Alicia Silverstone's Blog, page 209

lets help get a vegetable garden planted at new yorks city hall!!

A while ago I posted a Hijiki Caviar recipe from blogger Louisa's Lucid Food blog. If you haven't seen that one be sure to check it out HERE.

Louisa has a post about planting a vegetable garden in front of New York's City Hall. The organization People's Garden NYC has a photo on their website of an artist rendering of what the garden would look like pictured below. They are working hard to make this fantasy garden a reality. Go to their website to learn more about them see the rendered...

Gobble Green Helps Out with the Gulf Oil Spill - Sponsored Post

One of our kind sponsors Gobble Green would like to tell you a little bit about a couple of their new meal plans and what they are doing to help out the Gulf Coast oil spill. Take a look:

"Gobble Green is having an exciting month and we hope you are all enjoying the warm weather and summer fun too! At the beginning of June Kevin and I took a weekend field trip to Dog Beach in San Diego with our three canine babies to officially welcome summer.

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Gobble Green owners Kevin and Jennifer with...

tristas unexpected weight loss!

Kind Lifer Trista posted her cute little success story on the website about how she has lost weight without even trying since starting The Kind Diet!  

"I was a Vegetarian before starting the Kind Diet but since I've been Vegan??? I lost 10 unexpected pounds!!!! I couldn't believe it when I weighed myself yesterday. I mean I felt like my clothes were much looser but 10 pounds? I also have much more energy and just feel better as a whole after going Superhero :- Milk really does make you...

morgans gooey chocolate fudge muffins

I found another recipe on Little House of Veggies that looks so good. It is a recipe for Chocolate Fudge Muffins that was adapted from one of Bethenny Frenkel's recipes.

Morgan from Little House of Veggies wrote "These chocolate fudgy muffins are my very favorite sweet snack to make and they are pretty much guilt free being made entirely from whole wheat and having virtually no fat aside from the vegan chocolate chips and a single teaspoon of oil! This recipe is just too good not to share...

furniture made out of decaying wood!

I recently came across a very cool furniture company Hudson Furniture Inc. that makes all of their furniture out of salvaged trees or wind/storm damaged trees. I think it's so great to use reclaimed wood rather than cut down trees growing in forests. When I buy furniture if I don't buy something used I only buy new things that are made out of reclaimed wood. I also love the rustic earthy look so I did some research to see what other companies are out there that also use reclaimed wood and...

look at what came out of my garden!!!

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Take a look at what came out of my garden the other day!!! I'm a proud little lady.

Aren't they beautiful?

RIght now in my garden we have dandelion chives avocado arugula celery borage flowers nasturtium edible flowers little orange tomatoes that are sweet like candy! strawberries blackberries and kale!

What do you have growing in your garden?

 

flore vegan in silverlake

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Hi Everyone. Just a little note to say you should absolutely check out Flore Vegan if you are in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles. It's a super cute little vegan place. Their food is delicious and they make amazing juice desserts and breakfast dishes too!

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I highly recommend the Tempeh Reuben. It's sooooo good. And I've never had these but Megan and Rachel from our Kind Life community love these next items: the tomato basil pizza the crust is this awesome healthy spelt and cornmeal the...

jessikas success story!

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Hi everyone – Kind Lifer Jessika McKee sent her success story to me and I wanted to share it with all of you!  Since starting The Kind Diet Jessika has improved her health and has been able to get off of her medication – yay!

"Hi Alicia So I don't really have huge news but I thought I would share my story with you anyway. I thought I was a healthy 27 year old girl. I thought I ate pretty well minus my obsession with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups I worked out at least 5 days a week and just...

little house of veggies yummy looking pasta recipe

 

I found the recipe for this delicious looking baked pasta dish and I can't wait to make it!

Morgan who runs the Little House of Veggies blog wrote "I got this recipe from watching Giada on the Food Network.  She is so cute and I love her veggie meals when she makes them! It was so simple to make but looked so impressive.  Make this one when you are having guests over!"  Morgan also mentions that this is a dish for oregano lovers... Since the recipe calls for 1/4 cup of oregano!  So if you ...

summer fruit is here!

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This past Sunday at the Farmer's Market I got blueberries blackberries boysenberries raspberries mulberries and strawberries.  Boysenberries are soo good and fun to have!  And mulberries are my absolute favorite!  

This is the time of year that all of these delicious berries are growing locally for us in California.  It's also time for nectarines cherries... And I think apricots are almost here too! 

Anywho I made a berry stew this morning.  I used raspberries blackberries and some brown...