Tag: vegan
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How to Cook a Pumpkin and Turn it into Puree
In the fall, we’ve got pumpkins coming out our ears, and it just pains me to think that 95% of the pumpkins grown in this country are simply carved for Halloween and then tossed into the trash. Sometimes people buy 4 or 5, carve only one, and let the rest sit on their front porch…
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The Ethics of Eating Meat
This great debate about meat just keeps on coming, and I couldn’t be more pleased. I received a remarkable email from a fan who has been vegetarian since age 10, and I’d like to share a portion of it: “The ethics of meat eating have been on my mind since I spent five weeks in…
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Animals are Meat: A Follow Up
It’s now been about 24 hours since I posted the photo on Facebook of a free-ranging rooster from a chicken farm near Dallas that I was about to dispatch to become part of the menu at FRANK this weekend. Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined what a magical 24 hours it would…
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Ma’o Farms Vegetarian Curry
On a recent trip to Hawaii, Adrien from MasterChef and I had the chance to visit an amazing farm called Ma’o on the west coast of Oahu near Waianae in the Hawaiian homelands, where only native Hawaiians are permitted to live. This farm is run entirely by youth (mostly under the age of 25) and…
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Ben’s Homemade Granola
Granola is expensive in the store, and it’s packed with preservatives and high fructose corn syrup. You can make your own granola for far less…it tastes better…it’s much healthier…and it’s fun! This is an especially good project for kids. Rather than give you a strict recipe, I’m going to give you a formula of dry-ingredients-to-wet-ingredients…
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Fresh Pumpkin Pie (NO cans!)
So everyone’s got a recipe for pumpkin pie, and here’s the best one. (An instructional video for this recipe is located at the bottom.) Of course, the best one involves nothing from a can, which means WORK. I’ll throw you some shortcuts the deeper we get into the recipe, but if you want to make…