Hello everybody! It's Friday, so this is Christine with another healthy dessert recipe! Today's recipe for Fresh Fruit Tart with Almond Crust is an unlikely cross between primitive and elegant—but all your tastebuds will say is "wow!" Does your body crave caveman ingredients? The paleolithic diet craze seems extreme, and definitely fudges some historical details,…
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Happy Sweet-Tooth Friday everybody! This is Christine, and things sure have changed around the NMA house since I last checked in with you. Of course you know by now that I am a proud aunt, ready to spoil the crap out of my new nephew with healthy treats. That is, as soon as he's ready…
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This blog is about running. This blog is about cooking really good vegetarian food that helps you with running. It's only about my life to the extent that these things are part of it. So while an open letter to my unborn baby about whether or not we'd raise him vegetarian was sort of appropriate,…
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Hi guys! It's Christine here for Sweet-Tooth Friday! This week I have a crowd-pleasing recipe for Vegan Cut-Out cookies that are perfect for personalizing and decorating for any occasion. These are yummy enough to pass off as regular cookies to friends and family, and at Matt and Erin's baby shower I did just that! Surprise…you…
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Happy Sweet-Tooth Friday! This is Christine, and it's time to celebrate Spring the best way I know how…with vegan cupcakes! Topped with a luscious coconut-ganache, these chocolate cupcakes will outshine everything in your Easter basket. My dark (chocolate) secret You and I have had this dessert relationship going on for almost a year now, so…
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Want to make a really good soup that seems like you shouldn't be able to make it at home? Then this is your recipe, Veganomicon is your book, and I am your man-boy. Though the authors describe it as "totally inauthentic," this is one of those soups like so many other Indian and other Asian…
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Hey everyone, it's Matt. I'll hand it off to Christine in just a second, by I believe I owe you some shirt winners! Ready? The five winners of the No Meat Athlete t-shirts are: Bridget (from Pounding Pavement and Plants), sals, Larissa, Kelsey, and Shannon (from Tri 2 Cook). Congratulations, and thank you again for…
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What do you know, another Monday. But this Monday is special, for lots of reasons, not the least of which are that I'm on spring break and my second-ever 50K is on Saturday. It's also the start of the last full week of my first year of blogging, seeing as I started this blog on…
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Happy Sweet-Tooth Friday! This is Christine and instead of my normal frilly-healthy-dessert post, today we are getting down and dirty with homemade vegan superfood energy bars. An energy bar fit for fueling workouts There has been a lot of talk about natural running fuel here lately. Matt's series of posts on pre, during, and post…
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Ok, ready for this? It's a fun one, because it involves: (a) rolling things up into little southern-goodness-bombs and (b) making your own barbecue sauce, something I'd never done before. Today's recipe is from Veganomicon, my featured cookbook of the month. Which, by the way, is really starting to grow on me: Many of the…
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