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February 10, 2012 By Patrick McGilvray

Caramelized Brussels Sprouts

We just love Brussels sprouts and we were out at a nice restaurant recently and they had caramelized Brussels sprouts on the menu and we got really excited. We asked if they were cooked in butter (yes), and requested to have them cooked in olive oil instead. They said they couldn’t do it. We were…

This is a super simple recipe for moist and delicious corn bread. This basic corn bread is very lightly sweetened and goes extremely well with savory dishes like Spicy Chipotle Chili, Hearty Lentil Soup, White Bean & Corn Chili, or Mardi Gras Gumbo. What’s your favorite dish with corn bread? Let us know in the…

I found this recipe in Brendan Brazier’s book Thrive: The Vegan Nutrition Guide to Optimal Performance in Sports and Life and it has become a family favorite. It’s easy to prepare, delicious, and provides a ton of great nutrition: mainly complex carbohydrates, beta-carotene, Vitamin C, iron, and protein. These sweet potatoes along side a big…

Welcome to the Vegan Month of Food! The month of October is when vegan bloggers from all over the world commit to posting daily (or as often as possible) to spread the word of vegan goodness to the masses! This year over 600 bloggers are participating! To check out some of their amazing work and…

Cacao has been revered for millennia as a superfood; in fact, the Mayans were so impressed with its energy-promoting abilities they had an entire festival devoted to the “cacao god”. Today, raw cacao is valued for its wide spectrum of phytonutrients, antioxidants, and its high iron and magnesium content. Raw cacao has more antioxidants than…