Dressings, Dips & Spreads

Smashed Burrito Bowls

Smashed burrito bowls with black beans, cauliflower rice, and paprika sweet potato mash. Serve with your favorite toppings!

Burrito bowls became a staple for me when I started follow a plant-based diet.

You mean I can just throw all of this stuff in a bowl and it’ll taste better than Chipotle?

Yup.

These Smashed Burrito Bowls are the result of one of my weeknight burrito bowl experiments involving a sweet potato, cauliflower, beans, a blender, and an intense craving for Mexican.

The combination of this bowl is ridiculously simple, but it feels fresh because it combines unexpected textures and a killer mix of herbs and spices.

OK, I’ll just say it.

These bowls might arguably resemble baby food, but trust me when I say no baby has had flavors like this from the jar.

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Kale Caesar Salad with Avocado Dressing

By Flora & Vino 2 Comments

Vegan caesar salad with crispy chickpea “croutons” and a creamy oil-free avocado tahini dressing. Perfect for meal prep and weekday lunches!

When I first delved into finer dining on dates and amongst friends, I got nervous ordering off of the food menu.

I always ordered a Caesar salad in those instances because it’s easy to pronounce and tasty to eat.

You know exactly what you’re going to get with a Caesar.

Plentiful salad green smothered in creamy white dressing with buttery croutons and flecks of parmesan.

My ordering anxiety is gone now, which is good, because this Kale Caesar Salad with Avocado Dressing isn’t as easy to say, but it’s easier to fall head over heels for.

I recreated this comforting classic in a salad that is plant based and healthy with just a few substitutions.

Okay, maybe everything is a substitution, but when you taste it you’ll agree you wouldn’t have it any other way.

It manages to still have that refreshing creamy “Caesar” feel without any of the dairy, oil, and gluten.

Plus, you get the added benefits of healthy fats and protein where your typical Caesar can sometimes be lacking.

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Tri-Spiced Yam Fries & Roasted Red Pepper Hummus

By Flora & Vino 3 Comments

Oil-free yam fries perfectly seasoned and served with oil-free roasted red pepper hummus. Ready in 30 minutes for an easy snack or healthy side!

In high school, I attended our school football games solely for the food.

OK, for my friends, too.

There was track at my high school that ran around the football field, and my friends and I walked it in lingering laps, gossiping and scanning the stands, really hoping we might see that cute boy from 5th period.

We passed the marching band, the cheerleaders, and the stands, over and over, never actually watching the game.

(Who watches football at a football game?)

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Roasted Beet Macro Bowl

By Flora & Vino 9 Comments

Roasted carrot, beet, and lentil macro bowl paired with a delicious maple lemon tahini dressing. Packed with protein and veggies to keep you fueled.

Roasted Beet Macro Bowl with Lemon Tahini Dressing by Flora & Vino

Last night I deleted the TO DO list that I’ve compiled on my phone since 2011.

By accident.

Yeah, that happened.

I was messing around inside the Reminders app, swiping up and down and mentally grunting and groaning at some of the tasks that have literally been on there for…years.

And…instead of deleting a line item I realized with giddy gratification I’d accomplished, I went and deleted the whole darn list.

Oops.

My first feeling was panic, sheer ‘how am I going to survive and function as a real adult without my to do list’ panic, but before I could even verbalize the terror it quickly changed to something I recognized as relief. Relief!

What?!

I could probably call Apple to try to retrieve the list from cyberspace.

I’m sure all of my “organize the closet” and “call grandma” and “go to target ” are swimming out there in the web somewhere with someone else’s dirty laundry.

Luckily, this Roasted Beet Macro Bowl wasn’t on the list.

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Sweet & Spicy Tomato Jam

By Flora & Vino 3 Comments

Easy unique jam made with cherry tomatoes and simple ingredients that achieve the perfect balance of sweet and spicy. Perfect as the topping for any meal!

When I first heard that tomatoes were actually a fruit (something about the whole seed situation classification), I was silently in denial.

Sure, you can say you’re a fruit, but I know who you REALLY are.

They just get along with vegetables too well.

Takes one to know one, right?

And then I made this Sweet & Spicy Tomato Jam, and, bam.

I’m pretty sure I’ll never think of tomatoes as a vegetable again.

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Paprika Power Bowl with Apple Cider Tahini

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Power bowl with paprika roasted veggies paired in a creamy Apple Cider Tahini Dressing. Prepare the ingredients in advance for easy lunches!

Big bowls of everything are all I want lately!

After I mix everything together with a fork and knife, bits of kale and veg always overflow and my heart aches at the sight of them lying shipwrecked on the countertop.

This Paprika Power Bowl with Apple Cider Tahini has major overflow potential, because it has everything.

It’s got texture, crunch, savory and sweet, and a creamy dressing that ties it all together.

Leafy greens, ancient grains, roasted veg, protein packed legumes, hearty nuts, sweet dried fruit, a killer oil-free dressing, and a dusting of seeds!

Do you think I could have fit anything else in there?

Believe me, I tried.

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