Vegan Ice Cream

A couple weeks ago, while searching for a good dessert place in San Francisco my mom stumbled upon Bi-Rite Creamery. The creamery sells a couple of flavors of vegan ice cream (the selection changes daily). I tried one of the vegan flavors; the Strawberry Kiwi flavor, and it was so good. The vegan flavor tasted exactly like the non-vegan flavors and I was amazed (because before I’d never had vegan ice cream). There’s also the Bi-Rite Market across the street where they have the pints and gallons of ice cream. The Bi-Rite Market also sells free-trade fruit and other interesting fruits which I haven’t seen before.

Here's the address:

3692 18th Street (@ Dolores)
San Francisco, CA 94110

And the website: http://biritecreamery.com/

Shopping Like A Super Vegan

As we all know a large amount of clothes in the world are made out of wool and other animal products. Whether you feel this is wrong or not is up to you, but there is a large growth of vegan artier in the world.

There are several companies (mostly online) that supply vegan clothing and shoes. The largest one is probably World of Good. this website provides alternatives to current clothing and house hold objects, though not all are vegan the majority are. Also a lot of there stuff is official Fair Trade products.
If you are like me and have a hankering more towards shoes, there are plenty of site where you came find them. Possibly the site I find most convenient is Zappos.com. Though not totally vegan they do make it remarkably easy to choose.
Simple Shoes is another one. this is more geared towards the environmentally aware people. they love to, and strive to, reuse recycled bits of anything. They use tires, cork, cardboard, hemp, inter tubes, plastics, silk, bamboo... the list continues.
Though vegan clothes may be hard to find all you really need is a quick google search to find places like:
Alternative Outfitters
Ragazzi
Moo Shoes
and many more

Before I finish I must also remind you that Tom's Shoes also has vegan shoes. If you don't know what they are (Tom's), check it out.

Zen Palate

The Zen Palate is a vegan/vegetarian restaurant in Manhattan (one possibly coming to LA!). They serve healthy but amazingly delicious Asian-fusion.
My personal favorite dish is the "Sizzling Medallions", which sounds a little vague and therefore sketchy, but is absolutely amazing. They are made out of seitan (vital wheat gluten). According to the menu, they are 'crispy wheat gluten filet a l'orange, with fresh asparagus, mushrooms, string beans and red onions on a sizzling platter". 
One time I ordered the dish with my Grandma, who loved them and was shocked to discover that they are vegan!
Also highly reccomended are the yam fries and onion pancakes.

Recipe for Amazing Vegan Chai Latte Cupcakes!!

This recipe for Chai Latte Cupcakes is published in the book "Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World" by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero, which is full of easy and delicious cupcake recipes. Also recommended are the Apricot Almond Cupcakes. Luckily, the recipe for the Chai Latte Cupcakes is available online!

Here is the link for Chai Latte Cupcakes:

http://theppk.com/recipes/dbrecipes/index.php?RecipeID=386

Enjoy!