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Meatless Mondays: Tofu and Vegetable Gnocchi

Here’s another Meatless Monday recipe to tantalize your taste buds and get you cooking this cruelty-free meal in your kitchen. This week’s Meatless Monday recipe is contributed by our friend, Leigh-Chantelle from Viva la Vegan! a website with a large range of vegan recipes that focuses on positive information, education and vegan outreach.   Ingredients: 1 carrot, grated 1/4 pumpkin, grated 1 zucchini (courgette), grated 1/4 broccoli florets 1/2 eggplant…

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How to eat for summer and recipes to keep you cool

I don’t know where you live but here in Texas it’s blazing hot! Sure it’s easy to just turn on the air con but what is even better for cooling you off during the summer is to eat foods that are naturally cooling. It just so happens that the produce that flourishes in the summer are water-dense and help cool you off. Nature is really cool like that! Here are…

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Indian Black Soy Beans in Coconut-Cardamom-Cashew Sauce

  This is my most recent bow in the direction of my beloved Indian cuisine: tender black soy beans in a creamy golden sauce redolent of cardamom. I am decidedly not a fan of cardamom in most sweets, but I simply adore it in savory Indian dishes. When I was creating this recipe, I started with a mere teaspoon of it, but ended up adding a full tablespoon. Bear in…

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Meatless Mondays: Vegetable with Tortilla Corn Chips and Guacamole

Here’s another Meatless Monday recipe to tantalize your taste buds and get you cooking this cruelty-free meal in your kitchen. This week’s Meatless Monday recipe is contributed by our friend, Leigh-Chantelle from Viva la Vegan! a website with a large range of vegan recipes that focuses on positive information, education and vegan outreach.   Ingredients: 2 zucchinis (courgettes), diced 2 carrots, diced 2 stalks of celery, sliced ¼ pumpkin, diced…

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Meatless Mondays: Pizzas! Mediterranean, Satay, Spinach and Pine Nuts

Here’s another Meatless Monday recipe to tantalize your taste buds and get you cooking this cruelty-free meal in your kitchen. This week’s Meatless Monday recipe is contributed by our friend, Leigh-Chantelle from Viva la Vegan! a website with a large range of vegan recipes that focuses on positive information, education and vegan outreach. Here’s three easy to prepare pizza topping ideas from Leigh-Chantelle & Viva la Vegan! There’s also a…

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Meatless Mondays: Fried Wild Rice

Hi! Here’s another Meatless Monday recipe to tantalize your taste buds and get you cooking this cruelty-free meal in your kitchen. This week’s Meatless Monday recipe is contributed by our friend, Leigh-Chantelle from Viva la Vegan! a website with a large range of vegan recipes that focuses on positive information, education and vegan outreach. Ingredients: 2 cups wild rice 4 cups filtered water 2 carrots, grated 1 zucchini, grated 1…

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Vegan Southern-Style Cashew Cheese Grits with Kicked-Up Kale

Vegan Southern-Style Cashew Cheese Grits with Kicked-Up Kale Yield: 4 servings By Betsy DiJulio   I’m a southern girl who grew up eating grits on a weekly basis.  In my pre-vegan days, cheese grits were a Sunday breakfast staple.  But what is a vegan supposed to do?  It is true that vegan block-style and shredded “cheeses” are continually improving in flavor, texture and melting point.  But, I think they are…

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Mix & Match: How You Cook Your Veggies May Determine Whether You Love ‘Em or Leave ‘Em

One of my favorite aspects of cooking—and there are many—is coaxing unexpected flavors out of fruits and vegetables.  Often, that transformation is a mere function of cooking method.  For example, butternut squash, which is fairly sweet on its own, is made even more so by roasting.  So, if you don’t want those natural sugars to overwhelm your palate or the other ingredients in a dish, perhaps sautéing is a better…

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Meatless Mondays: Stuffed Avocado

Hi! Here’s another Meatless Monday recipe to tantalize your taste buds and get you cooking this cruelty-free meal in your kitchen. This week’s Meatless Monday recipe is contributed by our friend, Leigh-Chantelle from Viva la Vegan! a website with a large range of vegan recipes that focuses on positive information, education and vegan outreach. Ingredients: 2 avocados 1 carrot, grated dash of lemon juice sprinkle of cracked black pepper Method:…

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Meatless Mondays: Stir Fried Quinoa

Hi! Here’s another Meatless Monday recipe to tantalize your taste buds and get you cooking this cruelty-free meal in your kitchen. This week’s Meatless Monday recipe is contributed by our friend, Leigh-Chantelle from Viva la Vegan! a website with a large range of vegan recipes that focuses on positive information, education and vegan outreach. Like Fried Rice but using Quinoa instead of the rice,. INGREDIENTS: 1 cup white quinoa 1…

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Vegan Diner and Recipe for Chai Spelt Pancakes

One thing I’ve noticed in my travels is people love their diner food. It’s a food craze you could say opposite of gourmet fancy pants food. We love our greasy spoons in America. Thankfully, as vegans we have some tasty and healthier options available to us across the nation. Spiral Diner right here in Central Texas comes to mind, as well as the very popular Chicago Diner and Saturn Cafe…

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Meatless Mondays: Raw Tomato Pasta

Hi! Here’s another Meatless Monday recipe to tantalize your taste buds and get you creating this cruelty-free meal in your kitchen. This week’s Meatless Monday recipe is contributed by our friend, Leigh-Chantelle from Viva la Vegan! a website with a large range of vegan recipes that focuses on positive information, education and vegan outreach. Ingredients: 4 zucchinis (courgettes) peeled, mandolined or spiralised 4 tomatoes, diced 1 red capsicum (pepper), thinly…

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