Delectable You

Vegan Gluten Free Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cocoa Nib Walnut Cookies

When I was in culinary school, I ate a lot of refined flours and sugars. Croissants. Cakes. Cookies. Bread. Tarts. Pastries galore. By the time I was through with my first semester, I had gained 10 pounds and I didn’t feel so great. I decided from that moment on that I was going to try […]

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Writing a business plan + Vegan gluten free oatmeal trailmix cookies!

Writing a business plan + Vegan gluten free oatmeal trailmix cookies!

 Have you ever written a business plan?If not, have you ever written an essay on something you don’t have all the research on yet, and it needs to be done in 8 hours?Take that feeling, and the subsequent feelings that come along with it: feeling ravenous on a full stomach, the incessant and irrational need […]

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Chocolate cake balls with sea salt – Vegan and gluten free!

Chocolate cake balls with sea salt – Vegan and gluten free!

 Yesterday I was invited to Fred talks, an amazing spin on Ted Talks, at my great friend Steve’s House (check him out in The Huffington Post – He was their Greatest Person of the Day yesterday! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/08/huffpost-greatest-person-steve-glenn-sustainable-homes_n_873343.html). It’s a potluck, so I decided to make my now famous gluten free, vegan, chocolate doughnuts with chocolate glaze. So […]

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Vegan Gluten Free Sugarless Pumpkin Spice Muffins with Vanilla Icing

Vegan Gluten Free Sugarless Pumpkin Spice Muffins with Vanilla Icing

True to my word (or is it my sweet tooth?) I experimented with pumpkin spice muffins this week. But, as you may have guessed, these were not just any pumpkin spice muffins. These were vegan, gluten free and sugarless pumpkin spice muffins! Who needs sugar when you have moist pumpkin puree? No one, I say. […]

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Sugarless, Gluten Free, Vegan Chocolate and Vanilla Cupcakes!

Sugarless, Gluten Free, Vegan Chocolate and Vanilla Cupcakes!

Today I ate a cupcake for breakfast.      Ok. I lied. I ate 2 cupcakes for breakfast. And lots of icing too. It’s now noon. I’m contemplating having a third. Don’t judge me.   In my defense, I made 40 cupcakes yesterday, and needed to see how they tasted the next day.   In […]

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Vegan, Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies…and other treats :)

Vegan, Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies…and other treats :)

 Ok so it might have happened.   I might have decided to keep some of the leftover melted vegan chocolate instead of putting it away in the fridge like a good girl. I even might have taken some peanut butter out of the fridge, and dropped a teaspoon full of it into the melted chocolate. […]

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Chocolate glazed baked vegan gluten free donuts + Butternut Squash Soup!

Chocolate glazed baked vegan gluten free donuts + Butternut Squash Soup!

 The results are in – the vegan, gluten free, baked donuts have been kid tested and guess what: they have been approved!   I think parents everywhere may have just jumped up and cheered! Then again, it could just be the t.v. (at this moment, there happens to be a Paula Deen impersonator on Paula […]

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The Vegan, Gluten Free Donut has Arrived!

The Vegan, Gluten Free Donut has Arrived!

Guess what!   I mixed a little bit of this (xanthan gum) and a little bit of that (potato starch) with a little bit of a lot of other things (garbanzo and fava bean flour, brown rice flour, arrowroot, and coconut oil) and I got this:     Vegan, gluten free donuts covered with cinnamon […]

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Organic, Vegan, Gluten Free – nice to meet you!

Organic, Vegan, Gluten Free – nice to meet you!

I don’t know if this happens to you, but sometimes when I go into a grocery store, I get so overwhelmed by all the brands, and all of the ingredients that I get flustered and don’t know where to start! I end up wanting to throw my hands up like an idiot and storm out […]

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