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Mayim Bialik has shared a few vegan substitutions for traditional Passover dishes in the New York Times “Well” blog.

In a post titled, “A Vegan Passover,” the blog discusses how certain foods restricted at Passover, grains, beans and corn, may present a problem for vegans who subsists on the items.

The traditional Seder plate, consisting of six foods that symbolize the story of Exodus, contains both lamb and egg, two items that are definitely not vegan.

Bialik has created substitutions for both.

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“I love to cook and I feel like there is so much interest in plant-based eating. I get a lot of non-vegans saying to me, ‘If more people cooked like you do, I would actually eat vegan more often.”

—Mayim Bialik to US Weekly. More people might be eating vegan soon, as the Big Bang Theory actress is in the process of writing her first cookbook, The Plant-Based Family Kitchen, which Bialik says will include vegan versions of many traditional Jewish recipes.

If you can’t wait until the cookbook comes out, get a head start learning Mayim’s cooking style by sampling her vegan Rosh Hashanah cake.

Photo: Tabercil/Creative Commons

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Mayim Bialik has shared a delicious recipe for vegan donuts with PETA.

Sofganyot is a traditional Hanukkah treat that Bialik has learned–like many other of her favorite comfort foods–to veganize.

During an interview in 2010, Bialik said these donuts were one of several ways she “indulges” during the holidays.

“For Chanukah, eight days of fried latkes with vegan sour cream. And we make vegan sofganyot (israeli doughnuts) too.”

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The Big Bang Theory recently featured a few of the characters in a pie-eating contest, including Mayim Bialik‘s Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler.

Bialik took to her blog to discuss the episode and scene, in a post titled, “Top 10 Behind the Scene Moments from Last Night’s Pie Eating Scene.”

The best part of the scene? The pie was vegan and kosher.

The worst? Bialik has horrible blueberry allergies!

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“Find the foods that already do not require meat. Find the foods that already do not necessarily require dairy or find substitutes that you find palatable. When people say, “What do you eat?” I list all the things that they also eat just without it being vegan.”

—Mayim Bialik, in an interview with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals during the filming of her latest ad for the animal rights group where she is dressed as a housewife looking after her family’s health by throwing meat in the kitchen trashcan.

The full interview can be viewed below.

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Mayim Bialik has traded her lab coat as Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler in The Big Bang Theory for an apron and other 50s housewife attire in a role just as important as explaining quantum mechanics and astrophysics.

Bialik tosses a steak fillet in the garbage in an ad that reads, “It’s a no-brainer. Go vegan.”

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Mayim Bialik was getting prim and pretty for an appearance recently when she insisted her makeup artist use only cruelty-free products down to her toes.

Bialik said, “I need to get the vegan nail polish,” and explained what un-vegan things go into most polishes, including dyes from bugs.

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Mayim Bialik and other Jewish vegans are in the middle of Rosh Hashanah. Although honey is often used as a sweetener for recipes and dips for breads like challah, strict vegans view the bee’s product as animal and need alternatives to help celebrate the New Year.

Bialik has one delicious-sounding vegan honey cake you might want to try.

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