Food From The Garden

Let me preface this by saying that nice cream bowls are highly customizable. They are not rocket science and they can be whatever you want them to be. However, there is an art to them and generally, one's goal in making them is to have them replicate the consistency of ice cream but without the dairy. There are secrets to accomplishing just that and some are better known than others. Here are my tricks to doing it. 1. The base is the most important thing. Pretty much the only thing I do with bananas is freeze them and put them in nice cream and smoothies. To achieve an ice cream consistency, create a base of a couple bananas. 2. But your base should not be just  bananas. I find the results to turn out even better if I add plant milk ice cubes. All you need is plant milk and an ice cube tray. I like to use a ratio of three plant milk ice cubes for each banana used. 3. If adding other fruit, it should be frozen. Fresh fruit does not work as well for this purpose so it should...

Summer is just around the corner and while the summer solstice still has yet to come, it definitely feels like summer where I live! With that means a lot of fruits and veggies are in season and what could make a heavy fruit and veggie consumer happier? However, it's also grill season which can mean challenges at cookouts. Sure, there are vegan burgers you can eat but they may get cross contaminated being cooked on the same grill as the meat. So this post is for some tricks to eat vegan at cookouts. 1. This is the most important trick if you want to avoid cross contamination with meat. My family's grill is so old that cleaning it after every use would deteriorate it yet so much meat has been in contact with it over the years. So what we do is we put my food in aluminum foil to create a barrier between your food and the meat. 2. Don't forget the buns. Many wheat products (and gluten free alternatives) are not vegan. Make sure yours are by checking the ingredients list. A...

So I, like us all, have a busy life. In this day and age, who doesn't? A misconception I had before I went vegan is that there would be no time to be vegan. That is not true. If there's time to cook, which we all have to do, there's time to be vegan. It is true that being vegan does involve being in the kitchen a lot but so does any lifestyle. There are some life hacks for busy vegans that could easily be incorporated into any lifestyle. 1. Salads don't take much time to prep at all. All you have to do is cut up some veggies and boom, you have a salad. Smoothies are the exact same way. 2. Cook a lot at once. I like to try to yield leftovers when I cook to save me some time later. This works really well for things that won't spoil easily such as pastas and quinoa but it does work for a lot of things if you eat them within a few days. Along those same lines, to save time making school or work lunches, you could also have your dinner leftovers be tomorrow's lu...