Vegan Mac N' Cheese!

The other day I was craving some macaroni and cheese...but of course I'm vegan so that wasn't going to happen so I decided to find a vegan recipe for mac n' cheese. Unfortunately I misplaced the URL of the recipe I used but there are tons online! I highly suggest making this super healthy and satisfying recipe yourself! I added in some sauteed kale, carrots, and radicchio. It was a great meal. 

Love, 

Callie

Family, Friends, and Cake

Over winter break, I was really into baking chocolate cake. Good thing I have a great family and best friend who love to be my taste-testers! The chocolate cake recipe is from the following URL:

http://foodsforlonglife.blogspot.com/2011/08/raw-vegan-blackberry-ice-cream-on.html

Chocolate cake with "Enjoy Life" dark chocolate chunks!

Myself, my mom, Emily and my little sister Kelsey enjoy the final product. 

Gratitude and Joy, 

Callie

Late Post About the Meal I Made For Christmas Dinner With the Family!

I know that it is wayyyyy past December, but I've been behind in my blogging so I thought that I would simply upload my pictures of Christmas dinner in late February! What a solution! The holidays are always an excuse to make decadent meals brimming with carbs and sugar, however I put my own spin on the holidays and made a healthy meal for my family followed by desserts that have no refined sugars in them! Enjoy the photos. 

Kale salad, roasted vegetables, and roasted butternut squash. 

The final product

Organic dark chocolate covered strawberries

Christmas Morning

My bulldog Jerry, feeling exhausted after a long Christmas day,

Namaste,
Callie

My Favorite Pasta Meal

I have never been a huge fan of plain pasta, but recently I discovered all of the delicious recipes I can create using whole wheat pasta! Recently I have been very into roasting vegetables or squash and mixing it into my pasta topped with cold-pressed, organic olive oil, sea salt and pepper. I generally serve the dish with a side of kale salad. My kale salad is made up of pre-cut kale, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, sunflower seeds, raw almonds, and dried cranberries. It's a filling, refreshing and delicious meal! 

Love Always, 

Callie 

Portland, The land of Endless Delicious Vegan Food!

Hello everyone!! I'm sorry it's been so long since I've posted but I've been super busy acclimating to college life! This past weekend I traveled to Portland to stay with my best friend Emily! We basically spent the weekend adventuring from meal to meal so I thought that I would post all of my foodie photos from the trip! Enjoy!

Delicious Spring Rolls from a restaurant called "Thai Peacock"

Great salad from the Whole Foods Salad Bar in Portland...Best Whole Foods I've EVER been to. 

Vegan chocolate chip and double chocolate chunk cookies made from pre-made cookie dough by the company "EatPastry"

Final Purchase....

Me and Emily stocking up on Almond Dream vanilla ice cream and cookie dough...Ideal Friday night.

Incredible vegan cake donut from "Voodoo Doughnuts" .

Voodoo

Voodoo

Vegan doughnut heaven from Voodoo

Have a beautiful and healthy day! 

 

Callie 

#SWEET_TOOTH

Some of the best cookies i've made thus far!

It's probably pretty obvious by now that I love finding fun and new vegan dessert recipes, but if you weren't sure, I think this post might convince you of this fact. The first week that I got home from college, I called up my friend Lizi and told her I needed a baking/eating buddy immediantly. So...she came over and we proceeded to make my favorite gluten-free/vegan cookies (http://sketch-freeveganeating.blogspot.com/2010/08/gluten-free-and-vegan-chocolate-chip.html) as well as homemade chocolate covered chocolate-chip-cookie-dough cups (http://peasandthankyou.com/2011/12/01/gifts-you-can-eat-chocolate-chip-cookie-dough-cups/)! SO AWESOME! Here are some pictures and links!

THE DANK

Lizi with out plethora of vegan goodies...it's good to be home!

Awesome baking cups that we used to make the cookie dough cups!

Compassion Over Tradition...a Vegan Thanksgiving

Hello Everyone!
I know, we're a little past Thanksgiving, but I thought that I would post some pictures of the vegan thanksgiving my sister and I made. Our menu consisted of roasted broccoli and cauliflower, an incredible yam dish (steamed yams sauteed with raw almonds and unsweetened dried apricots in light coconut milk),  black bean and pea veggie burgers (http://sketch-freeveganeating.blogspot.com/2011/06/black-bean-pea-burgers.html), steamed brown rice, and a simple yet wonderful kale salad (green kale with purple cabbage, sliced carrots, raw almonds, and dried cranberries tossed with olive oil and balsamic vinegar). The kale salad was the perfect light side to balance out the heaviness of the meal. This was probably one of the best meals I've ever eaten! I have a pretty sizable sweet tooth, so my sister and I took on the challenge of making one of the greatest desserts I've ever consumed. Using a recipe from the blog, "The Tolerant Vegan", we made a chocolate brownie/chocolate chip cookie dough pie! Here's the link...I highly suggest that you try making it! (http://thetolerantvegan.com/2011/01/cookie-brownies/). 


As we ate our completely animal-product-free Thanksgiving meal, my sister and I discussed how ironic it was that on a day dedicated to giving thanks that the majority of people feel completely content eating the meat of animals whose life have been sacrificed for our own carnivorous needs and desires. Instead of showing our gratitude for our lives by eating the meat of living/breathing animals, let's celebrate the incredible produce that our own Earth provides us with. 

Bean burgers before they were baked.

Yam-Coconut milk Sautee 

Chocolate Cookie Dough Brownies

Awesome Artisana Giveaway!!

http://kblog.lunchboxbunch.com/2011/11/artisana-giveaway-organic-raw-nut.html

One of the absolute BEST vegan, healthy dessert blogs EVER! 
Take some time to look at all of the incredible recipes on this site! I hope you're all having a beautiful day. 
enjoy!
Callie 


http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/

Get Creative With Your Lunch!

One of my favorite lunches is what I like to call a veggie wrap! The great part about this meal is that you can put whatever you want in it! Here's my variation of a veggie wrap...not to be bias or anything but it's really delicious. It leaves me feeling light, energized and satisfied. Enjoy! 


Ingredients:
1 Ezekiel tortilla
3 slices of almond cheese (I use the "Lisanatti Foods" brand) 
raw or cooked julienned vegetables (beets, carrots, celery, purple cabbage, radicchio, cauliflower etc) 
4-5 roasted brussel sprouts
1/2 cup of cooked brown rice (optional) 
2 TBSP raw tahini 
A drizzle of olive oil and a dash of sea salt


Assembly: 
1. Warm the tortilla by placing it on top of your stove on low heat right over the flame until slightly browned and warm. 
2. spread the raw tahini on one side of the tortilla and around the edges of the tortilla so that it will stick when you roll it up.
3. Place the vegetables, rice and "cheese" on the side of the tortilla where the tahini is spread, then sprinkle veggies with extra-virgin cold pressed olive oil and sea salt. 
4. Wrap it all up and enjoy! 

Have  a beautiful day! 

Callie 

Rose Makes Dank Curry

It's a beautiful, foggy and rainy day today...perfect day for some delicious homemade curry! This morning I stopped by my friend Rose's apartment just to say hello, but as I entered quaint, white kitchen, I could smell the delicious aroma of coconut milk curry. Rose's recipe for making the curry was extremely easy, all she did was saute vegetables in lite, organic coconut milk with about a TBSP (or to your liking) of curry powder and cumin, sea salt and pepper. She served the final product over some organic quinoa. SO DELICIOUS AND NUTRITIOUS. Here are some photos of my lovely friend and her wonderful curry. 

Gratitude and Happiness, 

Callie 

I'm Back! The Adventures of a Vegan in College!

Hello Beautiful People! I know it's been a very long time since i've updated this wonderful blog, but i'm finally getting settled into my new life at college and I'm ready to start blogging again about all of the incredible food i'm lucky enough to eat! I've been at college for almost two months now and I have managed to not only continue being a healthy vegan but also share my love of vegan cooking with the new friends i've made here. I'll start of my new chapter of blogging with some photos of the fall-inspired dinner that I made last night with my friends Jack, CiCi, and Althea. We roasted organic pumpkin, acorn squash, and brocoli served with a side of short-grain brown rice and organic black beans. 

Roasting the Squash and Pumpkin: 


1.Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. 


2.Cut the squash in half and dress exposed part of the squash with extra-virgin olive oil and sea salt and place face down on a cookie tray. Do the same with the pumpkin except cut into smaller chunks. For the pumpkin we sprinkled it with cinnamon and a little olive oil. 


3. Cook for about 40 minutes, check that it is completely cooked. 


**You can pretty much use this recipe for any type of winter squash. 

roasted pumpkin with cinnamon

gratitude and joy,

Callie 

Friends, Muffins, and Cookies...What more could I ask for?

A few days ago my good friend Georgia came over to my house. Georgia happens to be a great baker (not vegan, but regardless!) and I happen to be vegan, so I thought that we could join forces and make some great vegan baked goods! The result was fantastic. We found two recipes from vegweb.com, one being a recipe for oatmeal-raspberry-chocolate chip cookies, and the other a recipe for blueberry bran muffins. We added some ginger juice to the muffin recipe to make a wonderful ginger-blueberry bran muffin! Enjoy the links for the recipes and the photos! Hope you are all having a beautiful and happy day.  


Recipe for the muffins: 
*add ginger if you're into that :) 
*Also, We used half the amount of sugar and replaced the rest with half of a banana to decrease the amount of sugar! 
http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=13552.0


Recipe for the cookies: 
http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=34600.0

Ginger- Blueberry Bran Muffins (super healthy) 

Before they went into the oven...all fresh and high-quality ingredients! So Beautiful

Have an INCREDIBLE week! 

love, 

Callie 

Wake Up Those Taste Buds With A Curried Veggie Burger!

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE! 
Today is a beautiful day, so I thought I would share one of my favorite new recipes with all of you! 
One night when I was searching for something exciting to make for dinner I came across a recipe for black bean-pea burgers from my favorite blog, sketch-freeveganeating.blogspot.com. The result was the most delicious dinner I've eaten in ages! My not vegan mom even loved this meal :) I made some short-grain brown rice and an incredible kale salad to go with the "burger". 


Recipe: 
Happy Kale Salad
1. 2 cups of chopped up organic kale
2. 1/4 head of purple cabbage (julienned) 
3. 1 medium sized carrot (peeled and julienned) 
4. 2 tbsp olive oil 
5. 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar 
6. sea salt and black pepper to taste
directions: Mix the kale, carrots, and purple cabbage then massage the rest of the ingredients into the vegetable mixture and let chill in the refrigerator until ready to serve. 

Black bean-Pea burgers
http://sketch-freeveganeating.blogspot.com/2011/06/black-bean-pea-burgers.html

mmmmmmmmmm!

Enjoy! 
Callie

Oreos...VEGANIZED

The other day my older sister, Madison and I were craving something that tasted like junk food. I began to veraciously search through my recipe books and various vegan food blogs I follow trying to find the perfect recipe. FINALLY I came across this recipe on the fantastic blog, "Namely Marly". Madison and I proceeded to make these homemade, vegan oreos and the result was FANTASTIC. If I ever plan a tea party, these will most definitely be on my table! 


Recipe link: 
http://www.namelymarly.com/2011/08/homemade-oreo-cookies/

Before the frosting. 

AFTER THE FROSTING...before we devoured them. 

My best friend Alex, my older sister Madison, and me in the pink shirt  as we enjoy the  outcome of our "hard work". 

Have a beautiful day! 
Callie 

Bring on the Hummus!

I am a HUGE hummus fan. There are so many ways to make a classic hummus recipe extra-ordinary. A few nights ago I was craving something different then my usual asian-style stir fry; so, this is what I came up with. Homemade hummus, brown rice,  a fresh and organic tomato and  cucumber salad along with a toasted whole-wheat pita bread (I was hoping to make one from scratch but I didn't have time so I purchased this one from Trader Joes...it was delicious!) 


Recipe: 
Hummus 
1. one can of organic garbanzo beans (spill out the liquid from the can) 
2. 1/4 cup raw tahini
3. 1-2 tbs of high quality olive oil
4. sea salt and pepper to tast
5. a few drops of shoyu sauce
6. 2-3 tbs of fresh lemon juice 
Directions: blend all of the ingredients in a food processor until smooth.

Tomato and Cucumber salad
1. 3 organic roma tomatoes 
2. 2 organic cucumbers
3. 1/2 cup olive oil 
4. 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar 
5. sea salt and pepper to taste
Directions: First, cube the tomatoes and cucumbers and toss with other ingredients in a large bowl. After this let the salad soak in the marinade and chill in the fridge for 15-20 minutes. 

Gratitude, love, and stability,
Callie

Real Food Daily Dinner

Hi everyone!
Callie and I had an AMAZING dinner with our three friends, Aliza, Courtney, and Kali last night and we want everyone to try one of our favorite vegan restaurants, Real Food Daily. As you can see in previous posts, Callie interned at RFD in May and loved it. We all got different items to show the variety of the food they serve and every. single. thing. was delicious! Here are some photos of our meal, sorry the quality isn't up to the best standards (I think we were so excited to eat the food, we took the pictures quickly:)

                                                       Tacos

                                                       Oreo Cake

                                                       Pizza (my personal favorite)

                                                      Nori Maki (vegan sushi!!)

                                                  Love, Meg