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Daring Bakers February: For the love of chocolate

Mmm, chocolate. For February, Daring Bakers hosts were Wendy at wmpesblog and Dharm at Dad – Baker and Chef. In keeping with the theme of Valentine’s day, this month’s challenge was to make a Chocolate Valentino, and pair it with some sort of ice cream of our choosing. What’s a valentino, you might ask? Well, […]

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Daring Bakers January: Tuiles!

After missing last month’s challenge, I wanted to make sure I had time to do this month’s. And then… I found out I needed a root canal. No, I’m not joking. Fortunately for me, I wasn’t in the stage where the tooth is in such pain that you can’t function. We caught this pretty early, […]

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Holiday recap, part 4: keep your fork!

I know, I know. It’s mid-January and here I am with more holiday recap posts. Well, this one contains pie, so I hope you’ll forgive me for dragging things on. This recipe was really easy to make vegan. All I had to do was substitute for butter in the crust (by making it all vegetable […]

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Holiday recap, part 2: eat your veggies!

Holiday dinners usually focus on the turkey, or in our case, the tofurky. That’s great, except one cannot survive on protein alone! We knew we’d need some delicious vegetable dishes to round out our meal. We decided we wanted to stay away from some of the typical stuff we’d been served growing up. This meant […]

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Holiday recap, part 1: Gravy mishaps

Now that the holidays are truly over and we’re all getting back into our normal routines, I finally have some time to post about our delicious vegan holiday meal. “Wait”, you might be thinking, “Vegan? Since when are you vegan?” See, this year we decided to have our own Christmas Day meal at home. Since […]

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