Vegetarian (or easily adapted) Recipes

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Coconut Quinoa Breakfast Cookies

Perhaps you’ve never tried them, but quinoa flakes are widely available and offer a wholesome alternative to flour in these lightly sweet, satisfying cookies. Cookies for breakfast anyone? When they’re loaded with wholesome ingredients, cookies for breakfast are a treat we can actually feel good about. Perfect to grab-and-go when time is running short too!…

Spicy Sweet Potatoes with Smoked Paprika Aioli

Packed with flavor and so satisfying โ€“ I could make a meal out of these sweet potatoes. The easy aioli puts them over the top!   The mention of great sweet potato fries could lure me to any restaurant. A plateful of these alone could easily be my entire meal. My first taste of this…

Smoked Paprika Aioli

This 5-ingredient sauce is made bright and light through the addition of Greek yogurt and lime juice, while two simple spices add singular, smoky flavor. You wonโ€™t believe how easy and versatile it is!   My first introduction to paprika came as a young girl while helping my mom make deviled eggs. She always topped…

Simple Vanilla Syrup

A deliciously easy (and economical) way to sweeten homemade iced coffee, lattes, and a variety of other drinks and desserts. For basic simple syrup, simply omit the vanilla.   Have you ever added sugar to a glass of iced tea, stirred vigorously to dissolve it, only to find a puddle of semi-dissolved granules at the…

Homemade Lattes (and how to froth milk without a fancy gadget)

Cafรฉ caliber lattes are easy to make in your own home with no fancy equipment and at a fraction of the usual cost ๏ผ hot, iced, with foam or without!       As I was getting breakfast ready on Monday morning, a news story about lattes caught my attention. ย Teasing his upcoming “exclusive,” the…

Green Goat Grilled Sandwich

A recreation of a customer favorite at a local restaurant, this recipe is the best combination of crisp salad and crunchy sandwich. Sometimes good things just keep getting better. Last week, I reported that Tom + Chee will be featuring my recipe for Cannellini Tomato Soup with Grilled Cheese Dippers throughout the month of April. The exciting…

Green Goat Salad with White Balsamic Vinaigrette

A remake of a restaurant favorite, this satisfying salad hits all the right flavor notes. Add a protein of choice to make it a complete meal.    How many times do you enjoy a restaurant meal only to crave it at home?  Quite a few recipes on this blog are recreations of menu offerings that lingered…

Cheesy Cauliflower “Flatbread”

In the past few years, cauliflower has been reinvented in so many ways.  Thanks to its low carb count and subtle flavor, this healthy cruciferous vegetable has been successfully morphed into healthy-yet-creamy mashed “potatoes” and surprisingly delicious pizza crust. When my friend Sonali asked me to review her cookbook, Natural Pregnancy Cookbook, one of the first things…

Lemon Dijon Kale Salad with Sweet Potatoes & Apples

With a combination of creamy, crunchy, and crisp ingredients, this wholesome salad is sure to satisfy, and leftovers hold up well. For a protein-rich complete meal, top with grilled or roasted chicken or salmon๏ผor white beans or seared tofu for complementary meatless alternatives. Every fall, when the days start to grow shorter and colder, I sell…

Coconut-Banana Bread Breakfast Cakes

Gone are the days when flour as we know it meant all-purpose flour.  From almonds to garbanzo beans, rice, and oats, flour is made of almost anything these days.  I recently made pancakes with banana flour (yes, really…and they were good!) and sampled chestnut flour crackers (we liked the pancakes better 😀). When used the…

Checkerboard Potatoes

A few simple ingredients come together with ease in this visually appealing side dish thatโ€™s equal parts fun and delicious!    Coming up with a crowd-pleasing entree every night of the week can be challenging. As a result, side dishes donโ€™t always get the attention they deserve. After mixing a marinade for a side of…

Homemade Seasoned Salt

So often it’s the simple things made with run-of-the-mill pantry items that serve us best in the kitchen.  Thanks to their ease, versatility, and great flavor, staples like classic balsamic vinaigrette, basic marinara, homemade Bisquick, and aptly-named “everything” sauce have found their way into many recipes in my kitchen and throughout this blog.   An amped up salt fits nicely…

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