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Pre-Shopping Day Vegan Pasta Primavera
View recipe: Pre-Shopping Day Vegan Pasta PrimaveraWhat do you do when you need to make something quick, easy and nutritious to make for dinner with a fridge full of leftover ingredients? I had no clue but my husband and I have been taking inspiration from the Netflix show, Midnight Diner. It’s a Japanese vignette show centered on a diner where people…
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Crunchy Asian Kitchen Sink Salad
View recipe: Crunchy Asian Kitchen Sink SaladA big part of my weight loss journey was figuring out food. Not just calories and portion sizes, but putting it all together in a way that would satisfy my appetite and my calorie deficit. This took some time. Year One as a vegan and basically all I did was remove all animal products from my…
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Beyond Animal Fries!!!
View recipe: Beyond Animal Fries!!!Happy 2020!! Things have been crazy around here with editing my book, sending it out to beta readers and all of that, so I’ve been neglecting The Spicy Spatula terribly. I hope you’re still around and ready for another year of easy, healthy, vegan home cooking. I spent nearly a decade living in Los Angeles…
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Quick & Easy Vegan Dips
View recipe: Quick & Easy Vegan DipsThings have been a little hectic around here because–yay!!!!–I’ve finally finished my next novel. I’m feeling good but that’s only the first step so my work load had kind of tripled so I’m keeping today’s post pretty simple. Dips, for me, are the perfect low calorie snack that can easily be made to fit a…
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Pesto Beans & Beyond Sausage
View recipe: Pesto Beans & Beyond SausageRecently I found myself binge watching this strange British reality show called ‘Can’t Pay We’ll Take It Away’ and it’s pretty fantastic in an awful train wreck kind of a way. Anyway, long story short one of the people who owed money was eating beans & sausage, which I immediately thought to myself was kind…
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Egg Roll Fried Rice
View recipe: Egg Roll Fried RiceYou know those meals some people refer to as refrigerator meals or kitchen sink meals? The name comes from the fact that you just take a bunch of random ingredients to make something pretty awesome. That’s pretty much how this recipe came out. I had three different needs for cabbage in one week but none…
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The Beyond Burger ~ 3 Nights of Vegan Eats
View recipe: The Beyond Burger ~ 3 Nights of Vegan EatsWhen it comes to being vegan I am mostly a pretty low-key kind of gal. I can get down with the odd protest or two, but I’m more likely to slide facts you don’t want to hear into everyday conversation in a way that’s guaranteed to make those facts impossible to forget. My friends love…
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Vegan Sausage & Peppers w/Beyond Sausage!!!
View recipe: Vegan Sausage & Peppers w/Beyond Sausage!!!The city of Chicago is my hometown and I love it…a lot. I miss it too but not in the normal way you think about missing a location. Of course I have fond memories of Shedd Aquarium or Adler Planetarium, not to mention the House of Blues and Museum of Natural History, but in addition…
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Vegan Pumpkin Desserts Galore!
View recipe: Vegan Pumpkin Desserts Galore!With pumpkin season upon us, I thought it was time that I went a little bit nuts with pumpkin desserts. I’ve been working out regularly and there hasn’t been a month in the past 24 months that I haven’t lost weight so it was time to be…grateful for my success. Okay and pumpkin season is…
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Vegan Chicken & Indian Stew
View recipe: Vegan Chicken & Indian StewSoup season is upon us! That means it’s time to start experimenting with all the veggies you can get your hands on to warm up your bones, nourish your body without giving it too much of the bad stuff. This time around I’ve decided to be a little bit naughty in my take on tarka…
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