Category: Plant Based
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Totally Plant Based Mushroom Bourguignon!!
I have always been a big fan of mushroom. Stuff them with a bunch of savory flavors, grill’em up with onions and put them on a burger and I couldn’t be happier or add them to an Asian style soup and let me at it. But since adopting a plant based diet mushrooms and I…
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A Lost Weekend in Cluj-Napoca
Those of you who have started reading and following this blog–thank all of you for encouraging me to keep doing this!–know that one of my biggest passions is traveling. That’s right, in addition to being a romance author, ghostwriter, political junkie and vegan foodie, I love to get away. Anytime. Anyplace. And it turns out…
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Spicy Broccoli & Tofu Noodles
One of my favorite things is noodles. Asian style noodles. I love them all from the delicious buckwheat taste of soba noodles to rice noodles (thick or thin) and of course, ramen. But I also adore Udon noodles, glass noodles, wok noodles and all the undiscovered noodles out there waiting for me. I. Love. Them.…
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Plant Based Gnocchi with Squash & Turmeric Cream
Some days you want to whip up something easy for dinner and you reach for one of those tasty vegan burgers that only require you to add your favorite fixings and on other days you feel like channeling your inner professional chef and getting all up in the kitchen and whipping up something wonderful. Enter,…
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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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Homemade Vegan Broth: A Novel Way To Use Veg Scraps
As a hardworking vegan you’re used to spending time each day chopping, slicing, dicing and whatnot to all of your veggies. It’s part of cooking and when you eat a plant based diet you’ll spend a good deal of meal prep doing just that. And when this is what you wake up to… …you’re really…
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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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Traveling While Vegan: Creativity & Compromise A Must
One of the things you might have guessed about me is that traveling is at the top of my favorite things to do list. Honestly, I’m not that picky. Okay, I do have an extensive list of places I would like see and the things I really want to do when I get there but what…
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Fried Tofu Sammies with Raw Vegan Slaw
Sometimes you have a need for something so specific that you just can’t let it go. It happens to all of us, I think, and at any rate it happened to me recently. I really felt like having a chicken sandwich which has proven to be pretty much an empty wish in Romania. In Germany…
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Are Farmers Markets Really Cost Effective?
Let me start this blog post by saying that there was a time–nearly a decade ago, mind you–that I was one of those people who believed farmers markets were a racket. I thought the vegetables were overpriced and kind of damaged and mostly I went for the specialty items like corn jelly. I lived in…
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