Almost Vegan

The Vegan’s vegan cookies. Very famous with vegan’s in the know.


Cowboy Cookies
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Frontier Cookies

Peanut Butter Classics

Ginger Snapdragons

Cowgirl Cookies

I was introduced to Liz Lovely Cookies by a regular visitor to Almost Vegan, Danielle (her blog – joeparadox.com), who I suspect is twice the vegan I am judging from the tips and recipes she sends me.
Baking a Difference in the World

Liz & Dan Holtz create their vegan masterpieces in Vermont. They don’t ship all over the USA yet and their cookies are in very high demand. I talked them into sending me some, because they don’t sell them here in Michigan.
Well, it is not just hype. These are really incredible cookies. Obviously hand made (like it says on the bag) and really tasty. Very generously coated with chocolate on the back, (Cowboy, Cowgirl and Peanutbutter) and choc full of all kinds of great things except trans-fats so eat up!
Find out more about Liz Lovely on their — really nice website.

Oh God, are these good…

Back when I ate creatures I used to go to a little sushi joint in Chicago on Division called New Japan. It was a very small, very quaint hole in the wall, but they had the best food and I always got pot stickers.
I found these Health is Wealth Potstickers and thought I’d give them a try and they are incredible. Bake them in the oven (only 10 minutes). I made up a little hot mustard soy sauce dip and YEOW.

These Mad Moose Organics’, Creature Cookies are lots of fun and extremely tasty!

100% vegan.
You know, I went to their site and it seems like these cookies are made for kids, but I got them for myself and ate them, and I’d do it again. I like the fun cartoon creatures on them.
Vanilla wafers, banana wafers, and chocolate wafers all with chocolate-fudge filling. Yum.
www.madmooseorganics.com

This was my first Tofurky, and I just ate the last bite tonight!

At first, I didn’t think it was the best thing I had ever tasted for Thanksgiving dinner. I purposely stay away from recreating carnivore experiences because I think that is setting myself up for failure, and that may have been the problem. But the Tofurky grew on me… or maybe it was like any other Thanksgiving dinner: The leftovers are always better later or the next day or the day after that or the day after that.
I really enjoyed making a hot Tofurky open-faced sandwich, smothered in mushroom gravy on nice, toasted, fresh sourdough bread I bought the day after for just this type of thing.
Tonight it was especially tasty.

Here is a dish believed to have been served at the First Thanksgiving.
Stewed Pompion (Pumpkin)
4 to 6 servings
4 cups cooked pumpkin or squash, roughly mashed
3 tablespoons [butter]<–(Substitute vegan margarine)
2 to 3 teaspoons cider vinegar
1 or 2 teaspoons ground ginger
? teaspoon salt
In a saucepan over medium heat, stir and heat all the ingredients together. Adjust seasonings to taste, serve hot.
Whatever you eat, may you have a happy holiday!
Best wishes,
Denise

Believe it or not!

The worst thing about being vegan is when I find something like this… I was on the road at a gas station/mini mart, I happened to reached down and read the ingredients on this Little Debbie Apple Pie while the cashier did her thing and…wow. This pie is vegan. I’ll take it.
Now, when I was not vegan I wouldn’t have allowed someone to force feed me a Little Debbie, but I savored this pie and my new discovery.
God help me.

These are really, really great. They have a whole “dip’em, dunk’em, scoop’em” thing on the back of the box, so I pulled out some Tofutti, Better Than Cream Cheese. YUM!

It’s cold and I need a little comfort these days so out comes the Cream of Wheat. Maybe you think I’m nuts, but if you have never, or haven’t tried it since becoming vegan, get yourself some Cream of Wheat.
The trick is to toss in a handful of raisins just after you poured the cream of wheat into the boiling water. Then the raisins get all plump and juicy. I use water when making it and then pour nice cold soy milk over to eat. Yum…cozy.

I’ve been sick the last week or so, ever since the election. (no kidding) Just a cold.

So I’ve been eating a lot of soup. I love Amy’s, and I tried both the No Chicken Noodle, which I actually do not really recommend and last night had the Lentil, which I absolutely love.
I had it with some SoyMoon Havarti with Dill (soy cheese, but contains casein) on crackers. A great complement and I must say the Havarti was really good.

Bagels are a great vegan food, because (most) they are naturally vegan and they also make great crackers.

I’ve been looking for some crackers since my big soy cheese windfall and these New York Style Roasted Garlic Bagel Crisps worked, very garlicky though, so be warned.
New York Style also makes plain, and a type that are not vegan.
The crisps have been perfect while polishing off the rest of my SoyMoon Gouda Soy Cheese. Good balance together, the cheese tempers the garlic flavor.