Posts Tagged ‘recipe’

Easy Vegan Ranch Dressing

Ranch dressing is great for salads and dipping vegetables. Store bought ranch dressing and dips are loaded with fats and preservatives and are definitely not vegan. Here’s a great recipe that’s super quick and easy to whip up! Ingredients: vegan mayo (I use vegenaise) italian spices vegan milk (soy, almond, rice, etc) salt and pepper, [...]

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Fried Okra

Okra is in season! I love okra and have been getting a lot in my csa boxes. This was the first recipe I made because it’s one of my favorites and definitely a classic! Ingredients: okra, cut into 1 inch slices corn meal egg whites salt and pepper oil for frying Put egg whites in [...]

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Grilled Veggie Fajitas

One of my all time favorite meals are vegetable fajitas. Fresh veggies coming together with soft homemade tortillas, salsa and guacamole is divine and the summer is one of the best times to indulge since the vegetables are fresh and plentiful. I like to use a cast iron skillet to cook the vegetables. It keeps [...]

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Strawberry Banana Green Smoothie

Strawberry and bananas are a favorite combination of mine and this smoothie was no different! 1 1/2 cup water 3/4 cup slice fresh strawberries 1 frozen banana 1/2 cup fresh spinach Blend and enjoy!

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Green Smoothie

I’ve been having a lot of green smoothies for breakfast. Here’s a simple one that’s really good. 1 c. raw spinach 1 1/2 c. water 1 frozen banana Blend and enjoy!  

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Lower cal blueberry cheesecake (vegan)

Ingredients Puree: 1 container fresh blueberries 3 tbsp sugar (or agave nectar) 1 tbsp.lemon juice 2 tbsp. cornstartch Cheesecake: 8 ounces Tofutti Better Than Cream Cheese (or regular cream cheese) 12 ounces light firm (or extra firm) silken tofu (it comes in the non-refrigerated box) 1/3 c. sugar (or agave nectar) 2 tbsp. cornstarch 1 [...]

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Stuffed Pepper

Sorry for the low quality picture, I was so hungry I just took a quick pic on my phone. Ingredients: 1 package Smart Grounds Original Crumbles 1/2 c. pico de gallo (mine was homemade. You could also use cut up onion,peppers and tomato) 1 1/2 cup cooked rice (wild rice is best, I used forbidden [...]

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Pimento Cheese Spread

On a magazine cover at work I saw a great picture of some homemade pimento cheese spread made into a grilled cheese and it looked so good I had to try it out for myself. I found the recipe online which was a little different from classic pimento cheese because it had horseradish in it. The recipe [...]

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Breakfast Potato Pita Pocket

I love breakfast and using leftovers in unique and yummy ways, so I was thrilled when I put together this awesome breakfast wrap using left over mashed potatoes and pita pockets that needed to be eaten. To make it I heated up some leftover mashed potatoes in a skillet. Then got a couple eggs broken [...]

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Tasty Pumpkin Seeds

I love Halloween, and part of the festivities is carving a pumpkin, or two, or three! This year I just carved one and I did it for a contest on the site Reddit. It’s a “news” site where people up or down vote stories and comments. Anyways, I thought it would be neat to use [...]

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