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How science can help you bake a delicious vegan carrot cake

How science can help you bake a delicious vegan carrot cake

Karmela Padavic-Callaghan THIS winter, my local farm has been supplying me with carrots in all the colours of the rainbow. After a few chilly months of chopping them up for savoury dishes, I was delighted when the sun returned to New York and basically beckoned me to make a carrot cake (pictured above) instead. I didn’t grow up eating carrot cake, but thick slices with cream cheese frosting are among the standouts in my early memories of American baking. As a vegan baker, I now make a carrot cake that is a different proposition: it brings out the natural sweetness and… Source link

Purple Carrot review: Healthy plant-based meal kits with no smoke and mirrors

Purple Carrot review: Healthy plant-based meal kits with no smoke and mirrors

Pricing Starts at $11/serving Type Meal kits Recipes per week 8 Good for Vegan, vegetarian, paleo, gluten-free, low-calorie Score Breakdown Taste/results 9/10Value 7/10Ease of recipes 8/10Recipe variety 9/10Healthiness 10/10 Pros Fresh ingredients and healthy, flavorful food Uncomplicated meal plan and meal selection process Interesting recipes that are mostly easy to make Great way to learn plant-based cooking Cons On the expensive side Only 8 recipe options per week Meal delivery comes in all shapes and sizes in 2023, and that includes great meal kits for vegans and vegetarians. You can find tasty plant-based recipes on the menus of most meal kit companies, but Purple Carrot is one of the only completely vegan meal kit services available. That means no meat at all, so if you’re an intensely carnivorous type, turn back now. Beyond this point lies ancient grains, legumes, nuts and plenty of wholesome vegetables. But Purple Carrot is betting it can turn even the meatiest of men and women on to its healthy, plant-based fare. With many of us looking for ways to eat …

CARROT Weather Coming to Apple Vision Pro With Interactive 3D Globe

CARROT Weather Coming to Apple Vision Pro With Interactive 3D Globe

CARROT Weather today announced that its app will be available on the Apple Vision Pro on Friday, complete with its signature snarky forecasts. The popular iPhone weather app has been redesigned for visionOS, with information like the current temperature, hourly and daily forecasts, sunrise and sunset times, Moon phases, air quality, and more displayed at a glance. On the Vision Pro, CARROT Weather has added an interactive 3D globe that shows temperatures, wind speeds, and precipitation intensity around the world. The app’s developer Brian Mueller described the globe as the “marquee feature” of the app, and said that “it’s just really cool being able to look at a globe floating in your living room.” Users can also interact with the snarky AI-powered character CARROT and play mini-games via the “ornament” at the bottom of the app’s window. Apple Vision Pro launches on Friday, and CARROT Weather said its visionOS app will be available in the App Store around 7 a.m. Pacific Time on that day. A subscription is required to access all of the app’s …

Carrot Weather for iOS 17 introduces a voice impersonation feature and more

Carrot Weather for iOS 17 introduces a voice impersonation feature and more

Apple’s iOS 17 update arrives today, and many apps are rolling out updates to support the new features. One app in particular is Carrot Weather, the weather app that delivers hilarious daily forecasts. The app launched a variety of new features, such as a voice impersonation feature, weather widgets and more. Thanks to Apple’s new Personal Voice accessibility feature, which mimics a user’s voice, Carrot can now sound like a user when providing weather updates. Personal Voice is mainly designed for people who are at risk of losing the ability to speak. Carrot’s new voice impersonation tool could be helpful for these individuals. Plus, the feature may be fun for those who can imitate celebrity voices, Brian Mueller, the creator of the Carrot apps, told TechCrunch. Carrot’s 5.12 update also includes several weather widgets that can now be added to the iPhone StandBy mode display, the iPad Lock Screen and the Apple Watch Smart Stack. StandBy is the new full-screen experience on iPhones that allows users to put the device on its side and view …

Get utterly roasted by Carrot Weather’s new chatbot with ChatGPT update

Get utterly roasted by Carrot Weather’s new chatbot with ChatGPT update

“Greetings, meatbag.” Carrot Weather, the snarky weather app that delivers daily forecasts, has launched a ChatGPT-based chatbot that delivers even more sass. The feature is rolling out globally today on iOS devices. There’s a lot you can do with the Carrot AI beyond just chatting about the weather and getting insulted. Users can also play text-based games, collaborate on story ideas and more. The feature has a limit of five messages that users get for free. After that, you have to buy more via Carrot’s Tip Jar. Carrot developer Brian Mueller explained to TechCrunch that you can even change the bot’s personality, such as making it sound more helpful, sarcastic, crazy, drunken or annoyed. Other personality modes include suave, funny, disgusted, bored, mobster, cowboy, pirate and more. There’s even a mode that Carrot calls “Fake News,” which proved to be very hilarious when we tested it. See the response we got when we asked “Are birds real?” Image Credits: TechCrunch The new ChatGPT-based chatbot is a part of Carrot Weather’s new version 5.10, which includes …