Category Archive: Vegan

Cucumber Avocado Banana Smoothie with Kumquats and Ginger

My lovely neighbors gave me some kumquats yesterday with which I have limited experience, but now certainly hope to have more!! And I was looking up cucumber banana smoothie recipes (since that’s pretty… Continue reading →

Spicy Tofu Salad Rolls with Cashew Butter Dipping Sauce

This creation is super loosely based off of this one from Foodess (not even sure I read more than the ingredient list, and definitely didn’t follow that) but salad rolls are easy and… Continue reading →

“Green” Bean and Tomato Salad

First, a note: if you start with beautiful three-colored beans, do not do anything that involves blanching them (like this recipe from Ligonier Country Market) because the purple beans will lose their color!… Continue reading →

Pumpkin Seed Coconut ‘Granola’

‘Granola’ in quotes because there’s no grains, which is where I would assume the ‘gran’ part is from. Anyway… I was inspired by this delicious granola-fruit-honey-yogurt-spices concoction I got for brunch over the… Continue reading →

Halvah Bars

These bars really just taste like halvah, except that the texture is different, and they’re not as crazy sweet, so basically you can eat them for breakfast – or whenever – and not… Continue reading →

Spicy Ginger Garlic Cold-Killer Soup

Well, I’ve been struck with it again – a winter cold, or maybe the flu, not sure, but definitely sure about the winter part. But this soup helped! I was looking for some… Continue reading →

Slow-cooker Root Vegetable Stew

For this one I sort of followed this recipe from LOTFOTL, in that I sautéed the onions with the spices before I put everything in the crock pot, mainly followed their spice suggestions,… Continue reading →

Chopped Brussels Sprout Salad with Mustard Vinaigrette

A friend of mine made this delicious brussels sprout salad which gave me the idea. Then I found this recipe from Epicurious for one that also included kale, but I decided to ignore… Continue reading →

Apple Coconut Dream

It may not look like much, and it may not sound like much, but oh man – it’s delicious! Mix together: – Applesauce (homemade or otherwise) – Coconut cream – the thick part… Continue reading →

Massaged Kale Salad with Apples, Avocado, and Sunflower Seeds

Again, you probably know all you need to know from the title, but this was delicious and I highly recommend the combination. My cousin Wendie makes an incredible massaged kale salad. I couldn’t… Continue reading →