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Weekly Vegetarian Meal Plan + Tips For Omnivores // Week 4

February 9, 2019 5 Comments

Weekly vegetarian meal plan with tips for omnivores at the table, including tips for meal planning, and prep ahead tips to make dinner easy this week. #EatingClean #HealthyVegetarian #VegetarianRecipes #VegetarianMealPlan #MealPlan #WeeklyMealPlan #lentilsrecipes #mushrooms #risotto #cauliflower #healthyrecipe

Confession: I didn't do very well last week with sticking to my weekly vegetarian meal planning. In fact, it was a huge fail. Why? Because I didn't have a real meal plan. I'd done a roundup on Parade's online magazine for Best Roasted Veggies Ever For Easy Dinners , and saw in it all kinds of great ideas for the week ahead. So I figured my job was done. Wrong. So this week, I'm sharing 4 common mistakes people make in meal planning. Of course there are many more than 4, but these are the ...

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Pumpkin Black Bean Chili for the Instant Pot | Vegan and Gluten-Free

September 9, 2018 14 Comments

Instant Pot Pumpkin Black Bean Chili. It's gluten-free, vegan, and hearty enough for dinner.

I've got a new cookbook for you, my friends. My good friend Jane Bonacci, creator of the delicious The Heritage Cook blog, has a new cookbook out with Sara de Leeuw of the gorgeous My Imperfect Kitchen blog. It's titled The Gluten-Free Instant Pot Cookbook: Fast to Fix and Nourishing Recipes for All Kinds of Electric Pressure Cookers, and will be released on September 19th. Go check it out, and place your preorder here on Amazon if you're looking for some fuss-free dishes for the Instant Pot! A ...

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And the Winner is….Spicy Skillet Eggs (Mexican-ish Shakshuka) !

June 28, 2018 Leave a Comment

Shakshouka Eggs (poached eggs in a spicy tomato sauce)

A Mexican-ish twist on Shakshuka! Last week I posted a poll on Facebook, asking followers to choose between two dishes from the book that they would most like the recipe for. The choices were Spicy Skillet Eggs (a Mexican-ish twist on Shaksuka, a popular north African and Middle-Eastern breakfast) or a very easy Asparagus Risotto made in the Instant Pot. I promised to share the recipe for the winner on my blog, and here it is! The winner was a bit of a landslide, at least partly - IMHO ...

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Cajun Peppers + Cauliflower ‘Grits’

May 18, 2018 2 Comments

Cajun-spiced peppers and beans over cheesy cauliflower grits.

This is a spin on shrimp and grits, a Cajun favorite, using cajun-spiced baby bell peppers and black beans piled on top of cheesy cauliflower grits. Cauliflower rice is my new thing. And since I'm trying to be grain-free for a month (1 week down, 3 to go!), it's been a great substitute in some favorite dishes. This is my latest tinkering with cauliflower rice - and it rocks, you guys! Cauliflower grits! Who knew??!! Although this dish is an easy weeknight dinner - it comes together in ...

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Vegan Asparagus Salad with Potatoes and Lentils in a Lemon Vinaigrette

May 7, 2018 19 Comments

Asparagus and potato salad with lentils, mint and a lemon vinaigrette.

A spring vegan asparagus salad, hearty enough for a meal, loaded with asparagus, potatoes, lentils, radishes, sugar snap peas, and mint - all dressed with a bright lemon vinaigrette. Spring wakes slowly here in the mountains. After relishing the explosion of spring for decades outside San Francisco, I'm adjusting to a more tentative, gentle springing forth. Full confession: it's painful. I see four fuzzy buds one day on a bush when walking Paprika, and the next day another two gather up ...

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Weekly Vegetarian Menu #1

January 4, 2018 3 Comments

Ok, you guys. Here we go with my first Weekly Vegetarian Menu of the year, leaving you plenty of time to pick up groceries and plan over the weekend. As many of you might remember, I was part of a group with some friends last year where we jointly provided weekly menu plans for you. I offered up vegetarian spins on meat and fish dishes, but I got a lot of pushback from readers who preferred to see vegetarian dinner ideas. I totally get it - you want dishes that were originally created to be ...

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Mediterranean Cauliflower Salad with Crispy Chickpeas + Miso Dressing

June 16, 2017 4 Comments

Perfect clean eating dinner. Warm cauliflower salad with crispy chickpeas, sun-dried tomatoes and Kalamata olives, all tossed in a miso dressing. Do you have certain ingredients you always go to? The Italians, IMHO, have this nailed. Tomatoes, pasta, garlic, basil, and Parmesan. Those five ingredients can make several days of meals for me. Nothing against this winning combination, but I have my own favorites I often go to year-round. Cauliflower. Sun-dried tomatoes. Kalamata olives. ...

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Dinner Divas Weekly Meal Plan (with vegetarian versions!): Week 2

April 27, 2017 3 Comments

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 ...

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Idaho® Potato Nacho Stacks | #SundaySupper | #GameDayIdahoPotatoes

January 28, 2017 16 Comments

Bites of potato stacks, nacho style with cheese, black beans, salsa, avocado and a dollop of sour cream.

This post is sponsored by the Idaho® Potato Commission in conjunction with a social media campaign through Sunday Supper LLC. All opinions are my own. I’m a just-in-time girl. I can plan. Really, I can. But, and this is what I blame it on, I’m an optimist. I always think I have more time available to get something done than I actually do. As a result, my husband and I live in a kind of parallel reality, since he’s exactly the opposite. It makes for some interesting ‘discussions’ as you can ...

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Prawns and Cauliflower in a Tomato-Feta Sauce over Couscous

November 28, 2016 11 Comments

A sauce of prawns, clams, tomatoes and feta served over couscous.

Aromatic sauce of prawns and cauliflower, with clams, chickpeas, tomatoes, and feta served over Israeli couscous. A twist on an Ottolenghi favorite. Do you buy cookbooks and cook one, maybe two, recipes from them before squeezing them onto a shelf and out of your mind? How about magazines? I'm the worst! I could be considered a hoarder. I have piles of cooking magazines, stuffed with mouth-watering recipes I've yet to try, stacked in places all over the house, and yet whenever I'm standing in ...

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Cuban Spicy Black Bean and Sweet Potato Tacos with Candied Plantains | #ProgressiveEats

August 29, 2016 6 Comments

Tacos filled with spicy black beans, roasted sweet potatoes, and cabbage - all topped with a tomatillo-avocado sauce and cheese. Candied plantains are on the side!

Spicy black bean and sweet potato tacos with cabbage - topped with a tomatillo-avocado sauce and cheese. Candied plantains are on the side! Cuba is the *it* destination. The country is officially open to the US, and people are streaming in. But it's still a little tricky in that folks here can't just casually decide to hop on a commercial flight, rent a car, and be a DIY tourist. There are loads of organized trips, if you can afford it, and other options are due to open the country up a little ...

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Baked Falafel with a Spicy Moroccan Sauce (in a muffin pan!!)

May 30, 2016 14 Comments

Baked Falafel with a Spicy Moroccan Sauce

This month's theme for Progressive Eats is anything that can be made in a muffin tin. This could have been my opportunity to make muffins. God knows I'm due. In the nearly 5 years I've had this blog going, I've not posted one single muffin. Kind of shocking in the food blogging world. Likewise, and my husband really doesn't understand this, I've never posted cupcakes. But they're vegetarian, he's complained more than once. In truth, you might never see cupcakes here. Trust me when I say that my ...

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