This Week: New Years' Resolutions!
- In This Issue:
- Recipe Spotlight |
- What's Hot on VegWeb |
- Cooking with Webmistress Laura |
- Superstar VegWebber |
- Weekly Giveaway!
Vegan granola with a healthy dose of almond milk
Recipe Spotlight on New Years' Resolutions!
It's 2010. Can you believe it? I swear, it was just 1999. Time flies when you're getting older! That's how it goes, right? Either way, the new year is upon us and it's time to make (and break!) those time honored resolutions. New year's resolutions are as American as apple pie (mmm... apple pie). Whether you're planning on getting healthier, getting happier, or getting a new car (Hey! I really want a hybrid!), New Years' resolutions are a must. Who cares if you break them 10 days in? Isn't it healthier to eat more kale 10 days out of the year rather than none? And guess what? Kale kinda rocks. If you make the resolution to eat it every day, maybe you'll end up eating it a couple times a month, and that's pretty great. And if that's your resolution, might I suggest Feel Good Kale with Pasta? Because it's freaking delicious.
Check out some more of my favorite healthy New Year recipes on VegWeb:
What's Hot on VegWeb
A new newsletter! This is so exciting that I just want to shake someone. Or hug someone. Maybe both! Thanks to our dream creative team, the look of our newsletter is being revamped and the end result is pretty sexy. We'll debut it next week so keep your eyes peeled for the best looking thing in your inbox. Try not to makeout with the screen too much.
So long 2009... and hello 2010! Let's look back on the past year and talk about ways we want to do and be better in the upcoming one. Read other VegWebbers' plans and share your own in reflecting on 2009, looking forward to 2010.
Single vegans in the house! Finding herbivore love can be difficult. Heck, finding ANY love can be difficult. Dating is hard, man! Come talk about the ups and downs of vegan singleness in any other single vegans here?
Seriously, the VegWeb apron is awesome. Look at it. No really, look at it. It is so awesome. You need one, your mom needs one, and maybe even your dog needs one. Available only at the The VegWeb Store. Hurry, before I buy them all!
Check out our Monday Night Chats! Every Monday from 6–7pm PST, head to the chat room for discussions ranging from vegetarian travel to cooking tips. This week (January 11), we'll be talking veg families. Are you raising a veggie brood or just trying to get your parents to understand that vegan means you don't eat lamb? Bring your thoughts, tips, advice, and more to the VegWeb Chat Room.Do you tweet? Well, I do! I'm crazy about Twitter. More specifically, I'm crazy about twittering deals, recipes, giveaways, and the latest and greatest news from the VegWeb HQ. Follow me on my VegWeb Twitter.
"Bacon" spinach salad, take me away!
Cooking with Webmistress Laura!
This year, one of my New Years' resolutions is to eat more salad. Seeing as last year I made the resolution to eat more chocolate and succeeded in a way that embarrases even me, I'm assuming salad should be about the same. In my honor, I'm asking you to submit as many salad recipes as you can to VegWeb. I promise that any new salad recipe that gets added to the site will get a proper making by me. I've got my organic lettuce and tomatoes, so bring it. In the interest of fairness, I'll share my favorite salad recipe with you. It's nothing fancy, but when a quick healthy dinner is needed, it comes to the rescue. don't forget the brownies for Dessert. What? It's the holidays! Kind of!
What You Need:
5 cups spinach
1 medium tomato, diced
1/4 cup vegan bacon bits (I use Bacos)
1 cup olive oil
1/2 cup red wine vinegar
2 tablespoons dijon mustard
1 teaspoon sugar
Salt and pepper, to taste
Vegan blue cheese, chopped (optional)
What You Do:
1. Place the spinach and tomato in a large salad bowl.
2. In a mixing bowl, combine vegan bacon bits, olive oil, red wine vinegar, mustard, sugar, salt, and pepper. Whisk until combined. Pour over spinach and tomatoes and top with vegan blue cheese. Enjoy!
Superstar VegWebber!
Each week, we'll highlight a member of the VegWeb community who goes above and beyond to make VegWeb a truly excellent place to spend time on the internet.
This week, "Quintess!"
VegWebber since? A few years ago
What do you do when you're not on VegWeb? Play Dominos with my daughter, organize and shoot cooking videos, blog, do yoga, meditate, mail books, exercise, and eat damn good vegan food.
Favorite VegWeb recipe to make for non-vegans? Perhaps my recipe for Chocolate Decadence Cake. I have to apologize, because I don't try too many other recipes. As a cookbook author and long-time caterer, I'm always fiddling with my own recipes so I rarely get a chance to try other peeps' recipes.
Tempeh, tofu, or seitan? I'd like to say tempeh because it's uber-nutritious, but I just looooove tofu. It's so versatile and always up for new adventures.
Read Quintess' entire interview and tell her how awesome she is in the Superstar VegWebber thread!
Weekly Giveaway: A jar of LUSH's Coco Lotion
What should be an easy New Year's resolution never is. I'm talking about taking better care of yourself. Whether that's eating more nutritious foods, getting more exercise, or pampering more often, it's easy to put ourselves last. Well, with LUSH's Coco Lotion, it will be difficult to not take time out to relax. Made with extra virgin coconut oil, and infused with mandarin and rosemary, it's almost impossible not to eat this stuff straight of out the jar. Once you've passed that hurdle, it's equally difficult to stop applying the lotion to your body. Pretty soon you'll be so busy taking care of yourself that someone else will have to cook dinner. The horror! To win a jar, just head over to our Weekly Giveaway Thread and let us know how you plan to take better care of yourself in the new year.
Good luck!
Peace in your kitchen,
Webmistress Laura
VegWeb.com
San Francisco, CA