I picked this recipe out of Vegetarian Times magazine, but apparently they got it from The Joy of Vegan Baking. 
Ingredients
2 cups crispy rice cereal, crushed
1 1/2 cups natural peanut butter
2 cups confectioners’ sugar
1/2 cup + 2 Tbs. non-hydrogenated, nondairy butter, melted*
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 cup nondairy semisweet chocolate chips
* I HIGHLY recommend Earth Balance Whipped [...]

I’m a cheesecake nut, and one of the things I made a point of doing during a cross-country trip a couple of years ago was tasting the cheesecake in both Philadelphia and New York, in the hopes of finding the best I’ve ever had.
I was sorely disappointed, especially when I realized the best cheesecake I’ve ever had [...]

From Salmonella spinach to angry beef, it seems we’re no stranger to food recalls these days.
Sometimes foods aren’t even tainted with bacteria, but rather contain undisclosed ingredients, which can be just as harmful, if not more so.
Dangerous Allergies
For those who are allergic to certain food ingredients, following ingestion of a food allergen, they can experience [...]

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve at least heard of Bravo Television and all of its wonderful reality programming. And I mean that without an ounce of sarcasm.
Currently, Bravo’s wildly popular show, Top Chef, is in its fourth season, this time with Chicago as a backdrop for the culinary competition.
I am happy to [...]

One of the many things I regularly have on hand is Soyrizo (meatless soy chorizo).
Any time a recipe calls for sausage, I use Soyrizo instead. I’ve used it in lasagna (both traditional and polenta), as taco filling, for burritos, etc.
Soyrizo has no cholesterol and no preservatives. And not only is it meatless, but it’s also [...]

 
For over two decades, I’ve been perfecting the art of grocery shopping to make it as quick and painless as possible.
This inclination probably stems from my youth, when my Dad would spend the majority of every Wednesday (the day the food ads came out in the local paper) driving all over town to “get the best [...]

If it’s true that you are what you eat, then I am oatmeal.
Until recently, I was making it the old-fashioned way. You know, cooking it, on the stove.
But then one day a friend told me about Trader Joe’s Steelcut Oatmeal, and since then I have been in oatmeal heaven.
 
It’s frozen in discs about the size [...]

I was chubby in my youth, got really thin in high school and college, and weighed my lowest when I got married. I now weigh a more normal amount. More than I’d like, of course, but after all I’ve been through , I cut myself some slack.
(One of my biggest food struggles after cancer was that I [...]