Dressings, Dips & Spreads

3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Date Caramel

Vegan caramel with no added sugar and just three ingredients! Super drizzly with creamy peanut butter, and naturally sweetened with Medjool dates.

Do you say care-a-mel or car-mall?

I’m a care-a-mel kind of a girl, myself, but I’ll respond to either, especially when peanut butter and dates are involved.

This 3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Date Caramel is the perfect fall dip that you can whip up in 5 minutes to transform your fall snacking!

It’s naturally date-sweetened sweetened, peanut protein-rich, and oil free, all with major drizzle potential.

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Easy Beet Hummus (Oil-Free!)

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Easy bright beet hummus made oil-free and super creamy with tahini, lemon, and and seasonings. Perfect to make in advance to upgrade your snacking!

On travel this past weekend I packed a seemingly ridiculous amount of snacks.

Snacks erupting from every crevice of my packed purple suitcase: raw bars, granola, hummus– the works.

But snacks can really make or break your day, yeah?

They can take you from hangry to happy in an instant.

Bonus points if they’re PINK.

I’m excited to share this colorful new chip & dip combo to make your snack time both pretty and delicious.

Pretty delicious.

This Easy Beet Hummus (Oil Free!) is ready in less than 10 minutes for easy snacking that’s raw, oil free, and packed with nutrients!

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Stone Fruit Stuffed Sweet Potatoes with Maple Tahini

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Enjoy sweet potato as the base for this hearty breakfast packed with seasonal fruit and a delicious maple tahini drizzle.

While breakfast is my favorite meal of the day, it’s also the one my taste buds voted most likely to be predictable.

Yours too?

I know, it’s hard.

You wake up and want the tried and true.

But here’s an idea– let’s talk about sweet potatoes, sweet peaches, and maple tahini.

Are you drooling yet?

Snap out of your breakfast rut with these Stone Fruit Stuffed Sweet Potatoes with Maple Tahini for easy plant-based fuel!

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Creamy Cauliflower Dip

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Easy 6-ingredient creamy cauliflower dip that’s oil-free, legume-free, and perfect for pairing with your favorite veggie chips!

Hi guys!

I didn’t go grocery shopping over the weekend like I always do, and it honestly surprised me how much lighter I felt when I woke up yesterday with hardly anything in the fridge.

Yes, bare fridges make me happy, in the same sort of the way a blank page makes me happy.

Instead of being dangerously full of fresh produce, it’s packed with potential.

Can you sense it?

The potential for perfectly stacked jars of Creamy Cauliflower Dip, y’all.

The 6-ingredient vegan, paleo, and oil-free veg-centric dip you need in your fridge and life ASAP.

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Perfect 5-Ingredient Guacamole

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Minimalist guac with only five ingredients! Perfect for snacking and dipping. Pair with carrot chips for a killer complimentary combo!

Can we talk about how much I love avocado?

Let me give you an idea in numbers and figures.

Last weekend when Dan went to the store I asked him to get 8-10 avocados.

And he didn’t bat an eye.

Partially for recipe testing this guacamole, but also because we actually eat that many avocados a week.

A day without avocado is like a day without sunshine…that’s a saying somewhere, right?

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Grilled Tempeh Collard Wraps with Mango Salsa

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Grilled lime cilantro tempeh, mango salsa, and spicy almond butter sauce piled on fresh collard greens. Enjoy as an easy summer lunch, dinner, or appetizer.

Who’s ready for a vacation get-away?

*waving both hands over here*

It’s really starting to feel like summer here in Virginia, and I’m in the mood to do a whole lot of nothing.

And by nothing I mean lay beach-front with a guilty pleasure good book, an ostentatiously fruit drink, and some tropical eats.

I can’t really help you out with the beach trip (we’ll get there!) but I’m excited to share these wraps that will take your taste-buds on vacation.

These Grilled Tempeh Collard Wraps with Mango Salsa & Spicy Almond Butter Sauce are the perfect protein packed meal with a sweet tropical vibe and a spicy finish.

Grain-free, plant-based, and oil-free; they’re perfect for the entire vacation party.

Better to send our taste-buds to paradise than nothing, right?

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Easy Raw Cashew Cheese & Rosé

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Easy creamy vegan cheese dip made with cashews, lemon, garlic, and nutritional yeast. Perfect for dipping veggies, crackers, and fruit!

Did I ever tell you guys that Dan and I got married at a vineyard?

Yes, this year marks that scorching hot day in July when we said “I DO,” and enjoyed a glass of Rosé afterwards.

It’s that time of year again when winery lawns become alive with picnics and puppies and PEOPLE.

Plant-based options for dining at a vineyard are usually slim to none, so, naturally I roll in with my mini-cooler packed with all the snacks.

Some of my favorites are trail-mix, raw bars, or hummus and veggies to enjoy with a glass of my favorite.

Sometimes, though, nothing beats the creamy, salty, sharp taste of cheese to pair with a glass of wine, you know?

Enter this Easy Raw Cashew Cheese to compliment all of your summer shenanigans!

It’s the the perfect plant-based companion for picnics, parties, or portable healthy snacking made with only 8 real ingredients.

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Black Soy Bean, Beet, & Bok Choy Bowl with Garlic Ginger Tahini Dressing

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Easy power bowl with black soy beans, beets, and bok choy served over a bed of quinoa and drizzled with a creamy garlic ginger tahini.

I’ve been thinking a lot about this tight-rope that we all walk on, friends.

Balance is hard, isn’t it?

We’re constantly pulled in dual directions in an epic never-ending tug-of-war of different virtues.

Self-love and Self-improvement. Action and Inaction. Simplicity and Complexity.

One thing that I think we can all agree on is that the best eats are the ones that start simple and taste complex, though, don’t you think?

A bit of yin and yang.

This Black Soy Bean, Beet, & Bok Choy Bowl with Garlic Ginger Tahini Dressing comes together in under 30 minutes with bright whole foods and a creamy tahini dressing.

You can save the “To be or not to be…?” and focus on the real cruz of the matter….

To bowl or not to bowl?

(And why the heck not?!)

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Sweet Potato Boats with Baby Broccoli & Ginger Turmeric Sweet Potato Cream

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Sweet potato boats with spiced chickpeas and roasted broccoli with a creamy ginger turmeric sweet potato cream. A hearty plant-based meal for the family!

Happy Friday Eve!

I used to worry that writing about food would get old.

As it turns out, it’s mostly thinking up ways to describe how amazing something tastes that really uses brainpower.

If you think about it, it’s actually pretty hard to describe what a sweet potato, for example, tastes like if you were describing it to someone who’d never had one before (poor soul!).

How would you describe it? Sweet? Fluffy?

Every word feels a bit inadequate to encompass all that is…a sweet potato.

So you’re just going to have to trust me when I tell you that these Sweet Potato Boats with Baby Broccoli & Ginger Turmeric Sweet Potato Cream are out of this world good eating.

How’s that for a descriptor?

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Japanese Yam Bowl with Turmeric Carrot Cashew Sauce

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Cozy plant-based bowl with chickpeas, broccoli, and Japanese yam in a bright turmeric carrot cashew sauce. Gluten-free, Oil-free, and easy for meal prep!

Here’s a fun fact for you.

I don’t travel well.

Like at all.

We have a trip to California coming up next week and I’m already in semi-freak out mode, making lists on lists on lists in my bipolar hand-writing that oscillates between print and cursive when I’m stressed.

The suitcases are out, friends, a looming reminder of all the STUFF that needs to go in them.

So it’s felt like a sort of long week here at F&V, was it like that for you, too?

Thank goodness for basic meals, like this Japanese Yam Bowl with Turmeric Carrot Cashew Sauce.

I’ll give you some yams, chickpeas, greens, and a cool new sauce if you come and help me pack all of things.

Do we have a deal?

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3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Date Caramel

Easy Beet Hummus (Oil-Free!)

Stone Fruit Stuffed Sweet Potatoes with Maple Tahini

Creamy Cauliflower Dip

Perfect 5-Ingredient Guacamole

Grilled Tempeh Collard Wraps with Mango Salsa

Easy Raw Cashew Cheese & Rosé

Black Soy Bean, Beet, & Bok Choy Bowl with Garlic Ginger Tahini Dressing

Sweet Potato Boats with Baby Broccoli & Ginger Turmeric Sweet Potato Cream

Japanese Yam Bowl with Turmeric Carrot Cashew Sauce

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