June 2009
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Vegan traveling: Amsterdam, the netherlands: Day I
when my husband asked me if i wanted to accompany him on a business trip and make a nice weekend out of it, i didn’t have to think twice, and quickly plane tickets and hotel rooms were booked. i was last in Amsterdam over ten years ago and all i really remember was standing in line to see “Wheat Field With Crows” at the Van Gogh museum and visiting a squat that looked like a 19th...
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vegan brunch: the june edition
i am so happy our little sunday brunch is becoming a monthly fixed date! if you would like to join the July one, leave a comment with your email address and i will send you an invite. deal? deal!
there were six of us at our 3rd get-together and there was so much delicious food!
i made lemon poppy seed muffins, a Vegan Brunch (get this book already!) recipe and they came out great.
i tried...
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vegan traveling: the goods i brought home from...
a cookbook with traditional Cretan dishes, has many accidentally vegan recipes, the one for Gigantes for example. i picked up the main ingredient: giant white beans at a random supermarket.
dried herbs. unfortunately the walking through hills and picking my own fresh herbs-resolution didn’t really work out.
and some awesome olive oil from Mochos was brought to my door steps. well,...
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vegan traveling: the food i ate in greece
so, greece, right? my one week work-cation on Crete was so much nicer than expected: the people were great, genuinely helpful and friendly, big hearts and big portions when it came to the food. the truly vegan-friendly food, i should add.
the first half of the week was spent in a little village by the ocean in the SW of Crete, Kalamaki. i had almost all of my meals at a small taverna called...