Natalie Slater's Blog, page 13
November 15, 2016
Vegan Tamales Unwrapped: Red Chile Jackfruit Tamales
From BakeandDestroy.net:
[image error][image error]Here in Chicago we have a seasonal vegan market called #VeganVortex. One of my favorite vendors is Bravo Vegan Tamales. Not just because they’re delicious, but because the owner’s beautiful mother is the secret to his success – if mama goes on vacation the operation shut down until she gets back!
I would never deprive Ms. Bravo of her well-deservedvacay, but sometimes a tamale is just what I need to make it through the day, know what I mean? So I was super stoked to h...
November 11, 2016
My 7th Annual Grind for Life Fundraiser
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Photo yanked from brooklynvegan.com
It’s hard to believe it’s been seven years since the loss of Mat Arluck sent shockwaves throughout Chicago, and really, the punk and metal scene across the country. After a brutal three-year battle, our 39-year-old friend succumbed to cancerin November of 2009. In February of 2010, a group of Mat’s friendsput on a benefit show called Arluck Time. Proceeds benefitted a college fund for Mat’s nephews, and Grind for Life – the non-prof...
September 12, 2016
Veganized: Christina Tosi’s Corn Cookies from Momofuku Milk Bar
From BakeandDestroy.net:
This is me. I am also Midwestern AF.
Yes, corn cookies. If you ever ate honey on your cornbread or put sugar in your grits than you’re already half way there. (PS I am staunchly in the Salt in Grits Club, but I will still eff up some corn cookies.) They’re just a touch sweet, but not sugary, buttery, and saltier than your average “salted caramel whatever.” The center is chewy, the outer edgeis crunchy. As you eat them you think things like, “This would be amazing with...
August 23, 2016
The Compassionate Chick’s Guide to DIY Beauty: Vanilla Latte Body Scrub Recipe
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[image error][image error]A few years agoa natural sunscreen company hired me to overhaul their image and to head up their marketing department. I’ve always been a sunscreen advocate, but never really knew the difference between chemical and natural sunscreens. Once I started researching the topic, I realized there were a lot of things I was unwittingly rubbing all over my body’s largest organ – my skin – every day.
This realization encouraged me to start seeking out natural alternatives to my...
August 17, 2016
#VeganVortex Autumn Market: Applications Open
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If you don’t know by now that I co-founded a seasonal vegan market called #VeganVortex than I have been doing a terrible job of talking about myself and I simply do not believe that could be true.
We’re in our THIRD amazing year in Chicago and we’ve just opened up applications for our autumn market on September 25th.
If you’re in or around the Chicago area and you make amazing vegan sweets, treats, savories, gifts, beauty items, bath goodies, artwork, housewares or li...
July 10, 2016
Vegan Bowl Attack! Loaded Potato Breakfast Bowl Recipe
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[image error][image error]Duuuuuude I love Jackie Sobon. She’s the phenomenal photographer and blogger behind one of my longtime, very most favorite food blogs, Vegan Yack Attack. I am beyond stoked that she’s put her recipe developing and photography skills into this amazing book that, if I may be so bold, I think she actually wrote specifically FOR me. Behold:Vegan Bowl Attack!: More than 100 One-Dish Meals Packed with Plant-Based Power[image error].
I frigging love food in bowls! How many Bowl of Stuff...
July 6, 2016
The Vegan Cookie Connoisseur: Lemon Cornmeal Cookies
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[image error][image error]In many ways,Kelly Peloza and I are opposites – she is a patient food stylist and talented photographer, and on social media she is thoughtful and reserved, not feeling the need to Instagram every vegan nacho she has ever eaten, or punching out epic Facebook rants about annoying people on the El. And I, as you may know, am a human tornado. My food is messy, my photos are dimly lit, and if we are Facebook friends, you know that I am perpetually angry with people on the...
May 25, 2016
Bake and Destroy the East Coast
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Between June 4 and June 11, Tony and I will be celebrating ten years of unholy matrimony (we were married on 6/6/06) by leaving our beloved Chicago to tool around New York and Philly for a week. I travel to New York pretty often on official I Heart Keenwah business, and I try to meet up with friends at vegan spots whenever I do, but I know there’s lots more to see, do and eat and I want Tony to experience it all with me.
So here’s our current list of sights, eats and...
May 16, 2016
DIY Unhappy Birthday Party Hats
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May 22nd is a holiday in my book – the birthday of oneSteven Patrick Morrissey. This year my friends and I are celebrating with a vegan dinner and then dancing at Delilah’s where DJ Tony (no, not that Tony) will be spinning Moz/Smiths tunes all night. I decided to make the night extra special by making some mopey party hats, which I’ve slowly been assembling all week.
I made about 20 of them so I can share with friends and strangers. It’s super easy, so I thought I’d...
May 13, 2016
Friday the 13th Slasher Smores Cupcakes
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It’s Friday the 13th, y’all! Tonight I plan on cuddling up in front of the TV with a cup of cocoa and a cupcake and relaxing to the sweet crackle-crackle sound of campers being cremated alive in their own sleeping bags. Ah yes, the horrors of summer camp, how many times have we been warned over the years? Don’t leave the kiddies alone while you sneak off to make out with your boyfriend and his sweet 80s headband, don’t wander through the forest in your underpants and...
