Fennel is amazing! Slightly sweet with a hint of licorice flavor, fennel is a wonderful way to add complexity to your foods while reaping some its surprising health benefits (and not compromising your caloric intake). Did you know that fennel: is high in antioxidants contains cancer fighting phytonutrients is an excellent source of vitamin C removes toxins from the colon helps lower high blood pressure provides relief from anemia helps with indigestion & constipation promotes eye care helps freshen breath provides relief from colic aids in respiratory and menstrual disorders I can’t get enough. I enjoy fennel shredded on salads, steamed with Brussels sprouts, carrots, and broccoli with tahini, added in a stir-fry, or even raw as a snack! What are your thoughts about fennel?
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Fennel is amazing! Slightly sweet with a hint of licorice flavor, fennel is a wonderful way to add complexity to your foods while reaping some its surprising health benefits (and not compromising your caloric intake).

Did you know that fennel:

  • is high in antioxidants
  • contains cancer fighting phytonutrients
  • is an excellent source of vitamin C
  • removes toxins from the colon
  • helps lower high blood pressure
  • provides relief from anemia
  • helps with indigestion & constipation
  • promotes eye care
  • helps freshen breath
  • provides relief from colic
  • aids in respiratory and menstrual disorders

I can’t get enough. I enjoy fennel shredded on salads, steamed with Brussels sprouts, carrots, and broccoli with tahini, added in a stir-fry, or even raw as a snack!

What are your thoughts about fennel?

Your Eggs are Red.  The egg industry sorts baby chicks by gender, throwing the “useless” male chicks into a grinder while still alive. The female chicks get hung by their beaks so they can be burnt off, preventing them from pecking each other while crammed at maximum capacities. Organic, cage-free, or not. Knowing this, why the hell are we still supporting the egg industry? For more information, click here.
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Your Eggs are Red. 

The egg industry sorts baby chicks by gender, throwing the “useless” male chicks into a grinder while still alive. The female chicks get hung by their beaks so they can be burnt off, preventing them from pecking each other while crammed at maximum capacities.

Organic, cage-free, or not.

Knowing this, why the hell are we still supporting the egg industry?


For more information, click here.

Tree Nut Cheeses from Dr-Cow. Organic - Raw - Unpasteurized - Gluten & Dairy Free - Vegan. I have been eating as pure and raw as possible, switching my focus from fake or faux to plant based. No more frozen fake meat strips, pre-packaged sugar ridden cookies, nor sprinkled cheese substitutes for me. More salads, fresh fruit, nuts, seeds, and grains. I want to eat food from the earth, not from the laboratory.  Just because I have chosen to evolve my diet, doesn’t mean that I consistently and boringly eat veggies, nuts, seeds, and fruit. The vegan/raw food world is flourishing and we, the real-food vegan superstars, get to benefit from it! When I first went vegan, the only non-dairy cheese available was a tasteless, paste-like substance that didn’t even consider melting. Now, I’m eating raw organic, artisan nut based cheeses on raw rosemary-sage flax crackers… Real food is amazing! Now let’s talk about this cheese… I saw a post on facebook that Whole Foods Market Pittsburgh received a shipment of new products, which happened to be the recently sought after tree nut cheeses from Dr-Cow! The next possible chance I had, I went to pick some up (along with 5,243 different things… damn those impulse purchases). Just when I thought I tried everything that the vegan food world had to offer, these amazing morsels came across my palate; my life has been changed once again. The three varieties (pictured above) were the available offerings that I was blessed to experience: Cashew Nuts & Kale Cheese Aged Cashew & Blue Green Cheese Aged Macadamia Nut Cheese The Aged Cashew & Blue Green cheese was my absolute favorite. Sharp firm, and pungent, it’s perfectly aged and ever-so addictive. The Cashew Kale is a close second, slightly less-sharp then the Blue Green cheese and with a hint of earthiness from the kale. My least favorite, but still delicious, is the Macadamia Nut. It was much softer with no sharpness nor any pungency, at all. The Macadamia Nut would please the larger masses while the other two are suggested only for developed palates. My wife challenges my opinion. She liked the Macadamia Nut but couldn’t stomach the Aged Cashew & Blue Green or the Cashew & Kale. Do be aware, these products may not appeal to your tastes, and they do carry a hefty price tag. Ask your local Whole Foods if you can sample one before you buy it. Whole Foods Pittsburgh actually offered to open one up for me (true story) and I appreciatively accepted.  Dr-Cow products are amazing because they aren’t filled lame ingredients such as: palm, canola and/or safflower oils, preservatives, stabilizers, artificial ingredients or additives. I am aware that there are faux cheese brands, like Daiya, that taste great and have revolutionized the dairy-free cheese universe, but they do typically contain a lot of oil… and no matter what way you look at it, oil is 100% fat. Plant-based foods are the future!
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Tree Nut Cheeses from Dr-Cow. 
Organic - Raw - Unpasteurized - Gluten & Dairy Free - Vegan.

I have been eating as pure and raw as possible, switching my focus from fake or faux to plant based. No more frozen fake meat strips, pre-packaged sugar ridden cookies, nor sprinkled cheese substitutes for me. More salads, fresh fruit, nuts, seeds, and grains. I want to eat food from the earth, not from the laboratory. 

Just because I have chosen to evolve my diet, doesn’t mean that I consistently and boringly eat veggies, nuts, seeds, and fruit. The vegan/raw food world is flourishing and we, the real-food vegan superstars, get to benefit from it! When I first went vegan, the only non-dairy cheese available was a tasteless, paste-like substance that didn’t even consider melting. Now, I’m eating raw organic, artisan nut based cheeses on raw rosemary-sage flax crackers… Real food is amazing!

Now let’s talk about this cheese…

I saw a post on facebook that Whole Foods Market Pittsburgh received a shipment of new products, which happened to be the recently sought after tree nut cheeses from Dr-Cow! The next possible chance I had, I went to pick some up (along with 5,243 different things… damn those impulse purchases). Just when I thought I tried everything that the vegan food world had to offer, these amazing morsels came across my palate; my life has been changed once again. The three varieties (pictured above) were the available offerings that I was blessed to experience:

  • Cashew Nuts & Kale Cheese
  • Aged Cashew & Blue Green Cheese
  • Aged Macadamia Nut Cheese

The Aged Cashew & Blue Green cheese was my absolute favorite. Sharp firm, and pungent, it’s perfectly aged and ever-so addictive. The Cashew Kale is a close second, slightly less-sharp then the Blue Green cheese and with a hint of earthiness from the kale. My least favorite, but still delicious, is the Macadamia Nut. It was much softer with no sharpness nor any pungency, at all. The Macadamia Nut would please the larger masses while the other two are suggested only for developed palates. My wife challenges my opinion. She liked the Macadamia Nut but couldn’t stomach the Aged Cashew & Blue Green or the Cashew & Kale.

Do be aware, these products may not appeal to your tastes, and they do carry a hefty price tag. Ask your local Whole Foods if you can sample one before you buy it. Whole Foods Pittsburgh actually offered to open one up for me (true story) and I appreciatively accepted. 

Dr-Cow products are amazing because they aren’t filled lame ingredients such as: palm, canola and/or safflower oils, preservatives, stabilizers, artificial ingredients or additives. I am aware that there are faux cheese brands, like Daiya, that taste great and have revolutionized the dairy-free cheese universe, but they do typically contain a lot of oil… and no matter what way you look at it, oil is 100% fat.

Plant-based foods are the future!

Over 20 Billion Reasons to Eat A Chocolate Bar. I am expecting these delightful chocolate treats from VeganCuts any day now and I’m stoked… The ProCrunch bar from CHOCHOLISTIC contains 20 billion cultures & 6 super foods nestled inside a chunk of raw chocolate that contains zero sugar! Damn, girl. I have yet to try these bars of bliss, so I can’t WAIT until they arrive. Do you love chocolate as much as I do? Doubt it. *photo credit: vegancuts.com
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Over 20 Billion Reasons to Eat A Chocolate Bar.

I am expecting these delightful chocolate treats from VeganCuts any day now and I’m stoked…

The ProCrunch bar from CHOCHOLISTIC contains 20 billion cultures & 6 super foods nestled inside a chunk of raw chocolate that contains zero sugar! Damn, girl.

I have yet to try these bars of bliss, so I can’t WAIT until they arrive.

Do you love chocolate as much as I do? Doubt it.

*photo credit: vegancuts.com

Anticipating “Isa Does It.” Isa Chandra Moskowitz, vegan goddess, started to share some behind the scenes photos of her highly anticipated new cookbook again, “Isa Does It.” The beautiful works of art that have been making me drool over my phone/keyboard lately have been taken by the amazing vegan food photographer Vanessa Rees. Serious, just look above… they are stunning! The idea behind “Isa Does It” is vegan weeknight cooking from scratch…made easy. SOLD. This will be Isa’s first hardcover/full-color cookbook and I simply just cant wait. It’s expected to be released this coming fall, so if we can just finish up winter and breeze through spring, all will be right with the world.  *photo credit: v.k.rees
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Anticipating “Isa Does It.”

Isa Chandra Moskowitz, vegan goddess, started to share some behind the scenes photos of her highly anticipated new cookbook again, “Isa Does It.” The beautiful works of art that have been making me drool over my phone/keyboard lately have been taken by the amazing vegan food photographer Vanessa Rees. Serious, just look above… they are stunning! The idea behind “Isa Does It” is vegan weeknight cooking from scratch…made easy. SOLD. This will be Isa’s first hardcover/full-color cookbook and I simply just cant wait. It’s expected to be released this coming fall, so if we can just finish up winter and breeze through spring, all will be right with the world. 

*photo credit: v.k.rees