option on their menu. Perhaps the assumption Read more…
August 26, 2020
No Butcher has been high on my list as is any all-vegan eatery that makes its own vegan meats and cheeses–not just putting condiments on Beyond or Impossible Burgers. Plus, a drive thru! Perfect for a gal on the road. I got the Hawaiian Rib sammy which offered me hearty Read more…
September 29, 2019
A quick trip to Western New York would of course mean a scouring of vegan options. As is the nowadays, there was so much to try. Veganism is thriving everywhere these days. Not only at my destination, but on stops along the way. Like at 96 Lives Vegan Bakery & Read more…
July 30, 2019
Williamsburg has a new little food court in the thick of the area’s hullabaloo, North 3rd Street Market, and it has some good vegan options! Manhattan’s delicious all-vegan Mexican Jajaja has a Brooklyn outpost there. Since it was Tuesday, I had to make it a Taco Tuesday. Everything is so Read more…
March 17, 2019
Usually I wear my “Italians Do It Better” shirt on March 17. But I am Irish, too, so it’s a joke. Actually, my Irish blood is far more festive than my other components. My great grandfather (or possibly great-great? I’ll have to ask my cousin who dug deep on our Read more…
October 3, 2018
Why do we praise what is logical and reasonable? When have these things ignited your heart and imagination? Stepping into this elementary school library in Bushwick, Brooklyn, I was struck by the the questions posed by its students all about the walls. Within each, Hope–in the form of curiosity, innocence, Read more…
July 26, 2017
Vegan options are popping up all over the place on Long Island. So I try to squeeze them into my daily routines and errands right away. After a recent hot tip, I checked out Radio Radio in Huntington Village for lunch. They have some promising-reading vegan options on their Southern/BBQ Read more…
July 17, 2017
Beautiful Places Close By, Beautiful Places Far Away, Eating Out, Nostalgia, Photography, Wanderlust
{ A crème brûlée donut from Donut Friend. } { Plant Food + Wine‘s Polenta + Hash: wild mushrooms, sweet potato hash, harissa } { Their potato-heavy Breakfast Burrito } { And their Chickpea Fritatta, dressed to the nines. } { A side of barbecue tempeh with very bitter micro greens. Read more…
July 16, 2017
Breakfast can often go two ways–vibrant or gluttonous. This morning we headed over to a no-fail vegan breakfast option that I rarely take part in, an acai bowl. I got The Patriot with banana, strawberry, blueberry, coconut, and acai at Brazailian Acai Bowls in Bakersfield. It did the job. A Read more…
October 12, 2016
Though I love the Northeast, love the deciduous trees; I love to see the snow-capped mountains of the West emerge from the plane window. Like Oregon’s welcoming committee: Mount St. Helens on the left and Mount Hood on the right. Not pictured but also pushing the East out of my Read more…
September 10, 2016
The start of a new school year is a taxing time. From freedom to strenuous furniture moving, room design and set-up, to planning units of study.. then the delivery, and all teaching entails. No one day alike, ever-changing variables and constant stimulation. And with the schedule change, I finally was Read more…
March 13, 2016
A long time ago, when the Earth was green, I swam with the manatees in Florida’s Crystal River, where hundreds of manatees flock to in the winter months when the waters of the Gulf of Mexico are not as warm. It was time to see the manatees again, though the Read more…
March 2, 2016
It seems the world gets more and more vegan-friendly everyday. As a vegan food blogger, the surge in vegan options near, kinda near, far and very far is overwhelming. From big cities to small locales, I can’t keep up. But I try… And I looove trying. It’s very delicious. My Read more…
February 13, 2016
New vegan-friendly products are springing up all the time. Here are an assortment, old and new, that I’ve purchased recently. It’s always a welcome site to see vegan specialty items at my conventional super market. Bee Free Honee, a sweetener made from apples, has that honey look and honey taste. I mostly used it Read more…
November 10, 2015
First, a quick appetizer before my dinner date: Clementine Bakery in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. My last (and only) visit was when they had recently opened their doors. They’ve grown up well! Now: dinner. In the great expanse of New York City, sometimes an eatery can exist without showing up on your radar field. Read more…
July 7, 2015
I can spend hours in an Asian grocer, especially a gigantic supermarket like V & T in Hempstead. The packaging of the goods is a draw enough! But they are often very veg-friendly, albeit preservative and sodium-laden. Though Hempstead is a bit of a veg-void (except during the all-vegan Hempstead Food Read more…
February 18, 2015
For more hearty winter cravings, I met with CP for a Brooklyn pizza dinner. After a tremendous wait time thwarting our dinner plans a few weeks back, I couldn’t get Paulie Gee’s out of my head. It had been several years since we had been there, and there were plenty of Read more…
July 24, 2013
Even though this born and raised New Yorker has travel to the far reaches of the Us of A to sample vegan eats, I haven’t really explored the vegan options in Westchester County, New York City’s northern suburb. I am usually passing through early in the morning on the way Read more…
July 29, 2012
V & T Supermarket in Hempstead, Long Island is a place I can spend hours in. It is a huge Asian grocery store with long aisles of interesting food items–noodles, sauces, sweets, a frozen section, and… canned goodies. I visited V & T with a clear mission in mind: get Read more…