Do you hear that? It’s that satisfying potato chip-crunch from a perfectly roasted starch nugget. Yeah, I said nugget. When it comes to the right flavor, texture, and shimmering gold color of roasted potatoes, there are 5 easy tricks. There is a bonus trick, though: make more than what you think you might need, because I promise you’ll want to go back for seconds and thirds. Because who just ate three potatoes worth of the stuff?…
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Avocado Toast With Pears Recipe
Autumn is here and avocado toast is coming back with a sweet twist. When I think of a healthy fast food breakfast, I automatically sift through the hundreds of toast ideas flipping through my head. And you know…the occasional peanut butter and jelly toast that I, as an adult, have every right to enjoy, comes up.…
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Warm Grapes & Walnut Oat Bran Bowl
After a couple of weeks of rich and decadent Indian food, it was time to switch my eating gears and get back to the plant-based basics. So of course I went with warm grapes & walnut oat bran bowl. As much as I am obsessed with Indian food and would never say “no” to a buffet-style Indian lunch, my belling was rumbling for something refreshing and light, with a decent amount of protein and fiber.…
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Quick + Easy Loaded Tofu Scramble
Although intimidating at first, a delicious tofu scramble is incredibly easy, cheap, and fast to whip up. I pretty much gathered some of the veggies laying around in my fridge to make this easy loaded tofu scramble with kale and kidney beans. Lately I have been pretty obsessed with tofu scramble because of how cheap and easy it is.…
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Let’s Talk: My Plant-Based Diet Journey
Eating a mostly plant-based diet was a very slow and gradual process for me. Over the course of my (very young) life, I had been on wildly different diets that were hardly sustainable; mostly to control my never-ending rollercoaster ride of weight gain and weight loss. My Toxic Relationship With Food During that wild ride of all the diets, I learned something about myself: food restriction, obsession, and making arupt dietary changes would often lead to my diet demise.…
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Easy Vegan Lentil Meatballs
Guess who has lots of lentils hanging out in the pantry, begging to be used? ::raises hand:: It was time to use them and get my fiber and protein back on track, so I decided to go for a delicious, not-so-much chopping, easy vegan lentil meatball recipe to serve over a huge pile of whole wheat pasta.…
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Vegan Pumpkin Smoothie
Drumroll, please. We’re trying out Trader Joe’s pumpkin butter today…in a vegan pumpkin smoothie. Smoothies for fall? I mean, why not. Also, if you live in a city that’s summer all year long (ahem, I am looking at you Miami), but still want to hop on that pumpkin train, a cool and creamy vegan pumpkin smoothie just makes sense. Okay.…
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Puerto Rican Style Chickpea Soup
You know the type of recipes that make you feel like you’re back home as a little kid, cuddled up on the couch with a warm, fleece blanket? That is exactly how this Puerto Rican style chickpea soup made me feel.…
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Easy Vegan Mushroom Bacon
Mmm…bacon. We’re going all plant-based and we’re using our magical plant-based friend: mushrooms. Vegan mushroom bacon is the perfect recipe to pop into a sandwich, munch on as a snack, or to brag to your meat-eating friends about how mushroom bacon is pretty epic, too. In this recipe, we’ll be using king oyster mushrooms, also known as trumpet royale.…
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Vegan Breakfast Burrito Recipe
I opened up my pantry and for the first time in a long time, I groaned at the four boxes of oat bran I have patiently waiting for me every morning. I love oat bran, but I had to switch things up a bit.…
