Vegetarians have come to loathe side dishes, as the phrase usually means mashed potatoes and green beans are the only items edible during Thanksgiving dinner with the omnivore relatives.

But side dishes don’t have to come from a can and Martha Stewart demonstrated several side salads on Today that can push the iceberg lettuce and French dressing off the table for good.

Potatoes, peas and mint salad; peaches, basil and red onion salad; and corn avocado and cilantro salad were recently included in Martha Stewart Living.

Any salad is the perfect complement to the Twitter co-founder’s seitan recipe Martha featured on her vegan episode.

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Whole Living, a part of Martha Stewart‘s owned media company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., has launched a smoothie app that is available on iTunes.

The app features smoothie recipes for weight loss, detox and pure taste enjoyment!

Stewart is a veg-friendly diva, and the app includes several recipes for smoothies that incorporate plant-based proteins, such as one for tofu and berries like the Power Protein Smoothie.

• 2 cups mixed berries, (fresh or frozen)
• 1 cup silken tofu
• 1/4 cup pomegranate juice
• 2 to 3 tablespoons honey
• 2 tablespoons ground flaxseed
• 1 teaspoon finely grated peeled ginger

Directions

In a blender, combine berries, tofu, pomegranate juice, 2 tablespoons honey, flaxseed, and ginger. Blend until smooth, 15 to 20 seconds. Adjust the sweetness if neccessary.

A total of 36 smoothie recipes are included in the app, and recipes are categorized for special needs, such as allergies and specific intentions, such as “Meal in a Glass.” How-to videos, room to make your own notes and a Food Glossary describing 50 key smoothie ingredients are also present.

There’s also the ability to share your favorite smoothie recipes on Facebook and tips on buying organic ingredients.

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Although it isn’t written in 140 characters, Biz Stone‘s recipe for seitan bourguignon has finally been posted to Martha Stewart‘s website.

Biz stopped by to demonstrate making seitan for Martha’s special vegan episode, which was a hit among meat eaters and vegetarians.

Hard core foodies may have been disappointed to learn Biz used already prepare seitan, instead of making it from scratch.

However, the use of already made seitan is only likely to attract even more people who have never cooked with the dish before and don’t want to feel overwhelmed by getting yet another component right in a dish for a lifestyle they’re just beginning. Prepackaged seitan that’s easy to find in both natural foods store and mainstream stores makes it that much easier for more people to eat vegetarian or vegan at their next meal.

This recipe makes a stew with seitan using fresh vegetables like onion, shallots and carrots added to vegetable broth. Then, shiitake mushrooms are baked until crispy and added on top.

The recipe is posted to Martha’s site, along with a video of her and Biz making it.

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In the world of vegetarian/vegan moms and their babies, we almost missed one more veg mom bringing a child into the world in 2011.

Martha Stewart‘s vegetarian daughter, Alexis Stewart, recently welcomed a baby via a surrogate.

Alexis, who recorded a PSA urging people to adopt turkeys and not eat them, and her mother are probably looking forward to all the joys a new baby and grandbaby bring. Except the new title of “grandma.”

Just because Martha is technically a grandma, doesn’t mean she’ll be responding to that name anytime soon, according to The Daily Mail.

“Martha is going to be called “Martha”,’ Alexis said.

“She seemed to have no problem with it. I was like, “Do you really want to be grandma?” I don’t like the term grandma!”

If you’re a soon to be or new veg mom, check out an article on making homemade baby food by the Vegetarian Resource Group‘s Karna S. Peterson, R.D., M.P.H. Along with recipes for treats like soybean puree and orange sorbet (you might be tempted to eat the baby’s food), Peterson gives tips for preventing foodborne illnesses and some items you should never feed to a young baby (like honey). Peterson’s advice is simple for both moms–or that “other” word for moms of moms–to take.

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Martha hosted Twitter’s Biz Stone, Veganist author Kathy Freston and Farm Sanctuary’s president and co-founder Gene Baur for food demonstrations, animal farm discusses and all things vegan.

When asked if she was ready to make the switch to veganism, Martha said she was on her way there, and told a story about how traumatized she was from a beef purchase that left her, not stained for life, but definitely tarnished.

“I didn’t buy it from my regular butcher; I usually buy three pounds of good ground chuck and I took it home—this was from the supermarket—and I rolled it in my hands and my hands were stained red and I vowed I wouldn’t eat beef again… No really, it was horrifying… What the heck do they do to the beef that made my hands red? It shouldn’t do that,” Stewart said.

Stewart also added she doesn’t eat veal and has been slowly making the transition to a more plant-based diet.

Impressive considering this cooking diva is almost 70 years old.

It’s never too late to make changes!

Change for the better isn’t something new to Martha. Several years ago, she gave up wearing fur, recording a PSA against garments containing it. “I used to wear real fur, but, like many others, I had a change of heart when I learned what actually happens to the animals,” Stewart said. “So much violence in the world seems beyond our control, but this is one cruelty we can stop by being informed consumers.”

• Vegansaurus

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“When programs like “The Martha Stewart Show” devote valuable air-time to the plight of farm animals and the benefits of veganism, a powerful message is planted in the public consciousness demonstrating that these issues are important and worthy of our consideration. Stewart has built a media empire based on her uncanny ability to influence the tastes and opinions of consumers. When she speaks about the importance of showing compassion for farm animals, millions of people — many of whom may never have considered these issues before — listen.”

–Gene Baur, president and co-founder of Farm Sanctuary, and one of the guests on Martha Stewart‘s vegan episode which aired earlier this week. Martha recently adopted an animal on the sanctuary, a sheep named Persia.

More on Baur’s thoughts on his blog at Farm Sanctuary.

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Oprah had her 2nd vegan episode not long ago. Now, Martha Stewart can say “I did it too.”

With two of the most influential ladies of TV giving vegan some face time, there won’t be a woman (or even a man) on Earth who won’t be considering adding seitan to their lives.

Between the two non-vegan hosts who dedicated an entire show to veganism, who would you rather…

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Biz Stone‘s segment on The Martha Stewart Show has been posted to Gawker.

“One of the things we like to do is we like to take real comfort food [and make it vegan]. And this particular food is like a stew that’s really great during a rainy day,” Biz said.

Biz revealed that when his wife Livia is cooking at home, he reads books to her while she’s at the stovetop.

“We have a bunch of classic books. We just finished Treasure Island. We have a lot of the Sherlock Holmes stories…That’s kind of like, my role in the kitchen.”

Using Westsoy brand of seitan, Biz and Martha walk through the steps of cooking seitan bourguignon. While Martha is stirring the seitan, Biz jokes, “I guess I should be reading to you.”

Pic of the finished product below.

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