Recipes

Inspired by the holiday season upon us, this butternut squash risotto is a perfect addition to your Thanksgiving table.  Let's be real, you can add this to any table, any time of the year.  By switching out the squash for say, chickpeas and swapping kale for spinach, you've just made a completely ne...

So, you're all sitting around the table in a food coma and here comes dessert!  What the...?  I totally get wanting that pumpkin pie after a big ol' Thanksgiving dinner, plant-based or not, it's just American!  But, how about THIS year, you pass on the pie and pop a fillo filled mousse instead.  Yo...

Get a jump on your snacking and nosh on these good-fer-you cookies as start your day.  Packed with oats (think oatmeal!), using dates as your sugar and binder, and a kick of allspice will wake you up sleepyhead!   

New to farro?  Well,this ancient grain has been around for quite some time and you'll LOVE getting to know it!  The plump little grains add some real umph to any dish.  Cook it in vegetable broth to infuse more flavor, and then either create a dish out of it as we have done here or use it in place o...

Using whole wheat cute little elbow macaroni, some steamed vegetables and an ooey gooey "cheese" sauce, this oil free, plant-based old school comfort food makes a re-appearance to the dinner table.  It's a quick and easy dinner fix, but, shoot so was that box of Velveeta - which I'm sure if you made...

It's spicy!  No, it's sweet!  Sweet! Spicy!! SWEET! SPICY!  Using jalapenos and pepadews, this bean slider will have your senses enjoying flavors all over the map.  You control the heat and the sweet in this baby burger! 

MAMA MIA!  If your Italian vegan cousin (surely, there must be one and she has to be a cousin to someone...right?) comes to visit anytime soon, you might want to feed her this if she's feeling a little homesick. 

The NEW Pudding Pop: I'll bet this would even make Bill Cosby swoon.  Coupled with creamy peanut butter (remember, peanuts only - don't get the crappy peanut butter with all of those ingredients, you know what I'm talking about!) and the zip of the ginger that is just above barely detectible may hav...

Where's the beef?!  Keep lookin', Ms. Peller, but, before you go, take a bite, just one teensy bite and Ill bet you'll be hooked.  Just watch the video here and you'll understand why the host of the show (a bacon looooooving man!) noshed a whole taco during a commercial break!

A green eatin' lovin' cowboy is the new sexy, so, giddyup baby and let's layer goodness on top of goodness!  I'll let you choose the cruciferous (AKA: healthy-as-a-horse-you'll-be-for-eating-them), then scoop YOUR caviar on top and let the rodeo begin!