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

🥯 Your bagels will NEVER be the same

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...

4 days ago • 2 min read

👀 Who says bacon has to come from a pig?

Hey Reader, Let’s get one thing out there in the open: you probably can't think of breakfast without bacon passing your mind. But what if I told you that bacon could be crispy, smoky, and delicious without a single, lovable pig involved? Today's email is to help you understand the truth: everything can be bacon-fied! 💨 Let’s cook up some SMOKY vegan bacon! Seitan Bacon This seitan bacon’s got legendary brunch energy. It’s smoky, marbled, chewy in spots, crisped to golden glory, then glazed...

11 days ago • 2 min read

🥚 Who needs eggs when you’ve got these?

Hey Reader, I was absolutely blown away when I shared this on our instagram what the response was like. I mean, people had been asking me for years for my kinda secret updated vegan scrambled eggs recipe. So, I made time to make some final tweaks on the recipe and hit publish. I had NO IDEA people were going to love it as much as they have been. So, in today's email, I am sharing with you this pretty insane vegan scramble recipe, PLUS 5 other vegan egg recipes that I know you are going to...

18 days ago • 2 min read

🌯 Messy? Yeah. Worth it?

Hey Reader, These aren’t your average sandos. These are the kind that make you rethink everything you’ve ever known about pita, fillings, and that perfectly messy bite. Each one is stacked through the gosh darned roof with flavor—layer after layer, spiced just right, and packed with fillings that seem to understand your tahini-related feelings. 🥪 Let’s make some killer vegan Middle Eastern sandwiches together! Sabich Sandwich Crispy eggplant, creamy tahini, sharp pickles, and tangy sauces,...

about 1 month ago • 1 min read

🧁 My FIVE fave vegan muffins

Hey Reader, You know what I never ever served on our food truck? Muffins. And you know why? I just felt for years that they weren't exciting and groundbreaking enough to "fit my brand" or whatever. How dumb is that? So today, I am going to share with you three veganized muffin recipes that I grew up on in all of their cakey, fluffy glory! Ok, here are some muffiny bangers for ya: Ritz Carlton Blueberry Muffins Do you see the serious flood of blueberry juice these bad boys are dripping with?...

about 1 month ago • 1 min read

🥪 Deli-Style Classics… No Cow, No Chickens, No Kidding

Some things should never change—like the smell of fresh knishes, the crunch of a perfect schnitzel, or the glorious chaos of a Reuben barely holding it together. But some things? They’re due for an upgrade, Reader. This is the deli counter, reimagined. Same deep, smoky, crispy, flaky, ridiculously satisfying flavors—just made with ingredients that won’t have your cardiologist giving you that look. Schnitzel that crunches like it should. Corned beef that stacks high without the cow. And...

3 months ago • 2 min read

🤫 Shhh. In Here: 5 Vegan St. Patrick’s Day Recipes

Heyyyy Reader, Got your St. Patrick's Day menu planned? Not yet? 😬 It's not to late to prep up some smoky, savory vegan corned beef, crispy golden schnitzel, or glouriously roasted-up veggies, this lineup brings all the hearty, festive flavors—without a single animal on the guest list. From main courses to sides, these recipes are guaranteed to knock people's "Kiss Me I'm Irish"-printed sock off at any St. Paddy’s Day gathering (or like, at least the ones where you can see their socks, I...

4 months ago • 1 min read

👒 Uh, hat-related vegan foods...

You miiiight know it's Purim this week Reader, or maybe not. Anyway, I love it because I am kinda weird about hat-related foods. Follow me here for a sec. The main food-attraction of Purim is a 3-cornered hat shaped cookie. You might already know and love hamantaschen, and I just published a killer new 100% vegan recipe for it! But, did you know it's not the only hat-themed recipe on my site? And beyond that, did you know the other one is obscenely weird, but hyper-mega-yummy at the same...

4 months ago • 1 min read

🥞 Sunday Vegan Blintzes! (1 is Gluten-Free. Both Are Magic)

Blintzes are sneaky, I tell ya, Reader. They look innocent enough—cute little rolled-up crepes just sitting there all golden and cozy. But underneath that unassuming exterior? A flavor double agent. Sweet or savory. Breakfast or dinner. Heck, they could even be dessert. And then, just when you think you’ve sorta figured them out, they hit you with a plot twist: Two crepe recipes—one regular, one gluten-free. And inside? Two completely different personalities. Sweet “cheese” so creamy you’ll...

4 months ago • 1 min read

🍩 Rugelach, Babka, and… Wait, Is That a Donut?!

Jewish desserts are many things—sweet, nostalgic, completely irresistible… but vegan? Kosher for Passover (sometimes)? Gluten-free?! That’s gosh darned sorcery, Reader. I mean, how else do you explain flaky, buttery rugelach with zero dairy? Or jelly donuts so super-pillowy they put clouds to shame? And don’t even get me started on that flourless chocolate cake that’s richer than your Uncle Ira who ‘made it big’ in real estate. Then there’s the Babka—layers upon layers of chocolate or...

4 months ago • 2 min read