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Pizza Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms & Pinot Noir

Portobello mushrooms with veggie lovers toppings, herbed nut cheese, and pine nuts. Perfect as a plant-based appetizer or entree with a glass of red!

I’m always *that* person that orders wine wherever we go, no matter the occasion.

Saint Patrick’s Day and everyone’s drinking green beer? Cool, I’d like a glass of red please.

Night out on the town and everyone’s got those cute cocktail umbrellas? Nah, I’ll have wine.

A little bubbly in fluted glasses to celebrate? Cheers! With wine!

So you bet I’ll be that person dinking wine on Super Bowl Sunday.

If you didn’t have plans, I made you some and they only involve football if you want it to.

This Pizza Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms & Pinot Noir is my new favorite plant & wine pairing for game day, date night, or any day.

Pour a glass of Pinot and let the portobello pizza party begin!

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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!)

By Flora & Vino 23 Comments

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

By Flora & Vino 8 Comments

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”

By Flora & Vino 4 Comments

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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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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Avocado & Roasted Red Pepper Sushi

By Flora & Vino 6 Comments

Vegan Avocado & Roasted Red Pepper Sushi with avocado and roasted red pepper in sushi rice and seaweed wraps. Perfect for date night dinner!

Making sushi has been on my bucket list for, oh, for quite some time now.

I used to watch the chefs behind the sushi counter, poised and confident in the exacting task, working quickly and efficiently to roll up works of art.

So yeah, I didn’t think I had it in me to learn.

It just seemed too hard.

I figured I’d rather be on the other side of the counter; the one happily demolishing said art with a hearty appetite and a pair chopsticks.

That all changed this week when I finally felt the fear and did it anyway and rolled out the simplest and arguably tastiest plant-based sushi rolls.

Bring the sushi bar to your home with these Avocado & Roasted Red Pepper Sushi that are rolled and ready in just 30 minutes!

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Gingerbread Overnight Oats (Date Sweetened!)

By Flora & Vino 2 Comments

Gingerbread Overnight Oats made with spices and naturally sweet with dates! Perfect for a festive breakfast on the go.

Hey, you.

Are you enjoying the most wonderful time of the year?

Currently, my annual snowmen Christmas card box is sitting on our dining room table, glittery and unopened.

All 40 of them.

If you’re feeling a bit behind on the holiday hustle, I’m right there with you, sprinting from holiday parties to cookie exchanges to white elephants while listening to Michael Bublé and Mariah Carey on repeat; my active anthems to the season.

With Christmas roughly two weeks away, I’m also finding ways to stuff a little festive flair into everything, including my overnight oats.

These Gingerbread Overnight Oats (Date Sweetened!) are just want you need to make your breakfast this season simple and sweet.

They’re made in advance with spices and naturally sweetened with dates for the perfect festive breakfast on the go.

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