Where healthy meets delicious!
A refreshing Cantaloupe Salad with mint, lime, and pepitas with optional crumbled feta (optional) – a tasty healthy summer salad, perfect for potlucks and gatherings. When you cut into a perfectly ripe cantaloupe, what you’ll notice first is its fragrance: honey-scented, floral and slightly musky. You’ll know you picked a good one if its juicy…
Savory Teff Cakes with Wilted Chard and Fresh Tomato Relish – a simple delicious vegan dinner recipe that is full of protein and nutrients! Your sadness doesn’t make you less of a human being. In fact, it makes you more. More expansive. More connected. Painfully beautiful. Raw. Open. Completely alive. ― Panache Desai Here is…
Stuffed Avocado with Shrimp and Tarragon- a light and healthy summer meal perfect for brunch, lunch or a light dinner. Keto friendly! Our inner monologues have tremendous power over us. They can affect not only our mood, not only our physical bodies, but also our every waking moment—and, therefore, every consequence.― Panache Desai Here is…
What to buy at the Asian market! Here is a simple PRINTABLE list, to help you build your Asian pantry, organized by sections! Simple and easy- just print the list out and take it with you! Food is the ingredient that binds us together. – Unknown So many of you have asked for this and…
A quick and easy recipe for Tuscan White Bean and Tuna Salad with arugula, radishes, scallions, capers and seasonal tomatoes, with a shallot vinaigrette. A simple 15-minute “pantry” meal! Need a quick lunch? Here’s a super easy recipe that can be made with pantry ingredients that comes together in less than 15 minutes! Tuscan White…
Persian Walnut Salad with Herbs, Cucumber and Radishes – a nutritious summer side to all your outdoor grilling and gatherings! Vegan adaptable! Toasting the walnuts gives this Persian Walnut Salad an earthy depth and delicious umami flavor. Together with cool crunchy radishes, crisp cucumbers and mounds of fresh herbs like mint, dill, cilantro, chives and parsley…
How to make Ras el Hanout – an aromatic blend of spices used in Moroccan and North African cooking to season tangines, meats, vegetables, and stews. Wondering where to find Ras el Hanout? Look no further, you probably have all the spices to make this fragrant blend of spices at home! If unfamiliar, Ras El…
Many of you have asked for more Vegan Dinner Recipes, so I combed through my blog and compiled a list of the TOP 40 most delicious and flavorful vegan dinners thus far. These vibrant, veggie-driven, whole foods recipes are full of flavor and feature fresh produce, most prominently. Consider what is in season in your neck…
Moroccan Chicken with Ras El Hanout, garlic, and lemon – a simple North African recipe, bursting with flavor! Fast and easy! Looking for a recipe for Moroccan Chicken? Look no further! While organizing my spice drawer a few weeks ago, I found the Ras El Hanout spice blend I purchased in a winding little spice…
How to make an Aperol Spritz! The icy Prosecco Cocktail that has taken Europe by storm. Light, refreshing and incredibly thirst-quenching this cocktail is just what the doctor ordered on a hot summer’s day! I’ll be honest, I didn’t think it could happen. Starting in Amsterdam, I began noticing all the brightly colored orange drinks called…
How to make Fresh Spring Rolls with Peanut Sauce – a healthy vegan version with shredded veggies, mint, basil, and baked tofu. A light nutritious meal or appetizer that can be made ahead and stored! The other day I got a hankering for Fresh Spring Rolls with Peanut Sauce, the ones we had at our…
BEST EVER Thai Peanut Sauce! This easy vegan recipe is the perfect dipping sauce for Spring Rolls, satay or tossed with noodles. Its secret ingredient will have you coming back for more! Simple & healthy! I know what you are thinking… how dare I say this is the BEST Thai Peanut Sauce eeeeeeever? Yes, pretty…
Do you want to know the secret to cooking the most delicious food? It starts with using produce that is in season, picked at its peak of flavor, with the shortest amount of travel time between the farm and you. You personally! Let’s celebrate summer with these 35 Must-try Farmers Market Recipes! This time of…
A quick and easy recipe for Smoky Chipotle Black Bean Burgers that can be made in under 30 minutes! Vegan and GF adaptable, perfect for weekly meal prep! The shortest interval between two points is the awareness that they are not two. ― Eric Micha’el Leventhal Here’s a very handy recipe for Black Bean Burgers to…
How to make Pupusas! Stuffed Salvadorian Corn Cakes filled with your choice of refried beans or melty cheese (or both!) with cilantro and scallions. A simple, easy recipe that is Vegan adaptable! Your healing lifts up the ocean of existence. When you heal, we all heal. ~ Yung Pueblo ~ A classic Salvadorian dish, Pupusas are…