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A few days of hippie bowls

Going into the weekend I had all my meals ready to go.  Starting with Thursday night, I made a typical hippie bowl.   If I had to choose a combination of ingredients to eat forevermore it would probably be these: quinoa, carrots, corn, seitan, avocado     I recently got a question about the ratio of grain to veg to protein in my “hippie bowl” type meals.  In all honesty, I don’t consciously compose them with a specific ratio in mind, but if I had to guess I’d say it is pretty much 1:1:1.  Sometimes… Read more >

Unappetizing names

Pate.  When I lived in Spain, my senora made me sandwiches with pate spreads all the time.  At the time I wasn’t vegan, but I already shunned dairy and avoided most meat (chicken and fish were still in my diet though).  I told her over and over again I didn’t like pate – it reminded me of cat food.  But she repeatedly made it for me.  As a result I get shivers up and down my body whenever I see or hear the word.  This is especially unfortunate because many raw spreads are dubbed “pates”… Read more >

Salty, sweet, savory, scrumptious

Any resemblance this sweet & salty snack has to an eight legged arthropod is completely unintentional. I made them on the late night because I was craving both chocolate and salt at the same time and couldn’t find anything on hand that would satisfy my sophisticated palate.    I would rather die before heading to bed with an un-sated appetite, so clearly I had to make something to get my dessert fix.  cocoa powder peanut flour water raw almonds pretzel sticks turbinado sugar (or stevia) Mix the cocoa, peanut flour, sugar, salt and water until… Read more >

Crockpot Steel Cut Oats

Are you ready for this? Slow Cooker Irish Oatmeal Ingredients: 1 cup steel cut oats 4 cups liquids (I used 3 cups water & 1 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk) 2 tsp cinnamon 1 apple, skinned & chopped 1/4 cup raisins stevia to taste Directions: Add apples, raisins, and cinnamon to crock-pot.  Plus 1 cup steel cut oats.  Then 4 cups liquids. Stir everything up and set crock-pot to low setting for 7 hours. Above is what it looked like at 10 pm. Below is what it looked like at 5 am. Ok, you can’t… Read more >

Veggie Sliders

Whenever I find a slew of tupperwared ingredients in the fridge, my mind immediately goes into overdrive, brainstorming ways to get rid of them. Beans, squash, rice, bell peppers…sounds like the base of a beautiful veggie burger to me! Veggie Sliders [yield: 10 burgers, vegan, gluten free] Ingredients: 1 cup cooked white rice 1 1/4 cup beans (I used 1 cup black eyes peas & 1/4 cup chickpeas) 1/2 cup butternut squash puree 1/2 red bell pepper, finely chopped 2 tbsp chia seeds + 1/2 cup water TJ’s 21 seasoning salute (this is my favorite… Read more >