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Carrot Cake Muffins

Samantha — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:06:16 +0000

A couple of weeks ago when we went strawberry picking at Boxx Berry Farm, we also had the fortunate opportunity to pick some vegetables from a small farm called Half Acre Farm located on the same property. They had a variety of vegetables ready, but we decided to pick only a couple of items – [...] Related posts:

Baked Apples

Samantha — Sat, 22 May 2010 01:59:55 +0000

I am a big fan of apple crisp – the sweet, crunchy topping with the tender, juicy apples – but sometimes I just don’t have the right amount of apples or time on my hands. And sometimes I don’t really want to make all that extra effort of peeling and cutting up the fruit. I [...] Related posts:

Pfeffernuesse Cookies

Samantha — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:58:39 +0000

As I am getting older, I am understanding more the whole issue about Christmas – and holidays in general – being about materialism and less about sharing cultural and familial traditions. If you’re anything like me, you find yourself doing some last minute shopping online, hunting around for coupons and wondering what on earth this [...] Related posts:

Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls

Samantha — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:17:19 +0000

After launching my new Facebook fan page for Novel Eats, I asked if anyone had requests for pre-Thanksgiving recipes. Someone suggested pumpkin cinnamon rolls, and others chimed in that they would love to see them. Sadly, as you can tell, it’s a little post-Thanksgiving. With traveling, vacation time, and still trying to get our bearings [...] Related posts:

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Samantha — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:20:14 +0000

I guess you could say that I’m on a cookie binge lately. I really love cookies, but I don’t make them very much because I don’t really like to share, which always means more for me! – but also means, more for my thighs! If only “vegan” preceding “cookie” meant calorie-free, bland, and boring in [...] Related posts:

Cinnamon Rolls and Chocolate Rolls

Samantha — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:09:06 +0000

A few days ago when I was going through all of my old recipe posts and tagging each with the appropriate ingredients, I soon realized that there was a little bit of a trend going on that I had not really noticed before. I have thought for most of my life that I am not a big one for sweets, but after tagging many of my recipes with the ingredient “sugar”, I realized that I do indeed have a sweet tooth. If anyone has this concept in their minds that a vegan diet is healthy, all they need to do is visit my blog and have a look at the “Browse by Ingredients” list. Sugar, vegan butter, salt... Now that we have that out of the way, let's jump in and take a look at my latest sweet success (which, dear reader, was made as a thank you to my husband for all of his hard work on helping to make this redesign even possible). Related posts:

Mini Cherry Pies

Samantha — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:15:21 +0000

I recently had a hankerin' for some cherries. I am not usually a cherry kind of girl, but when they're in season I'll indulge in a pound or two. If you get a perfectly ripe cherry, you'll get a perfectly sweet and spicy flavor - too soon and it will be tart (not my favorite), too late, well it will just be too late. After gorging myself, I decided that I needed to do something else with them. What I wound up with was a variation on (or very much inspired by) apple crisp. Related posts:

Apple Crisp

Samantha — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:08:05 +0000

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) season is soon upon us again, and we cannot wait. We've been members of a local CSA for several years now, and finally this year we decided to just purchase the fruit share. Twice. We love fruit - that fruit from Hepworth Farms - so much that we decided to get twice as much. In the meantime we rely on our local Greenmarket in Union Square. We bought so many apples a few weeks ago that we're overloaded. We do love apple crisp, though, and we've had it a couple of times already. Related posts:

Sala’s Gift – Bread Pudding

Samantha — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:10:20 +0000

Since no work was permitted on the Sabbath, they prepared Saturday's meal in advance, assembling a stew, a cholent, with potatoes, barley, and sometimes a piece of meat. A sweet and savory pudding made from leftover bread simmered within the stew. Her mother removed the pot from the coal stove and covered it with brown paper, then tied it around several times with string. Sala wrote their name on the paper and carefully carried the large pot around the corner to Shimon the baker, who inserted it on a long paddle into the recesses of his giant oven. together with dozens of other pots from neighbors, each tied and identified, ready to be served hot for the next afternoon's meal.

-Sala's Gift by Ann Kirschner

Bread pudding is both good and weird at the same time. It tastes sweet and filling, yet I sit there thinking that it's a weird texture for bread - but yet again, it's not exactly bread anymore; then I think that it's a weird texture for pudding, but it's not exactly pudding either. It's almost like it is in this in between state of bread and pudding: not quite one or the other. A twilight zone of sorts. Related posts:

Vegan Banana Bread

Samantha — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:40:06 +0000

I am still in the midst of reading The Shark God by Charles Montgomery, so I decided to share the results of this weekend's baking: vegan banana bread. This is a recipe that I make every couple of months or so, and have found it to be easy to make, delicious, and perfectly moist. For those of you who are vegan or who are trying to lay off of eggs, this is a great replacement for standard banana bread that uses eggs. Related posts: