I suppose I love me some creamy coconut curry, and coconut iced cream, Oatly is my #1 Iced Coffee milk, and rice has been being milked for various desserts and occasions for decades, so if cashews and almonds disappeared from mother Earth, we would still have something to grind into cream. We vegans are resourceful :)

XO,
KZ

Tofu in everything, plz! Tofu is my #1. I bake it, I broil it, I slice it, I dice it, I press it, I simmer it, I pan-fry it, but mostly I eat it. At 8g per serving, of which I usually have two, it's always a good idea to add fresh organic tofu to whatever you are having!



For example, this Red Thai Tofu from Appetite For Reduction, has 20g of protein per serving. I added a serving of cashews to up my protein, but without them there's 15g. Not bad for a quick and easy meal.


 Vegan Hot Dogs are no joke! Field Roast Frankfurters (the best vegan dog) have 21g of protein per dog! I ate them with Vegan Mac and Cheese made with chickpea pasta and cashews, which gave me an additional 20g of protein.


This vegan deli sandwich from Haymakers (RIP) gifted me over 40g of protein for the pleasure of eating this massive delicious sandwich on my birthday last year!


The obvious fist to the face of any vegan protein deny-er is this bowl of chili. I add about 6 cans of beans to this chili with 4 links of field roast chipotle sausage, which clocks in around 50g of protein per serving. Thank glob for chili, am I right?

Oh, I guess it can't hurt to have two Christmas morning breads! I always make my dad his own cinnamon swirl bread for Christmas, and he graciously shares with us. This recipe is pretty good too, although the one from Vegan Sandwiches Save the Day still has my heart.


For the last 2-3 years, we do this thing where we drive 6-8 hours back to our hometown to have Thanksgiving dinner with our extended families, make some food -- sometimes a little, sometimes a lot -- then drive the many hours back to Philly and make a second, more extensive Thanksgiving meal with all the fixins for ourselves. This way we get to have the leftovers experience, coveted oven and fridge space, time to make all the good stuff, and we just have ourselves a GD party, just the two of us. It's the best part of Thanksgiving <3 <3 <3 All the recipes pretty much come from Super Fun Times, and the Thanksgiving chapter is not to be missed.







Now what would Christmas be without Christmas cookies? There is a whole chapter of Super Fun Times dedicated to Christmas Cookies. I have made them all, and I am here to share my work with you. The highlights are the PB Chocolate Chip (I bake the cookies separately, then push four chocolate chips into the center as soon as they come out of the oven to make PB Kisses!), the Chocolate Chip Candy-Cane (wait to press in the crushed canes until after they come out of the oven; they will melt and look ugly if you mix them into the batter!), and the Lemon Thumbprint Cookies (no recipe problems to report!). All of them are dreamy and delicious, but those three are my faves. Honorable mention goes to the Gingerbread Chocolate Chip, but I think they are from Isa Does It.

I think all Açai or Pitaya bowls are beautiful, just as they are created in a bowl. But clearly some come together with a little more finesse than others, depending on how hungry you are and how anxious you are to start eating! On top, I had time and energy, a good space for light, good arrangement of toppings, an artfully spaced composition, a few rogue swirls...

And you see down below, I am famished, too hungry for good lighting, no sparse pink areas for contrast, just piled toppings on, and starting taking a bite while tapping the photo button, almost shaking the phone before I got a shot.

And so you see, life is art. Above and below.

A bit about my mugs: We got these from a local artist, Eric Kenney, here in Fishtown, Philly. Alex's is the "Work Sucks" mug and mine is the "Outsider" mug. Each of his pieces contains a cameo by a caricature of Death. They are funny and lighthearted while also dark and dooming.
"So Real-- yet So Surreal"