Vegan Experience
About
It started as a 30 day vegan experiment for a work project ... that was 5 years ago. The experiment became an experience.
Recent grad of The Natural Epicurean Culinary School - where I was trained in Vegetarian, Vegan, Macrobiotic, Raw Living Foods and Ayurvedic cooking.
Currently the Raw Vegan Chef at Austin Skinny Limits.
Back on Weight Watchers trying to loose the weight I gained eating crazy amounts of food at culinary school.
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Chris deemed dinner restaurant worthy!!! Black bean stew over polenta with a cilantro heavy chimichurri.
Crock pottin today!! Black bean stew. Have some polenta chillin in the fridge.
Going back…
Starting Weight Watchers again today..or at least trying to. Culinary school and weight loss do not mix!! Since we start the raw section next week I figure I should be ok. No more bread, frying, tofu, rice, beans etc weeks. The damage done in 11 weeks (can’t believe I’ve already completed 11 weeks!!!) was not huge but bad enough!
So the Kale and golden beet recipe I posted yesterday is WONDERFUL!!
We had a class field trip today to a community garden. This weeks course is about local foods. We visited the community coop which had beautiful hens. Saw the compost piles and helped clean a plot and plant. As a reward I was able to bring home lavender clippings!!!
Lunch today - cucumber seaweed and seabeans salad w/chickpeas
Before you eat something take a moment to see where it falls on the chart.
Pumpkin time? It’s too hot for pumpkins (106 today)
I’m going to go gluten free starting next week (Our nutrition class has convinced me) but tonight is a gluten feast.
Baking is officially over :( we had our practicum. Had to make Vegan gluten free Chocolate chip cookies, Vegan pumpkin pancakes with a fruit topping - I made an apple, rosemary, maple syrup & cinnamon w/ walnuts topper. And orange, ginger, cranberry, walnut scones.
Vegan hash (potatoes, vegetables, field roast chorizo and kidney beans) with the whole wheat tortillas we made in class on flatbreads day.
today was cookie lab - we made formed, drop, cut and bar cookies
Linzer w/ raspberry jam, oatmeal raisin cookies, hello dolly bars and orange hazelnut biscotti
Will travel for vegan food
We had a visitor today! Kristin is on an awesome “1-year-long, vegan food-focused cross-country road trip, in search of the best vegan food and vegan restaurants in the United States!” and everyone should check out her story!!!!
