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
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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
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
Yellow Squash Soup with Cured Strawberries by Edward Lee
Chef Lee demonstrates a very easy to make chilled yellow squash soup. He lightly sautes onions and chopped pieces of squash, then adds vegetable stock, simmers the mixture, adds sour cream and purees the soup with an immersion blender. Simple and easy. He also tops his soup with cured strawberries. He cures the strawberries in a mixture of salt and sugar, which pulls the water out of them and intensifies their flavor. This is an elegant, delicious, and healthy chilled soup, which will please you, your family, and your guests. 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
New England Glam Chowder by Isa Chandra Moskowitz
Isa prepares a vegan version of the popular New England Clam Chowder using a mix of button and shitachi mushrooms as substitutes for the clams, and cashew cream for the dairy cream. Add some other healthy ingredients, simmer the combination for a short while, and you have a delicious and inventive vegan soup. This recipe looks luscious and hearty. Try it. It might become one of your favorites. Continue reading
Lasagna with Tofu Spinach Ricotta and Cheese Sauce by Margaret Meyer
Margaret doesn’t have a recipe for this lasagna. She “just makes it.” Watch the video, and you can follow along, and “just make it” too. Although, she uses her own canned pasta sauce, you can substitute store bought pasta sauce, or fresh or canned tomatoes. In this video, Margaret also shows how to make a vegan “cheese” sauce and a substitute for ricotta cheese using tofu. Margaret says this is a family favorite and usually a “no fail” recipe. It’s easy to make. It can be made ahead for use later in the week. Try it. You’ll like it too. Continue reading
3 Delicious Creamy Soups – Tomato, Carrot and Ginger, and Leak and Potato by Sara Lynn
In this video, Sara Lynn demonstrates how to prepare three different soup recipes that are hearty, healthful, and delicious. For those who prefer a completely vegan soup, the cheese, cream and sour cream Sara Lynn uses can easily be replaced by non-dairy alternatives. Please notice how easy and similar the preparation is for each of these soups. These soups can be made ahead and frozen for a quick meal later. Enjoy.
