Deborah Mesdag

Making a Bridget Doll for Imbolc

My mom made a Bridget doll for our Imbolc celebrations, and I think she turned out great! My mom started by reading a book on making rag dolls, then drew her own patterns and colored in Bridget’s face with colored pencils. The patterns were traced onto the top layer of a folded piece of fabric:

Vegan & Gluten Free Brownies!

This is the ultimate vegan brownie recipe! Neither eggs nor gluten are needed to make perfect brownies when you use the right ingredients and recipe. (See the recipe notes at the end of the post for wheat flour directions.) You can make them chewy, fudgy, cakey, extra rich (or a combination of those), just by …

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Vegan & Gluten Free Sandwich Rolls!

I have been waiting for a long time to share my bread and other baked goods recipes with you! You need flour that is made with my egg replacement to make them, and it wasn’t ready yet. The Plant Based Egg by Freely Vegan will be available online very soon at www.freelyvegan.com, so I can …

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16 Gluten Free Flour Blends That Really Work!

Newest Flour Blend Info! I am so excited to announce that Freely Vegan Gluten Free All-Purpose Flour is now available! It already has The Plant Based Egg built in and it works even better than any of the DIY blends below. I developed it to work perfectly in all of my recipes and it went …

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Preparing for Imbolc

Imbolc is coming up very soon! For those of you who are not familiar with this celebration, it is the second of the eight Sabbats on the Wiccan Wheel of the Year: Imbolc has several possible pronunciations (see the videos below) and means either “in the belly” or “ewe’s milk”. This is because sheep were …

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Vegan Burgers 2.0

I’ll always love my first vegan burger recipe, but it does have a lot of ingredients and it takes awhile to make. A reader asked me a few months ago to come up with a simpler burger recipe, so I did! This version has the same base ingredients as my breakfast sausage and Italian sausage …

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Grandpa’s Bean Soup

My Grandpa loved bean soup, and we ate it often when I was growing up! This was the first family recipe that I veganized when I went vegan almost two years ago, and we always keep some in the freezer for quick meals. I use homemade vegan broth, add more veggies, and use liquid smoke …

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Vegan (& Gluten Free) Italian Sausage

I adapted my vegan breakfast sausage recipe to make this fabulous and versatile Italian sausage. The flavor is like a sweet Italian sausage, and it is perfect on pizza, on a sandwich, with potatoes, or in a pasta sauce! Here are the ingredients you will need to make it: I used certified gluten free oats …

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