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I think I need something sweet. Well, there is so much bad news (now in Thailand ^^"), and I don't know how long we have to live with it. We can only hope and[...]

Paul turned 41 on Monday, so we took a camping trip to Chattanooga, TN, to celebrate! Last year, Paul bought a tiny RV, and we enjoyed taking it out last[...]

Paul and I went to Chattanooga for a camping trip a couple weekends ago to celebrate his 41st birthday! We took our RV and stayed at the Lookout Mountain KOA[...]

Tonight I've got the last in my Chattanooga camping series! Paul and I took our tiny RV to Chattanooga, Tennessee, for his 41st birthday, and we spent four[...]

Since we've returned from camping, I've been trying to get back into my healthy eating habits, so most of my meals have been giant salads and grain/green/bean[...]

Lately, I love to use Houjicha for baking. I added it into many kinds of baked goods, and find that it goes very well with dairy products. It can come from the[...]

When I was very young, my family always got this kind of cookie as a gift. It came with the wedding, whenever some of my relatives getting married. When I was[...]

I've missed you, blog friends! Last Thursday, Paul and I set out for a camping trip in Chattanooga, Tennessee, for his 41st birthday. I'll be sharing lots[...]

I made English Muffins today. Well, the reason is so simple, I just wanted to use my new English muffin pan. Pleas note that, I bough it by myself, no[...]

I've been blogging since 2007, and along the way, I've made a bunch of awesome vegan internet friends, mostly other bloggers and cookbook authors. Dianne Wenz[...]

I've been having fun creating new recipes for a cookbook project that may never see the light of day! Ha! I needed a reason to get creative in the kitchen, so[...]

When I set my New Year's goals — yoga streak, train for a 50K race, eat the rainbow of foods as often as possible, take an online class every two months,[...]

Most of the time, I love to try new recipes or making new kinds of sweets, but I still have my favorite kinds of cake that I can make it again and again.[...]

Last week, Rose Lee of Cheap Lazy Vegan was a guest on the No Meat Athlete podcast . I have two of her e-cookbooks, but I hadn't yet tried anything from them.[...]

My dad turned 67 this past Saturday, April 3, and for the first time in over a year, I was able to visit them without doing a two-week quarantine. And Paul was[...]

I don't celebrate Easter in a religious way, but y'all know I love every holiday! To me, Easter means Spring is well underway and the Earth is super-fertile.[...]

My BFF Sheridan and I go back 28 years! We became friends in 8th grade, bonding over our love for teen star Jonathan Brandis. And we've been friends ever[...]

I love plant meats! I don't eat them every day since I try to stick with a whole foods-based diet most of the time, but a few times a week, I'll get down on[...]

I think that banana cake is one of the cakes that I make a load of it! There are many recipes that I made it before, with oil, butter, cheese, vegetarian, and[...]

It's hard to believe we're a year into the pandemic and spending ANOTHER St. Patrick's Day at home. Most years, I'm sitting on a patio drinking green beer,[...]

Saturday was Ostara, the Spring Equinox! Summer is my favorite season, but I love Spring! This has been a long, cold, boring winter (thanks COVID), and I can't[...]

Easter is coming up soon. This year Easter will be April 4th . I still get press releases relating to candy and desserts, so I had to share this one. For a[...]

Memphis has a new vegan food truck! Da Guilty Vegan is a Black-owned food truck specializing in vegan fried chick'n sandwiches. They started serving in[...]

Last year, I purchased the No Meat Athlete Health & Fitness Bundle, which included e-cookbooks, cooking courses, workout plans, and all kinds of fun stuff.[...]

I really love making bread ^^. From only one kind of dough, you can make many kinds of bread with a lot of variations. This time, I made raisin buns. Actually,[...]

I've finally decided to put our rescued pit bull Maynard on a vegan diet! When we first took him in in 2012, we had another dog (Datsun) and six cats, and I[...]

Last Wednesday, I'd planned to try out a new vegan food truck, but they posted that morning that they would be closed due to an unexpected issue. But I was[...]

Paul and I have been craving Pho Binh's Tofu Pho for weeks! Pho Binh (Memphis' BEST Vietnamese restaurant) was closed for a couple months due to COVID, and[...]

This cookie recipe came from the fact that I didn't know how to finish a large bar of White Chocolate with Honey & Almond Nougat that I had in the fridge.[...]

Since I was snowed-in alone for days, I decided to turn my involuntary "snow quarantine" into a full-on Covid quarantine and visit my parents. So I stayed home[...]

I've been craving Ethiopian food for several weeks, and I finally satisfied that craving last Thursday with some takeout from Abyssinia . I got the Veggie[...]

Last Saturday, LuLu's at the Cooper-Young Farmer's Market was selling handmade Cabbage & Carrot Dumplings . They were sold five to a container, so I just[...]

Last Friday, I made the Garlicky Rosemary Potato Soup from The No Meat Athlete Cookbook , and I'm happy to report that picky Paul loved it and went back for[...]

I bought a lot of baking pan in the last 3 months ^^. Well, I know even we don't have every style or size of them, we're still able to create many kinds of[...]

Last Friday morning, my friend Pam sent me a text that said "Look outside your door." So I did. And there was a box of Darling Donuts! Pam ordered her friends[...]

Most years, I make a vegan king cake for Fat Tuesday and share it with my coworkers, but almost a year into the pandemic, I'm still working from home. I could[...]

Over the weekend, I made the One Pot Pasta from The No Meat Athlete Cookbook as a night-before-my-long-run carby dish. That said, my long run only ended up[...]

On New Year’s Day, I started a point system where I get a point every time I do one of the healthy habits associated with my New Year’s resolutions[...]

It's been an icy/snowy week in Memphis! Last Thursday, we had an ice storm, and it started snowing on Sunday. Temps have been in the teens and single digits,[...]

Last week, I was so busy. Even I really wanted to share this recipe last week (so you can prepare it for Valentine's day), I couldn't make it! You can see that[...]

On Monday, Imagine Vegan Cafe posted their daily special on Instagram — Vegan Chicken & Dumplins!!! — and I just had to have some. This[...]

Just a quick post tonight to share what I ate for last night's SuperBowl! I'm not a football fan. The game moves too slowly for my taste. I much prefer[...]

Last Saturday, Darling Donuts did a pop-up sale at the Be Mine Memphis pop-up shop in the Broad Ave Arts District. It didn't open until noon, so I timed my[...]

This recipe is a repost of the recipe that I posted it a long time ago (more than 10 years). Because the original recipe that I posted is quite large, and I[...]

Although I don't really subscribe to the Engine 2 way of eating (I eat a little oil, and I couldn't live without smoothies), I do subscribe to their[...]

Pizzeria Trasimeno in Crosstown Concourse has a deal where you can get two pizzas and a six-pack of Crosstown Brewing Co. beer (brewed on-site!!) for just $30.[...]

I know it seems like No Meat Athlete is the only thing I talk about, but I REALLY just love this brand so much. I've been on a mission to make every single[...]

Yesterday (Feb. 2) was Imbolc, the cross-quarter day that celebrates the return of Spring. It's the halfway point between Winter Solstice and the Spring[...]

Y'all, I really love cauliflower. It's so versatile. You can roast it, steam it, saute it, mash it, steak it, or even rice it. When I first saw Julia Murray of[...]

One of the fruits that I think we should have in the fridge is the apple. You can use it in various menus both savory and sweet, bake, boil or turn it into a[...]

I love to cook, and if I was retired and had all the time in the world, I'd cook fresh meals every day. But I have a day job, a lot of time-consuming hobbies[...]

Full disclosure: Mellow Mushroom provided a $25 gift card so I could sample and blog about a few of their vegan items. I remember, years ago, every time I'd[...]

HAPPY INAUGURATION DAY!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited and relieved! Okay, I know you're here for the food ... A couple Saturday nights ago, Paul and I were[...]

Last year, I bought a lot of game soft, books, and manga, but I rarely had time to spend with them. Well, there was a time that we had to work and now when I'm[...]

I always have this problem: a lot of egg whites in my freezer! Even I try to use it often, I still have about 3-4 bags in my freezer (I put the egg white in a[...]

On the day after Christmas, I drove to Nashville to meet up with Paul and his family and exchange gifts. As you probably saw on the news, there was a suicide[...]

Back around Black Friday, I purchased the No Meat Athlete Health & Fitness Bundle, which had lots of e-cookbooks, fitness programs, and even life coaching[...]

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I'm trying to cook only from the e-cookbooks I got in the No Meat Athlete Health & Fitness Bundle. My favorite of those[...]

Happy New Year 2021!!!! I think that many of you might have a lot of plans and targets for this year. Actually, I felt that everything is the same, haha, maybe[...]

Happy New Year! And sorry again for the long absence. I guess I just needed a blogging break, but I'm back with a little New Year's Eve/Day post. Maynard would[...]

I've been cooking a lot out of e-books lately, and my current obsession is the Hooked On Plants e-book by Olympian (and No Meat Athlete host) Julia Murray. Her[...]

I'm not doing a reset or cleanse this year, as I have in January's past. But I am trying to stick with my 80% whole foods/20% indulgent guidelines. That said,[...]

If you love to eat ZongziI think you will love this recipe too. But this one is a lot easier version, both in the method and the ingredient. As the main flavor[...]

This time, the taste of my cookie is very intense! Because of both coffee and chocolate that we put (a lot of it) into the cookie, I think that both coffee and[...]

Sorry for the long pause without a post. I'm off work until January 4th, and I'm finding it difficult to do things that involve being on the internet. Well,[...]

My friend wrote a message to me about the reunion project of the Chicken farm Baking's Project. It's a group of friends that we gathered for making baking[...]

Tonight (Takeout Thursday!), I ordered delivery from Pizzeria Trasimeno in Crosstown Concourse . They deliver for free within four miles of Concourse, and I'm[...]

This past weekend was the last for LuLu's at Puck Food Hall. Puck is officially closed, and LuLu's is looking for a new space. In the meantime, they'll be at[...]

Quick post tonight! I just wanted to share some pics of my Winter Solstice/Yule meal. Monday was the Solstice (and the Great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter,[...]

I thought about making a chiffon sandwich a long time ago, but there are so many things that I want to do, haha. It's easy to serve, eat, and cute! This time I[...]

When December comes, the things that we think about are the party, Christmas, and New year, it ’ s time to celebrate. But I think that it will be great[...]

Last Thursday, I had a rare morning off running because I was tapering for my St. Jude 2-Race 10K/Half-Marathon Challenge. So I traded my usual post-run[...]

Look, I know it's Monday, but is it ever too early in the week to talk about tacos? I'm already dreaming about the black bean and potato tacos I'm going to eat[...]

Darling Donuts has been killing it with the themed holiday boxes! I last ordered from my friend Lily's vegan donut business when she had the Spooky Box back at[...]

I've got a lot of cookbooks. Hundreds. In fact, I just did a big KonMari purge of my cookbook collection and made a donate pile of at least 50 to 60 books, and[...]

Sometimes a cookbook comes along that's as much a work of art as it is a cookbook. That's the case with East by Meera Sodha. The tagline "120 Vegan and[...]

Bread again! ^^ But this time, it's a healthy kind of bread (the last time was a bread that's packed with butter, egg, sugar, and cream, haha). With[...]

Cookies again, haha. I think that I have more than 100++ cookie recipes in my blog right now because I bake it almost every week. There are thousands (and[...]

My favorite holiday has come and gone! I finished my last plate of leftovers for lunch today, and I'm so sad Thanksgiving (or, as vegans like to call it,[...]

Black Friday is my veganaversary! As of last week, I've been vegan 16 years and vegetarian for 26 years. The date that I celebrate changes every year since[...]

The week before Thanksgiving, I was trying extra hard to eat mostly whole foods since I knew I'd be subsisting on plant meat and casseroles for days after the[...]

If you were following my blog over the summer, you might have noticed that I'd adopted some daily meal themes to plan my dinners around. I got the idea from[...]

A few weeks ago, a traveling vegan pop-up made a stop at Memphis Made Brewing Co. Southern Fried Vegan is oddly based out of California, nowhere near the[...]

Let's making bread! Well, for me kneading bread dough is the best way to reduce my stress, haha, plus we get delicious bread too. As I told you that I bake[...]

I've been trying to find all kinds of fun new ways to use my chipotle chickpea chili that I made on Chef AJ's show a couple weeks ago. Chili is great on its[...]

A couple Fridays ago, we filmed some promotional videos for work, highlighting some of our Crosstown Concourse businesses and the fact that our multi-use[...]

Has any vegan cookbook author written as many books as Robin Robertson? This woman is prolific! I have many of Robin's books, and they're all fantastic. And[...]

Now that it's getting cooler out, I'm trading my post-run protein smoothies for warmer protein-packed treats. Protein oats, protein muffins ... heck, this[...]

Shortbread is one of the easiest cookies ^^ The ingredient list for making it is very short, but the taste of this cookie is always the best! I make it quite[...]

Because I bake less than usual, I don't have enough chocolate lately. My family members started to go on diet, and now I have to eat all the things that I bake[...]

Just over here stuffing my face while we wait on this excruciatingly slow vote count. Anyone else stress-eating snacks? I am trying to keep my meals pretty[...]