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Mini-Review: Candle Café’s Vegan Holiday Cooking
As with many renowned vegan eateries, NYC’s Candle Café is a restaurant I’ve coveted from afar, salivating over the many mouth-watering dishes photographed, enjoyed, and shared by vegan friends and...
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Candle Cafe’s Roasted Butternut Squash Soup with Almond Cream and Spiced...
My very first dish from Vegan Holiday Cooking! I decided to make it a practical one, so I chose a recipe that requires two of my current arch nemeses (butternut squash and apples, which are conspiring...
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Candle Cafe’s Homemade Pappardelle with Spinach, Portabello Mushrooms, and...
Confession time: I did not make this pasta from scratch! I am way too lazy for that. However, the roasted red pepper sauce is homemade (do they even sell such a thing in stores?), and furthermore I...
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Candle Cafe’s Make Your Own Chili Bowl
So this make-your-own chili bowl is from the “Super Bowl Big-Game Party” menu in Vegan Holiday Cooking (hey! that’s not a holiday!), but I made it for the last game of the World Series. (Yes, my queue...
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Candle Cafe’s Roasted Red Pepper Soup with Tofu Dumplings Potato Gnocchi
This might be my all-time favorite soup, you guys. AND I FREAKING LOVE SOUP! It’s like Candle Cafe’s roasted red pepper pasta sauce, but drinkable! So there are four roasted red peppers in this bad...
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Candle Cafe’s Roasted Cauliflower and Fennel Soup
Another hella tasty soup from Vegan Holiday Cooking! The title’s pretty self-explanatory: the base consists of roasted cauliflower (2 heads) seasoned with fennel (3 bulbs). Simply roast the...
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Sweet Potato Latke Fail!
After a pretty respectable streak in the kitchen, I encountered an epic fail with the most unlikely of suspects: latkes, which don’t usually prove much of a challenge at all. The Sweet Potato Latkes...
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Candle Cafe’s Quinoa Vegetable Cakes
I’m a sucker for homemade veggie patties, and the Quinoa Vegetable Cakes from Vegan Holiday Cooking are among the tastiest I’ve ever had! Technically they’re a “cake,” not a burger, but they’re pretty...
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Candle Cafe’s Potato Gratin
I’d say that these Potatoes Gratin from Vegan Holiday Cooking are kickin’ it, but it’s hard to go wrong with potatoes and cheese. Like, next to impossible. So this is a fairly standard recipe as far...
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Candle Cafe’s Sweet Potato and Apricot Tzimmes
Orange food is orangey! With carrots, sweet potatoes, dried apricots, orange juice, and orange peel, among other things. (Namely cinnamon, nutmeg, and lemon juice, with a little extra cinnamon sugar...
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Candle Cafe’s Wheat Ball Heroes – and a Pita Pizza!
I’m pretty sure I don’t eat enough sandwiches. Or at least not compared to my high school years. I used to have a sammie a day, like clockwork, and now I’m lucky if I make one or two a month....
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Candle Cafe’s Snowball Cookies
Baked goods are always a little risky for me – cookies especially, which is tragic because I love them SO MUCH – which is why I usually stick to tried and true cookbooks. (See, e.g., Kelly Peloza’s...
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Cookbook Review: Vegan Holiday Cooking from Candle Cafe, Joy Pierson, Angel...
A Celebration of Vegan Food (Full disclosure: I received a free copy of this book for review through the Blogging for Books program.) As with many renowned vegan eateries, NYC’s Candle Café is a...
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