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Jamaican Jerk Cauliflower Steaks & Rosé

Vegan cauliflower steaks with a homemade Jamaican jerk seasoning and fresh squeezed orange. Serve with greens, grains, or protein of choice.

I’ve been craving a big fancy meal lately.

The kind of meal you get dressed up for and spend hours devouring the courses.

Most of the time I’m the type of person who would choose a home-cooked meal over going out any day of the week.

Something about the helter-skelter of moving, though, has made me crave the simplicity and charm of eating out.

Partially for the food and also heavily because of the fact that I don’t have to do the dishes afterwards.

But instead of immediately jumping on Happy Cow seeking your next fix of plants, let’s make a fun cruciferous steak of our own.

These Jamaican Jerk Cauliflower Steaks & Rosé are an easy plant-based pairing to elevate your summer dinner plans!

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Carrot Hot Dogs with Japanese Yam “Buns”

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Carrot Hot Dogs with Japanese Yam “Buns”! This veg-centric take on the classic hot dog is totally vegan, gluten-free, and grain-free!

Before I was vegan, I was vegetarian for a few months in college, trying on the veg-life for size.

It felt good.

I remember I sheepishly broke my veg-tastic streak on a night-out at the ballpark with friends.

Peer pressure persuaded me to order a ballpark hot dog because, hey, I didn’t want to be the oddball snacking on peanuts until the 9th inning.

My, how times have changed.

These days, I’ll gladly flaunt my veg while watching home runs.

And I’ve got just the quirky veg alternative that is sure to get noticed.

These Carrot Hot Dogs with Japanese Yam Buns might be the cutest and healthiest “hot dog” you’ve ever seen!

A smoky marinaded carrot “dog” placed between a perfectly baked japanese yam “bun” piled with my favorite ballpark toppings!

Hot diggity dog, let’s get to it.

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BBQ Jackfruit Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

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Sweet potatoes stuffed with bbq shredded jackfruit, avocado, and yogurt tahini. Perfect for a summer cookout or weeknight meal!

Two days until the Fourth!

The kids in my neighborhood have already started putting fireworks off in rainbow sputters on the street.

Luckily, Harper doesn’t seem very bothered by them, which says a lot because she’s afraid of everything.

Sometimes I feel like I should be sharing more “classic” holiday eats, but hey, can classic does this?

These BBQ Jackfruit Stuffed Sweet Potatoes sweet, a little spicy, and totally unique.

Arguably the best grain and gluten-free way to do a plant-based BBQ dish for summer partying.

Grab some taters and let’s stuff them with tender barbecued jackfruit, avocado, and yogurt tahini dressing.

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Vegan Zucchini Crust Pizza

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Vegan Zucchini Crust Pizza that’s gluten-free with no added oil. Add pizza sauce and your favorite toppings for plant-based pizza night!

How are you channel changing skills?

To be honest I’ve never been a big TV channel explorer.

I’m more of a “pick a show and binge-watch it then turn off the tube” kind of a consumer (like I did with The Handmaid’s Tale last night into the wee hours of the night!)

Dan, however, is notorious for channel surfing at a rate that makes my head spin.

(You can’t get too invested, folks, because it’s gone in approximately 2.5 seconds.)

The other day, per usual, he was flipping YouTube TV channels and we ended up watching a reel called “Your Daily Dose of Satisfaction”.

Curious, we continued to watch as the video skipped from clip to clip of action scenes.

Clay on a pottery wheel whirring, chopping veggies in clean cuts, paint filling a canvas with precise strokes.

“I guess watching these scenes is supposed to make us feel more satisfied,” Dan said.

And I’ve got to say, I did get a sort of weird charge from watching tasks get completed on the big screen even though I wasn’t the one doing the completing.

Well, here’s your daily dose of satisfaction, and it’s called Vegan Zucchini Crust Pizza.

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Vegetable Pasta Salad (Grain-Free!)

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Lightened up pasta salad packed with fresh chopped vegetables, grain-free chickpea pasta, and balsamic dressing. Perfect for summer lunches!

Have you been to the pool yet?

I went for my first time this season on Memorial Day with a girlfriend.

It was late on the holiday and I really just wanted to lay there motionless in the sun until dark, but I recognized with a sigh that the workweek was quickly approaching.

So we shifted out convo to preparation for week, which sifted to food and meal prep and easy things to throw together with the limited time we had.

I confessed that lunches had me particularly perplexed lately.

What do you eat when you don’t want salads for lunch, but also aren’t in the mood for cooking?

(I swear I’m a food blogger, haha.)

“What about a pasta salad?” she asked.

Yes, what about that.

This Vegetable Pasta Salad (Grain-Free!) is packed with protein and raw vegetables for an easy lightened up vegan pasta salad!

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Vegetable Kabobs with Spicy Lime Yogurt

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Rainbow kabobs with summer vegetables and a quick-mix spicy lime yogurt sauce. The perfect skewer to enjoy for summer grilling!

It’s Memorial Day weekend!

Which means it’s unofficially (but so officially) summer.

It was a perfect 75 degree day today here in Virginia and every second spent indoors away from the sunshine hurt!

So.

If you stayed in town, are you grilling this weekend?

Grilled veggies are to summer what roasted veggies are to fall.

A staple.

We haven’t fired up our grill yet, but I love using my grill pan to achieve the grill marks without actually manning the fire.

Dan wants to dust off the real deal tomorrow– weather permitting!

If you’ve already got yours out and ready, throw these Vegetable Kabobs with Spicy Lime Yogurt on the fire for a quick plant-based option to classic kabobs.

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Veggie Noodles with Lentil Walnut Mushroom Bolognese

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Veggie Noodles with Lentil Walnut Mushroom Bolognese packed with lentil protein and sweetened with dates. Perfect for pasta night in!

Hello, hello!

Do your pups have a favorite parent?

If Harper could talk, she would tell you that without a doubt, it’s Dan.

Dan was away on a business trip this week so Harper was stuck with mom for the last few days.

She mostly moped around under the bed upstairs or impatiently waited by the front door, pouty and persistent that Dan would come home even well after midnight.

We had some good times though, staying up watching the remake of “Overboard” on Amazon Prime last night (cute but nothing like the original!), eating lunch on the deck in the gorgeous seventy-degree weather, and dancing around the kitchen after instructing Alexa to “play party music”.

She even got to scarf down a few veggie noodles that fell on the floor during my shoot today.

This Veggie Noodles with Sweet Lentil Walnut Mushroom Bolognese is the perfect warm weather pasta bowl that’s vegan, gluten, grain, and oil free.

It manages to be both light and refreshing for spring and summer while still being a true protein powerhouse.

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Vegetable Quinoa Fried “Rice” with Edamame

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Vegetable Quinoa Fried “Rice” with Edamame packed with fresh vegetables and edamame protein for a complete meal or side.

How was your week?

I’m writing like it’s already over because it feels impossible for one more thing to go down.

For example, we had our dishwasher serviced today after a week of crackling dishwasher cycles.

The service guy crawled out from under the washer with handfuls of almond pieces from the dishwasher drain, looking perfectly polished and white.

I tried to explain to him that I was a food blogger, you see, and it’s really hard to get all of the dishes to come clean.

He just laughed and shook his head and continued picking almonds.

Needless to say, none of the dishes are clean right now at the house, so takeout sounds like a pretty good idea.

Except that this Vegetable Quinoa Fried “Rice” with Edamame sounds better.

You just need cooked quinoa, your favorite veggies, and…preferably a working dishwasher.

Let’s stir-fry.

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The Quickest Vegan Curry

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Easy vegan curry made with coconut milk, warming spices, and your favorite veggies. Serve over quinoa or cauliflower rice or by itself!

Helllllllo.

Did you watch the Academy Awards on Sunday?

I may or may not have teared up over my dinner when Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper took the stage to sing “Shallow”.

Oh, maybe I didn’t tell you yet– I finally watched A Star Is Born last week and I’ve been low-key obsessed with the movie and music ever since.

Which looks like me listening to the soundtrack on repeat in the studio with my camera hovering over my curry.

Curry! Do you like it?

Dan hates the smell of it, but I love everything about it, so he dealt with the aromatic kitchen after I tested and retested today’s post.

The Quickest Vegan Curry is what you need in your life to get you through the rest of winter.

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1-Pot Vegetable Minestrone

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Easy 1-pot vegetable minestrone with a delicious tomato-based oil-free broth. Perfect for meal prep, family style soup, and every day eating.

Friends, it’s been a week and it’s not even Friday.

I know you know what I mean.

A few weeks ago some pixels decided to party on my MacBook pro screen and they’ve been dancing up and down in vertical lines on the right side of my screen ever since.

I decided to let them do their thing, rock on, since I could still see the food photos on the left.

Annoying, but manageable.

Fast forward to last night, when, to add add insult to injury, I managed to actually crack the screen.

It went something like this– the laptop in the living room with Lauren.

I fell asleep on the couch, laptop open and sprawled across my lap, and sat up to watch said laptop crash into the hardwood floor at a dizzying 45 degree angle.

When it rains, it pours, right?

If only it was raining 1-Pot Vegetable Minestrone Soup.

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