Admittedly, I am not a soup person. I actually went five years (hell, maybe longer) without even a spoon of soup getting past my lips. 

I re-discovered soups when I moved to Boston because they were cheap (and I was a poor law student) and they warmed me up when it was impossibly cold outside... so I'm sure it goes without saying that soups were once again a thing of the past when we moved to Los Angeles... 

But then we …

My Mother-in-law flew into SXM  today and brought some vegan goodies from the mainland and a copy of my cookbook (which I had yet to see in person)!!

Even though I saw it laid out (in full color) on my computer months ago -- it's even far more beautiful than I anticipated in person. I'm in love with my cookbook...

Here are some of the goodies she brought:

Miso & Daiya cheese.... 

and lots and lots of vital wheat gluten...10lbs to …

Not too long ago I told the story of my seitan woes. To make a long story as short as possible: I was really sucking at making my own seitan so I set out to make a fool-proof recipe for my cookbook...and here it is. It's a dead ringer for country fried chicken.

In fact it's so chicken-like that my friend Andrea couldn't eat it... that was actually kind of comical. Andrea had come over for dinner and …

Today's teaser post has three recipes from the cookbook (you lucky ducks!). Together, they make the ultimate breakfast trio so I decided to blog about them as a group rather than individually (and save you from yet another post where I profess my undying love for tofu scramble...I need and intervention, or something).

Now, I know I have a recipe for low fat biscuits and gravy already on this website...but I updated the recipe for the cookbook. The …

I consider myself a master of many culinary things.... but pancakes are not one of them. Even before I was vegan, or cared about eating only whole grains, I struggled to make decent pancakes. 

The three men in my life (my father, my husband and my best friend) were all awesome at it -- total naturals. They could make you the best pancakes -- perfectly shaped, fluffy and delicious, with their eyes closed. For a while I thought it must just …