Raw ‘Un’ Baking

2 weeks ago, I headed up to the Back to Eden kitchen to do a little un-baking for the storefront.

 

This is what I made:

(I’m going to start with the worst picture, so your enjoyment can go up as you read down:)

Cranberry-Pistachio Nessie Bars

   (uncut)

I fell in love with Lara Bars a while back, and was amazing at their simple ingredients. Then I was amazing at how much I was spending on them.

Solution: Make my own version! Introducing: Nessie Bars. This kind was in honor of Christmas—the bright red and juicy cranberries mixed with the salty and crunchy green pistachios made these bars gorgeous. Garrett sold them as squares down at the storefront, and I wish I would have taken a picture—they were so festive!

These bars are vegan (duh), raw, soy-free, gluten-free, and would have been sugar-free if the cranberries weren’t sugar-sweetened.

Next up:

Chocolate Chip Cookies!

These kind of look like rice cakes or something, but don’t judge based on the pictures! They’re so good!

The text I got from Garrett the day they hit the storefront for the first time:

A woman came in today and bought one of your raw cookies. She ate it in the store. She then bought the rest of them! No, really. She said, ‘I’ll take them all.’

Um, can I get a holla?

These cookies are vegan (duh), raw, sugar-free, soy-free, and would be gluten-free if oats aren’t rolled in wheat (Why on earth would people do that? I just found that out).

And finally…. Brownie Bites!

These babies are chocolate-y walnut-y little morsels all rolled up in coconut. I love em! I added some chocolate extract to them, but I don’t think I would again because they tasted kind of alcohol-y. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, I guess.

My brownie bites are vegan (duh), raw, sugar-free, soy-free, and gluten-free.

I love baking in Back to Eden’s kitchen—it’s so shiny and clean and has all the ingredients I could ever want to play with. :)

 

What do(n't) vegans eat?

Inspired by Katy and Michelle, the organizers of Blogger Vegan 4 a Week or a Day, I’m blogging vegan today. Of course that’s not different than any other day of my life, but I thought I’d give you a glimpse into what vegans eat.
Yes, that’s right. You might even say….. It’s PHOTO ESSAY TIME! Holla! If I had planned this out for more than 2 minutes this morning, I might have cooked some really fun stuff or had something awesome to show you guys. But, I didn’t. So you’ll get a lot of basic ingredients I have around the house, and a back log of some of the food I’ve eaten this year.
These pictures include travel to Canada and Turkey, as well as eating out, drinking out (of course) and eating in.
Scroll over a picture for a description of what it is, how to use it, who made it, or where it was.

EATING AT HOME

 

    

CARB GOODNESS

 
 

FREEZER GOODNESS
 

SMOOTHIE GOODNESS
     

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HOME-COOKED FOOD

 

  

EATING OUT AND TRAVELING

 

          

And finally, two extra-special yummies:
THE SPICY VEGAN’S CREATIONS

I know, right? *drool*
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Hungry yet? If you have questions or want any recipes, give me a holla. You can see that I definitely don’t lack anything in a vegan diet. In fact, I eat more of a varied, healthy, and tasty diet now than I did when I was eating dairy and cheese.