Category: Italian
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Oil-Free Vegan Pesto – Recipe & Tips
When you think of pesto, you probably imagine the light green sauce we know as pesto alla Genovese, made with basil and pine nuts and usually some type of hard cheese. This is my go-to pesto recipe because the flavor of fresh basil is pretty incredible. When I talk vaguely about pesto, this is what…
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Childhood Favorites Gone Vegan ~ Spaghetti & Meatballs
When I was a kid one of my favorite canned meals was spaghetti and meatballs. As a latch-key kid, there was nothign better than racing home from school to crack open a can of ravioli, spaghetti-o’s or spaghetti and meatballs. All of that tomato-y goodness that, in hindsight, wasn’t all that good, waiting to stain…
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Linguine & Vegan Balls with Red Sauce
Spaghetti and meatballs, it’s pretty much a classic among pasta meals and it’s been a long damn time since I’ve eaten any variation of them. Part of it is because meatballs can be a really cumbersome task, more so when they’re vegan, at least that was the case when I first went vegan in Germany.…
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Easy Vegan Pizza Bread
What do you do when you want to make vegan pizza at home, but you don’t want all the calories that come with store bought (or homemade) pizza dough? You get a nice hunk of bread from the bakery, making sure to read the ingredients that most store bakeries list to look for non-vegan ingredients…
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Creamy Vegan Mushroom Tetrazzini
Whenever I think of tetrazzini, instantly I’m propelled back to the 90’s when my former step mother would make this dish with leftover dry chicken (or turkey if it was just after Thanksgiving) and mushrooms and some cream-type style. It wasn’t my favorite dish back then, other than the fact, you know, that pasta is…
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Vegan Meatball Stew & Creamy Polenta
Nothing is better than a nice stewy dish when the weather is cold, and let me tell ya, the weather here has been COLD!!! I was really in the mood for a hearty vegetable stew but my partner wanted me to make creamy polenta so I split the difference and added a lot less broth…
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Vegan Bacon w/ Cheesy Broccoli Linguine
What do you do when your latest order of vegan food arrives in the mail and vegan bacon is inside? You make some version of vegan carbonara, but you don’t call it carbonara because all the Italian food purists will throw a giant hissy fit. My partner made a simple request, vegan pasta carbonara and…
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Vegan Shrimp Linguine Scampi
So I know that I’ve said on previous occasions that I’m not a fan of vegan foods that look like animal products and that rings true, but I am an adventurous person and on my latest online vegan food shopping spree I decided to do something bold. Something crazy. Something out of the realm of…
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Vegan Risotto alla Bolognese
Is there anything better on a cold November day than some thick and hearty carbs smothered in a creamy sauce that just makes you feel better about being stuck in the house and cold as hell? Not on this particular November day, anyway. This vegan dinner was a request from my husband a la Midnight…
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Seitan Sausage & Vegan Carbonara
Just for the sake of clarification, I should tell you that I am not a tradititonalist when it comes to recipes. I will take something that looks interesting and try it once to decide how I like it, and then I will tweak it to fit my palate, ingredients and desires. But I will totally…
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The Spicy Spatula 