Meal Planning Struggles My first week at dinner meal planning (and executing it) was a work in progress. To recap for any of you who missed my post last week on Vegetarian Weekly Meal Plans, I'm starting to plan my dinners out 1 week ahead to get more organized around dinner so I'm not trying to figure out dinner 10 minutes before I make it. This week, some parts worked, and others didn't. The biggest challenge for me was, and continues to be, all those moving parts that never stay still. ...
Weekly Vegetarian Menu #2 – 5 Easy Vegetarian Dinners
I've been in Yosemite most of this week, and so haven't been able to complete photography on a couple of new recipes I want to bring to you. In the meantime, here's another Weekly Vegetarian Menu of dinner ideas for the next week. If your week next week looks as busy as mine promises to be, you won't always have the time you'd like to cook up something healthy. I get it. In answer to that, this selection is focused on easy dinners! As I mentioned last week, I scour blogs I enjoy for recipes I ...
Dinner Divas Weekly Meal Plan (with vegetarian versions!): Week 2
My Dinner Divas are back again with another meal plan for the week ahead. It's full of ideas for you. As a recap, if you missed our first Menu Plan, I’ve joined up with some of my favorite blogger friends to collaborate on a week’s worth of dinner ideas. Every Friday morning, you’ll now wake to a menu of options for the week ahead, including 5 dinners and 2 extra dishes that can be sides, desserts, or drinks. Full disclosure: The other bloggers post recipes on all kinds of food, not just ...
My Favorite Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Icing
My birthday is today and I baked this cake. I shared some of it. Begrudgingly. But I kept most of it all for me. No guilt here, just in case you were wondering. I've had a love affair with carrot cake for a long time. When I had a milestone birthday a couple of years ago - it doesn't matter which milestone - I ordered a big carrot cake from the folks who catered my party. And I'm crazy about my 6" cake pans, so I made a triple decker. Just to make sure I would get enough cake on my plate, you ...
Cilantro-Lime Cauliflower Rice (with Coconut)
Quick vegan side dish of cauliflower rice cooked with grated carrots, and tossed with cilantro and lime. Cauliflower is the most flexible vegetable I know. It can be roasted, fried, made into tater-tots, substituted for potatoes in mashed potatoes, used as pizza crust, and grated for a lower carb alternative to rice. What other food can do that and be such a powerhouse nutritionally? It really is the white food we should be eating. I've had my eye on cilantro-lime cauliflower rice for ages now ...
Citrus Roasted Carrots with Ginger
I have a new favorite condiment from Gourmet Garden. No, this is not a sponsored post. I should get that out of the way pronto with you. I'm just a huge fan. I've been using Gourmet Garden products for over a year now, and have never been disappointed. The newest line I love is their lightly dried herbs. They started showing up in my local market a few months ago, and the Lightly Dried Ginger is the first one I've been have some kitchen fun with. I used it in a chowder soup that serves up ...
Lightened Maple Carrot Flan
As we gallop towards Thanksgiving, food bloggers, magazines, grocery stores, and Martha all bubble over with ideas for the table you'll be setting on November 26th. And so are we at FN Dish, the Food Network's blog. For this week's #Fallfest, we're digging up carrots by the truckload to make dishes for you to share with your friends and family this year. I'll be honest, right up front. I don't eat a lot of carrots. Don't get me wrong -- I add them to lentils and other legume dishes, and throw ...
Maple Candied Carrots with Currants: #FallFest
It's good to be flexible. CMax (Carnivorous Maximus) and I are now one month into training Pakrika (Rika), our 13-week-old Labradoodle puppy, and it's clear that we have two different ideas of what a good puppy is. CMax is the stricter parent, opting for a long list of things little Rika must learn. I'm the easy mark with a far shorter list, and less exacting definition of what the commands mean. I humbly admit that when I want Rika to get off or get down, I only follow through with a firm ...
Vegan Ginger-Carrot Soup | #NinjaBlender Review
Vegan soup full of flavors from the Islands with ginger and coconut milk melding with pureed carrots. And a product review of a Ninja Blender! Disclaimer: I was provided a Nutri-Ninja® | Ninja® Blender by Ninja. All opinions are completely my own (and those of Carnivorous Maximus). There's a new blender in my kitchen, and it has completely replaced not only everything I did with my old one, but also many things I was using my food processor for. I've used this Nutri-Ninja® | Ninja® Blender ...
One Simple Change (and Silky Carrot Soup)
Carrot soup make silky with the addition of a sweet potato and creme fraiche, and "One Simple Change" book. Today's post is a little change of pace, and I'm so excited about it. Winnie is one of my friends that I've never met. If you share on social media and blogs, you know what I mean. We've exchanged comments on each other's recipes for years now - first on Food52 and afterwards on her blog Healthy Green Kitchen. I love getting to know someone through their food, and ...
Hoppin’ John for Good Luck
Hoppin' John, a traditional southern black-eyed pea stew with collard greens for a lucky New Year. If you travel through the South on New Year’s Day, you may find black-eyed peas on the breakfast table. If you do, be sure to take a big helping for good luck. According to Southern folklore, if these legumes are the first thing you eat in the New Year, you will have luck and prosperity throughout the year. Both of my parents grew up in Alabama, but this tradition was news to me. I did ...
