Mozzarella or potato shreds? Well it looks like cheese shreds, but it’s potato which mimics the same look and texture to top the pizza. These personal BBQ pizzas were scrumptious! I roasted onions, cauliflower, zucchini, and mushrooms and used them to top a whole wheat pizza with sweet and spicy BBQ sauce. I added a…
Category: Vegan Dinners
Roasted Chickpea, Mushroom, and Kale Rice Bowl
Sometimes simplicity is key and when you have a few ingredients on hand you can easily make something filling, delicious, and healthy. I found a recipe for this on Pinterest and changed it up a bit for what I thought made it easier and it was! Instead of roasting just the chickpeas and sautéing the…
Creamy Lemon Asparagus Pasta
Craving a creamy Alfredo-type pasta without all the dairy and fat? I compiled a few vegan Alfredo recipes together to make one that would be the best and it was delicious. It’s a cashew based sauce, but instead of using a cup of cashews, I used half a cup and added zucchini as a filler…
Summer Meal Planning 6.4.18
^ lobby of the Wynn, Las Vegas We’re back from Vegas and after a lot of oily and more processed food than I’m used to, I’m ready to get back into my eating routine. Only a little more than month until Italy! It’s amazing how your body craves the food that you put into it…
Vegans in Vegas, baby!
This past weekend we were in Las Vegas for my best friend’s wedding and I was really excited for more vegan options available for us to have. I did some research and asked others what restaurants were favorites, but unfortunately most of them ended up being off the main strip so we didn’t want to…
Grilled Vegan Pizza
Everyone loves pizza night! Think going vegan means you can no longer enjoy one of the world’s favorite foods? NO WAY! Pizza can be so easily veganized and it’s still very much enjoyed at our house. We went over to my parent’s house last night for family dinner on Memorial Day and decided to make…
Loaded Potato Bean Nachos
Loaded Potato Bean Nachos If you’ve never used thinly sliced, crispy potatoes as a base for nachos, do yourself a favor and try it out ASAP! This was so tasty! Potatoes were a great replacement for chips because they’re the same shape and can hold the toppings without the oil, but still have the crispiness….
Crockpot Pizza Potatoes
This is about as easy as they come! You only need a crockpot and very few ingredients to make a simple, tasty meal for a busy night. I got this recipe from the McDougall app and you can add whatever marinara sauce and toppings/veggies you usually put on your pizza to make these easy pizza…
Baked Penne Mushroom Florentine
Another night, another McDougall recipe this week. His is Baked Penne Florentine, but I added the baby bellas to make it a little more substantial and add some more flavors to this dish and it turned out to be good! It uses cashews as the base of the creamy sauce so it adds protein with…
Easy Falafel Wraps
Today was the last day of school with kids and I feel like I’ve been exhausted for weeks now! There’s been so much going on, and on top of it I’m moving classrooms so I’ve been packing and moving it all down the hall. Luckily my kids helped me move almost everything so they’ve been…
Cauliflower Dal
I made another McDougall recipe last night and this was for cauliflower dal. It’s oil free and made from whole foods to make a simple dal recipe. It has potatoes, cauliflower, split red lentils, and spices that come together to make a mild dal, and I actually added more spices to mine than it called…
Oil Free Lentil Sloppy Joe’s
I’ve made lentil sloppy joe’s in the past several times, but this time I tried the Dr. McDougall recipe who is the founder of Starch Solution. His recipes are oil free, low fat, and are mostly starch based meals. This recipe used more whole food, as where the others had ketchup or BBQ sauce added….
Meal Planning 5.20.18
Above: quick lunch of leftovers today! I diced some leftover potatoes with onion powder, chili powder, garlic powder, and pepper then baked on 425* for 30-35 minutes then put them on a bed of spring mix, carrots, tomatoes, and avocado. I used a little bbq sauce and green goddess dressing as dressing for it. Today…
Marinated Portobello & Broccoli Over Rice
Cooking vegan dinners can be so simple, and only a few ingredients are needed to have a well-rounded nutritious meal. A lot of people ask me “So what do you eat?” and there’s so much I do it that it takes a while to answer that question. I focus on all I can eat that…
Creamy Avocado & Asparagus Potato Salad
It’s the week of potato salad! I made a more traditional mustardy potato salad for Mother’s Day, but I saw this recipe in the Oh She Glows cookbook and it looked like it would be worth having potato salad twice this week for dinner. I was correct! It was a really filling yet light dinner…
Mother’s Day Munchies
For Mother’s Day we went to church, had lunch, grocery shopped, and then had a picnic in my Grandma’s backyard with the family. I have a big family so it’s always a party whenever we get together! Everyone (except moms) brought something to share so it made it easy, and I was in charge of…
Meal Planning 5.12.18
Josh and I decided we need to start having weekly date night like we used to because the grind of work and school are wearing us down and we need something fun to look forward to every week to get out of our routine. We had an impromptu date last week and tried out an…
Balsamic Roasted Veggie Pasta
Well you would think this would be a super easy throw together meal that would be really hard to mess up, right? Apparently I found a way to do that! I think this could have definitely been great with whole wheat pasta instead of using the brown rice and quinoa pasta that I used. When…
Vegan Singapore Noodles
I’ve ordered Singapore noodles a couple of times from Asian restaurants and have mixed feelings. I usually like thicker rice noodles and sometimes their amount of curry is off. It’s good if you can’t decide between curry or noodles, but it’s the canned yellow curry powder taste. I found a recipe on Pinterest for vegan…
Meal Planning 5.6.18
As school is coming to an end and summer is approaching, I’m exhausted! It’s also Teacher Appreciation week so I’ll go easy on myself and make some easy meals that don’t have tons of ingredients or lots of prep. The weather has warmed up by about 20 degrees in two weeks so the time for…
The Charming Chickpea 