(Lentils Salad with Avocado, Kale, Walnuts and Mango) Do you like avocado? Of course you do. Do you like avocado as much as Yaje Popson does? Probably not. Is your Instagram handle a pun on the word avocado? Is a considerable amount of your feed dedicated to avocado? Do you have an avocado Alien Workshop…
Vegan Protein Maple Bacon Donuts
(Vegan Maple Bacon Donuts with Hemp Protein, AKA Dompierre’s Donuts) Question: What do Nick Dompierre, Brandon Biebel and Chad Knight all have in common? Answer: They could all probably pick you up over their heads and Bane you. There was a time when this kind of strength in skateboarding was not appreciated; in fact, for…
Sweet Potato Waffle Soles
(Shredded Sweet Potato Waffles) If you were to list out the most iconic companies in skateboarding’s history, you’d be hard-pressed to find a company that has left a more indelible mark on skateboarding than Vans. While it’s easy to look back at Vans’ history and deduce a very common theme to the vast majority of…
Slaughterhouse-Free BLT
(Tempeh and Hummus BLT) Perhaps the most influential development in skateboarding – the urethane wheel – is now subject to arguably the least ingenuity. Sure, you can hollow them out, put in speed bands, double the durometer and make them crystal clear, but at the end of the day, there’s only so many times you…
The Stir-Fry Salad Grind
(Stir-fry salad topped with vegan pesto, avocado and nutritional yeast) For a blog called Salad Grinds and Bean Plants, I post very few salads. This is not because I don’t like salad; this is because, with the exception of salads that require some non-intuitive ingredients (the Muskabeetz Salad, for example), posting a salad recipe is…
Salad Grinds and Bean Plants 