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Learning from failure
I did everything right. Laid out my ingredients. Chopped and double chopped the red cabbage, carrots, sprouts and glass noodles. I used a cornstarch slurry to glue the corners of the wraps even. Then I left them in the air fryer a minute too long! Sad but still edible, plus it’s a learning experience. Right? Seriously. We cannot use recipe times for frying or baking when cooking in the air fryer. Always, ALWAYS, lessen the time and keep an eye on it. Mine is one of those air fryer, oven, toaster, air roasters with a glass door and I will never not pay attention again. I could have paused the World Series for…
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Home Fries from Roast Taters
Roast Potatoes make the absolute best home fries, and they make it quick too. Whenever I make roast potatoes, I make extra. Actually there are many dishes I double or quadruple so as to keep my refrigerator full of quick meals.
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So Powerful
I’ve often wondered when an artist would craft the meme that not only captures our Vegan empathy, but gets meat eaters thinking without using blood and gore. @compassion_over_cruelty on Instagram has done just that with this series. Here is their ig caption and the full series They both are sentient animals who feel pain, fear, love, and empathy. Yet the dog will have a day of being cherished, while the pig will be brutally slaughtered for humans’ selfish desire to consume meat. Meat isn’t necessary for us to be healthy, it harms the environment, and hurts BIPoC communities. For the love of our earth and animal companions, go vegan. @compassion_over_cruelty #vegan #vegetarian #vegansofig…
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My One Year Veganniversary
Yesterday, June 10, I celebrated one year of living vegan. So, this is my belated Happy Happy to me 🥰🌱🎉🍾👏👍🥃😷 It was so much easier, yet harder than I ever imagined. I was the ultimate carnivore, eating wings a minimum of 4 times a week. Steak, burgers and my fav, sausage and egg sandwiches for breakfast. I find it so weird that I don’t miss any of it. Not once have I craved. And vegan sausage and egg substitute sandwiches are awesome. So are Field Roast Italian sausage, peppers and onions oh my! I love Thai cooking and I’m slowly learning the art, since I could actually eat Thai every meal. Every meal that…
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Insanely Tasty Quarantine Panang Curry
Thai is my favorite food and beyond easy to make Vegan. For my year of being Vegan, I have been trying different recipes while also learning to actually follow the recipes. I finally got it right while still not following 100%. For this delish meal, I used Cookie and Kate’s recipe and rather than write out the recipe, I’ll invite you to visit their site for in-depth instructions. Cookie and Kate
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Penne Pasta with Vegan Sausage and Peppers
One of my favorite Italian dishes has long been the Rigatoni Abruzzi at our local Bertucci’s . The dish is somewhat spicy with Vegetarian Italian sausage and green peppers. I’ve been trying to duplicate the flavor and texture as a Vegan dish and I’ve finally got it! Mangia!
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Amy’s Vegan Pizza
I usually make my own pizza from frozen dough and my own toppings. I’m getting fairly good at it too. But tonight I grabbed an Amy’s Margherita out of the freezer. I’ve been a fan of Amy’s frozen Asian meals so I gave this a try. I did what I’ve done for years, and added my own toppings to the frozen base. Peppers, Vidalia onion and vegan Italian sausage. It failed! The crust was excellent, sauce tasty and my toppings were perfectly done. But whatever cheese substitute they used, was a slimy, horrid tasting mess. The “cheese” ruined an otherwise fine pizza and I threw half away. Sorry Amy’s, but I will always…
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Labor Day Favorite – Vegan Sandwich
My old self had this dread of turning vegan that was based on my own ignorance. I was experienced with the salads, nuts, pasta with plain sauce and veggie burgers I snuck into the trash while eating with vegans I know. I hadn’t done my research. But, I was determined to turn vegan and learn how I, a raw tomato hating, spicy meaty sauce loving old guy could survive on a plant based diet. I had to find more than PB&J in all it’s wonderful variants. Yes, I can live on vegan Asian curries and Asian salads but there had to be more. Enter the Sausage, Peppers and Onion sandwich. I’m the guy…
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Grampy’s Journey
That photo of a family playing below a Catskills waterfall, encompasses my main reasons for becoming a vegan. That is Vegannista(Laura) her hubby, kids and sweet pups. Actually I need to restate that. They’ve never been pushy but I’ve felt the need to be one with my grand kids, one of whom once asked me “do you eat dead animals?”. Yep mommy is really a VeganNista. I also know I care deeply for all animals. I cringe killing ants. I’ve spent my life as a true meat eater and have the ass to show for it. But I fly fish, yet never kill the fish I catch. Now I may even stop fishing…