What’s easier than dumping a handful of ingredients into a blender and making dessert? I guess just dumping them straight into your mouth, but that’s not as…satisfying. This quick chocolate chia seed pudding is whipped up in just a minute or two in a high speed blender. Most chocolate chia seed pudding recipes ask for the dish to be cooled overnight or long.…
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Pineapple Orange Smoothie
I wanted to feel like I was on an island, because to be honest, I am sitting in a very hot apartment with sticky clothes. This refreshing pineapple orange smoothie has helped bring back the vacation feels, sans sweat. This smoothie recipe is as simple as it gets and it’s totally plant-based, healthy, and vegan.…
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Toast With Hummus, Olives & Almonds
Is there anyone in the world who loves toast as much as I do? I am literally obsessed. It’s filling, versatile, and obviously…it’s toasted. And when the toast is loaded with natural fats like peanut butter or hummus – it’s game on!…
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Celebrating My 100th Blog Post!
Woah, this is my 100th blog post. That’s totally insane, considering that I started my food blog journey with Plant Based and Broke in February. That was just five months ago. That also means I wrote about 20 blog posts per month.…
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Smoothie
Sometimes in the morning I just want to literally roll out of bed and shoot out my arm to grab a frosty glass of chocolate peanut butter smoothie. As you can imagine, I still have to make the effort of whipping up the smoothie together, but it’s much easier than chopping, cooking, steaming, and watching a pan of breakfast items trying to come together, while incoherently rambling on about how mornings suck (sometimes).…
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Simple Green Smoothie Recipe
I took a look into my fridge and I have enough stuff to make a smoothie: frozen ripe bananas, peaches, spinach. That’s it. And some water. And thus…the simple green smoothie was born. It’s starting to get hot again outside and I have a feeling that cooking in a hot kitchen is going to get miserable FAST.…
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Brown Rice + Black Bean Veggie Burger Recipe
Ugh, I am so in love with veggie burgers, especially this brown rice + black bean veggie burger recipe that I whipped up for my #WeAreEatingRice week on Instagram. Honestly, I could eat burgers all day, everyday. The veggie options are endless: Black Bean & Tofu Burger Smoky Shiitake Mushroom Burgers Potato Breakfast Burger Plant-Based Lentil Burgers The list goes on-and-on. But you’re probably wondering: is this burger mushy like all the other veggie burgers out there?…
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Brown Rice To Water Ratio
Rice: it looks easy, until you end up with hard, gummy, or soupy rice. Thankfully, with the age of rice cookers, and having a better idea of the brown rice to water ratio, cooking rice had been a little less daunting. …
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Hearty Rice And Bean Tomato Soup
I know, I know. It’s summertime and you’re probably wondering why I am still making soup recipes, especially something like a tomato soup. Here’s the real answer: because they are delicious and cheap that’s why. Did anyone here forget that I am frugal?…
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Puerto Rican Yellow Rice (Arroz Con Gandules)
If you haven’t cooked with sofrito, are you really cooking? 😉 Just recently I made sofrito, so I knew it was only right that I made Puerto Rican yellow rice with it, which is also known as arroz con gandules.…
