Topic: Holiday


Vegan Christmas Menus Posted by:Lindsay S. Nixon Category: Holiday

Top 10 Tuesday: 10 Vegan Christmas (Holiday) Menus[delayed posting--I had Internet troubles on Tuesday]

In case you missed all my online blabbering: I was hired by a hotel in St. Maarten to create vegan menus for all four of their restaurants and yesterday was my first day in the kitchen!

All I have to say about that is: Top Chef? Hells Kitchen? Child's play! Try working in a busy kitchen when you don't speak the language!

But in all …

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Holiday Recipe Ideas Posted by:Lindsay S. Nixon Category: Holiday

Hey herbies! I've been getting a couple of emails and comments via Facebook asking for suggestions and ideas for foods one can take to their office party, neighbor's holiday gathering and the like, so for this Top 10 Tuesday, here are some of my favorite Holiday party "potluck" dishes.

On the simpler side, I recommended "Honey" Roasted "Nuts" -- you can also do a savory take on these no-nuts by roasting them (a la Chickpea Taco style) with Chinese …

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Vegan Thanksgiving Posted by:Lindsay S. Nixon Category: Holiday

I hope all of you who weren't out shopping on Black Friday got the chance to watch me cook my thanksgiving dinner live on Ustream.

Since St. Maarten doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving, Scott & I didn't have Thursday (or Friday) off from work. However, I was able to get my work done early on Friday so I could cook up a thanksgiving meal, albeit a little tardy. We enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner in the company of new friends: Tay (author of Caribbean …

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Whole-Wheat Fat-Free Vegan Banana-Pumpkin Muffins Posted by:Lindsay S. Nixon Category: Holiday

A few weeks ago I found myself with no less than a dozen bananas and two small sugar pumpkins. I have no idea how I ended up with all that fruit... ok, so that's not entirely true. The little sugar pumpkins are so damn cute I can't pass them by without buying one and bananas... well, I'm in the camp where one can never have too many bananas.

Anyway, I decided to attempt a banana-pumpkin bread to help use up …

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