FOR DAILY USE (Common Vegan Ingredients) What does the Nike SB Janoski have in common with ingredients like flax seed, chia seeds, hemp seeds, nutritional yeast (nooch, as the cool kids say), coconut oil and almond butter have in common? They’re both “for daily use.” I get it, these seem weird at first blush. Remember…
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Vegan Bulletproof Coffee
Prep time: 1 minute. Total time: 1 minute. What do bulletproof coffee and Santa Cruz skateboards have in common? Despite always vouching for the tried and true seven layers of maple, skateboarders have flirted with alternative deck technology more than they like to admit. Every so often a board company will come out with purportedly…
Battle at the Berries Cookies
(Blueberry and Raspberry Cookies) Prep time: 15 minutes. Bake time: 10-12 minutes. I often argue with friends and family about how skateboarding is not a sport; chiefly among the many reasons I take that stance is that it’s almost impossible to score. Some of the contest circuits have it down to a science, but, inevitably,…
Bean Plant Shakie
Prep time: 3 minutes. Cook time: none. I’m no skate historian. I’ve tried to bone up on as many skateboarding history books as possible, but nothing really compares to being alive and shredding in the 70s and 80s. Sadly, all my skateboarding history knowledge is from secondary sources, and, as such, tricks that involve grabbing…
Black Bean Tempeh Bowl
Prep time: 20 minutes. Cook time: 15 minutes. In 2006 I traveled through Oregon with my mom, grandma, younger brother and a friend of my mother’s visiting from Austria. I had just graduated high school and while all my friends were road tripping together and sewing their wild oats before college, I was traveling with…
Salad Grinds and Bean Plants 