Disclaimer: I prefer cooking to eating processed foods, but every once in a while, I’m in a hurry.

I’ve been saving up these products to tell you about and I need to be quick. Sleep-sleep is calling my name after too many nights in a row with only 4-5 hours worth. So we take a mini-break tonight from Veganizing Martha’s Muffin – Dessert Week. We’ll continue back tomorrow.

Purely Decadent Made with Coconut Milk

Turtle Mountain Purely Decadent made with Coconut Milk:
Know what befuddles me? How can you release a new product and not update your website at the same time? I guess if you’re Turtle Mountain you can get away with that. The first two products I’d like to review come from them, yet I can’t find any info about these products on their website. Huh.

If you’ve read any other posts on my blog, you know I’m a fan of Turtle Mountain’s Purely Decadent made with Coconut Milk ice-cream products. They’re creamy and satisfying, in fact, you’d have a hard time putting some of the flavors second to their dairy counterparts. Maybe this flavor isn’t so new, but it’s definitely new to me. I’ve never seen it in my own grocery store until earlier this week.

Introducing Cherry Amaretto. Pinkish in color with big chunks of cherry and creamy tasting ice-cream with an amaretto flavor that’s powerful enough to remind you of your partying days when you’d drink amaretto sours like you’d drink anything, but not so overwhelming to remind you of those nasty amaretto hangovers. Oh boy, I’m not giving this thing enough credit. It’s really, really tasty and delicious. Once again, Turtle Mountain makes one I can count on!

On the flip-side Turtle Mountain, I have a bone to pick with you. Why in the world would you make me pee my pants with excitement over Coconut Milk Creamer only to let me down so hard when I actually used the stuff? I mean, what a great idea! Coconut Milk Creamer! Sadly, it was like adding bright, white-colored, tasteless liquid to my coffee. Oh, it looked rich and creamy, but tasted like there was nothing there. I actually had to pour out my coffee. It was that disappointing! There isn’t any fat in the creamer! How can that be? It’s COCONUT MILK! It’s CREAMER! Add some taste to it, and I’ll give it another shot. Okay? Please?

Veggie Crab Cakes Taste Crabby

Taste Above Veggie Crab Cakes:
You know the routine. You start talking about your veganity and someone asks what you miss most about your lifestyle choice. In the food world, for me, it’s seafood. Hands down. It’s difficult to recreate the taste of seafood, and being from south Louisiana, seafood is such an important part of Cajun cooking.

La-de-da-de-da, I’m moseying through the grocery store, and hark! What is that calling my name? Why it’s VEGAN crab cakes. Shut the eff up! I buy and the minute I get home, I try. First bite, shock! They do really taste crabby!

The fake meat is seitan that somehow replicates the stringy texture of crab meat. And the flavor is fairly close to spot-on. Probably as close as you’d ever get without actually putting crab meat in there. The most noticeable spice is dill, which definitely imparts part of the crab taste, but it’s more than that and so is my love for this new processed find. I love ‘em. Sue me.

Purely Decadent Coconut Milk Mint Chip

I’ve been getting all bratty and smug with myself for posting regularly, for posting my own concoctions, for posting so many cooked items and recipes in a row. Downright snotty and kind of proud, I’d say. So, I had to remind myself that this blog was supposed to be about recipes and cooking, yes, but also about vegan products/items that get my seal of approval.

So as I’m checking email and taking little bites of my newly-purchased dessert treat, I instantly realized I had to stop what I was doing to tell you about this stuff. Right now. It’s that good! It’s so delicious, I couldn’t even wait to take my own picture. I literally copied one from the Turtle Mountain website and started writing. It’s that much of a recommendation emergency.

And I’m happy that the three or four of you reading actually do take to heart my advice and recommendations. You’re such good listeners, that I’ve decided to make this post your command. Your command to put down whatever you’re doing and run. This very second. Run yourself right over to the grocery store and get you some of this.

If you love Mint Chocolate Chip, especially the natural mint kind (i.e. not day-glo green), you’ll just go nuts. Having coconut milk as its base makes it bright, white, thick, creamy, and smooth with just the right amount of coconut flavor. It’s there, you can taste it, but the chocolate and the mint have plenty of room to shine. It’s almost like the coconut is hanging out backstage. Blended flavors. That’s what it is. They’re blended perfectly, absolutely perfectly, together.

Not only does Purely Decadent Coconut Milk Mint Chip beat any other non-dairy frozen treat I’ve tried, it is seriously, seriously better than its dairy counterpart.

Oh whatever. Just go get the stuff. You’ll be thanking me. I promise.