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Hot and Wild Rice

July 3, 2017 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

 — For July 4th — and every day — do your patriotic duty — vote with your fork, give a damn about what you’re feeding your children. Eat Heat, Not Meat Originally posted on 04/25/2011 for Huffington Post “This is the only country in the world where we’re debating whether climate change is real,” says Kurt Michael Friese,…

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Filed Under: grain dish, MAIN COURSE Tagged With: Eat Heat, Hot and Wild Rice, Kurt Michael Friese, meatless monday, Not Meat, Slow Food

Great American Meatout Pasta

March 6, 2017 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

Great American Meatout Puts Kindness on the Menu The Great American Meatout is not the only green thing worth celebrating this week. Next Friday is St. Patrick’s Day. Originally posted on 05/15/2010 for Huffington Post Hello, it’s the Ides of March, the day back in 44 BC when Julius Caesar’s friends gathered on the steps…

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Filed Under: MAIN COURSE, pasta Tagged With: Ellen DeGeneres, Farm Animal Rights Movement, Great American Meatout, Great American Meatout Pasta, meatless monday, The Kind Diet

Tunisian Roasted Vegetables

September 12, 2016 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

Originally Posted on 07/08/2013 for Huffington Post. Happy anniversary, readers. I’ve been writing weekly Meatless Monday posts. Happy anniversary, readers. I’ve been writing weekly Meatless Monday posts for Seven years now. And they said it wouldn’t last. After the first month, my editor gently asked, “How many different ways can you encourage people not to eat…

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Filed Under: MAIN COURSE, veggie dish Tagged With: Ellen Kanner, feeding the hungry ghost, John Robbins, meatless diet, meatless monday, plant-based diet, Tunisian Roasted Vegetables, Vegan recipes

Spice Me Up Holiday Rum Cake

December 14, 2015 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

Originally posted on12/23/2013 for Huffington Post. Time to get your Christmas on with the Caribbean cake. If the idea of anything other than a white Christmas seems strange, spend Christmas in the islands — they love it there, decorating lavishly, yet tropically, playing their own Christmas carols, more than we have by a mile, all with an…

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Filed Under: Cake & Tarts, DESSERT Tagged With: Ellen Kanner, meatless monday, soulful vegan writer, Spice Me Up Holiday Rum Cake, vegan lifestyle

Curried Pumpkin Soup

October 19, 2015 by Ellen Kanner 1 Comment

 Originally posted on 09/29/2014 for Huffington Post. Meatless Monday: The Seed of Something Great — Seed Food and Wine Festival Getting your Halloween game on? Pumpkins aren’t just for carving, they’re for eating, too. Here’s a curried pumpkin soup recipe from Mark Reinfeld (www.veganfusion.com). October kicks off Vegetarian Awareness Month and the celebration’s happening in…

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Filed Under: LIGHT MEALS, MEATLESS MONDAYS, soups Tagged With: agave, celery, chile, cilantro, cumin, curry, Ellen Kanner, garlic, lime juice, mark reinfeld, meatless monday, onion, pumpkin

Warm Tofu and Mushroom Salad With Roasted Lemon Relish

October 12, 2015 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

Originally posted 07/20/2015 on for Huffington Post Meatless Monday: Steak Chefs Go Meatless for Culinary Clash Three dishes, two competing South Beach steak chefs, one hour, no meat — this was the challenge at last week’s Culinary Clash at Whole Foods in Coral Gables, Florida. At the top of the hour, the emcee revealed the secret…

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Filed Under: LIGHT MEALS, Salads Tagged With: culinary clash, Ellen Kanner, meatless monday, mushroom, radishes, ralph pagano, salad, sean brasel, tofu, tomato

Black Beans and Kale Save the World

October 5, 2015 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

Black Beans and Kale Save the World by Ellen Kanner

Originally posted on 09/30/2013 for Huffington Post  Meatless Monday: Eating to Save the World World Vegetarian Day was October 1, but we keep the party going all month long — October is Vegetarian Awareness Month. Just in time, too, because honey, people need some of both. As a lead-up to World Vegetarian Day, I spoke…

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Filed Under: MAIN COURSE, MEATLESS MONDAYS Tagged With: black beans, Black Beans and Kale Save the World, Ellen Kanner, garlic, jalapeno, kale, meatless monday, onion, red pepper

Black Bean Fudgesicles

June 8, 2015 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

Posted originally on 07/28/2014 for Huffington Post Meatless Monday: Using the Old Bean Bad news globally, in Ukraine and Gaza and bad news closer to home, too — a wonderful friend has been ill. But she’s on the mend and she’s a smart girl. She’s building herself back up and trying to get a little…

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Filed Under: DESSERT, dessert drinks, MEATLESS MONDAYS Tagged With: Ellen Kanner, meatless monday, Vegan recipes

Mushroom Risotto

October 31, 2010 by Ellen Kanner Leave a Comment

Those of my ilk were once considered Pythagoreans, as in Pythagoras. Best known as ancient Greece’s math geek extraordinaire, Pythagoras was also into music and philosophy. It’s believed his own personal ethos abjured killing and eating animals, a practice followed by vegetarians for generations to come. The word vegetarian itself had to wait until the…

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Filed Under: EDGY VEGGIE, MAIN COURSE, MEATLESS MONDAYS, veggie dish Tagged With: being vegan, Edgy veggie, Ellen Kanner, meatless monday, Mushroom Risotto, plant-based diet, Soulfulvegan, Vegan recipes

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Ellen Kanner ELLEN KANNER is a soulful vegan writer on food, wellness and sustainability with over 15 years' experience. She's a recipe developer for numerous publications...[Read More] .

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