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Vegan Cooking for Carnivores

Roberto Martin, Ellen DeGeneres‘ personal chef and the man that’s enticed viewers of her show with tasty meatless dishes like Thanksgiving Seitan Roast, Spring Rolls and Vegan Tacos, has published a cookbook with a title that suggests he’s out to convert a few hamburger lovers.

Vegan Cooking for Carnivores promises “125 recipes so tasty you won’t miss the meat,” but offers much more than lists of ingredients.

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Ellen DeGeneres Vegan Thanksgiving Seitan Roast (Video)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010 in Food & Drink, Recipes, Videos.

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The only thing better than an Ellen DeGeneres vegan Thanksgiving is an Ellen DeGeneres vegan Thanksgiving catered by her personal chef Roberto Martin.

Like she’s done in the past, the daytime talk show host welcomed Martin to her show recently to demonstrate some vegan recipes for the holidays. Martin made a roast from seitan, vegan mushroom gravy, mashed yams, cranberry sauce and vegan pumpkin cheesecake.

The recipes for the roast, yams, and cheesecake are available from Ellen’s website.

Martin says the pumpkin can easily be substituted for berries for those that don’t find the orange fruit tasty in the cheesecake recipe.

Watch Martin roll and slice a perfectly shaped loaf made with wheat gluten, nutritional yeast, breadcrumbs and several spices in the video below.

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Ellen DeGeneres Makes Spring Rolls With Roberto Martin (Video)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, June 10th, 2010 in Chefs, Recipes, TV Hosts, Videos.

Ellen DeGeneres brought her favorite right hand man in food, her personal chef Roberto Martin, on the show to demonstrate preparing vegetarian spring rolls.

Vegetarians just love dipping–ice cream, veggie dip, skinny dip…whoa, maybe too much information. But it’s always fun to make your own soy sauce, vinegar and spice dip for Asian treats like these and the recipe for such, along with the spring rolls can be found on Ellen’s page.

You discover something new every day and today’s lesson is black bean pasta, which is used in the creation.

“It’s so good for you. It’s really high in protein,” Martin comments on the pasta that’s a part of an entirely vegan meal.

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Ellen DeGeneres Vegan Chili And Nachos Recipe (Video)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, February 12th, 2010 in Chefs, Food & Drink, Recipes, TV Hosts, Videos.

Ellen DeGeneres‘ right hand vegan food man, Roberto Martin, demonstrated how to make vegan chili and nachos on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

The recipe, which can be found here, uses lean Mexican flavored soy crumbles and vegan cheese for sprinkling, plus homemade nacho cheese.

The vegan chili sounds delish, but something sounds weird about the homemade nacho cheese, which is mainly made up of tofu and vegan mayonnaise…what the heck did chef Martin do with the nutritional yeast, an ingredient that was seemingly missing, but otherwise normally found in vegan cheese?

Maybe it was nutritional yeast taco seasoning Martin poured in?

Watch and solve the mystery yourself.

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Ellen DeGeneres PETA Woman Of The Year

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 in TV Hosts.

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2009 must be the year for vegan Ellen DeGeneres because she’s already nabbed 2 Best of Veggie Awards and it’s not even New Year’s Eve yet.

Her recent commitment to veganism pushed her into the Top 10 Veg Stories of the Decade by VegNews.

Now, Ellen has been named Woman of the Year by PETA.

“She made vegan pizza with Chef Wolfgang Puck, spoke with Dr. Neal Barnard about the health benefits of a vegan diet, and just in time for Thanksgiving, “talked turkey” about the everyday abuse of animals on factory farms with Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Eating Animals. Ellen also created pages on her Web site that feature insight, info, and tips about cruelty-free living. Visitors can find recipes, read about why Ellen went vegan, learn where to shop, and more.”

Let’s not forgot she shared her personal chef, Roberto Martin, on national television as he taught her fans to cook vegan pot pie and roast, hosted fellow veg Pamela Anderson to discuss the launch of her eco friendly perfume and received an award from the Humane Society of the United States.

What’s on Ellen’s goals for 2010 and the next decade?

Hopefully, getting Simon Cowell and the other American Idol judges to eat vegan tacos every week.

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Ellen DeGeneres Portia de Rossi Chef Roberto Martin

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 in Chefs, Food & Drink, Videos.

Ever wonder what the story is behind the man who makes Ellen DeGeneres‘ vegan tacos, roast and pot pie?

Roberto Martin is the kind of man every woman wants–because he knows how to cook a good veg meal!

Martin, the youngest of 15 children, originally wanted to dice the Obamas and Gores of the world instead of onions.

He studied political science at Cal State Fullerton.

He later studied at the Culinary Institute of America and found himself cooking for celebrities shortly thereafter.

Cooking for a family with a diabetic child was Martin’s motivation to switch to plant based cooking.

“Now that I cook exclusively vegan meals for Ellen and Portia, I’ve learned that the variety of experiences in my life has helped me along the way,” Martin says on Ellen’s website. “I know what it’s like to change your habits, to remove animal protein from your diet, and I plan on sharing my experience with you. Even if you start with just one meal a week, you can learn to cook healthy and delicious vegan meals without having to make a big change.”

In case you’ve forgotten how good Martin does his thing, watch the clip showing him demonstrating a vegan pot pie.

And grab some of his other recipe ideas here.

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Ellen DeGeneres Chef Roberto Martin Makes Vegan Pot Pie (Video)

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 in Chefs, Food & Drink, TV Hosts, Videos.

Mmm…The smell of comfort food is in the air!

Ellen DeGeneres‘ personal chef Roberto Martin was recently on her show to demonstrate making a faux chicken pot pie.

Roberto uses Gardein faux meats, a brand also popular with vegan chef and The Conscious Cook author Tal Ronnen.

“I’m crazy about this product,” Roberto says of the Gardein (TM) Chick’n Scallopini.

Watch the clip and your job of finding a Holiday meal for the fam will be done.

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Ellen DeGeneres “The Ellen Show” Chef Roberto Martin Vegan Roast

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, October 23rd, 2009 in Chefs, Food & Drink, Recipes, Videos.

Ellen DeGeneres‘ personal chef, Roberto Martin, made another appearance on The Ellen Show recently to demonstrate making vegan roast and mashed potatoes.

Roberto is the food genius who brought us the recipe for Ellen’s favorite vegan tacos.

Roberto uses Follow Your Heart vegan butter in his mashed potatoes.

Mmm…nothing like vegan homestyle cooking!

To get the recipe for vegan roast with veggies and mashed potatoes, visit ellen.warnerbros.com.

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