Hey guys! A very special someone celebrated his birthday recently — someone who loves film, steam punk, archaeology and, apparently, cranky bloggers. Yep, that would be my boyfriend! He also happens to love poppy seed cake and, man, does he deserve one all to himself on his birthday. Determined to make him the best vegan [...]

Is it wrong to dream of these? [photo cred] Not when you can make one of these to satisfy that hankering for coconut… That, my friends, is coconut cream pie. Now what I’m going to tell you may shock or disgust you. Are you ready for it?….. It’s made with tofu! I love tofu in [...]

Hey guys!  It’s been a long day with little sleep last night (see here), and I felt like making something hearty and something sweet for dinner.  I decided on a Costa Rica meets the South compromise — gallo pinto and sweet corn bread. Now before I divulge one of the main ingredients of gallo pinto [...]

Black beans singing in the dead of night… I’ve said before here that while I loved beans to pieces I would not be their spokesgal until they changed their song involving the word “toot.”  I lied.  I cave. When it comes to black beans I’m all about tootin’…tootin’ their horn that is.  Thanks to a [...]

I’m not really on a diet, but I needed a more succinct title than, “You Know You’re Aiming to Adapt to a Healthy Lifestyle so that it is Second Nature but Still Struggling with it When…” Anyway. I know that healthy lifestyles are not about restriction and starving and blah blah blah – I get [...]

Unintentional sabotage. We all have those friends who, love them to pieces, either don’t have to worry about what they eat, should but don’t, or have an extreme aversion to moderation and anything restricted or controlled.  It’s natural for them to have issues with a person whose calorie consciousness is unwavering and to attempt to [...]

So I was going to order these low-fat donuts from Holey Donuts (they were mentioned in my beloved Hungry Girl e-newsletter) to taste-test all in the name of being a good blogger (ugh, the things I do for you people!)…. That is, until I saw that the shipping would cost at least $20.00 because they [...]