Get this–there’s a new “Dinner Spinner” iPhone app from Allrecipes.com, the world’s #1 food site. 

Top features include:

• Search for meal ideas from thousands of Allrecipes.com’s most popular recipes
• Access detailed ingredients, cooking instructions, nutritional information, photos, ratings and reviews
• Give your iPhone a shake to watch the Dinner Spinner in action and generate dinner ideas for you 

Allrecipes’ Dinner Spinner also lets you share recipes with home cooks just like yourself for affordable and convenient meal solutions.

For more info, click here.

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If you’ve ever contemplated going vegan, now’s the time during World Go Vegan Days, which started October 25 and run through October 31.

Created by In Defense of Animals (IDA), World Go Vegan Days is an annual event to educate people about the vegan lifestyle. During World Go Vegan Days, IDA encourages people to become conscious of what – and who – they are eating, the effect it has on the world, and that a non-violent alternative exists.

Here are a few ways you can celebrate World Go Vegan Days:

• Order Vegan Starter Kits to distribute. Download a free copy here.
• Write a Letter to the Editor of your newspaper about vegan issues.
• Share a vegan meal with family and friends by hosting a vegan potluck dinner or restaurant outing. Be sure to invite people who aren’t vegan (get easy vegan recipes here).
• Since Thanksgiving is coming up in a few weeks, talk to your community food banks about providing vegan options such as Tofurkys. Consider buying a few Tofurkys, preparing them, and bringing them to your food bank or other similar gatherings.
• Ask your local newspaper to feature a story about the benefits of a vegan diet or the cruelties of factory farming.
• Adopt a World Go Vegan Days activist.
• Add a link to IDA’s World Go Vegan Days website from your website.

For more information, click here.

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Fall is my favorite time of year for many reasons (my wedding anniversary is in October, I love Halloween–scary movies in particular, we adopted our dog in October, the trees are pretty, the air is crisp and clean, etc.).

Plus, I start seeing one of my favorite types of produce in the stores this time of year–the spaghetti squash.

The bright yellow squash, about the size of a football but more oblong in shape, is one of my favorite things to cook with, as it’s vegan, vegetarian and gluten free, all in one fell swoop!

How to cook spaghetti squash:

I’ve tried cooking them whole, but I find they cook more evenly if you cut them in half lengthwise. Just cut it through and separate the halves. Bake halves in a shallow pan (I coat the pan with cooking spray for easier clean up), rind side up for about 40 minutes at 375 F (check periodically by piercing the skin with a fork–when the fork slides in without resistance, they’re done).

Remove from the oven and let cool for about 10 minutes.

Carefully scoop out seed and then take a fork and separate the spaghetti strands by running the fork through the squash “from stem to stern”.

To eat:

Take about 2 tablespoons of soy butter and a teaspoon of dried oregano and mix with the strands.

Enjoy!

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Believe me when I tell you I so wish I was headed to the 24th Annual
Vegetarian Food Fair in Toronto. The Fair runs September 5 (4 to 9 p.m.), 6 (11 a.m. to8 p.m.) & 7 (11 a.m. to 6 p.m.) at the Harbourfront Centre (235 Queens Quay West, Toronto, Canada, for those of you lucky enough to be in the vicinity).

This event is free to the public and features over 100 exhibitors, plenty of cooking demonstrations, free food samples, workshops, music and performances, an all-veg world café and much more. It even encourages BYOR (Bring Your Own Reusables–plates & cutlery).

The event kicks off with Rock Out! featuring a fierce band. Saturday will be a day filled with a celebration of diversity. And Sunday ends things off with a little family time with children’s entertainment.

For more information, click here.

Please also note that for the month of September, I will be blogging here only once per week, every Tuesday. If you miss me, be sure to stop by ThatDogBlog, PetSavvy, SavvyCooking, and SavvyHalloween, where I will also be blogging once per week this month. See you there!

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In my ongoing obsession with trying to get gluten-free, I recently came across alternative flour sources via Natural Health Magazine, and I thought I would pass along some alternatives the magazine suggested.

Almond Flour: high in vitamin E and magnesium

Coconut Flour: high in protein and fiber

Chickpea Flour: rich in protein and iron

Hazelnut Flour: high in fiber and iron

Corn Flour: high in fiber, especially stone ground corn flour

Rice Flour: brown is higher in fiber, protein, vitamins and minerals than white rice flour

While gluten helps give breads and pizza crusts their doughy texture, and because it’s hard to get by without it, try substituting an alternative flour for part of the wheat flour your recipe calls for (one part alternative to three parts whole wheat) for best results.

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When you consider the fact that half an avocado contains 4.9G fiber, 354MG potassium, 15.3MCG vitamin K, 59MCG folate, 1.5G protein and 10.7G (good) fat, what’s not to like?

Creamy, buttery avocados get their taste and texture from good fats, those monounsaturated fats that help lower cholesterol.

Whether it’s the base for guacamole, or diced in a salad or omelet, or even eaten plain, the avocado is the perfect serving of wholesome goodness. And if you cut one in half to eat, it even features its own portable, eco-friendly bowl.

Here are two tried and true recipes I rely on to make yummy avocados even better:

Black Bean Avocado Salad

Greens, Avocado and Fennel Salad

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I’ve been making fried egg sandwiches for my husband almost every Saturday morning for the past two years–maybe more, I’ve lost count!

While I grew tired of them long ago, he still exclaims each time that they are the Best. Thing. Ever.

Here’s how to make one of your very own–you be the judge.

Ingredients:
Bread, English Muffin, Bagel*
Olive Oil
Butter, Soy Butter or Margarine**
Two eggs

* I use a fresh bagel
** I use Soy Butter

Instructions:
1. Start toasting bread of choice.
2. Heat a tablespoon of oil in frying pan, then crack two eggs into pan.
3. Cook eggs to preference (my husband likes his “seared”, so I cook them for a few minutes on medium on one side, leaving the yokes intact, then when bread is buttered, I flip them over just to sear the other side and serve).
4. Butter bread choice.
5. Layer bread, eggs, bread.

Enjoy!

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When I got married, one of the gifts I received was the Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book, Limited Edition. At the time, I thought, “How cute, a retro cook book!”

Little did I know just how handy it would be.

First of all, it’s spiral bound, so I can remove a page if I need to access a recipe but don’t want to deal with the whole cumbersome book.

It’s also conveniently divided into sections, such as appetizers & snacks, breads, cakes, cookies, eggs & cheese, fish & shellfish, meat, pasta, poultry, and vegetables, to name a few.

Granted, you’re not going to find new age recipes here, but I swear that every time I need to bake chicken (or turkey for Thanksgiving), I reach for this cook book to determine over temperature and cooking time.

It’s my cooking bible. What’s yours?

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As if I haven’t harped on Stevia enough already, there’s one more way I get a lot of mileage from my little Stevia bottle.

Rather than buy a bunch of lemons when I’m in the mood for fresh lemonade, I turn to ReaLemon, which is 100 percent lemon juice from concentrate. I get it at my local Co-Op (although I know they also carry it in just about every grocery store). It’s packaged to look like a real lemon in a cute yellow plastic bottle.

To make my version of what I like to call Lazy Lemonade, I add ice to a glass, squeeze the lemon in, add a few drops of Stevia, add water, and then adjust to taste.

I’ve also tried it with ReaLime, and that’s also quite tasty. 

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Speaking of sugar, there’s one item (besides baked goods) in which Stevia will not do, and that is the highly addictive phenomenon known as Kettle Corn.

If you’ve never before tried this sweet-and-salty popcorn made with granulated sugar, salt, and oil, walk–no, run!–to your nearest fair, amusement park or open air market, where you will most likely find a Kettle Corn vendor preparing the delicious stuff.

In the close but no cigar vein, you can also find Kettle Corn in the microwave popcorn section of your local supermarket.

Or DIY with one of these recipes:

Kettle Corn
Sweet and Salty Kettle Corn

But to me it’s kind of like salads and/or sandwiches, both of which always tastes better when someone else makes them. You haven’t ad Kettle Corn until you’ve bought it freshly made and piping hot from a vendor.

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