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🥯 Your bagels will NEVER be the same

Published 4 days ago • 2 min read

Hey Reader,

When my wife and I were in our early 20s, we had just had our first daughter and we lived in our "starter home" (can you believe our little old house in Keansburg NJ only cost $44k?!?). Anyway, we were young and broke and ate a lot of bagels from GEM's bagels a few blocks from our home. Our fave now is Bagel Station in Red Bank, which I gotta say, makes a much better bagel than GEM's, but we didn't know any better back then, I guess.

Anyway, since we were pretty scrappy, we were always finding fun ways to turn big cheap bagels into super yummy meals, and that's what the heck I'm sharing with you in today's email.

Picture that perfect, chewy base, then add a layer of toppings that’ll be a legit power-up. Made 100% vegan, these aren't your average bagels.

⬆️ Let’s LEVEL UP your bagel game together!

Carrot Lox

These carrot lox ribbons are unbeatable for bagels, brunch boards, or sneaky fridge snacking. They hold their own against any deli counter classic, without the smokehouse or the dead fish.
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Vegan Cream Cheese

Discover a game-changer: a dairy-free cream cheese as effortless as making a smoothie, soy-free, with only 4 ingredients. Unlike many recipes, this one achieves natural cheesiness through fermentation, making it a foolproof, healthier, time-saving favorite.
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Vegan Breakfast Sausage

The bomb tender-on-the-inside Vegan Breakfast Sausage recipe, packed with bold spices and smoked with applewood chips. Perfectly textured, these sausages are a hearty, satisfying start to your day, ready to be best friends with your breakfast faves.
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But wait, there's more! How about a bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich?

Scrambled Tofu

Two types of tofu, crispy shaved and silky smooth, join forces with kala namak and miso for this easy tofu scramble recipe. Quick to make, easy to riff on, and fully brunchworthy, this vegan scrambled eggs recipe cooks up in 20 minutes and holds its own in bagel sandwiches, breakfast bowls, or straight off the spatula.
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Just Egg

This just egg recipe dupe doesn’t mess around. Mung beans give it the perfect body, chickpea flour sets it up with that soft, sliceable bounce, and kala namak brings the eggy illusion full circle with one sniff. Blend once, refrigerate, and you’ve got scrambled, folded, or omelette-ready magic waiting all week long.
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There are lots of options for bacon. Choose your fighter:

Rice Paper Bacon

This crispy, smoky Rice Paper Bacon is fast, easy, and dangerously snackable. A vegan bacon that fries, bakes, and crunches like a champ. Skip the seitan. This crunchy plant-based bacon uses everyday pantry ingredients and rice paper for max crisp with minimal effort!
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Tofu Bacon

Savory, crispy, and fast to make, this is the perfect topper for sandwiches, scrambles, and bowls. These smoky-sweet tofu bacon strips get beautifully crispy on the stove with a maple-soy marinade.
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Seitan Bacon

This seitan bacon’s got legendary brunch energy. It’s smoky, marbled, chewy in spots, crisped to golden glory, then glazed with a little extra smoky magic.

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Tempeh Bacon

This tempeh bacon doesn't play around. It fries up with a crisp you can hear, and flavor that gets up in your business—smoky, salty, just sweet enough to keep you grabbing another strip off the plate.
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Carrot Bacon

This smoky-sweet carrot bacon is the crispy-chewy snack you never knew your brunch plate needed. Each strip is glistening in a molasses-maple marinade that caramelizes into a savory glaze, laced with toasted sesame and just enough smoke.
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Can’t wait to see how you jazz up those bagels. Report back, PLS!

❤️ - Your vegan cooking buddy, Adam

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Vegan recipes & cooking classes from the Cinnamon Snail food truck.

Chef Adam Sobel (Cinnamon Snail)

I share exciting plant-based recipes from all over the world, and teach dishes and secrets from my award wining vegan food truck and restaurants.

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