Peanut butter and jelly, chocolate and peanut butter, yams and kale... these are all matches made in heaven. Now, I know yams and kale aren’t as famous together as the others, but they should be, and I think this stew is going to be the one that catapults the combo to stardom.* Simply stated, ...
Gluten free
Cheer and better soup
Beer and cheddar soup is one of my favorites. I mean, it was before I knew about the dairy industry, with its mastitis, pus, forced pregnancy, orphaning of babies... Ignorance was bliss, I guess. But complicity sucks. And that's why I stopped eating dairy and why I created this Cheer and ...
Curried cauliflower fried rice
I used to think of fried rice as a side dish, or a kind of boring main dish. Many restaurants make it with pretty basic ingredients—rice, corn, peas, carrots—which means it's mostly starch. After four or five bites my mouth is a little bored. Every bite tastes and feels the same. That is, until a ...
Hippie-dippy potatoes and greens
Hippie food is easy to spot. Basically, if you see something with sunflower seeds, tahini, or coconut oil in it, it's probably hippie food. Which is to say it will be super delicious, abundantly nutritious, and maybe a little weird. I am a triple Aquarius with three planets in the 12th house. If ...
Sweet and spicy snack mix
When you think of snack mix you likely think of Chex Mix or Gardetto's—at least that's the first thing to come to my mind. This snack mix has little in common with either of those, which made me wonder if it was sort of a flight of fancy on my part. After eating a plant-based diet for a certain ...
Cream of mushroom soup
This soup isn't actually cream of mushroom, because there's not a sniff of dairy in it. But if I called it cashews and mushroom soup that would sound weird and gross, plus it tastes just like traditional cream of mushroom soup—only better!—so that's what we're going with. Not only is this soup ...
Grilled vegetable pasta sauce
This grilled veggie pasta sauce is waiting to become your new summer staple. It highlights the very best of summer produce—zucchini, tomatoes, and basil—and will freeze well into the colder months when you want something light or are craving the taste of summer. Because the flavors of zucchini ...
Succotash with fava beans
Remember hot lunch in grade school, and how every week this assortment of vegetables—corn, carrots and lima beans—would appear on the plate? I had no idea until about two years ago that weird little mixture has a weird little name: succotash. I have a feeling succotash was served so often because ...
Harissa cashew s’dip
"I don't know what to call this harissa cashew sauce-dip stuff," I said to my husband quizzically. My five-year-old son, who has uncanny hearing when he wants to, replied immediately, "Why don't you call it s'dip?" This is his thing lately—combining two words to make a new word. In this ...
Summer kale salad
Lacinato kale is one of my favorite vegetables. It's easy to grow, is available year-round, and pairs with a huge variety of other foods. Kale's rich green color reveals it's extraordinary nutrient density—it's very high in vitamin K, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin B6, folate, and manganese—as well ...