Autumn…that transitional time of year when tanktops are traded for chunky knits, flip-flops fade into boots and booties, and your grande unsweetened ice tea becomes into a pumpkin spice latte. I can’t move on—in this post or in life—without first giving summer its due. I LOVE summer. I love the ...
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Taste of autumn yam and kale stew
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, ...
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 ...
Super veggie sandwich pockets
You may not have heard of a sandwich pocket, but I guarantee you've had one. Every culture I can think of has found a way to enclose food in some kind of edible wrapper. Mexican burritos are to a French crepe what Polish pierogis are to Spain's empanadas. Make Asian cuisines feature spring rolls or ...
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 ...