3 ways to create an instant sauce for your quick vegan pasta dish
Whip up a comforting healthy and vegan pasta dish with pantry ingredients and leftover produce. Read this today to be prepared to make it tomorrow with what you have at home!
Vegan overnight oats batch prep: make them your way!
Morning is my favorite time of the day, when everything still seems possible. It’s the time when I review my daily planner, write a couple of pages in my journal, and spend 10 minutes reading. It’s also when I (normally) have to shepherd my kids to...
How to convert a recipe from stove-top to Instant Pot (with great vegan recipes)
So you now own an Instant Pot and you’d like to use it more, but your favorite recipes are written for the stove-top? Are you scared to wreck your dinner when using your new appliance? Worry not! In this post, I will explain in detail how to convert a recipe...
Cast-iron cooking for vegans (with great recipes for inspiration!) – no affiliate links
Is cast-iron cooking a good choice for vegans? After all, the much-touted capacity of cast-iron to sear steaks is moot for plant-based eaters. Compassionate cooks may even be repelled by the meat-centric marketing campaigns for this heavy kitchen gear. Yet, I recently...
How to involve kids in cooking at all ages (with lots of kid-friendly recipes!) | A guest post by Janelle Leclair of Peaceful Easy Vegan Nutrition
Do your little ones love to “help” in the kitchen? It can be hard to involve your kids in cooking at the end of a stressful day when all you want is to get dinner on the table as quickly as possible. Yet, teaching kids kitchen lessons is an investment that will yield...
How to eat more greens and cruciferous vegetables (with 25 recipes!)
Do you eat enough green and cruciferous vegetables on a daily basis? Chances are, you don’t. Even eating vegetables in general is challenge for most: less than 10% of Americans consume the recommended 2 to 3 cups daily. Within a few percentage points, these...
Amazingly healthy vegan ice pops (that your kids will LOVE)
“Mommy, I want a snack!” How many times a day do you hear that in the summer? Those five words can be the gateway to so many perils. Processed food with dubious ingredients and scary color additives. Empty calories that will fill your children’s...
The easiest way to cook quinoa
Before we dive into the easiest way to cook quinoa, let’s talk about the nagging question that any ethical foodie has at the back of their mind: should we eat quinoa or not? Quinoa made its big debut on the foodie scene about 10 years ago, earning kudos from...
Vegan batch cooking: the best way to enjoy home-made meals on demand! (with 8 free recipes to download)
Imagine having a stressful day and no dinner plan… and then remembering that, in your freezer, you have a few vegan building blocks that you’ll be able to pull together in 10 or 15 minutes to create a delicious and nutritious home-cooked dinner. No...
Vegan cooking for beginners: get started the easy way (even if you think you’ll never go vegan)
If you think you will never be vegan, I hear you and understand you. And I’m not even going to ask you to change. I was an unlikely vegan myself. I hardly knew vegetarians even existed until my late teens. When I started making money as a young adult I would...
Vegan cooking without recipes: 8 easy meals you can improvise tonight
Even with the best laid plans, you will occasionally find yourself having to prepare a meal that you haven’t planned for. Maybe you didn’t make it to the grocery store. Or your significant other has been… but brought back the wrong ingredients. Or you are trying to...
Vegans eat better pizza (with my basic dough and pesto potato pizza recipes)
I have never made so much pizza at home as since going vegan. The first reason is that I really LOVE pizza, and so does everyone in my family. Is it pizza that I love, or a slice of warm, golden bread with some luscious toppings? After a couple of years of trials and...
How to make vegan soup taste great? Try these 7 tips!
Soup is such a beautiful thing. It is warm, filling, comforting, and can be quite inexpensive to make. It can catch all the leftover veggies in your produce drawer before it’s too late. Best of all, it can be delicious and nutritious too. But how to make vegan...
How to make vegan polenta: a heart-warming base for your Fall dishes
There is a rumor that says that making polenta from scratch is tricky, labor-intensive, and better left to Italian mamas. I was fooled by this belief for a long time, but I know better now. Today’s the day when I invite you to also see the light. Here is how to...
What to do when you crave cheese?
One only needs to participate in any online forum for vegan beginners for about an hour to see THE question come up: “What is the best vegan cheese?” (Often followed with: “I tried XYZ brand and hated it.”) Here is my answer. The 30-day Cheese Detox Dairy cheese is...
