This is a spin on spinach salad with warm bacon dressing. This salad is filled with shaved fennel, perfectly cooked quinoa, and candied pecans. The warm orange-pecan dressing ties all the flavors together and delivers a delicious, filling salad. Spinach Salad Bowl with Warm Pecan Dressing Serves 4 Ingredients Quinoa 1 cup quinoa, rinsed well […]
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The Veggie Queen’s Sassy Sesame Tofu
For the growing number of people who eat vegan, a pressure cooker is a blessing when it comes to saving time and enjoying a wider variety of foods on a regular basis. The pressure cooker drastically shortens the cooking times of healthful vegan staples such as dried beans and ancient grains: suddenly hummus from scratch […]
Laura Theodore’s Top Five Tips for Vegan-Ease Cuisine
Here are my Top Five Tips for starting on the path to Vegan-Ease Cuisine: Easy vegan meals, without sacrificing great taste or giving up the textures and flavors we all love! 1. If you are new to vegan eating, start by serving one non-meat, plant-based meal each week for dinner. Try preparing hearty and satisfying […]
Where Do You Get Your Protein?
The one question that herbivores get asked more than anything else is “Where do you get your protein?” It usually comes right after “You haven’t eaten any of the bacon or eggs. Are you vegan?” I’ve been eating this way for so long, that I’m actually kind of tired of the word “protein”. In fact, […]
Get Ready – Get Set – Get Diced
“Smells like a restaurant in here!” That’s the best compliment I could get after a long day of work. Wait…what does that mean it smells like all of the other times?!? A little background here…I used to LOVE to cook. When my kids were little, we would go over to the Saturday farmer’s market or […]