Category: Vegan
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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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Sesame Pineapple Cauliflower & Rice
One of the first things any new vegan must learn is the beauty of food substitutions. If you love tacos, which I do, then you have to get on board the bean or tofu train to replace that meat. If you love burgers which, again, I DO, then beans and lentils will become staples in…
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Banana Blueberry Oatmeal Squares ~ A Plant Based Sweet Treat!
One of the things you should know about me is that I’m not that big into sweets. Once in a while I’ll make a pan of chocolate-y brownies to satisfy a craving for something sweet, but mostly I make them for the hubs. He has a sweet tooth the size of Alaska and he isn’t…
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Vegan Bolognese…Plus an excuse to drink wine!
As you know, we recently made a trip to Würzburg, Germany and ate a tons of good vegan food. But what you may not know is that this place is a pretty respectable wine region, known for the cute little decanter-style bottles, called Bocksbeutel. And like any good tourist, I purchased more than one bottle. I’m a…
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Our Trip to Würzburg ~ A Day of Walking, a Fortress and Vegan Eats
We recently took a day trip to Würzburg, a small town of about 100,000 people in the Bavaria region of Germany. This place is what you think of when you think of idyllic small towns, except it is filled with some truly amazing architecture. Now full disclosure; I’m no art expert but I fall into the I…
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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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Good Vegan Eats
I’ve been awhile…a long while but now that I’m (we’re?) back, here’s a visual history of some of the healthy plant based dishes we’ve experimented with over the past few months…or when one of us remembers to snap a photo of our tasty treats! Sticky tofu with sauteed vegetables & couscous This was my…
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Spicy Tahini Rice Bowl
This recipe was inspired by The Stingy Vegan but because we live in Germany right now, where you can’t get every vegetable on the planet year-round, we had to improvise. The good thing about this dish is that it is much heartier than it looks. We used wild rice because it’s delicious, hearty and packed…
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The Spicy Spatula 
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