Your Daily Vegan

Hi!  I’m not dead!

I’m pretty sure by now that you’ve noticed that Your DAILY Vegan hasn’t been so….well, daily.  Sorry about that.  I think I mentioned this before but, for those who don’t know, YDV is in the process of a revamp.  And we ain’t talking no little revamp either, this thing is going to be big.

And honestly, I can’t wait to show y’all.  Nothing in my life has changed me more than being vegan.  Nothing in my life has been as eye-opening, shocking, appalling, unbelievable, gut-wrenching, or heartbreaking as veganism.  Nor has anything ever been as wonderful, serene, tranquil, spiritual, and beautiful as veganism.  I’m beyond excited to share it with you.

My epiphany about veganism came to me one day, in a box store of all places.  Looking around in every direction, no matter what I looked at, I saw animal products.  They were in every display and in every cart that went rolling past me.  These products, made from cruelty, were everywhere.  It wasn’t the fact that there were tons of non-vegan products in this store, I’m used to that.  It was the sheer magnitude of the different types of products, in every direction, that were made from the by-products of animal slaughter.  And people were mindless to it, and it pissed me off.  That’s why I started Your Daily Vegan.  I wanted to advocate for veganism- I still do today.  Only today, YDV is evolving into more.

I can’t help but to mention over and over, how excited I am to share this evolution with you.  YDV is going serve up some vegan like you’ve never seen it before!  And it’s happening in just a few short weeks.  So of course, that means we’re still going to be pretty scarce over here while we finish things up.  I know you’ll understand, and I appreciate it.

Meanwhile, I hope that everyone had a lovely holidays filled with family, friends and vegan cookies.  I certainly did.  I baked so many cookies that I literally, and unfortunately, gained 5 pounds.  Actually, I must have hit the punch bowl too hard when I planned my holiday baked goods and meal.  I made enough to feed 13 vegan families of 6, for 3 weeks.  Seriously, I made 3 different roasts.  The bright side to the excess is that I had fried stuffing (Yeah, you read it- I said “fried stuffing” – I did.  I..I..don’t have any good excuses to eat huge slabs of fried stuffing.  All I can say is that it was homemade, I make the best, and it was gooooood!) for the whole weekend after Christmas.  That rocked.  Well, that and this:

That darlings, was my dessert table at Christmas.  I made tea ball cookies, lemon spritz cookies, fig cookies, butter cookies, walnut brownies, white chocolate swirl brownies, red velvet cupcakes, and vanilla almond cupcakes.  I also made chocolate covered peanuts, coconut/raspberry haystacks, chocolate almonds/cranberries, cherry pecan toffee bark, dark chocolate truffles, chocolate covered cherries, and chocolate maple truffles.  There were even hard candies and all natural candy canes.  All vegan, all delicious!  I loved my dessert table this year.  I wanted a pretty set up and was fortunate enough to find things that were inexpensive to help me make things look festive.  Look how pretty it turned out:

So my holidays were yummy.  I hope yours were too.