Holiday Recipes
Another Thanksgiving...another chance to try out a bunch of delicious holiday recipes! This was our menu: Squash, Corn, and Quinoa Chowder (see Greens & Grains on the Deep Blue Sea)…
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Plant-Based Potluck (brownies were involved)
Today was our first Plant-Based Potluck! I made Lentil loaf Mashed cauliflower/millet (stand-in for mashed potatoes!) Creamy golden gravy Kale with walnut sauce Green goddess dressing Raw chocolate walnut brownies…
Red Lentil (Dal) Soup and Flourless Flatbread!
Been making a lot of Indian food lately, inspired by an awesome cookbook I picked up: The Indian Vegan Kitchen. There's a ton of vegetable and bean dishes that, so…
Spicy Indian Chickpeas
Here's an interpretation of the Indian dish Chana Masala made with stuff you're likely to have around. If you have an Indian market nearby, I suggest checking out their spice…
Easy Southern-ish Black-Eyed Peas
Black-Eyed Peas Try serving with this cornbread! You can also sub pinto beans for the black-eyed peas. about 2 cups cooked black-eyed peas (or pinto beans) - if canned, rinse…
Outline of a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet Part II
Here's a blueprint of what we eat. You can basically take this list and choose from the different breakfasts, lunches, dinners, snacks, and post-workout drinks according to your tastes and…
Outline of a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet Part I
So what does a plant-based diet look like in practice? I touched on that a bit in this post by reviewing an example grocery list and what I made with…
Eggplant Roll-Ups
Seems fancy, but is actually pretty easy, especially if you have marinara already on hand (see below). If you don't want to use a tofu ricotta, try cooked quinoa or…
Gardein Chik’n Scallopini and Zucchini
This can hardly be called a recipe, but if there's anyone out there who wants a break from cooking occasionally or just hates to cook - this one's for you!…
High Protein Low Fat Cornbread
Cornbread is delicious. It's also usually full of oil and sugar with really no nutritional value to recommend it. This variety, though, is 20% protein, low sugar, and super low…
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All-Purpose Tofu and Tofu How-To
This is one of my go-to protein sources for all sorts of recipes: Slice it into slabs, add spices, and use as a tofu "steak" side or in a sandwich.…
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Super Food Saturday!
Yesterday I traveled up to Washington D.C. to speak at Sonia's Super Food Saturday, an awesome raw food event that meets weekly. Needless to say, the food was out of…
Recipes – Marcella
Broccoli Cream Soup 4 cups water 1 tsp salt 1 1/2 - 2 lbs broccoli 1 clove garlic 1/2 cup soymilk 1 Tbsp lemon juice Separate broccoli tops from stems…
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Vegan Italian Sausage – Marcella
Yet another (modified) recipe from my favorite vegan brunch cookbook: Italian sausage. Yes, there's all kinds of commercial vegan sausage out there and it's delicious, but they do tend to…
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Thai Green Curry Dish – Marcella
This is really good. You can find green curry paste in the "Asian" or "International" section of the grocery store...I used some from Whole Foods. The shiitake was actually home…
Real Quick White Bean Chili – Marcella
We eat black beans a few days a week with lunch and I'm tired of them. I wanted something lighter, SO I threw this together late one work night. We…
Yellow Quinoa Dal + Teff Flatbread ("Roti") – Marcella
I love Indian food. Most of what you can get at restaurants is greasy or full of butter or cream, unfortunately. Not ALL Indian food is full of dairy -…
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Easy muscle-building meals – Marcella
Here's some of our versions of the bodybuilding-style meal that, in the meat-eating world of Flex and Muscle & Fitness and so on, is the ubiquitous chicken, brown rice, and…
Black Bean Cakes – Marcella
Easy Black Bean Cakes (pictured with roasted corn salsa) can of black beans, drained really well 1/2 green bell pepper, minced 1/2 onion, minced 2 tsp cumin salt to taste…