A school in New York has become the first all-vegetarian traditional public school in the country.  Yes, public. I can only imagine the disbelief saturating the smoke-filled air of dark-room discussions among the top brass of the meat industry. At least, that’s the way I picture it. But I really [...]

Simple Vegetarian Vietnamese Soup Recipe Rating: 51 Prep Time: 10 minutesCook Time: 20 minutesTotal Time: 30 minutes Yield: Serves 2Calories per serving: 367Fat per serving: 2g Pho is one of my favorite soups, but it can be a long and arduous process to create. A simple alternative takes the essentials [...]

Vegetarian Crustless Wheat-Free Sundried Tomatoes and Spinach Quiche Rating: 51 Prep Time: 20 minutesCook Time: 40 minutesTotal Time: 1 hour Yield: Serves 6Calories per serving: 154Fat per serving: 12g One of the traditional means of serving quiche has been in a pastry crust. This encompassing flour-based edible dish, and flour [...]

Vegetarian Lactose Free Broccoli Quiche Recipe Rating: 51 Prep Time: 30 minutesCook Time: 30 minutesTotal Time: 1 hour Yield: Serves 12Calories per serving: 185Fat per serving: 9g Eggs are often a protein staple in vegetarian diets. However, a typical way of creating an egg dish is to add heaping amounts [...]

Vegetarians are people who have sworn off meat, but some don’t go “all of the way” and still eat fish or poultry. There are some vegetarians who do give up all kinds of meat, but who don’t worry much about eating eggs, milk, or other animal produced goods. Then there [...]

Depending where you are in the Northern hemisphere, spring produce includes treats like apples, arugula, asparagus, chard, fava beans, scallions, rhubarb, spring peas, leeks, beets, endives, artichokes, broccoli sprouts and celery root; and biennial carrots and perennial potatoes left germinating from the fall. Here is a round up of some [...]

Most of the times, vegans are labeled as having this unfounded and misplaced sense of superiority over non-vegans. This isn’t entirely true, but some of us vegans are just begging to be labeled. Certainly, we have an obligation to steer other people into our path, but we don’t need to [...]

Chipotle Mexican Bean Salad Recipe Prep Time: 10 minutesCook Time: 5 minutesTotal Time: 15 minutes Yield: Serves 2Calories per serving: 393Fat per serving: 15.5g The smoky sweet taste of chipotle peppers (smoked jalapenos) adds an incredible amount of flavor to a dish, one that pervades throughout and almost becomes better [...]

Vegetarian Rogan Josh Recipe Rating: 51 Prep Time: 15 minutesCook Time: 15 minutesTotal Time: 30 minutes Yield: 4 servingsCalories per serving: 392Fat per serving: 26g Originally a Persian dish, this deliciously fragrant meal migrated up to the region of Kashmir, in India. The color of the paste indicates its taste [...]

As little as 10 years ago if you were a vegetarian and ate in most traditional restaurants your choice of a meal was normally limited to salad and the vegetable of the day. However, over the past decade there has been a number of restaurants springing up that cater mainly [...]