Category: Vegan

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Secret-Ingredient Chocolate Pudding

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Recipe from: me This is one of my all-time favorite recipes. It makes a decadent breakfast or a refreshing afternoon pick-me-up, and it’s easy. It tastes creamy and luxurious and indulgent, and yet… it’s actually healthy for you as well as low-glycemic. There is one little catch though, and that’s the secret ingredient. I wish I could make you taste it before I unveil this ingredient to avoid bias. See, the first time I made this I was doing it as a favor for my mom, and I was certain it would be absolutely nasty. But I tasted a little … Continue reading Secret-Ingredient Chocolate Pudding

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Butternut and Caulflower Soup

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Recipe from: me This soup is so buttery and smooth, yet extremely low in fat. A rare find indeed! I loved it exactly as it came out, yet I still intend to play around with it and find other tasty versions. I’d like to omit the rosemary (which I overuse with squash and sweet potato recipes) and try some other things. Leeks? Red pepper flakes? Thyme? Sage? Oregano? Curry powder? Coriander seeds? And maybe add some more veggies in addition to the cauliflower, like peas or chunks of zucchini or other squash or parsnips or turnips. I love messing around … Continue reading Butternut and Caulflower Soup

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Vegan Alfredo

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Recipe from: Cupcakes and Kale, courtesy my friend Aria I love alfredo sauce. Love it. But I’m trying to drastically reduce my dairy intake, so I was delighted when my friend Aria told me about this yummy recipe she tried. While it doesn’t quite measure up to the perfection of regular alfredo, it is still quite tasty in its own right. It’s also luxuriously creamy. So what was the secret? Creamed cauliflower and white beans! Who knew? Olive oil gives it a yummy taste, too. It also has sundried tomatoes and kale. I, personally, didn’t enjoy the little bites of … Continue reading Vegan Alfredo

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Raw for Mother’s Day

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#1 -banana crepes with coconut cream and fresh strawberries #2 -tacos with golden flax corn tortillas, seasoned sunflower seed “meat” and fresh guacamole #3 -cocoa-coconut ice cream Recipe from: Rawmazing.com Pureed ripe bananas and lemon juice are dehydrated and cute with large biscuit cutters to make crepes. Cream is made by creaming fresh coconut meat with some of the coconut water, agave nectar, and freshly scraped vanilla bean. Sliced strawberries complete the ensemble. Recipe from: Raw Food, Real World Tortillas are made by pureeing golden flax seeds, raw frozen corn, a red bell pepper, fresh lime juice, salt, a limited … Continue reading Raw for Mother’s Day

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Key Lime Pie

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Recipe from: Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine, altered by me Beautiful, refreshing, and carb-free. What more can you ask? Ingredients: 2 cups pecan meal (made by grinding pecans in a small food processor or blender) 1/2 tsp. nutmeg 1/4 tsp. freshly ground black pepper 1/4 tsp. sea salt 1/4 – 1/2 tsp. extra virgin coconut oil (optional) 1 tbsp. coconut sugar 2-3 ripe avocados, chilled in the refrigerator the meat of two young coconuts (can be substituted with coconut milk from a carton) 1 cup coconut water (see above) 6 tbsp. lime juice 6 tbsp. lemon juice 1 tsp. vanilla extract in … Continue reading Key Lime Pie

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Snowflake Millet

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Recipe from: me When my friend Bek took me to a tea house for my birthday last year, I bought some special tea that I’d tried and mailed it to my sister. She still has half a bag, and we savor it. The name of it is “Snowflake tea”, and it is flavored with coconut, almond, and cinnamon. With that as my inspiration, I created this recipe for warm breakfast cereal, which, serendipitously, is also perfectly acceptable for me to have when I’m trying to cleanse my body of yeast. The coconut flakes give this a nice texture, and the … Continue reading Snowflake Millet

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Zucchini Fettucine with Pine Nut Pesto

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Recipe from: me Creaminess and butteryness brightened with lemonyness makes this zucchini a light and tastey lunch, which also happens to be carb free. I’m really happy with the recipe. That and I just love pine nuts. Oh, the smell of them toasting! Ingredients: 3 medium zucchini 1/3 cup pine nuts 1 tbsp. olive oil 2 tsps. garlic paste 1/2 – 1 tsp. freshly squeezed lemon 1/2 tsp. dried oregano salt and pepper to taste Directions: Toast the pine nuts over medium-low heat, stirring almost constantly in order to avoid burning them. Set aside. Using a mandolin, slice your zucchini … Continue reading Zucchini Fettucine with Pine Nut Pesto

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Pina Colada

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Recipe from: me Exotic and refreshing! And totally wholesome. I love the simple complexity of the flavors. Ingredients: two rings of pineapple, minus the centers, chopped 1 ripe banana a cup or so of coconut milk a couple drops of vanilla in glycerine, not alchohol a handful of ice Directions: Put all the ingredients in a blender and blend it it all up. Enjoy! Continue reading Pina Colada

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Zucchini Muffins

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Recipe from: me, altered from a recipe from the Everyday Paleo blog Ingredients: 1 zucchini 1/4 cup xylitol 1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon 1/4 cup chopped walnuts 1 cup blanched almond flour 2 large eggs 1/4 tsp. baking soda 1/2tsp. apple cider vinegar Directions: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Stir together the dry ingredients in a medium bowl. Set aside. In a large bowl, blend the eggs, xylitol, and vinegar. Stir in the dry ingredients. Add the chopped walnuts and grate the zucchini, peel and all, over the batter. Stir until just combined. Spoon the batter generously into paper-lined muffin … Continue reading Zucchini Muffins

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Spicy Quinoa Salad

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Recipe from: Photograzing, “Dinner Tonight” My mom and I really liked this salad. I found it extra refreshing the second day around, served cold instead of room temperature. It reminded me somewhat of the quinoa salad I ordered with Bek at a smoothie shop. (You would like this salad, Bek. You should have your mom try it. ;-)) I definitely intend to make it again. One thing that was misleading, however, was the adjective “spicy”. I found it quite mild, and would’ve doubled the jalapeno and perhaps even added the seeds. Ingredients: 1 cup quinoa Kosher salt 2 cups diced cucumber … Continue reading Spicy Quinoa Salad