The Chocolate Syrup of My People

Chocolate is more like crack than you'd think.
It's common practice to take a bag of pure cocaine, dilute it with dust, sawdust, shreds of who knows what, etcetera and then that makes about a mountain of street-worthy coke. Well with chocolate, manufacturers like Nestle and Hershey like to take even dark chocolate and dilute it with milk when it doesn't have to be just so they can make and sell more.
Freaking commercialism.
This typically applies to chocolate syrup too but I found more accidentally vegan stuff today!
Check it out

Thank you CRYSTAL, for bringing us animal-lovers

joy once again for our truffles, nice creams, and-let's face it-

midnight power-boosts

You've all done this. Don't deny it.

A Note on Breads

Ok dude, basically all breads are vegan. Most artisan breads are vegan. Most sandwich breads aren't (they have milk for some strange reason). People need to stop asking me if bread has eggs in it. If it had eggs in it then WHY THE HELL AM I EATING IT?! Anyhoo, only specialty breads like challah have eggs in them. As always, check ingredients but most breads are your best friend.

YES!

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Arti Spread to Choke Whole Foods

At my local Whole Foods they carry the yummiest Spinach-Artichoke spread that I would consume like a freak before 2010 (when I became vegan). However, new vegan converts all go through a stage of checking everything they used to love for animal products and that damn spread had parmesan cheese in it! You can imagine my despair. However, I vowed to make something even better than the old stuff and just make Whole Foods suck it!

You will need the following:

• 1 can of artichoke hearts (you can also play around with marinated ones which will make for the KING of spreads. Try these too and these. Honestly, I'm not sure which kind I used and these cans all look like it! So um, check ingredients please because perhaps some aren't vegan. I know the ones I used were vegan but yeah, just err on the side of caution)
• 1/8 cup of olive oil
• 1/2 cup pine nuts
• 1 handful of spinach (don't go overboard with the spinach because it WILL get caught in your teeth)
• 4 leaves fresh basil or 2 tsp. dried basil
• 2 cloves of garlic (feel free to sauté these in olive oil before adding them to the spread. I did but you really don't need to be an overachiever)

The procedure

Just throw everything into the food processor, man. The amount of olive oil listed is the most you should use but start out with less. If you can, perhaps drizzle it in through the top until it looks like you could spread the stuff on bread. Pair with your favorite vegan bread!