It is DAY 21 of "Gluten Free Vegan Recipes with Breville" and I HAD to celebrate our Breville Sous Chef® Food Processor Giveaway with the incomporable Penni Shelton, founder of the incredible raw foods community Raw Food Rehab. Those of you who followed "Raw Food Recipes with Excalibur" in August will remember my feature on Penni and her delicious Raw Chili Rellenos with Mole Sauce & Mango Chipotle Salsa. Penni was SO incredibly supportive of that event, posting about it every day in Raw Food Rehab. I wanted to make sure you ALL KNEW ABOUT HER and this amazing resource in the healthy living community. I love that Matthew Kenney participated in this month's event with his Raw Vegan Veggie Medley Couscous, as I met him for the first... Keep Reading
It is DAY 19 of "Gluten Free Vegan Recipes with Breville" and I am thrilled to be celebrarting our Breville Sous Chef® Food Processor Giveaway with one of very favourite food bloggers, the dynamic and inspiring, JL Fields, blogger extraordinaire at the extremely popular vegan blog, JL Goes Vegan. In her forties, JL became a marathoner and triathlete, changed careers, transitioned from vegetarian to vegan, and is on FIRE! I will never forget that JL was the very first blogger I made friends with at BlogHer 11 in San Diego and I totally fell in love with her! Trust me, this woman ROCKS! JL is a well respected Vegan Lifestyle Coach and Educator certified by the Main Street Vegan Academy. She serves on the board of directors of Our Hen... Keep Reading
It is DAY 18 of "Gluten Free Vegan Recipes with Breville" and we celebrate our Breville Sous Chef® Food Processor Giveaway with one of the most creative food bloggers in the world, the phenomenal Michael Natkin, the genius behind the widely popular and award-winning vegetarian food blog, Herbivoracious. For several years, Michael was the author of the bi-weekly column “Serious Meatless” on Serious Eats, where he gained a reputation for cutting-edge vegetarian cooking. His blog and his recipes have been mentioned nearly a dozen times in the New York Times Diner’s Journal; been listed for four consecutive years on Saveur’s “Sites We Love”; and his photos are regularly featured on TasteSpotting, FoodGawker, and other sites. I confess,... Keep Reading
It is DAY 17 of "Gluten Free Vegan Recipes with Breville" and we celebrate our Breville Sous Chef® Food Processor Giveaway with the incomparable Ricki Heller, the GENIUS behind the hilarious and highly informative anti-candida vegan blog, Diet, Dessert, and Dogs. Those of you who have been following me for a while will remember Ricki from the Gluten Free Baking with KitchenAid event earlier this year, where her Vegan Chocolate Buttercream Frosting was a SENSATION, and the most popular recipe of the month with over 10,000 hits. If you are not acquainted with Ricki's PHENOMENAL blog and cookbooks, then you are missing out on one of the great treasures in life! I have made TONS of her inspired recipes and they have all been... Keep Reading
It is DAY 15 of “Gluten Free Vegan Recipes with Breville", and I am thrilled to open the third week our Breville Sous Chef Food Processor Giveaway with another powerhouse from down under! Yesterday I featured the darling the Australian Health Movement; and today I celebrate the Hero of the Juicing World, Aussie bloke-next-door, Joe Cross, star of the hugely popular documentary, Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead. For those of you who have not seen the film (and I highly recommend you do) this chronicles Joe’s personal transformation and journey back to optimal health and vitality. After a realization at the age of 40, weighing more than 100lbs overweight, and heavily medicated for a chronic autoimmune disease, Joe Cross was facing an early... Keep Reading
It is DAY 13 of "Gluten Free Recipes with Breville" and the gorgeous Heather Nauta from Healthy Eating Starts Here is joining our Breville Sous Chef Giveaway party today. I connected with Heather through JL Goes Vegan, and I have absolutely fallen in love with her. For those of you who don't know Heather, she is AMAZING and has a really cool story. A former commercial pilot and flight instructor in Canada, Heather developed a keen awareness for environmental issues and a passionate desire to solve them back in 2004. She moved to the West Coast, where, with her partner, Phil, she started experimenting with veganism, raw foods, Eastern philosophies, holistic principles, and organic gardening. After both experiencing dramatic weight... Keep Reading
It is DAY 8 of "Gluten Free Vegan Recipes with Breville" celebrating our Sous Chef® Food Processor Giveaway, and we start Week Two off with a bang with the ROCKSTAR of the raw foods world, the incomparable Matthew Kenney. I was fortunate enough to meet Matthew a few years ago at a “RAWkstar” Degustation Dinner at Matthew Kenney OKC (formally 105 Degrees). You can read my story about that event here. I will unleash the squealing teenager in me again and openly admit that I felt a few butterflies bounce around in my overdulged stomach when I met Matthew. He is just HOT! He is THE movie star poster boy for eating raw foods! If seeing him in person doesn’t make you grab for a naked celery stick…..nothing will! "Yes, my name is Tess, and I... Keep Reading
It is DAY 4 of "Gluten Free Vegan Recipes with Breville" and I am honoured to feature one the biggest stars in the vegan community, the incredible Ann Gentry, founder of one of my favourite L.A restaurants, Real Food Daily. I honestly cannot rave enough about Ann, her delicious recipes, and her restaurants. I eat at RFD at least once a week, and always sit surrounded by other happy patrons all singing the praises of the fresh organic, local, vegan food. I swear I have contemplated selling my soul for the vegan crab cakes. I have been known to order four plates in one sitting! Oh My.... So who is the lovely lady that is nourishing so many people? Ann Gentry was born in Tennessee, and grew up in a home filled with great food and a love... Keep Reading
October is going to be a very exciting month! I am celebrating one of my favourite appliances, the Breville Sous Chef® Food Processor with a GIVEAWAY! To celebrate, I am hosting one last online party for 2012 and have invited some of the world’s leading vegan chefs, restauranteurs, bloggers, authors, and celebrities, to bring you “Gluten Free Vegan Recipes with Breville USA.” Just like “Gluten Free Baking With KitchenAid” and “Raw Food Recipes with Excalibur”, I will be featuring a different website every day. This month, I will be sharing a different Gluten Free Vegan Recipe that can be made or partially prepared with the amazing Breville Sous Chef® food processor. Those of you who have been following me for a while would be well... Keep Reading
It is the last day of our official Vitamix Recipe Center celebration, and we end with this fabulous Instant Vegan Pumpkin Soup. I say "instant" because this recipe utilizes canned pumpkin. Now, normally I don't use canned vegetables in any of my recipes. However, this recipe is a healthy lifesaver if you come home and don't have much in your fridge! You can whip up this tasty meal with ingredients in your panty in minutes. I also thought it timely that I post this this recipe leading into the holiday season as it is a fantastic way to use those leftover cans of pumpkin. Making soups in your Vitamix is so quick and easy! Check out my Soups Video on the Vitamix website. There are some delicious soup recipes in the Vitamix Recipe... Keep Reading
