During the heat of the summer, a nice cooling salad with fresh greens from the garden is a great lunch or dinner choice. But, because I eat a mostly vegan diet, I am always on the lookout for ways to get more protein into my salads. I have recently experimented with some new recipes that …
Plant-Based Recipes
The Best Vegan Rhubarb Squares
I love rhubarb, and I am lucky to have a nice patch of it growing in my own yard. And though I limit my intake of sugary desserts most of the time, I make exceptions for things like my husband’s birthday at the beginning of May because it also happens to be rhubarb season! I …
My Favorite *New* Plant-Based Recipes for Veganuary 2024
This year for Veganuary–an annual challenge that encourages people to eat a plant-based diet for the month of January–I made a point to try out a bunch of brand-new vegan recipes so that I could share my favorites with you! I’ve been posting them on my Facebook page every #MeatlessMonday and #TofuTuesday (or #TempehTuesday) this …
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Plant-Based Recipe Inspiration from Around the World
Are you looking for some plant-based recipe inspiration? One of my passions is to show others that eating a plant-based diet is not just good for your health, for animals, and for the planet, but it also tastes good–especially when the recipes come from around the world, like the ones below from Cuba, India, Turkey, …
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The 4 Most Important Things You Can Do To Help Mitigate Climate Change
By now I think we can all agree that climate change is real. We see evidence of it throughout the world on a daily basis: extreme heat waves, wildfires, droughts, floods, unpredictable weather and more. It can be rather depressing to let the gravity of it all sink in, and I think many of us …
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Four Funky + Fabulous Vegan Summer Salads
I don’t know about you, but I often find my inspiration lagging when it comes to summertime meals. I think it’s mostly because it just feels too hot to cook. But this summer I have been experimenting with a few new recipes (and one old one) that have given me some fresh ideas about what …
Healthy Summertime Breakfast Inspiration
We’ve all heard by now that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so what kind of ‘fuel’ are you putting in your body to start the day off right? If you’re looking for a little healthy plant-based inspiration, check out these two vegan breakfast recipes I make religiously all summer long: Homemade …
A Reverence for All Living Things
I recently read a book by Tara Brach, a well-known meditation teacher, where she shared a story about hearing cows lowing in a distant field while on a meditation retreat near a dairy farm. It reminded me of my own similar experience, so I thought I would share it during this month of ‘Veganuary.’ A …
Plant-Based Recipe Inspiration for the Cold Weather Months
Updated 1/24 with two new recipes! I’ll admit it: The heat of the summer makes me not want to cook very much. But fall’s cooler days encourage me to get back into the kitchen to make warm, nourishing meals. I’ve tried out a number of new recipes lately that I wanted to share with you …
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The Bill & Christy Vegan Cooking Show: King Oyster Mushroom ‘Scallops’ with Homemade Pesto
As some of you may recall, last winter my husband (who trained and worked as a professional chef many years ago) and I decided to make a video of ourselves cooking a meal together. We were pleasantly surprised to get some nice feedback from it, so we decided to make another one. We recorded it this …
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