Easy healthy dinner ideas? Count me in. This is a simple salad that’s warm and cold, salty and sweet, and tender and crunchy. It’s got it all. If you can find vegan feta, I definitely recommend including it in this salad. The salty taste and crumbly texture brings out the best about all the other…
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Kale Quinoa Salad
Healthy, easy, and plant-based: what more could you want in a meal? Oh, lots of protein, super foods, and a touch of sweet you say? Not a problem! We got all of that too! Please please make this salad because you will never look at kale and quinoa (the fad super foods of our generation…
Garlic Roasted Radishes and Asparagus
Did you know that roasting radishes makes them way sweeter and removes their famous sharp bite? Neither did I until I had an abundance of radishes and started experimenting with ways to cook them! They mellow out and caramelize in the oven, proving my hypothesis that roasted veggies = best veggies!!! I roasted my radishes…
Roasted Summer Squash and Red Potatoes
We roast vegetables a lot. It’s our favorite way to cook up many different veggies at once, and it’s so simple and delicious that it’s become our go-to dinner. I wanted to shake things up a bit, so we did a new combo of veggies, summer squash and red potatoes, and added a breadcrumb coating…
The Best Vegan Potato Salad
My husband tasted this potato salad and said “this was the best potato salad I’ve ever had”. Can you believe that? I almost fainted! So I’m basking in that praise and rolling with it (as seen by this recipe’s presumptuous title), because I think he’s right! It really was the best potato salad — and…
Stuffed Tomatoes
Stuffing doesn’t get enough love throughout the year. It is so delicious, it really shouldn’t just be a holiday food like it is for most people. Stovetop Savory Herb stuffing is vegan and so quick to make, and it’s such an easy filling for lots of vegetables, and especially these roasted beefsteak tomatoes. I fancied…
Cranberry Beet Chutney
A bit unexpected, nice and sweet, slightly tangy, and a great alternative to plain ol’ canned cranberry sauce – that’s this cranberry beet chutney in a nutshell. It would be delicious paired with dark greens, roasted potatoes, and flaky biscuits for a full meal that excites all the taste buds! I used canned beets but…
Sage Brown Butter Turnip Wedges
I ❤ Turnips! I never really eat them but when I do, I’m always surprised at how much I enjoy them. They are super easy to roast up in the oven and are a great alternative to potatoes, and have a touch more flavor and bite than potatoes. In this recipe, the turnip wedges work…
Maple Caraway Brussels Sprouts
Here’s another heavy vegetable dish for your clean eating month between Thanksgiving and Christmas. With all the holiday parties and festivities that December typically brings, I always like to keep my home cooking very nutritious and light, because chances are the rest of my diet isn’t either of those things! I’ve never really cooked with…
Garlic Caper Roasted Mushrooms
Feel like you need to eat vegetables for the rest of your life to recover from Thanksgiving? Here’s a delicious recipe from Cooking Light that will have you drooling for veggies. It takes about 25 minutes and can be a side dish or a main served over a grain. I’ve been combining 1-2 different veggie…
An Imperfect Vegan 