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All the vegan things I love to cook, eat, and share it all with others. I'm a vegan, and my family is not (at least, not all the time). I also just like donkeys.

Anyway, if you'd like to know what we're having for dinner, here it is!

03/28/2024

🍩 Ran for donuts and Devi's was BOMB 💣

03/20/2024

🎂🎈☘️ Pretty much the greatest 50th birthday weekend ever. First, a junk cereal feast for me at work (YES, DENTAL.) Then, an AI birthday message with ! Then. Our dinner date at was actually a surprise party with some of my best friends, who drove for hours and brought gifts that touched my heart!! knitted me the most amazing sweater! and my godson stayed over and surprise... We're doing the together! We had an awesome brunch and the next day, a vegan burger . I heard from so many people I love. I am deeply moved and overwhelmed by my blessings. I'm ready for the next 50. I love you guys so much.

10/30/2023

🎃🍩 "Fun Day" at my kids school (they can't call it Halloween), and I made another questionable decision to crank out a zillion mini pumpkin spice donuts, two and a half minutes, and six at a time. My recipe is really easy, but it is not oil-free (which I tend to do when I'm cooking for other people, lest they nod their heads in agreement that vegan food just isn't very good. If you're going to make sweets, they should be sweet. Just my opinion.) The recipe is a shortcut, but if you have a donut pan they would probably cook faster. However, I like that these get done on both sides, and I dip them in the vegan butter and then the cinnamon sugar while another batch is cooking.

🎃🍩 Pumpkin Spice Mini Donuts
(for an army)

Ingredients:
3 boxes Spice Cake Mix (I used )
2 (15-oz) cans pumpkin
1/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup aquafaba

Mix in a big bowl, and let it rest while you melt some vegan butter in one bowl, and mix cinnamon sugar in another. I also added pumpkin spice, and a small scoop of powdered vanilla. I did these in two and a half minute batches. After you dip them in the butter and then the sugar, any little worries you might have about imperfect shapes will disappear! I experimented with some eyeball icing decorations, and decided these were just too pretty as is. The taste was even better. Delicious.

07/22/2023

🥞☕ I dint get no cupcakes. But I just got down on what was, for me, the perfect set of pancakes at just now. Some people might be about a 100% white, fluffy stack. Not me. These are super fluffy, but also a little bit whole grain too, so they have just a little body. They are fork-soft, but just a TINY bit crunchy outside. Daisy serves vegan pancakes with vegan butter, and I got a great oatmilk latte and a side of avocado. Unfortunately the veggie sausage is not vegan, but I am far from mad. The waitress said, "you look so happy right now." 😍 They also have vegan chorizo, a scramble, potatoes and many other options on a dedicated vegan menu. Great service, too. Even though it sounds like they were a little short-handed today I didn't notice the gap. Thank you Daisy Cafe for making my day amazing. I'll be back. A lot.

03/04/2023

🍪 COME SEE US and buy cookies this weekend!! Saturday 12-7 at W***y Street West, and Sunday 12-3 (or later) at Azara on State. Vegan and non-vegan available:) and the gluten-free are VEGAN this year (but NO Toast-Yays because they are basic, haha). We've been scouts for 7 years, and we want to earn a trip! Thanks for the love and support!!

12/25/2022

🥐 Brilliant idea I grabbed from that made the most sinfully delicious brunch item for Christmas 🎄. Take a can of cinnamon rolls, and cut them into quarters. Mix with one can apple pie filling, and add to a buttered pan. I baked it uncovered at 350° for 35 minutes. (She doubles the recipe but I had the ingredients for half of it.) When it comes out of the oven, let it cool just a tiny bit and then add the frosting. The cinnamon roll pieces all got crispy on the outside and stayed doughy inside. It really cooked perfectly and everyone loved it. I'm going to keep this little trick in my arsenal!

09/27/2022

🥑 Yesterday was 10 years since I embarked on my plant-based journey. I watched "Forks Over Knives" that weekend, celebrated my daughter's birthday on Sunday, and ate the pulled pork that my mother-in-law made in a Crock-Pot for the party. That night I watched Guy Fieri eat a pig's face on TV, and told my shocked husband that I was going to try to eat vegan for 2 weeks. Because of my daughter's milk allergy, we had already switched to plant milk, and I thought I could probably make it that long without cheese. What I never, ever expected was that I would love it right away. Within days my energy level soared to where it had never been in my life. I loved the fullness I would get, without feeling that "rock" in my stomach, or that I needed a nap after eating. I lost my pregnancy weight (and then some), became a runner and have completed over a dozen marathons. After having been iron-poor for a lifetime, I have never been since. As the years went on, I stopped getting colds, and the 24-hour "stomach flu" I was plagued with my entire life, and even the life-stopping bronchitis that came like clockwork every fall.
HOWEVER, it ain't all clover. If anyone tells you a vegan diet is perfect, they are lying. I believe that a plant-based diet provides more nutrients (if one is consuming whole foods, that is) than any diet that includes meat or dairy. But it is necessary to supplement B12 and K2, and at my age I still take additional calcium. I also never anticipated how isolating eating vegan can be. I never anticipated being the center of attention at every group meal I attended for the rest of my life, or forcing family members to choose between preparing what they usually make, or "having something for me." I never wanted to put anyone out. I also honestly thought that if I simply told my loved ones all the benefits of eating this way, surely everyone would run after me! 🙄 Now I know that leading SOME to water is the approach to take (if you want to keep friends), and those interested will ask me more. Most are not. They can't imagine that my world without bacon and cheese is more delicious. But to me, it is - or these 10 years would never have happened. Thanks. ❤️🙏

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