Healthy, wholesome vegan macrobiotic bowls with marinated adzuki beans and turmeric tahini sauce require minimal prep and cooking time, making them a great choice for a weeknight dinner. They are also perfect for workday lunches! I enjoyed a vegan macrobiotic bowl at Fresh restaurant during a half marathon weekend in Toronto in May. It was…
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How to Make Homemade Hemp Milk
It’s Plastic-Free July, so I’m breaking from the Salad a Day Challenge to bring you a zero waste hemp milk recipe! You can read more about Plastic-Free July here. There are countless ways that we can reduce our plastic footprint, and the kitchen holds many opportunities for doing so. One of the easiest swaps to…
Vegan Greek Pasta Salad with Homemade Tofu Feta
It’s the fifth recipe in the July Salad a Day Challenge, and it’s a good one: Vegan Greek Pasta Salad with Homemade Tofu Feta! I apologize for my absence here yesterday- I ran out of time to post a recipe before work. In lieu of a blog post, I did I decided to show you…
Savory Breakfast Salad
Welcome to Day 4 of the July Salad a Day Challenge! Today, we have a savory breakfast salad recipe with kale, blueberries, hemp, roasted sweet potato, and a flax oil/apple cider vinegar dressing. For protein, you can serve this salad with a fried egg or two, or if you are vegan, you can serve it…
Protein Power Noodle Bowls
These Protein Power Noodle Bowls are chock full of goodness: crispy baked tofu steaks, chickpeas, sweet and spicy sunflower seeds, vegetables, avocado, and an addictive tahini sauce tying it all together. As much as I love travelling, there’s nothing like returning to familiar sights, sounds, faces, and routines. I just got back home after running…
Santa Fe Salad with Crispy Tofu, Beans, and Cilantro Lime Dressing
A hearty, fresh salad with southwestern flavours, this Santa Fe Salad with Crispy Tofu, Beans, and Cilantro Lime Dressing also features avocado, quinoa, roasted sweet potato, dates, orange, red pepper, and red onion. It’ll make your taste buds sing! There are few things I love more than creating meal-sized salads. I am admittedly what you…
Spring Abundance Bowls with Maple-Balsamic Tempeh
These Spring Abundance Bowls are made with soba noodles, baked maple-balsamic tempeh, roasted vegetables, and fresh greens. A goddess dressing ties it all together. Call me boring, but there are few meals that excite me more than bowls. Place an array of grains, legumes, colourful vegetables, and sauce before me, and I’ll be as happy…
BBQ Pulled Tofu Tacos with Citrus Avocado Sauce
Here is a life hack: find (BBQ tofu) taco-loving people and surround yourself with them. Then you can have Taco Tuesday all week long, and you will have SO. MUCH. FUN. Your taste buds will be pretty dang happy all the time, too. I’m pretty obsessed with tacos these days, and with spring and summer…
Date Night Vegan Penne with Tempeh Chorizo and Red Pepper Cream Sauce
It’s still early spring, which means it’s perfectly acceptable to share this cozy pasta recipe, right? Pasta is the ultimate date night meal. And if you gussy it up with tempeh chorizo and a creamy cashew red pepper sauce, you’ll most definitely succeed in impressing your person. As my dad always says, “The way to…
Vegan Meatball Pizza with Green Goddess Ranch Dip
All your vegan pizza dreams came true with this meatball pizza. Tempeh meatballs, tofu ricotta (or vegan cheese of your choice), and veggies bake up into pizza perfection atop a homemade spelt pizza crust. Take it over the top by serving it with my Green Goddess Ranch Dip. Recently, a number of high profile (high…