Sausage, biscuits and gravy is a family favorite. Olive oil and spices give veggie sausage the boost it needs to keep this dish satisfyingly savory.
7 Essential Cooking Oils
There are many cooking oils to choose from to make your recipes POP. Here are some I keep stocked.
Easy Sick-Day Soup
Poor me, I got hit with some kind of nasty bug. Good thing I know how to make soup! Soup makes everything better. Here's the simple recipe:
Leftover Whatever Curry
Here's a relatively quick lunch idea to use up any leftover vegetables or rice hanging around. Since it involves curry and coconut milk, you know it's got to be good.
Vegan Fried Rice with Tofu
With its perfect proportions of starch, grease and spice, fried rice is the ultimate comfort food. I like mine with plenty of veggies combined with a simple, flavorful sauce. Hopefully your family will enjoy this recipe as much as ours does. Bring on the umami! This recipe has four components: jasmine rice, tofu, veggies and …
7 Things I’ve Learned Since Becoming a Vegetarian
I didn’t expect a simple diet change to have as profound an effect on me as becoming a vegetarian has. From almost immediate health improvements to pride in cutting my carbon footprint here are seven things I didn’t expect when I stopped eating meat. Food tastes soooooo gooooooooood. It’s not that I never ate vegetables …
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It’s Halushki Weather
Also called haluska and haluski, halushki is a simple fried cabbage and onions with noodles dish that arrived in America along with the immigrants from central and eastern Europe whose descendants still enjoy it as comfort food. I make it the way my mother taught me and I hope you enjoy it. It can be …
Quick and Easy Spinach Ramen
This quick and easy spinach ramen takes advantage of ingredients that are already in most pantries. It takes 10 minutes, is filling, flavorful and full of minerals and vitamins. Ingredients: 1 inch of ginger1 jumbo garlic clove 1/2 medium onion2 generous handfuls of baby spinach1/2 tomato1/2 lime1 tablespoon oil1 ramen packet (toss out seasoningsalt and …
Navigating Restaurants as a New Vegetarian
The first time I went to a favorite local restaurant as a vegetarian I wanted to cry. There were all my favorites — carnitas! chorizo! — but now I wanted different choices. And the vegetarian options were kind of thin. Like I wanted to be — thin. But I wasn’t thin enough to be satisfied …
You Want Us to WHAT?!? OK.
How it started. “I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!” — George H.W. Bush, 1990 Another name for this blog could have been …
