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Category Archives: Special Treats

They’re PB&C.

Everyone loves the combination of peanut butter and chocolate.  I have occasionally heard of people that didn’t, but they were obviously just trying to be nonconformist.  Since I have recently re-discovered peanut butter and chocolate chip cookies, I’ve been submitting everyone I know to forcible dessert.  And now, I’ll push them on you as well:

Sweet.

A few weeks ago we visited some relatives in The City where there just so happen to be scads of exclusively vegan restaurants.  What the frick?  

The Home of the Brave.

Holidays have become an excuse to coax Husband into trying experimental desserts.  Although I certainly confabulate about them enough, I actually don’t make dessert that often.  On holidays, however, I have a perfect excuse to drench the kitchen in flour while I whip up something delicious and then leave the mess there for six hours– [...]

Go ahead. Taste it.

As if it wasn’t enough that we’re saving 200 animals per year by keeping our household vegan, making a statement about the sordid practice of eating animals, and doing as much as we possibly can to avoid heart disease, we also get to eat raw cookie dough without potentially dying.  I know!  It’s probably the [...]

We’ll just call it dessert, shall we?

Fruit may be “Nature’s Candy,” but few children will agree with that statement.  I am no autocrat, especially when faced with doleful toddler eyes, so I can occasionally be persuaded to compromise.  Enter the vegan chocolate cup– a pleasing pedestal for more nutritious, though equally tempting, fruit, soy yogurt, frozen coconut milk ice cream… the [...]

Do you feel deprived?

Many wonder if we feel deprived since adopting a vegan diet.  In case you haven’t noticed the giant picture of chocolate chip cookies*, the short answer is no.  The long answer is slightly more involved.