Gluten-Free Vegan Options at Chix DC

March 7, 2013
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Every time I go to DTDC (DanceTrance DC) at Balance Gym, near Thomas Circle, I walk by the recently opened second location of Chix DC, a local responsible eatery with a commitment to organic ingredients, and keep meaning to check it out.  In addition to the second location being terrible convenient, Chix also happens to […]

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Strawberry Almond Macaroons

March 6, 2013
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About the same time as the Hail Merry strawberry macaroons I bought for Christmas ran out, I had some almond pulp, left over from making almond milk.  Seeing as my local Whole Foods and health food stores are generally the last to get the new fancy delicious products (yes, #firstworldproblems) I decided to put the […]

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Snowquester –> More Like Rainquester–> Noquester

March 6, 2013
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So Happy SnowNoquester – these last couple of days have been bizarre. Washington, DC is just odd about weather events, but this one may be the weirdest – there was never actually any snow that stuck, yet most of DC was shut down and everyone I know was working from home. Truly bizarre. So yes, […]

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Hail Merry Strawberry Macaroons

February 25, 2013
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When I first started eating gluten-free vegan and exploring raw foods, I felt like chocolate and vanilla macaroons were everywhere.  They are a pretty standard raw dessert, with good reason – coconut + chocolate or coconut + vanilla always equal deliciousness.  Hail Merry vanilla and chocolate macaroons were some of my favorites from the beginning.  […]

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New-To-Me Green Juice: Suja

February 21, 2013
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The other day, I was standing in line at Whole Foods, fiddling with my phone and catching up on twitter and blogs, and came across Amber’s review of Suja Juice.  Amber concluded her review by saying Suja has been expanding in Whole Foods across the country. I was standing near the cooler that holds Blueprint […]

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Favorite Chocolate Recipes for Valentine’s Day (or any day, really)

February 12, 2013

No, I am not big on Valentine’s day, but I do love chocolate so I wanted to share with you several of my favorite chocolate recipes – all these recipes are easy to make, gluten-free, vegan and use alternative sweeteners and raw cacao. Some would call them healthier chocolate recipes. I just think they are […]

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Return to Yin

February 12, 2013
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[source] I initially thought of entitling this post “return to the living” but I thought that was a tad bit dramatic.  After the sunny-eyed optimism I felt Monday two weeks ago – laundry put away, lunches packed for a couple of days, fridge full of yummy food, to-do lists under control – I came down […]

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Pleasant Pops Farmhouse Market & Café, Washington, DC

January 28, 2013
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Tucked into the same block as the gym Mint, a couple of other stores, and Locolat, is my newest DC discovery: Pleasant Pops Farmhouse Market & Café.  Pleasant Pops started as a seller of just that – fruit pops.  In 2010, Roger and Brian, Pleasant Pops co-founders, combined the Mexican tradition of fresh fruit ice […]

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Five Favorite Cold-Weather Recipes

January 26, 2013

Thanks for all the love for my Cheezy Vegan Biscuits – I am on batch 3, and think I need to make another batch soon. They work great with soup, with chili, with hot tea and a bit of roasted tofu (like a mini biscuit sandwich) – basically, they a great add-on to some of […]

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Vegan & Gluten-Free Cheezy Drop Biscuits

January 24, 2013
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Between my husband and I, we go through a lot of kale in our household.  To the tune of 3 to 4 bunches a week, depending on what other greens we buy.  I am always trying to find uses for kale stems. Yes, I put them in green juice, and also in “impromptu purée” soups, […]

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Sticky Fingers Bakery, Washington DC

January 24, 2013
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My husband and I have a few traditions at this point (when you have been married over six years, that happens) – one of them is that whenever we go to Target, we have to stop at Sticky Fingers Bakery, DC’s most delicious vegan bakery. We don’t go to Target often (maybe 3-4 times a […]

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Travel Lunchboxes

January 23, 2013
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Long-time readers will remember the lunchbox series – starting rather randomly and initially only meant to last a week, then a month – eventually a year and some later, I retired the lunchbox series, mainly because I was starting to get serious about working out in the morning, which eventually succeeded.  Ultimately, I traded one […]

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A No-Gym January?

January 20, 2013
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Today is January 20 and the last time I actually went to the gym to use an elliptical or other machine was December 31. It was not quite intentional, but I have been able to fit in lots of yoga classes and DanceTrance DC classes (including both high-cardio and DT Breakdown classes) – usually 3 […]

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Dance Trance DC and Junior Council

January 18, 2013
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Happy Friday! Thank you for the comments and the twitter love on my Goûter post.  I have a longer than usual work day ahead of me, but I wanted to stop by and tell you about a fun event I went to a couple of days ago – DanceTrance DC (DTDC) and Sarah partnered with […]

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Goûter Tonics & Treats

January 14, 2013
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As some readers may remember, I grew up near Geneva and French is my first language. When I was 8, my parents decided that an English immersion school was a great idea, but before that I went to Swiss schools, in French, and to this day, the word le goûter still conjures excellent associations.  After […]

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