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…
Planeat @ Crossroads Was a Success!
How awesome: we had a full house at Crossroads Coffee last night for our screening of Planeat, a documentary exploring plant-based nutrition and the environmental impact of our dietary…
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…
Beet Salad
Salad...it just doesn't inspire the enthusiasm that other recipes can. But, if you eat two salads a day - and you should! - it's important to mix it up a…
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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.…
Carrot Cake
Yup, CAKE. I rarely post on desserts - hence the fact that I initially haven't bothered assigning them a category or a spot in the recipe index. But, that may…
Vegan Breakfasts of Champions
Keeping my body fat % down while building muscle has always been a challenge. So, if I make a diet change that results in my suddenly losing a few percent…
Creamy Butternut Squash Soup 2 – Marcella
Super easy! It's amazing how little effort goes into this simple soup...it has such a rich flavor. Almost like dessert in soup form. Creamy Butternut Squash Soup 6 cups cubed…
Minestrone – Marcella
Very quick and easy; eliminates any need to buy the canned variety. I usually make it without any pasta, but in this case I had a mini-box of kamut ditalini,…
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…
Experimental Eating- Marcella
I'm trying an experiment. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I ate far more and far less strictly on our cruise and somehow dropped a bunch of fat and…
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Food and Menu Pics – Marcella
Here's some food and menu pics from the cruise. I was fortunate enough to grab a cookbook with some of the recipes (Greens and Grains on the Deep Blue Sea:…
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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…