This hearty and nutritious dish brings together penne pasta, a savory blend of vegetables, lentils, and marinara sauce, making it perfect for a quick and easy weeknight meal. It’s also an ideal go-to recipe for potlucks and effortless entertaining. This is a vegan adaptation of a pasta dish I used to make before embracing a…
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Creamy Roasted Garlic Hummus
Elevate your next batch of homemade hummus by using oven roasted garlic. Roasting the garlic makes it become buttery and so creamy, adding a depth of flavor to the hummus that you will love. This is a simple and easy recipe to make, which, in my book is always a bonus. Enjoy this garlicky hummus…
Vegan Banana Oat Pancakes – Gluten Free
Pancakes are easy to make, delicious and most everyone loves them. Made from simple ingredients, like rolled oats, plant milk, ripe banana, date sugar, vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg. These are simply lovely. Packed with whole grain goodness, fiber and protein. Did I mention how easy they are to make? I usually make a double batch…
Carrot Ginger Soup – Vitamix
The ever humble carrot gets transformed magically into the most lovely, velvety cream soup right in a Vitamix blender. This is a vegan recipe that uses no dairy, no oil, no salt and no nuts! Roasting the carrots, onions and garlic, gives it a real flavor boost. An oven roasted sweet potato adds another level…
Smokey Black Bean Burgers
A new recipe for you to try that uses many of our favorite flavors including, smoked paprika, ground cumin, jalapeno powder, onion powder, chipotle powder and sun dried tomato powder. These go together quickly and easily and are perfect for a weeknight dinner. Of course if you want to batch prep them feel free to…
Oven Roasted Ratatouille – Oil Free!
Looking for an easy beautiful flavorful side dish to make? Oven roasted ratatouille is the answer! This has become a regular menu item at our house. First it is easy to make. It’s inexpensive. You can batch cook it. It doesn’t take a lot of time. It’s super versatile. It is beautiful to look at…
Thanksgiving Menu Whole Food Plant Based SOS Free
It’s Thanksgiving week! Do you have your holiday menu planned out? If you are hosting or have you been invited to Thanksgiving dinner at someone else’s home you still need to have a plan. We have been invited to our son in laws sister’s home and we are very excited to be part of a…
How To Make Darn Good Vegan Sausages – Gluten Free & Oil Free
Yes it can be done! You can actually make healthy gluten, free, oil, free, vegan sausages. They just so happen to also be very low sodium and sugar free. It sounds too good to be true but trust me this works. I was inspired by the new Engine 2 Cookbook and their recipe for Epic…
Crispy Spring Rolls – Breville Air Fryer-Vegan-Gluten Free
Let me just say that I was perfectly happy with my whole food plant based lifestyle prior to owning a Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer. Having said that I must admit that an air fryer really is a game changer because you can make so many amazing oil free foods in it. I didn’t realize…
How to Saute Vegetables Oil Free
I love, love, love vegetables! There aren’t too many of them that I don’t like so I have a never ending variety to choose from. Fresh, frozen, steamed, oven roasted or sauteed in a pan – I like them all. Maybe that’s why a plant based diet was so easy to transition to. At first…