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2-Minute Lemon, Spinach, & Chickpea Salad

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2-Minute Lemon, Spinach, & Chickpea Salad in a fresh lemon and avocado oil dressing. Perfect for workweek lunches!

Are you team kale or team spinach?

For years I was decidedly team kale, lacinato, or curly.

Maybe that’s because I ate a lot of frozen growing up so kale felt new and exciting.

But lately I’ve been all about that fresh baby spinach life.

I buy a giant tub each week at the store each week and what I don’t eat in salads I freeze and add to my shakes.

I don’t care how much you love kale, you’ve got to admit, you can *always* taste a bit of it in your shake, right?

Anyway, I’m not here with a shake recipe today, friends, I’m here with a fresh salad recipe!

This 2-Minute Lemon, Spinach, & Chickpea Salad is ready in under 5 minutes for a light and breezy summer meal.

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Super Fudgy Vegan Brownies

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Super fudgy vegan brownies made with almond flour and chocolate chunks. Gluten-free, grain-free, and naturally sweetened.

Do you still have cable?

To be honest, I’m not a huge TV-watcher.

And by that I mean, when I turn on the TV, I usually turn it on with the intention to watch a recorded episode of Grey’s Anatomy or a romcom on Netflix.

So when Dan asked me if I wanted to cancel cable, I shrugged and said, “Sure, why not.”

(He’s gone down a recent rabbit hole of YouTube TV– did you know that was a thing?)

So today is our first cable-less evening– no big deal– until I realized that the our HBO subscription was a gift through our newly canceled cable contract.

And the only thing I really care about watching on television right now is HBO’s new Gentleman Jack.

But it’s OK because I signed up for a free trial that I will absolutely forget to cancel before the billing begins next month.

So I’m all set up to watch the latest episode on my laptop with a brownie square that I’m sharing with you today.

These Super Fudgy Vegan Brownies are made in just 1-bowl with a 15 minutes bake time!

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Chocolate Avocado SunButter Pudding

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5-ingredient chocolate avocado pudding with sunflower seed butter sweetened with maple syrup. Decadent yet nutritious, it’s packed with healthy fats!

I’m going to ask you to reach into lunch boxes of lunches past.

Are you there?

What’s for dessert?

Did you ever eat those little snack pack pudding cups in your elementary school (or grown up) lunches?

My mom used to get them sometimes and I savored each sweet spoonful.

The vanilla was good, too, but decidedly less exciting than the chocolate.

Yes, there’s something about chocolate pudding in particular that’s hard to beat.

This Chocolate Avocado SunButter Pudding is the best way to recreate that pudding nostalgia with just 5 whole food ingredients and a blender.

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Edible Vegan Cookie Dough

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Edible vegan, gluten-free, and refined sugar-free cookie dough made with just four ingredients. Scoop into balls or enjoy by the spoonful!

Does it ever happen to you that you’re craving cookies but what you really want is the cookie dough?

Luckily, one of my favorite parts of plant-based vegan baking is that all of the cookie dough is edible.

It certainly makes recipe testing easier because I can actually taste the dough before tasting the end goal.

If we ever make it to the baked cookie finale.

So…what if we just went ahead and created a cookie-dough recipe just for eating?

This Edible Vegan Cookie Dough is made in 1-bowl with just 4 ingredients that are vegan, oil-free, gluten-free, and refined-sugar-free.

You don’t need to turn on the oven, and you don’t need to do any cookie-shaping.

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Avocado Mint Cacao Chip Ice Cream Sandwiches

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Five ingredient creamy ice cream made with avocados, mint, maple syrup, coconut milk, and cacao nibs. Smash between two chocolate snack cookies for dessert!

So, is it summer yet?

I ordered a swim suit this past week in anticipation of sunny summer activities.

The swimsuit was a ruffled two-piecer that didn’t fit quite right out of the cardboard box but looked super cute on the model online.

I’m trying to rock the whole high-waisted swimsuit thing but this one looked more like a wrinkled tutu than a bikini bottom.

I guess you could call it a mint green.

It’s also called a return!

You know what else is mint and green?

These Avocado Mint Cacao Chip Ice Cream Sandwiches that is sure to fit into your summer lovin’ and livin’!

It’s made no-churn with just 5 simple ingredients including avocado, coconut milk, and cacao nibs.

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Sweet & Savory Avocado Boats with Strawberry Salsa + Bourgogne Aligoté

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Easy savory and sweet avocado boats. Fill with savory spiced chickpeas and a sweet and chunky strawberry salsa. Serve with a glass of Bourgogne Aligote!

Hi guys!

How was your weekend?

A lot has happened behind the scenes here at F&V since we last chatted.

The biggest thing being that I got a new camera after my Canon LCD screen died last week.

I’ve known for a while that I need to have an additional camera for backup (just in case!) so this seemed like a good a time as any to take the hint from the universe and make it happen.

So I’ve been busy playing around with new features and settings.

Another big thing was the creation of these Sweet & Savory Avocado Boats with Strawberry Salsa and Bourgogne Aligoté.

They’re packed with fresh flavors perfect for a sweet Mother’s day brunch or appetizer!

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10-Minute Black Bean Taco Salad

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Easy vegan taco salad with black beans, raw chopped vegetables, and easy plant-based toppings. Perfect for meal prep and breezy summer entrée salads.

Happy Friday, friends!

Maybe we should celebrate with a little fiesta, what do you think?

I’ve always been a big taco salad fan, especially when dining Mexican.

I was also a big fan of telling the waiter that it was my birthday so he would bring the birthday sombreros out to my sister and I (oh, wait, was that just last year?!).

Usually the taco salad itself was so filling that I could only feebly munch on the ginormous puffed tortillas shell-shaped bowl after the interior was gone.

This week I brought taco salads back in a big way with this p lant-based bowl that’s hearty and filling without the traditional shell exterior.

How about we make this 10-Minute Black Bean Taco Salad for a lightened up version of the classic?

You just need fresh veggies, black bean protein, and some simple dressings to make this vegan and gluten-free taco salad.

Birthday sombreros optional but recommended.

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Matcha Dusted Raw Brownies

By Flora & Vino 6 Comments

Raw brownies made from dates, nuts, and seeds that are also gluten, grain, and refined sugar-free. Finish them with a matcha dusting for a snack or dessert.

Guys.

Over the weekend I went to my first ever goat yoga class with my sister.

Yes friends.

We did a glorious yoga flow amidst the cutest goats I’ve ever seen in a field of green.

Nothing crazy happened, but I did get my feet licked in downward dog.

We were advised to put away anything we didn’t want to get chewed away, so I tucked all of my raw bars and valuable into my purse and zipped it shut.

We did vinyasa and a series of forward folds and twists while the goats chowed happily on hay around us.

Every now and then one of them would let out a loud SNORT, a funny startling noise that I honestly didn’t know that goats made.

The kind of noise that I might make if you told me you weren’t drooling over these Matcha Dusted Brownies made with 5 ingredients and no oven mitts.

PSH.

Aside from goat yoga, raw brownies have been on my bucket list for a while.

I’ve wanted to share a raw brownie recipe but it seems like every time I think of it the weather cold out and baked brownies sound better.

But now it’s getting warmer out and I’m all about some no bake treats.

These Matcha Dusted Raw Brownies are oil-free, gluten-free, vegan, and grain-free with an energizing matcha finish.

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Vegan Toasted Coconut Samoas

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Vegan Toasted Coconut Samoas made with 7 ingredients and no bake time. Vegan, gluten and grain free, and naturally sweetened with dates.

I was a proud Girl Scout in Elementary School.

Okay, okay, I was actually a Brownie.

But I was a part of the tribe long enough to do my fair share of girl scout cookie rounds and cookie eating.

I went door to door in my chocolate-colored brownie uniform, selling cookies to good natured neighbors.

I’m pretty sure my current neighbors would love me if I went door to door with my latest creation.

These Vegan Toasted Coconut Samoas are made with just 7 ingredients with toasted coconut and chocolate drizzle.

Girl scout cookie season is almost over, but my copy-cat cookie variation is just heating up.

Girl, let’s get scouting.

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Blueberry Butter (No-Sugar-Added)

By Flora & Vino 11 Comments

Easy blueberry butter made with just two ingredients and no-sugar-added in 30 minutes. Use in place of jam or jelly for a fun spread.

How often do you clean out your fridge?

This girl, this weekend!

In this case, I don’t mean using up all of the meal prepped leftovers.

I mean the kind of fridge clean out where you take everything out, every old head of cabbage, yogurt you forgot you had, and crusty container of mustard, wipe the interior spotless, and the put all back in.

Some of you on Instagram are really good about doing it once a week.

You are #goals.

Since it’s been a hot second since I got in there and spruced things up, there was quite a bit of elbow grease necessary to get things spick and span.

But it all felt worth it when the shelves gleamed white again and my Pyrex containers sat in uniform stacks.

So obviously I had to fill it with something pretty and sweet.

This No-Sugar-Added Blueberry Butter is the perfect naturally sweet spread to add to your summer fridge.

All you need is a bunch of blueberries, a squeeze of lemon, and some serious stirring skills.

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