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In turn, I’ve created VV as an attempt to inspire all of you to get creative and dance in the kitchen with me! IFRAME: https://player.vimeo.com/video/147193170?color=ffffff&portrait=0 Long Story: Vegetarian Ventures is a vegetarian food blog that shares vegetarian and vegan recipes with a twist of adventure and inspiration. I’m a 20-something year old who lives in the heart of the Midwest. I work with indie-rock music by day and blog here by night. I love to vegan bake, cook with far too many spices, play with my peanut butter lovin’ puppy (Tuko // Taco // Tofu), go on picnics, camp, dance in the kitchen and take road trip adventures. I love things like Chai-flavorered anything, dream catchers, cacti, and David Bowie so please don’t be alarmed if I throw in a glam rock photo or two. I’ve been a vegetarian for over 10 years which has forced me to learn to cook for myself; however, I am nothing of an expert and am still learning everyday. This blog is here to motivate and push my cooking abilities while hopefully teaching all of you a few tips along the way. I am constantly seeking a healthier (but delicious!) cooking routine so come along and join in the journey with me! Talk soon, Shelly (aka VV) Fine Print Info & All The Jazz: If you’d like to get to know me outside of my blog, feel free to shoot me an email at [email protected] or check VV out on Facebook and Bloglovin. Please note that all photos, unless specified, on Vegetarian ‘Ventures are taken by Shelly Westerhausen or Wyatt Worcel. Please make sure to properly link back to the original photo if you borrow it and properly post photo credit. VV gets around! VV has been in print publications such as Chickpea Magazine, Vegetarian Living, Weekend Almanac and Remedy Quarterly. VV also has recipes and articles featured on websites such as Food & Wine, The Kitchn, Food52, Foodgawker, Sheknows, Saveur Magazine, Kitchen Daily, Daily Candy, Babble, Finding Vegan, Taste Spotting, Tasteologie, Threadesque, Dishes Undressed, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, and many others. Interested in featuring VV? Contact me at [email protected] DISCLAIMER: Some links on this site are affiliate links and I do earn a commission from them. Please note that all opinions are my own. -4 Photo by Anna Powell Teeter vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv November 9, 2012 I love your site and I wish I had discovered you prior to the potluck. But I am definitely following you now! Reply Anne November 13, 2012 Your blog is so beautiful :-) Reply Jennifer St. James December 4, 2012 Hi there! You won my cookbook giveaway! Please get in touch so I can have the publisher send you a cookbook. Cheers! And congrats * Reply Shellywest December 4, 2012 Oh, yes! I loved the way those sweet potato cupcakes sounded. I could not find an email address to contact you on through your website? Mine is [email protected] if you’d like to email me there! Thanks for the opportunity and cannot wait to start cooking out of the cookbook! Reply Y. bertaud December 10, 2012 I had nominated you for One Lovely Blog Award… http://ybertaud9.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/one-lovely-blog-award/ Reply Lukasz December 13, 2012 Congratulations, I’ve nominated your blog for the Reality Blog Award! You can pick it up here http://thebravecook.com/2012/12/13/my-second-award-the-reality-blog-awa rd-2/ I really enjoy your blog! Lukasz Reply chinmayie @ love food eat December 28, 2012 Just stumbled up on your blog today and I had to tell you how I am totally in LOVE with it! Also… I noticed that your design is also by Blogmilk like mine 😉 cheers! * Reply Shellywest December 28, 2012 Thanks! I love the blogmilk designs and your blog looks fantastic! Your photography is wonderful and that bell pepper chutney is gorgeous. Can’t wait to start following along on your blog! Reply nitahannele April 2, 2013 Hey shelly, just found your blog this morning and it’s gorgeous! i tried to follow you in bloglovin but unfortunately i couldn’t find your blog? keep up the great work (: * Reply Shellywest April 2, 2013 Thanks for the kind words, Nita! You should be able to follow VV on Bloglovin via this link: http://www.bloglovin.com/blog/3391305/vegetarian-ventures Reply Sophie33 May 11, 2013 Nice to meet you :) You have a lovely blog over here! You cook vegetarian & vegan. I cook, bake & eat vegan at least 5 times per week with my husband. I also eat organic meat or fish, 2per week. I also have a lot of vegan & vegetarian recipes on my blog! Come on over & check me out! Many greets from a foodie from Belgium! :) Reply Sophie33 May 11, 2013 I also joined this VVP, in the dessert section! Reply kylie September 29, 2013 I’m so happy to have found your blog! Love your recipes & food photography! IF you’re ever in portland again let me know, I’d be happy to show you around! Reply Ashlae January 21, 2014 I kinda wish I still lived in Bloomington so we could vegan bake together. I live in Denver now (and love it here) but dream of Bloomington often. And Soma and Laughing Planet. And Bloomingfoods. *Le Sigh* Reply Samantha Peacock April 5, 2014 Your blog is absolutely beautiful. Stumbled across you via the Best Food Blog Awards. Good luck & keep making great stuff! :) Reply Maria April 24, 2014 Not a vegetarian, but fell in love with your blog at first sight. Lovely images! Maria Reply tim April 26, 2014 would be nice to have a “print” button for the recipes, instead of having to cut and paste to text/edit on my MAC Reply Mark October 2, 2014 Your site is great!, i came here via alink fromthe website my blue and white kitchen. as a veggie of 20 years, i really appreciate your efforts. Thanks from the UK. I kae music too :) xx Reply chief December 12, 2014 Great photos, nice graphic design, good recipes. I can almost hear the music. Reply Dana January 13, 2015 I’m new to your blog (blogs in general), and I just love it. I find it so unifying that people that love food and preparing food seem to also be so inspired by music and have such a fondness for dogs! Warm hearts, I guess. I love to eat meat, but also love animals, so your blog will be so integral in my journey to eat less meat. Thanks and can’t wait! Reply Kezia Sze March 3, 2015 Lettuce wraps, sweet potato cup-cakes, white bean and tomato soup – I just love wholesome eating of all kinds of living foods on your blog. Reply mrcake57 September 16, 2015 [email protected] Thoughts?! Cancel reply IFRAME: jetpack_remote_comment FOLLOW VV @ INSTAGRAM * Finally put the recipe for this Creamy Vegetarian White Chili up #ontheblog! Filling, healthy, and oh so flavorful... how can you resist? Click the link in my profile to get the recipe ☝🏼so you can make this ASAP. * I used to get so frustrated if the light would change on me halfway through a shoot (natural light photography problems 🙋🏻) but I've just been going with it lately. Kind of loving these deep winter shadows. * Finally photographed some new vegetarian mains for VV over the weekend. One of my New Years resolutions is to share more mains and less desserts. This one should be coming to the blog this week! #WHPresolutions * Now that we are all waking up not hungover, time to get back to that healthy lifestyle. Bountiful parfait spread for the win. * This Loaded Spring Ramen Bowl was another 2016 favorite! Already thinking about how I need to make a version for every season. See the full list of top rated VV recipes with the link in my profile ☝🏼 (plus some rambling about 2016 and goals for 2017). * Happy 2017! Writing this from my bed because well... we were out celebrating past my 11 pm bedtime last night. Are you taking it easy today and thinking of any new year resolutions? One of mine is to take back my beauty routine using all cruelty-free products. I used to wear makeup often in college and stopped purchasing new items because of all the animal cruelty and straight up weird chemicals that can be found in them. I've recently discovered some really great vegan / all natural / cruelty-free resources (@wifelife's videos are amazing as is @elloviskin, @100percentpure, etc) and am excited to get back to pampering myself. It's a bit superficial but 2016 was all about work for me so I'm excited to give myself a little #treatyoself / self care goal. What are you hoping to improve on in 2017? #WHPresolutions © 2017 Vegetarian 'Ventures 2016 Enter your name and email to get recipes sent straight to your inbox! Fresh weekly recipe recaps from Vegetarian 'Ventures can now be sent straight to your email every Thursday! ____________________ ____________________ Subscribe Your information will NEVER be shared or sold to a 3rd party!