Chad makes these healthy burgers with black beans, brown rice, roasted bell pepper, fresh tomato, carrot, green onions, sweet potato, nutritional yeast, cumin, chili powder, hot pepper sauce, and garlic. He uses the pre-cooked sweet potato as a binder in this recipe. He mixes all these ingredients together, and places the mixture in the refrigerator for a little while to firm it up. Then, he forms his burgers and places them in the oven. He builds his burgers on a whole wheat bun, with guacamole, lettuce, tomato, red onion, and cilantro. He serves it with baked “sweet potato fries”. This is a delicious and very healthy alternative to a traditional hamburger made with meat. Try it and Enjoy. Continue reading
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Chili Roasted Broccoli with Garlic by Rachael Ray
Rachael shows a very quick and easy way to make a flavorful and healthy side dish. She coats fresh broccoli with a mixture of spices and olive oil, adds some chopped garlic, and roasts it. She points out, any leftovers from this delicious side dish can be used with pasta to make a great pasta salad. Enjoy. Continue reading
How to use a Pestle and Mortar by Jamie Oliver
Jamie demonstrates the two basic techniques for using a pestle and mortar, bashing and muddling. He demonstrates how to grind spices with both muddling and bashing. He then creates a wonderful flavored oil by bashing fresh basil leaves and mixing them with olive oil. Finally, he makes a marinade by bashing lemon peel, rosemary, garlic, and olive oil. You can almost smell and taste his dressing, flavored oil, and marinade just by watching his video. Learning how to use a pestle and mortar is definitely a skill worth developing. Continue reading
Vegetarian Salisbury Steaks Casserole Style by Margaret Meyer
Margaret has been making this recipe for over 20 years. Her family likes it, and when she takes it to pot luck dinners, it disappears quickly. She makes hamburger type patties with a mixture of blended pecans, garlic, and onions, to which she adds extra firm tofu, nutritional yeast, Braggs Amino, onion powder, and rolled oats. She grills her patties, places them in a casserole dish, covers them with store bought vegan gravy, and bakes them. Easy to do. Healthy and delicious. Enjoy. Continue reading
Creamy Potato Curry Soup by Kylie Bennett
Kylie’s soup contains russet potatoes, onions, coconut oil, ginger, garlic, curry powder, vegetable broth, and cashew cream. Her video clearly shows the simple steps to make this soup. Interestingly, instead of using olive oil for sauteing her onions, etc., she uses coconut oil, which is supposed to be healthier than other plant oils when cooking with oil at high temperatures as in sauteing vegetables. This is another easy to make healthy soup that could also be made ahead. Enjoy. Continue reading
Fettuccine Alfredo by Jon (Vegan Zombie)
Here is an Alfredo recipe that does not include any animal products. Jon demonstrates his version by creating a mixture of sauteed mushrooms, onions, garlic, capers, scallions, and tofu. He creates his Alfredo sauce starting with a roux made with olive oil, and flour to which he adds Almond milk and some of his sauteed vegetables and scallions. He tosses his Alfredo sauce with vegan fettuccine pasta, tops it with some of his sauteed mushroom, onion, capers and tofu mixture, and fresh scallions. Try this recipe with a good salad, and some wine. Enjoy. Continue reading
Smoky Split Pea and Sweet Potato Soup by Whitney Lauritsen
Whitney’s soup is filled with healthy ingredients and is very easy and economical to make. This recipe can be made in a large pot or even a slow cooker for those who want to set it and forget it. It’s healthy ingredients include vegetable broth, onions, carrots, celery, red bell pepper, garlic, dried oregano, smoked paprika, yellow split peas, sweat potatoes, bay leaf, green onions, frozen peas. Whitney uses vegetable broth instead of oil to saute the vegetables. As she suggests, you could add or substitute vegetables as you wish. And, this is another recipe that can be made ahead for use later. Enjoy. Continue reading
Quinoa Stuffed Peppers with Eggplant & Mint by Rachel Ray
Rachael shows how easy it is to cook quinoa. She uses vegetable stock instead of water to cook the quinoa. She then adds it to sauteed vegetables, and stuffs roasted red peppers with the mixture. This recipe is very easy to make, and can be made ahead for use later in the week. Like Rachael says, it is “delicious and super nutritious.” Enjoy. Continue reading
Lentil Soup w/ Sun-dried Tomatoes & Spinach by Monique Koch
Monique shows her technique for making sure the lentils don’t have any debris in them. She soaks them, and adds them to a pot with sauteed onions, garlic and vegetable broth. After the soup has simmered for about 20 minutes, she adds sun-dried tomatoes and spinach. She usually serves her soup with rice. This soup recipe is simple, healthy and delicious. Enjoy. Continue reading
Pan-seared Tempeh in Lemon Caper Sauce, Garlic Mashed Potato and Roasted Vegetables by Chloe Coscarelli
Chef Chloe demonstrates an easy to prepare and delicious meal. Throughout the video, Chloe presents techniques for cooking the components of this meal. From my point of view, the only thing missing from this video is Chloe preparing it together with some friends, all drinking glasses of wine. Try making this meal yourself. You’ll like it. Continue reading