Category: Beans
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Roasted Sweet Potatoes & Spiced Vegan Medley
In my household we do a lot of cooking. A lot. Most days one of us gets in the kitchen to prepare dinner from scratch and since we made the move to Romania, that pretty much happens seven days a week thanks to the distinct lack of vegan offerings beyond side dishes at most restaurants.…
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Black Beans Vegan & Two Ways
Beans, I’ve learned, are a pretty controversial food when they don’t need to be. Beans are an excellent source of protein and fiber, and beans are also incredibly inexpensive which means you get a lot of meal for your buck. We all (mostly??) have our favorite beans, mine include black beans and garbanzo beans because…
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Taco Tuesday Vegan Style ~ Spicy Taco Salad
I know we’re a day early for Taco Tuesday but we’re doing this. TODAY. I don’t know about you but I’ve been doing some form of taco Tuesday since college but let’s be honest every day of the week was Taco Thursday or Pizza Monday or whatever…you get the idea, right? Well now, as an…
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Two Bean Vegan Jambalaya
I don’t know about you guys but here in Romania the weather has finally started to show signs of winter. The trees are getting barer and barer with every passing day and the day’s lows and highs are getting closer and closer to single digits. And you know what that means? It’s time for cold…
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Vegan Family Style Meals
So, here we are at my first Friday as a resident of Romania–officially–and my belly is full. Not stuffed, mind you, just that I have been indulging a little more than I should on some fine Romanian food that my mother-in-law has graciously made while we get our place set up, our fridge filled with food…
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Spiced Chickpea & Sprouts Salad ~ How Vegans REALLY Do Salad
If you’ve been a vegan or any amount of time, you’ve probably been accused of eating nothing but rabbit food. And if you’re not, then you’ve probably made some variation of this joke. Ha-friggin’-ha! The truth is that if you want to be healthy and regular, salads are kind of an essential part of life,…
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Sunday Sports 7 Layer Dip Recipe
Soccer may be a big deal here in Europe but this Sunday we had plenty of reasons to indulge in one of our favorite snacks. 7 layer dip. When you have to two U.S. Open finals to watch and a UFC event, 7 layer dip is the way the go. But of course, we had…
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Dirty Rice & Beans
When I was younger I guess I was like most kids and teens, equating good food with, what I now know is unhealthy crap. As such whenever there was a dish that contained both beans and rice—and no meat—I looked at it as Third World food. I would turn my nose up at it and…
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Green & White Nachos
When I was a child my granny used to make beans a lot, especially dry beans. Maybe it was the beginning of my mild OCD but I used to love helping her sift through the beans, discarding the gross ones. That was my introduction into dry beans; before then I only knew of canned beans.…
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