Adventures in Plant Based Living and Sustainability
Looking for some easy vegan recipes for beginners? This yellow split pea soup is a recipe is quick, easy and healthy. Seriously. It’s loaded with vegetables: yellow split peas, carrots, celery and potatoes. It’s warm and comforting: the perfect vegan recipe to cut your vegan teeth on. Give it a try!
Miso ramen for the win! This easy miso ramen recipe features miso glazed delicate squash, shiitake mushrooms and bok choy making for an amazing vegan dinner idea. This vegan ramen recipe features a savory miso broth and ramen rice noodles for a gluten-free meal.
Miso is an incredible tool in any vegan chef’s toolbox. It’s super flavorful and boasts some serious health benefits. It also makes for an easy vegan soup recipe – perfect for lunch time when you want to eat healthy, but don’t want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen! This vegan soup recipe comes together in no time and offers up a cold-busting, warm, savory solution to your lunch time.
Leave the tuna alone! This chickpea tuna salad is the perfect option for an easy vegan lunch. Vegan tuna salad is the sustainable answer to the original comfort food. I like mine loaded with carrots, celery and almonds and spiced up with lemon juice, Dijon mustard and crushed red pepper.
[skip to recipe] The Highlights Vegan Dairy-Free Gluten-Free Warm & satisfying Chock full of healthy vegetables Get Ready To Get Your Pho On! Pho is easily one of my favorite dishes. Over the years, it’s become a Sunday night staple in the wintertime, following a […]
[skip to recipe] The Highlights… Vegan (non-meat, non-dairy) Savory Easy, hands-off cooking in the crock-pot Great “leftovers” options! Vegan Smoky BBQ Sweet Potato Chili Chili recipes abound the minute our thoughts change from summer to fall. I’ve got a number of options that I rotate […]
[skip to recipe] A few weeks ago some friends of mine sent me home with a grocery bag full of fresh garden tomatoes. I was visiting them in Denver from my mountain home in Steamboat Springs, a difference of nearly 2,000 ft. in elevation gain […]
Spelt Soft Pretzels Nothing is quite as reminiscent of childhood (mine, anyway) as a warm, salty soft pretzel. Soft pretzels marked a time of newly acquired independence when I was finally released into the wilds of the local shopping mall to wander alone while my […]
Spicy Red Lentils These spicy red lentils are a fan favorite in my household. When we switched to a plant-based diet, red lentils became a staple – they’re tasty, simple and really good for you! I make them early in the week and we use […]
Peach Gazpacho Come mid-August, peaches are a big deal in Colorado. Hailing from the warm, desert-like climate of the western slope, Palisade peaches are sweet and juicy – everything you could want from a peach. And they’re in abundance. Sure, you can find them in […]