I love the complexity of flavor that most asian dishes offer and yet I rarely venture into trying to recreate them myself. However I'm working on making 52 new recipes this year and so I'm finding that in order to do this I am going to have to stretch my boundaries. That's where this coconut curry recipe comes in! It was pretty easy to make and delivered a super flavor punch that left me wanting more! Coconut Curry adapted from Silk.com 2 Tbsp olive oil 2 Tbsp minced garlic 1/2 ... Read the Post
Coconut Curry with Rice Noodles
Mediterranean Salad Wraps
So it is a constant struggle trying to come up with yummy and healthy food to make for dinner EVERY night! I had fallen into a rut of making the same couple of things or boring easy dinners (premade veggie burgers and roasted potatoes anyone?) and I knew that this was going to be the dinner to snap me out of it! It is actually really easy, and involves mostly chopping lettuce and using a food processor (have I mentioned how much I love my $6 goodwill find!). Here is the worlds easiest ... Read the Post
Game Day Vegan Nachos
Okay, so the whole going vegan thing was supposed to be a lot harder than it has been. I am not going to lie, when my dear, sweet hubby decides to chow down on some ooey gooey pizza right next to me, I might be a little grumpy. Okay, a lot grumpy. But then I make meals like this and I am all like "in your face cheese!". well, that might be an exaggeration, but you get what i'm saying! It's good, it's healthy and I am rockin' it! Nachos are a go to in our house. When my hubby and I first ... Read the Post
Can’t Tell the Difference – Vegan Chili!
I need to work on my fun and catchy titles...I mean there are so many good things going on in this meal and nothing I wrote even came close to describing it! This is how I can tell I've been out of school for a while! Anyway....I'm totally off topic. What I really want to share with you all today is this awesome vegan chili recipe that I have been making (over and over)! It is seriously so good that I think my hubby prefers it to regular chili! I will preface this by saying we live in the ... Read the Post
Vegan Recipe Roundup
So you may have noticed a shift in the recipes I share, yep, that's right, I went vegan. I was a vegetarian for nine years and I recently decided to go back. I added in the dairy because I feel like it is something that i tend to use as a (fattening) crutch. I also watched a couple of documentaries (forks over knives and vegucated) which both talked about the serious health benefits of cutting out animal protein from your diet. I figure that it doesn't have to be forever and I can add in ... Read the Post
Homemade Veggie Burgers with Sweet Potato Fries!
So we are on a healthy diet at our house, which has taken us the vegan route. It was super hard at first (until we got all the contraband out of the house), but it has been so much fun exploring with new recipes! I have always been a huge fan of veggie burgers and so I decided i should attempt to make my own! I started off by following Angela over at Oh She Glows recipe for Spicy BBQ Chickpea Burgers. Of course I can't follow a recipe to save myself so I just used it as a guide. I had a can ... Read the Post
Veggie Stir Fry with Peanut Sauce and Won Tons
I have decided to take a vegan diet for a while. I was a vegetarian for nine years (ages 11-20) and had no problem giving up the meat. I have recently been watching A LOT of documentaries on netflix (darn you netflix) about food, nutrition and heath and I think I am making a good decision. That being said, it is hard! I love milk and cheese. Like a lot. A whooooole lot. So it has been a challenge. But anyway...here is one of my most favorite meals. The peanut sauce is a total winner (my ... Read the Post