November and December are great months for vegans. Not only was World Vegan Day November 1, but we get to display our vegan prowess by making all sorts of holiday comfort food feasts that don’t have a lick of meat, dairy or eggs in them. I’m happy to report that my Chocolate Mousse Pie got just [...]
I’ve been having a hankering for lentils lately. I like to get my protien from as many different plant-based sources as possible and it’s been awhile since I’ve had lentils. I thought the lentils would be a nice pairing with a sauteed mushrooms and onion red-wine reduction, contrasted with a creamy cashew-based sauce. The results were [...]
I’ve been doing Thanksgiving without Turkey for about 5 years now. Each year, I get to experiment with trying to figure out how to bring back my fond memories of Thanksgiving without imbibing the bird.
After a few miserable failures and a couple decent but heavily processed Tofurkey dinners, I was thrilled to try this vegan [...]
Tags: holiday meals, low calorie, thanksgiving, vegan
It’s snowing out. I’m a wimp about driving in the snow. And I haven’t been to the grocery store in a week and the refrigerator is getting low. So I decided to skimp what I had together to make a hearty vegetable pasta topped with my tried and trusted friend, cashew cream sauce. Everyone knows how [...]
Lesson #one on eating healthy: One of the challenges of eating healthy foods is that many of them – especially organic – won’t sit on the shelf for three months waiting for you to use them. Seems like I’m always planning my menus based on what’s about to go bad in the fridge. So you get [...]
The beauty of polenta is that you can change the flavors you add to it for dramatically different impacts on your meal. You can find a basic polenta recipe pretty much anywhere. But similar to my perspective on french toast, I think polenta is deserving of hundreds of recipe variations. Let’s work on some of those! [...]
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This started out as a breakfast recipe, then I started so late that it quickly became lunchtime. After scrambling it, I realized it would make a great topping for any asian noodle – rice noodles, pad thai or the like depending on your taste.
What you need
1 yellow onion
1 red pepper
1/2 pound vegan sausage – I [...]
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trying to cleanout the kitchen before I go to Turkey & Greece, so had to get creative and use what was onhand:
sautee sweet onion in olive oil
add portobello mushroom
douse with braggs amino acid and lime juice
add garlic and ginger
add cubed tofu
turmeric
curry powder
more lime juice
cilantro
celery
peanuts
top with fresh cilantro, cherry tomatoes from the garden, crushed peanuts
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surprisingly delicious. i had swiss chard growing in my porch garden and had no idea what to do with it. my first swiss chard recipe.
inspired by vegancoach.com
sweet onions – sautee til soft
add swiss chard stems – sautee in olive oil and a few tablespoons of water covered about 5 min
add swiss chard leaves
garlic
green chiles
lemon juice
braggs [...]
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here’s a new one i’m trying out – i had potatoes to use, my friend wanted something with avocado and this is what happened:
potato latkeshttp://www.myjewishlearning.com/holidays/Jewish_Holidays/Hanukkah/At_Home/Foods/Easy_Latkes.shtmluse tofu or egg replacer substitute
layer of achiote beans recado or slow-cooked beanshttp://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2008/08/achiote-beans-recado.htmli had to make a lot of changes to this due to lack of ingredients, but slow-cooked beans is [...]
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