Tag: American

American style healthy vegetarian recipes. Classic flavors for when you want something quick and easy for dinner.

  • Bite Into the Best Vegan BLT

    Vegan BLT Sandwich

    When many consider a plant-based diet, the fear of missing out on favorite foods can be a non-starter.  No more!  This amazing vegan BLT raises the bar and proves that whole foods are indeed absolute stunners, satisfying the even most entrenched cravings.

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  • Apple & Herb Thanksgiving Dressing

    Apple & Herb Thanksgiving Dressing

    Thanksgiving-stuffing-recipeThe holidays are an interesting time for new vegans or vegetarians and their families. Traditions rule, and that means stuffing, gravy, and all of the holiday trimmings.  What to make for the plant-eaters?  We’ve run into our fair share of less than inspired freezer aisle veggie “options”, and we’re here to say there is a better way!

    Having lived in both the north and the south, we call it either dressing or stuffing interchangeably. Whatever your kitchen names it, the dish is a holiday staple… and it needs to be great!  A perennial favourite for both our Thanksgiving or Christmas dinners, this vegan stuffing recipe combines fresh herbs, apple, and crunchy walnuts to pull the side-dish into centre stage.  Vegans and vegetarians (and their hosts), sigh no more at the holiday dinner table!  This will be the star of the show…

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  • Absolutely Delicious Miso Gravy

    Absolutely Delicious Miso Gravy

    Miso Gravy

    In Vancouver there is a restaurant called The Naam.  It’s a quirky vegetarian institution, open 24/7, and is the perfect place to meet friends for an inspired and healthy meal regardless of the hour.  One of the most popular dishes is the Dragon bowl, made with the secret-recipe Naam miso gravy. The popularity can’t be understated; it’s even sold by the bottle.  (more…)

  • Homemade Cranberry Sauce

    Homemade Cranberry Sauce

    cranberry-sauce

    When you live abroad, perspective is found equally in the new things you discover and the familiar things you miss.  On our first thanksgiving in Australia, we had a heck of a time finding cranberries for the ubiquitous holiday sauce.  Persistence paid off that year, and we cheerfully brought home the bright red berries to make this simple staple family heirloom of a recipe.  It’s so good, we almost didn’t want to let the recipe out…

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  • Spicy Buffalo Tempeh Caesar Salad

    Spicy Buffalo Tempeh Caesar Salad

    Vegan Buffalo Casear Salad
    This salad is spicy, tangy and creamy, just like a great buffalo caesar salad should be. When we want something quick, delicious and healthy to eat on a Monday night, on the weekend before we go to the gym, or when we’ve just got back from traveling, this is the salad I make up.

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