Meal Prep

Cauliflower Crust Pizza

Vegan, gluten-free, oil-free pizza made with a cauliflower crust topped with fresh vegetables with a lemon tahini twist. Perfect for a healthy pizza party!

Happy Friday, friends!

I woke up this morning feeling so light, like a huge weight I didn’t even know I was carrying had been lifted off my shoulders.

Work week, you’re heavy. Anyone else relate?

My shoulders do hurt, actually, but I think it’s more from awkward photography angles than carrying heavy things, but can we pretend it’s the latter?

Because this Cauliflower Crust Pizza is anything but heavy.

You’re going to love this oil-free, gluten-free crust paired with fresh vegetables and a dreamy lemon tahini drizzle!

It’s the weekend, and every fun weekend starts….with a slice of pizza.

Join me!

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Leftover Quinoa Breakfast Bowls

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Leftover quinoa breakfast bowls made with cooked quinoa and sweetened with banana. Ready in 10 minutes and packed with protein, berries, and seeds!

I’m just a little excited about cold-weather breakfasts, guys.

If you’re stuck in a breakfast rut, no judgement!

I’ve been there.

Did I tell you I used to eat oatmeal every day for breakfast for probably…half a decade?

This post is for all of you oatmeal lovers out their shyly thinking about mixing it up.

You’re going to love these Leftover Quinoa Breakfast Bowls that are perfect for busy workweek mornings. …

Fall Harvest Salad

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Fall salad with roasted sweet sweet potato, beet, toasted walnuts, and crisp apples. Serve with maple mustard tahini for a vegan take on honey-mustard.

When I’m falling asleep I count foodie fantasies instead of sheep.

Try it!

Sometimes, when I’m stuck on recipe creation, I say the titles over and over again (in the least creepy way possible, I promise…).

I like the way words sounds and the corresponding pictures and feelings they create.

And I just couldn’t get Maple Mustard Tahini out of my head, friends.

I knew that this dressing was going to be a thing even before I paired it with an fall salad.

You’re going to love this Fall Harvest Salad filled with fall’s finest produce and topped with my latest seasonal inspired maple mustard tahini!
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Baked Purple Sweet Potato Spiral Fritters

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Baked Purple Sweet Potato Spiral Fritters without any added oils, gluten, or dairy. Enjoy them as breakfast, snack, party favors, or the main meal.

I’m a bit of a blank slate today, friends.

I wanted to start off by talking about the weather, and how unusually warm it’s been here in Virginia, but that seemed like such a small talk thing to do, and I don’t really do small talk.

If you’ve been visiting Flora & Vino for a while now , we’re definitely more than just acquaintances.

How about some big talk, instead?

Big like Baked Purple Sweet Potato Spiral Fritters, big.

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Sweet Potato Breakfast Skillet Cookie

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Sweet Potato Breakfast Skillet Cookie made sweet potato, almond flour, and nut butter. Enjoy slices for a quick fall breakfast!

Tomorrow is the first day of fall, everyone!

I’ve got the perfect recipe for you to make to welcome the season.

This Sweet Potato Breakfast Skillet Cookie requires only one bowl, one skillet, and some serious cravings for cookies for breakfast.

I bet you’ve got all three of them.

Oh, well, and some sweet potato and stuff.

Let me tell you about this “other stuff”…

You might have seen the whole “skillet cookie” thing trending the internet lately.

If you haven’t, it’s basically a giant cookie baked inside a cast iron skillet and then spooned out and enjoyed in all it’s crumbly cookie glory.

Genius.

The minute I scrolled post one of these enticing pictures, a skillet filled with a perfectly browned cookie, my heart immediately did a series of somersaults and cartwheels and backflips.

Or wait…maybe that was my stomach.

I put off making my own for a while, because I wanted to create a healthier version not weighed down by oil and sugar that still tastes like a cookie, you know?

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Maple Walnut Bliss Balls

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4-ingredient Maple Walnut Bliss Balls with maple syrup and toasted walnuts! Perfect for meal prep and squashing hunger on cool autumn days.

Clearly my energy ball situation is way ahead of my closet (and most other adult-ish things) this season!

My kitchen is all decked out in Maple Walnut Bliss Balls while my closet is still strewn with tank tops, shorts, and flip flops.

I really should go “seasonalize” my wardrobe for colder weather, but first things first, I want to share with you what happens when toasted walnuts, medjool dates, maple syrup, and oats get together…

It’s called Maple Walnut BLISS and you need to try it for fall.

Maybe even before you pull out the flannel and riding boots, OK?

You’re going to love these four ingredient treats that kind of look (and taste) like sugar dusted donut holes.

These easy to make bites are packed with protein, Omega-3s, and fiber!

The best way I can describe them to you is…they TASTE the way stepping into a mess of crunchy leaves under boots FEELS.

Quintessential fall.

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“Eggy” Veggie Chickpea Salad Sandwiches

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“Eggy” veggie chickpea salad sandwiches with nutritional yeast and “black salt”. Perfect on a sandwich, crackers, or by the spoonful.

Labor Day Weekend, WHAT?

Does anyone else feel like time is literally flying?

I think back to the hours I spent in high school complaining of boredom, staring up at the stark white ceiling from my pink quilted bed, wondering what the heck to do with my day.

Boredom.

Yawn.

Sometimes I wish I could experience it again, those hours that seemed to expand before me like an accordion of nothingness.

I don’t know about you guys, but time is pretty much the most precious thing to me in my adult life.

If plans fall through and there’s suddenly a gap in my full day, it feels like I won the lottery.

Dance parties in the kitchen ensue and Harper barks along.

But for the most part, friends, I remember how happy I am to be stuffing the hours I do have with chickpea salad sandwich trials.

I hope you’ll be able to “stuff” this recipe into your Labor Day Prep because it’s the perfect farewell to summer.

Let’s all slow down for a freakin’ minute and make these “Eggy” Veggie Chickpea Salad Sandwiches, shall we?

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Sweet & Savory Macro Bowl

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Sweet and savory macro bowl with butternut squash, quinoa, and kale with an oil-free lemon tahini dressing. Perfect for meal prep!

Where did the summer go, friends?

I feel like I blinked and missed it.

Sure, we still technically have a month left according to the calendar, but as soon as September hits I know that warm weather days are numbered.

At the same time I do get all tingly when I think about crunchy fallen leaves, the inescapable pumpkin everything, and crisp cool autumn air.

I’m starting to add hints of fall to my food and my favorite combination lately has been this macro bowl

It has sweet baked butternut squash, toasty quinoa, salty olives, sauerkraut, creamy avocado, and a bright lemon tahini dressing.

If you’re not feeling the fall feels yet, allow this Sweet & Savory Macro Bowl to be the most seamless transition for you.

There’s such a strong sense of renewal that hits me in the fall, which is ironic, because I know everything is dying.

You can trace it back to my school days, when I equated colder weather to returning to school, and all of the anxiety, excitement, and preparation that went along with it.

This year, I always thought, I can be whoever I want to be.

Well, this bowl will give you all of the renewal you need to be a new and improved you.

I always feel 100% after I eat it.

This mix of probiotics, protein, healthy fats, and complex carbs seems to be everything my body craves around lunchtime.

And all the time.

I’m calling it now: this is going to be your favorite bowl going into fall.

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Raw Krazy Kale Salad with Miso Tahini Dressing

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Vibrant kale salad packed with raw vegetables, walnuts, and raisins topped with an oil-free miso tahini dressing. Enjoy for a quick and fresh lunch!

Are you ready to get KRAZY, friends?

If you’re thinking, ugh, not another summer salad….just wait.

This Raw Krazy Kale Salad with Miso Tahini Dressing will totally inspire you to mix up your obligatory lunch bowl of greens.

The mixture of crunchy raw veg, creamy walnuts, sweet plump raisins with a savory miso tahini is about as wild as my summer days get lately.

This salad is packed with raw veggies you probably already have in your fridge somewhere, so dig them out and allow them to shine.

Wanna join in on the fun?

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Baked Oil-Free Almond Flour Falafel

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Healthy oil-free, gluten-free baked falafel with a fresh cucumber tahini tzatziki! Enjoy this baked falafel in a lunch wrap, in a bowl, or on its own.

What do you think of falafel?

My first introduction to this typically deep-fried chickpea patty came from a Middle Eastern Eatery down the street from my house in high school.

I used to call ahead and order the “Hummus Falafel Rolled” and pick it up in my parents’ blue Honda Civic. I was practically drooling when I unwrapped it on the way home to reveal the golden brown pita stuffed hummus, greens, veg, and the crispiest brown falafel patties.

Too tempting to wait.

And it was messy, because the best foods are. I’m talking major hummus and falafel landslide messy.

Probably not the best thing to eat in your parents’ car when you’re 16.

Sorry, mom and dad.

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