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Breakfast Taco-dillas

Along with stylish cupcakes and food trucks, there’s been a trend in breakfast tacos. Wraps long have been popular. My vegan version of the handheld meal can be made in either form, but I like the toasty accent of quesadillas, and it’s only another five minutes. Plus, a folded-once tortilla can hold more fillings than […]

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Main Courses

Pan of Vegan Sausage

The Web didn’t give me exactly what I wanted: A recipe for a quick, from-scratch skillet full of vegan sausage patties. Fat free. Cheap. Pantry ingredients. Well, my pantry, at least. The goal was a healthy version of the memory of sausage, mild and from the supermarket. While these brown, you can put together pancake […]

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Bake

‘Kickstart’ Pancakes

No, as a matter of fact, you don’t need egg, sugar, oil and dairy milk for pancakes. What’s great about this vegan recipe is it’s just two servings, maybe three. The fruit component is a flavorful, nutritious enhancement. 1/3 cup fruit, optional 2/3 cup flours (wheat, rye, buckwheat or other flours, except cornmeal, or a […]

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Kook Cooks

Easy Vegan Breakfasts

It’s time to get excited, and a little nervous, for tomorrow’s first of three classes of “Vegan: As Easy as You Want.” They’re in the conference room of Ozark Natural Foods (not in the store but several doors up in its office), and as of Monday, two-thirds full, says ONF Com­mu­nity Out­reach Coor­di­na­tor Heather Artripe. […]

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Kook Cooks

Vegan – As Easy as You Want

Drop that grilled cheese! Come to Ozark Natural Foods in October for my introduction to essential vegetarianism, “Vegan – As Easy As You Want.” Although I’m primarily a wordsmith, by my eyes I’m a foodie. Thus, I’ve offered to teach three 90-minute cooking sessions at the ONF Conference Center, east of the store and also […]

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American Culture Kook Cooks

An Omnivore’s Manifesto

We’re trying veganism, My Beloved and I, now in our 11th week of cutting the ovo-lacto from our comfortable vegetarianism of over two decades. Look Out For That Bus! It’d been a year since my last fasting cholesterol blood test. The results so floored my doctor a week ago — total dropped from 244 to […]