Monthly Archives: January 2012

Eggplant Veg-a-tini

Unravel the secrets to this eggplant recipe and get into the kitchen to test your culinary skills…or indulge in them I have worked with eggplant many times and many ways, but this recipe tops the list for me. Mostly because of how simple it is, but also because the combination of ingredients and the prominence [...]

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Budino di Riso e Amaretto (vegan)

My Budino di Riso e  Amaretto recipe is 100% vegan and 100% delicious. This one-of-a-kind rice pudding recipe is super creamy, sweet and worth every minute of cook time. The rice is treated like a risotto, but instead of using broth we use almond milk. The amaretto soaked raisins (drunken raisins as my mother likes to [...]

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Fatty Acids and Oils: Test Your Knowledge

Wait! Before you eat that cookie or cook with that oil let me fill you in on a few things that I learned this week thanks to my school- the Natural Gourmet Institute. I’ll try not to get to biochemist-y on your, but I will get your mind going! Promise. Fatty Acid What is a [...]

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Italian Vegan Rice Patties

Rice patties! Ooey gooey chewy warm delicious textured rice patties! When I was in Sicily I ate a rice ball without meat or cheese. This blew everyone away and since being called crazy for not trying the famous Sicilian rice ball known as arancini with all of its trimmings, I was determined to make my [...]

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Education is Key

In order to decide what you want to eat, you really need to understand your options. A lot of what is stocked in our supermarkets hasn’t been homegrown and naturally produced to help make us healthy and happy and live long lives. In some cases, it’s quite the opposite. During a lecture in one of [...]

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New Year Traditions the Italian Way

Welcome 2012! Buon Anno Nuovo! Happy New Year! The end of 2011 brings me great sadness, but more so joy, happiness, and confidence that LaVegetariana will continue to grow, expand and spread! Forget the depression of an end of a year- how about we look forward to a new, positive and beautiful year that is [...]

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