Vegetarian Star

The Early Show Saturday Edition gave Bethenny Frankel the task of preparing a healthy, three course meal for four at a budget price of only $40.

Bethenny prepared a pesto vegetarian lasagna, arugula salad with dressing and a vegan chocolate cake with peanut butter icing.

The vegetarian lasagna contains part skim ricotta and mozzarella cheeses, so it can easily be veganized if needed.

Bethenny said of the vegan chocolate cake made with oat flour:

“When I first made this recipe, my fiancé and I stared at each other for days afterward, marveling at how moist and delicious this cake was. We couldn’t believe it. I even accused him of dumping a stick of butter into the batter when I was in the bathroom. I kept looking at the recipe trying to figure out what made it so moist. It really is the dessert mystery of all time, as far as I’m concerned.”

A detailed description of some of the key ingredients to Bethenny’s meal can be found at CBS News.

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“I wasn’t born vegan. I became a vegetarian when I was 12 years old. I started eating a vegan diet nearly 10 years ago. I did it gradually—and it has changed my life. It’s all about a shift in perspective. The more I learned about the beauty of a plant-based diet, the more my mind and heart opened up. Your journey will help change the world. What you eat not only improves your health—it benefits the entire planet.”

—-Persia White, on her transition from eating meat to becoming vegetarian, and finally, becoming vegan.

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The year 2010 is about a quarter ways through, but it’s never too late to make the decision to eat better.

Rachael Ray featured some “must try” foods for 2010, and one item is both vegetarian and meaty.

An oxymoron? Not quite.

Texturized Vegetable Protein, which can mimic both the look and taste of ground beef, could go well with Shirataki Noodles.

The Noodles are low carb, and are made with tofu.

Rachael’s guest said on the RachaelRayshow website:

When they come out of bag, you just have to rinse off the water they come in and just throw them into a big pot of hot broth with whatever garnishes you want. They don’t need to cook, they’re already cooked, and they never overcook!

These foods may very well forecast  a greener, veggier Rachael Ray for the future.

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Top Chef Masters judge James Oseland had the exciting task of telling his mother every detail of what he ate while visiting her in a hospital.

NY Mag was just as interested as Oseland’s mother (maybe more), so he gave intimate details of his meals for the week, including a very veggie meal at the hospital.

Oseland said of his clinical culinary experience:

“Honestly, I would go on record as saying it’s probably the best hospital food I’ve had anywhere. I ordered a bizarre daily special: a vegetarian bean burger served on top of grilled rye bread, with grilled onion and jack cheese. It sounds kind of ghastly in a way, but it just hit the spot, and it was oddly artful food for something being so junky and diner-ish. It was a California vegetarian patty melt on pretty good quality rye bread. California rye bread! Who knew?”

Oseland has a habit of religiously eating shortbread cookies, “every night like a prescription from the doctor.”

Not sure that’s what the doctor would want, but she might recommend other items from Oseland’s personal menu, including a pasta dish with peas and sun dried tomatoes.

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Shannon Kane from All My Children told Black Book Mag that one of her favorite spots to eat in LA is El Cholo Mexican restaurant, her favorites items to eat being the “vegetarian burrito” and “guacamole.”

According to an article in Prevention, an major staple in Mexican diets, beans, could prevent a lot of soap opera drama when it comes to your health, as studies have suggested beans may prevent heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and breast and colon cancers.

And if you’re looking for variety, swap pinto or black beans for garbanzo (also known as chickpeas), which have been could reduce your bad “LDL” cholesterol by 5%.

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The way to a man’s heart is through is his stomach, and Ellen DeGeneres is reportedly trying to make friends with Simon Cowell by feeding him.

The New York DailyNews says that Ellen has been bringing dishes made by her personal chef to her fellow American Idol judge.

“She thought she could get to cranky Simon’s heart through his stomach.”

“She’s vegan, so a typical meal is tofu stroganoff.”

The Daily News goes on to say that, “Maybe in Hollywood that counts as making nice. In New York, it would be torture.”

Its a safe bet that Simon wouldn’t consider it torture at all, given the fact he’s already given Linda McCartney sausages the X factor and agreed to give Meat Free Mondays a try.

Maybe a batch of homemade vegan cookies will calm Simon’s crankiness during finalist week.

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When in Vegas, world renown poker player Annie Duke likes to patronize a few of her favorite restaurants in and around the casinos.

Annie indicated to Forbes that the healthiest restaurants aren’t in the casinos.

Most of her recommendations in the casinos were designed for the pescatarian, but one establishment in particular sounds like the perfect place for a vegetarian who loves to pull the slot machines.

“There is a great Indian restaurant called Mint, which has good vegan options,” Annie said.

The menu at Mint Indian Bistro contains many of the items you’d normally find at an Indian buffet like samosas and naan, along with a note under each item indicating if the meal is vegetarian or vegan friendly.

Suddenly Sin City isn’t so sinful anymore.

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Triathlete, author and food entrepreneur Brendan Brazier has been a vegan since the age of 15.

Although his first attempts to follow the diet didn’t work out (too many refined carbohydrates), he eventually found a way to eat to sustain energy without meat and dairy products.

A few highlights from hlifemedia on how he did it.

On his typical salad:
“Different types of lettuce, kale, sometimes a bit of nutritional yeast, different types of seaweed like dulse, a good dressing made up of apple cider vinegar and Vega oil. Also, usually avocado, different sprouted things, carrots, beets, sometimes cucumber.”

How he gets his protein:
“I think quality is way more important than quantity. I’m 165 lbs, so I should, according to a conventional sports-nutrition book, eat about 165 grams of protein a day – and I don’t eat half that. The protein I get is from leafy greens, which is about 45% protein, pretty high, and hemp, a natural source of protein, as well as lentils, legumes, beans, peas, so it’s about quality. I get probably about 70 grams a day.”

On how to put coconut oil to use:
“Coconut oil has medium-chain triglycerides. So it’s a type of fat and it acts more like a carbohydrate than a fat, and it goes to your liver, gives you energy straight away. I often put coconut oil on dates and have that right before a workout – it’s just quick, simple energy. I use it as part of some of my recipes too in Thrive. It’s in Vega Sport, too, in powder form.”

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