Category: Beans
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Vegan Summer Salads ~ Broccoli, Sweet Potato & Chickpea Salad
With this unbelievable and sometimes, unbearable, heat, I have been working to up my salad game. We’ve all heard the vegan jokes about munching on lettuce nonstop to fuel our malnourished bodies, but the truth is that if I’d known how amazing I could make salads in my pre-vegan days, my life might be very…
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Vegan Sausage & Bean Casserole w/Garlicky Mashed Potatoes
I know, I know. Beans and sausage are both proteins and totally unnecessary in one desk. I know. Really, I do. In fact, most nights of the week I’ll be the annoying vegan making that argument. But a deal is a deal and when we decided, ages ago, that as long as we had the…
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Easy Vegan Dinner Recipes ~ Chickpea Masala
Life as we know it under normal circumstances is…a distant memory. You know that as well as I do, and as such, we have all been doing the best we can as often as we can. For the purposes of today’s blog, that means making sure you get a good chunk of whole foods in…
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Vegan Brunch Recipe ~ Hangover Edition
Happy New Year! I’m not much for resolutions and all that, so my sincere hope for you is that 2021 is better than the previous year. Cook better. Eat better. LIve better. Be better. And I just might be able to help you with the first two. Maybe. Full disclosure: I was not hungover when…
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Vegan Comfort Food ~ Mac & White Bean Cheese
Hello. My name is Natasha and I have a serious carb problem. Specifically a pasta/noodle problem. The problem is, I can’t get enough of it. And the bigger problem is that he can’t get enough of it either. So we’ve been eating a lot of pasta. Maybe for comfort or familiarity or maybe because is…
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Vegan Pub Fare: Falafel Balls & Baked Fries
One of the things I’m always trying to do is find ways to take the greasy foods I love and make them a little bit healthier and more calorie friendly. Thanks to my trusty air fryer, that’s now a possibility. But there are some days when you want to just pop some stuff into the…
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Supreme Vegan Salads
We all know the jokes about vegans eating nothing but grass or lettuce or any other leafy green, right? To a certain extent that’s true for this vegan, but that’s because once you open your mind, salads are damn good. They aren’t just delicious though, they are also packed with vitamins and nutrients that keep…
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Chickpeas & Shredded Mushrooms with Turmeric Rice ~ Done in 30 Minutes or Less
What do you do when you still have one more dinner to make and its the day before grocery day? Hit up the pantry for staple ingredients and use whatever fresh leftovers you have. Duh. The grocery store we frequent has kept a big fat smile on my face with all their mushroom offerings. Usually…
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Lazy Vegan Chickpea Bowl
I’m going to let you in on a little vegan secret: not every meal requires you to be in the kitchen for hours on end. I know that may come as a shock to you, but sometimes you’re just feeling lazy and you want something quick, easy and nutritious. When it comes to a lazy…
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Sometimes You Just Want A Vegan Welsh Rarebit Pasta Bake
Hey guys! Hope you don’t mind a Tuesday post, but I spent all weekend in my writing cave and suddenly Monday rolled up and there I was, with no post ready to go. So after spending the morning grocery shopping, here we are, ready to talk two of my favorite things: vegan food and pasta.…
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