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1-Pot Vegetable Minestrone

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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Vegan Banana Chocolate Chunk Bread

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Vegan Banana Chocolate Chunk Bread made in 1-bowl. Naturally sweetened with bananas and coconut sugar.

I was sitting in 10th grade Psychology class when my friend, Dan, pulled out a loaf of banana bread from a large Ziplock bag.

“Want this?” he said, offering the crumbled loaf to me.

“I realized afterwards that I forgot to add sugar,” he said sheepishly.

I grabbed a big chunk from inside and chewed.

Banana walnut, yum.

It was a little (okay, a lot) bland, but I liked how you could clearly taste the bananas and nuts.

The bell rang.

He shrugged, “You can have it if you want.”

So I tucked the ziplock bag of sugar-free banana bread into my backpack and strolled out into the locker bay.

For the remainder of the day I enjoyed pieces of bland banana bread, the subtle sweetness growing on me, and by dismissal time I was pretty sure I needed the recipe.

I didn’t quite feel right continuing into 2019 without a banana bread recipe on the blog.

Before we continue, no, this isn’t a remake of my friend Dan’s sugar-free banana bread fail.

But if we were doing one of those word association games I’d probably tell you this story if prompted, “BANANA BREAD.”

What I do have for you, though, is a delicious banana bread recipe that’s also oil free and refined sugar free, which is pretty cool.

This weekend we cleaned the oven for the first time since moving in (two years ago).

Obviously by we I mean it was Dan who wiped it down and it was me who watched in disgust as the paper towel came out black again and again.

I vowed to never let it get that bad again, and then I set out to start breaking it in again.

This Vegan Banana Chocolate Chunk Bread was the first thing I baked in our freshly spruced furnace.

So here’s how to dirty up your oven in the best possible way.

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Vegan Broccoli Rice Breakfast Quiche

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Vegan Broccoli Rice Breakfast Quiche with tofu, broccoli, and tomato. Perfect for a protein-packed weekend breakfast, brunch, or brinner.

Sometimes I write my blog posts backwards, starting at the recipe bottom and working my way up to the tippy top.

Lately I’ve been having trouble getting from point A to point B, so maybe we can take it B to A for a change.

Anyone else have a weird week?

Dan was in Puerto Rico for a work retreat and every picture he sent me of palm-tree studded beaches and bright blue skies and water made my heart ache.

It’s only January and I’m already ready for my vacation!

Before you book yours, I’m offering you a vacation from your usual breakfast.

This Vegan Broccoli Rice Breakfast Quiche has less than 10 ingredients for a compact nutritious start to your day!

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Swiss Chard Abundance Salad

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Swiss Chard Abundance Salad packed with superfoods and an easy oil-free orange tahini dressing. Perfect for meal prep and workweek lunches.

How is January halfway over?

We’re past the midway month point and I haven’t even shared a salad recipe with you.

I’m going to blame the snow.

It’s still mostly white here in Virginia, but I laced up my Sorel snow boots this afternoon and took Harper on a long snow-walk anyway.

We paused for a second 30 minutes in, surrounded by soft snow and gray branches against pink skies– and guys, it was so quiet and so beautiful.

I wanted to bottle up that silence and add it to a permanent highlight reel in my brain.

This month has been anything but quiet, kicking off 2019 in southpaw stance.

Allow this Swiss Chard Abundance Salad with Easy Orange Tahini to be the calm amidst your January storm.

It screams “eat the rainbow” while being packed with superfoods and a citrus based oil-free dressing.

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Cream of “No Wheat” (Grain-Free!)

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Cream of “No Wheat” made grain-free with almond flour, shredded coconut, nuts, and seeds. The perfect alternative to oatmeal!

It’s a white winter wonderland outside, friends.

We got our first big snow storm here in Virginia over the weekend.

The weather stations all gave a wide range in snowfall accumulations, so I rolled my eyes and made the grocery trip before the storm just in case.

I’m grateful now because we ended up getting close to a foot of fluffy white stuff; the kind of snow that’s perfect for snowmen and snowballs.

While I didn’t make a snowman, but we did get outside to romp around on a family walk.

Harper absolutely loved bounding through the woods with white stuff covering her snout and eyelashes.

When we got inside I was ready for a warm breakfast.

I created this bowl of porridge that will have the goldilocks and the three bears coming back for seconds.

This Cream of “No Wheat” is just as quick as the classic with a hearty grain-free blend of nuts and seeds.

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Salted Cashew Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies

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Easy grain-free Salted Cashew Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies with salty dark chocolate chunks. Ready with 6 ingredients in 15 minutes!

Hi guys!

Well, here we are again.

You, me, and the first cookie of 2019.

You’ve been so good eating all the veggies this new year that I thought you could use some cookies in your inbox.

Clean cookies, though, don’t worry, I didn’t drop them on the floor.

They’re grain-free, gluten free, and oil free boasting the irresistible combination of sweet and salty.

Oh, what was that, you’re too busy to bake because you’re killing your new years goals and intentions?

Don’t be salty, these Salted Cashew Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies are ready with 6 ingredients in 15 minutes!

Get it.

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Coconut Cashew Cookie-Dough “Snowballs”

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Coconut Cashew Cookie-Dough “Snowballs” made with dates, coconut, and cashews for a naturally sweet, gluten-free, and grain-free snack.

Happy New Year!!!

Did you ring in 2019 in robe and slippers or were you out and about in a big crowd?

I was the latter, sandwiched between hundreds of sequined dresses and dapper suits at a Great Gatsby themed Masquerade Ball when the clock struck 12.

I used to expect some epic change in the split seconds between 11:59 and 12:01 but now I kind of roll with it.

New year, same me.

But new eats can be fun, and I thought we could kick things off with a healthy snack.

These Coconut Cashew Cookie-Dough “Snowballs” require only 5-ingredients with zero added sugars, while being gluten free and paleo.

The only new year ball drop I *really* care to watch, ya know?

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Eggplant Rounds with Herbed Yogurt

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Eggplant Rounds with Herbed Yogurt for an easy vegan appetizer, side, or small bite. Top with fresh herbs and pomegranate.

Happy New Years Eve Eve!

Welcome to the last post on F&V of 2018.

I’ll be the first to admit that I fall victim to the whole new year new you mentality.

I spent a lot of time between Christmas and New Years listing all of the good aspect of my life that I want to do bigger and better in 2019, and all of the not so grand things I’d be just fine with leaving in 2018.

There’s something magical about the start of the new year that makes big changes feel totally tangible and transformative.

Two years ago on New Years Day I started this humble space on the Internet, the blog you’re reading now.

A year ago on January 1st I quit my gym and joined a yoga studio and watched how my time on the mat changed the way I viewed my life.

This year and today, we’re making Eggplant Rounds with Herbed Yogurt for the perfect plant-based NYE appetizer.

So, see, big things.

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Vegan & Gluten Free Graham Crackers with Chocolate SunButter Frosting

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Crispy Vegan & Gluten Free Graham Crackers with Chocolate SunButter Frosting. Enjoy as is or top with a 3-ingredient SunButter icing!

My favorite cake growing up was yellow with chocolate frosting.

Arguably the best part of the cake, pillowy yellow insides aside, was the homemade chocolate frosting that my mom made to top it.

It was rich, chocolately, and creamy, the kind of frosting you lick the mixers clean of before releasing them into sudsy water.

When we had extra, my mom spread thick layers of the stuff on cinnamon graham crackers for snacking.

If you’ve never had frosting on graham crackers, you’re going to love this recipe.

If you have, in fact, had frosting on graham crackers, you’re going to love this recipe, too, because it’s made with simple whole foods ingredients.

These Vegan & Gluten Free Graham Crackers are made with less than 10 ingredients!

Enjoy them as is or top them with a decadent 3-ingredient Chocolate SunButter frosting.

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Raspberry-Beet Thumbprint Cookies

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Easy vegan, gluten free, grain free, and Raspberry-Beet Thumbprint Cookies filled with a sugar-free raspberry-beet chia jam.

There was a Christmas card writing marathon in my living room over the weekend.

I scribbled addresses furiously in my messy hybrid of cursive and print, sometimes oscillating from one to the other in the same sentence.

I can’t vouch for their complete legibility, but friends, they’re done.

I’ve been baking and cooking and shopping and wrapping and partying and visiting and talking and planning and doing it all again.

This time of year can be complicated, so you know what?

Your cookies shouldn’t be.

These Raspberry-Beet Thumbprint Cookies require less than ten ingredients.

(Well, technically, only FOUR if you make the Raspberry-Beet Chia Seed Jam in advance…)

Turn on the oven and get your thumbs ready for some autographing.

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