Vegetarian Star

You already learned Carrie Underwood likes to chow down on Quorn faux meat products before performing.

But did you know the country music vegetarian beauty also likes to indulge in pizza?

Carrie admits she can’t get enough of the dairy dealer and she told SELF magazine in 2007, “My food indulgences are pizza, and I love… cheese. I have a big problem controlling myself with the cheese.”

Two years later she’s giving SELF readers a recipe for a healthier pizza, with low fat cheese.

You can make it healthy AND vegan by topping it with a non dairy cheese like Follow Your Heart or Teese.

Grab the ingredients for Carrie’s 250 Calorie Pizza after the jump… (more…)

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Jonathan Safran Foer. Credit: David Shankbone on Wikimedia Commons

Eating Animals author Jonathan Safran Foer is vegetarian, but you won’t find him eating in vegetarian restaurants.

Instead, he chooses to patronize businesses that make non-meat options available, like several of his favorite spots in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

So where can you find Foer in between him writing drafts of his next bestseller?

Well, for one, Bonnie’s Grill has veggie burgers so good you’ll curse.

“Their veggie burger is f—king great! I remember what hamburgers were like, but, believe it or not, I would choose their veggie burger over a hamburger. I know that sounds just like what a vegetarian would say, but they are maddeningly good.”

Will there be a hoard of meat eaters flocking to Bonnie’s in the New Year and talking like sailors once they take a bite?

Learn where Jonathan grabs the best veggie burrito and falafel at nypost.com.

via treehugger.com

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If you’re wondering what the top veggie stories of 2009 will be, have patience!

The big newsbreaker may come on December 31.

In the meantime, take a look at the top green stories of the decade provide by grist.org, which practically names Al Gore as a green savior of the decade.

“After a short, bearded, self-imposed exile, he made a simple decision: if climate change is the greatest danger to humanity, something he’d been discouraged from saying for most of his electoral career, then he would say so. He set about spreading the word in characteristic nerdy, earnest fashion, with a slide show, a patient explanation, and four gazillion frequent flier miles.”

What’s even greater than his Inconvenient Truths or big green balls, however, is the fact that good ol’ Al is going in the veg direction.

After being chided for not bringing up the effects of meat on the environment, Gore finally said it straight.

“It’s absolutely correct that the growing meat intensity of diets around the world is one of the issues connected to this global crisis – not only because of the CO2 involved, but also because of the water consumed in the process,” Gore told ABC television.

“I’m not a vegetarian, but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat,” he added.

Crossing the fingers Gore goes all the way in 2010!

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Top Chef finalist Carla Hall was scared to death of making a vegetarian dish for the judges during the reality TV show competition, but thankfully, she’s being a little braver now that the heat isn’t so intense in the kitchen.

NPR gave Carla the challenge of cooking something using a seasonal vegetable and Carla chose cauliflower.

Unfortunately, Carla also chose to put chicken stock in the original recipe, but she says vegetarians can substitute either vegetable stock or almond milk.

Carla allowing substitutions in her soup explains her stance on following recipes.

“You just have to be present, and let the process be a little organic and not be so rigid with the recipe, because you have to feel it. For instance, if I’m doing this soup in season it’s going to taste totally differently than it would if it’s not in season. You have to honor the produce; maybe you have to add something else in it.”

You can listen to Carla talking to NPR while making her soup and grab the recipe for Cream Of Cauliflower Soup With Roasted Cauliflower Florets, Toasted Walnuts And Brown Butter at npr.org.

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“Hide those vegan xmas cookies! I don’t want to even smell them!”

—-Hunter Burgan, in a recent Tweet.

Why on earth would you want to get rid of vegan cookies?

Cause most vegan desserts give vegheads a Pringles Potato Chip like syndrome–once you pop one in your mouth, it’s difficult to stop!

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Kerry Washington really kissed up to the New York Post when she told them her favorite city was the one that never slept.

Her dog, Josie B, a Yorkie-shih tzu mix, agrees.

“She likes the cooler weather and the change in seasons,” Kerry said.

Kerry named some of her favorite spots to hit in NYC and unfortunately, one of those spots isn’t one you’ll want to visit to get a glimpse of the actress.

“I eat a lot of vegetarian foods, but if I’m in the mood for a great steak, they have the best.,” Kerry said of Quality Meats on W. 58th Street. “It’s a wonderful modern steakhouse, a mix of traditional items and new sides, like edamame and English peas. Their salads are incredible, too.”

Awesome that Kerry eats lots of plant based meals and digs edamame. And it’s cool that Quality Meats serves food that a veg can enjoy when dining with mixed meal company.

But if Kerry eats vegetarian so often, you’d think it’d be easy for her to substitute faux meat when she’s in the mood for a “great steak.”

Somebody tell Kerry to expand her list of NY hot spots–and take a trip to Angelica Kitchen, Candle 79 or Dirt Candy.

Who knows?

Maybe Josie B. will take a liking to seitan.

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Poker champion Annie Duke has a mail order service offering nuts and trail mix combinations called My Mixed Nuts.

One such mix of nuts available for purchase is the “Gummy Delicious” bag, which comes with dark chocolate chips, sour cherries, roasted and salted almonds, raw macadamia nuts, golden raisins and “sunny bears.”

What the heck are sunny bears?

Organic and vegetarian versions of gummy bears!

That’s right, no gelatin my friends.

Annie came up with the idea of My Mixed Nuts after not finding the perfect combo of nuts, seeds and fruits in trail mixes she purchased at grocery stores.

Annie would pick through the bags and throw away the undesired content.

Forming business partnerships with Apprentice producer Ryan Simpkins and boyfriend Joe Reitman and with the help of Simpkins mother to run the website, Annie turned My Mixed Nuts from a dream to reality.

Question of the day.

Did Annie purposely ensure her “sunny bears” would be suitable for vegetarians?

Wonder if Daniel Negreanu carries a sunny bear mix in his pocket while playing the chips.

Make your own trail mix and grab some sunny bears at mymixednuts.com.

via pokernewsdaily.com

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Ingrid Newkirk Photo Credit: David Shankbone on Wikimedia Commons

PETA’s co-founder and President Ingrid Newkirk recently addressed an audience on vegetarianism while attending an environmental conference on economic sustainability in Mumbai.

Someone in the audience raised a hand and asked, “If I become a vegan, what can I eat?”

Here’s how Ingrid responded to the individual, from Huffingtonpost.com:

Being a lover of Indian food, I could only say this:

Papad, chapattis,

Dumplings and naan,

Channa and rotis,

Onion uttapam,

Masala dosa,

Green callaloo,

Gourd and samosa,

Corn and aloo.

Shalgam, bryani,

And channa masala,

Tomato soup…

A diet of Indian food is one of the best ways to remain vegetarian, as many of the dishes consist of lentil, grains and vegetables.

And if you’re not a master in the kitchen, there are even microwave versions of the ethic cuisine, such as any of the Amy’s entrees of Mattar Tofu or Vegetable Korma.

Not to mention how impressed your taste buds will be with the use of flavorful spices like curry.

A night with friends and family at the Indian restaurant buffet and you might find yourself unbuttoning your pants from too many samosas.

As Ingrid said in her article, “I think we’ll survive without milk and meat. In fact, it may be the only way to help the planet itself survive.”

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