Recipe: Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies with Pecans

Recipe: Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies with Pecans

These cookies have received some of the best compliments I've ever gotten on my baked goods, from fellow vegans as well as from some (formerly!) vegan-skeptical folks. I get recipe requests almost every time I bring them anywhere. So here's how to make them yourself, along with some helpful tips...first one is that this dough requires at least

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Ribbons Plus a Cool Toy from the OC Fair

Ribbons Plus a Cool Toy from the OC Fair

Susan wasn’t able to compete in the main Culinary competition at this year’s Orange County Fair because the turn-in time coincided with our trip to Japan (she won some ribbons at the San Diego County Fair to make up for it!).  But the OC Fair holds various other side competitions as well, the last of which was this past weekend – “Fairtastic Foods”.  This was a competition for “fair-friendly” food that you might see in a booth one day. Susan entered, and...

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Susan's Ribbons at the 2014 San Diego County Fair

Susan's Ribbons at the 2014 San Diego County Fair

Regular readers may recall that Susan, aside from being an engineer and part time blogger, is a very successful amateur vegan chef.  She’s won over forty ribbons and awards to date, all for vegan food competing against non-vegan competition (including ribbons at the National Pie Championships, and not one, but two Best of Shows at the Orange County Fair).  It’s her way of helping to show that vegan food can taste just as good as non-vegan food....

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