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A note on fat
Pretty much all of my recipes call for some fat from one source or other. I use predominately coconut oil (baking and sautéing), canola oil (sautéing), olive oil (uncooked or low heat) and nuts -- especially cashew cream. As a vegan with no (known) health problems, I need to add fat to my diet. Ot…
Migraine from beets?
I think that my borscht gave me a migraine -- twice.
The night that I first made the borscht, Thursday, I went to bed with a little headache. In the middle of the night, it turned into a migraine that kept me in bed most of Friday.
Last night I ate leftover borscht for dinner and went to bed with …
School lunch
In December, there were news reports about the meat in school lunches not being tested for pathogens as often as is the meat at fast-food restaurants. The headlines proclaimed that fast-food was safer than school lunch. Such stories are definitely horrifying. I'd like to think that school lunches wo…
Never say never
On Christmas Eve, I served a raw beet ravioli with cashew cheese as the entrée (from a guest chef in The Conscious Cook). It was rather involved (it took 3 days of advance food prep) but tasted absolutely excellent. Everyone loved it. But I found myself almost making excuses for the fact that it wa…
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