Monthly Archives: November 2009

Sweet-Tooth Friday: Vegan Pumpkin Pie

[christine pumpkin pie photo]

Hey everyone!  It's Christine here for Sweet-Tooth Friday!  There's no denying it now, Thanksgiving is just around the corner so I have an amazingly easy and delicious recipe for No-Bake Vegan Pumpkin Pie! Tofu, or not tofu …that is the question.  Classic pumpkin pie is just another version of custard pie, so it is hard…

Stu Mittleman: Burning fat (not sugar) for 1000 miles

[matt and stu mittleman photo]

I make no attempt to hide the fact that I'm a huge Tony Robbins dork.  As my first post explains, it was at Tony's Unleash the Power Within seminar where (in addition to walking across hot coals) I was inspired to become vegetarian and start this very blog.  I'm not going to try to sell…

Falafel that didn't suck

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The first time I made falafel, back when I was just a newb' vegetarian, it could only have been described as fal-awful.  The problem, Erin and I decided, was that it was grilled, not deep-fried carnival-style.  And as a result it was dry and mostly tasteless. To give it another go, I turned to trusty…

My big fat Greek trail run

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Happy Monday everyone, sorry for no post this weekend.  It was a toss up between living life and blogging about life, and the living won out.  Sorry, blogging! The first week of my run-every-day-in-November challenge went great.  I did in fact run every day, capping it all off with a 15-mile trail run on Saturday…

Vegan Gingerbread Stout Cookies

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Beer Isn't Vegan? Yippee, it's Sweet-Tooth Friday!  It's Christine here with the first "festive" dessert of the season!  I wanted to make a vegan version of my famous Guinness gingerbread, but boy was I in for a surprise when I typed the words 'vegan' and 'Guinness' together in my search engine – instead of yummy…

Questions and Answers

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You: Hey Matt, how's your new plan of running every day to get out of your rut going? Me:  Funny you should ask, I was just going to mention that on my blog today!  It's going really well.  So well that I went to bed at midnight last night and still managed to get up…

The plan in action

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Thanks for all the encouraging words about getting out of my little rut!  (I'll just pretend that there was no contest to enter, and all those comments were motivated by genuine concern. )  Seriously, it is neat to see how many people have felt exactly the same way after a big race.  My favorites are…

Stuck in a rut… and a giveaway!

[amazing grass chocolate]

First: I wrote my first solo piece for Running Shorts today!  It's a review of Born to Run, a little more in depth than what I've written about the book on this blog.  Please, take a look and let me know what you think.  And if you haven't yet, check out my co-contributor Megan's first…