Every time I'm sick, I reach for ginger. Ginger in smoothies, ginger in soups, and ginger in noodle bowls. These ginger noodles were whipped up in a frenzy while M was asleep on the couch and Mack was napping for 20 minutes. It is a similar broth to that of this Bok Choy Soup but...
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Chipotle Sweet Potato Taco Salad
I'm not a meal planner but I do try and work meals together. I've had to get creative with leftovers thanks to a husband that doesn't always like them. Thus, an entire month of sharing recipes that can easily be made with dinner ingredients but are not direct leftovers. This taco salad is made from...
Sesame Roasted Turnip Salad with Quinoa
Continuing on with the theme of making dinner and having lunch ready for the next day, this turnip salad uses one of my favorite ways to eat this root vegetable: roasted. This particular salad is using the same turnips from this barley bowl. The turnips are roasted with sesame seeds, soy sauce, and honey which...
Red Lentil Soup with Sweet Potatoes
A delicious vegan lentil soup that's hearty and easy to make!
Roasted Delicata Squash Salad with Bulgur
Continuing on with the theme of making dinner/lunch at the same time, this easy roasted delicata squash salad is perfect in my book. The nuttiness from the bulgur is the great compliment to the squash flavor and lightness of the goat cheese/dressing. The cross over ingredient to dinner is the roasted delicata squash which can...
Curried Chickpea Salad Lettuce Wraps
One of the best things to do when cooking is plan. Planning can help solve the "what's for dinner" question and also prepare you for the next day. When I worked in an office, I found lunch to be the hardest part to plan. I'd think about it in the evenings and tell myself I'd...
Chili Roasted Sweet Potato Sandwich
| Disclosure: This recipe was created for Dave's Killer Bread. See below for more details. | I was the kid that always put potato chips on her sandwich (and by kid, I mean I did this last week). For me, I wanted the salty crunch in every bite. I think this will always be the...
Roasted Cauliflower Soup
Have a head of cauliflower? This creamy vegetarian cauliflower soup is made with minimal ingredients including roasted cauliflower, thyme, and garlic. Perfect for the cool weather cauliflower season of fall and winter. Best of all this soup is ready in about 30 minutes!
Steel Cut Oats with Citrus Curd
|Recipe in partnership with Bob's Red Mill| I am a firm believe in having a small amount of decadence in my life. I try to eat healthy 90% of the time but the other 10% of the time is reserved for rich meals, croissants, and sweet treats. I lived a chunk of my life afraid...
Pumpkin Bread with Oats
A riff on the classic pumpkin bread that includes ground oats and maple syrup!
Grilled Cheese with Balsamic Onions
It's no secret how much I love grilled cheese sandwiches (I think I'm getting close to a dozen different variations on the site). They may not be the healthiest but sometimes a gooey, hot sandwich is just what I wanted. This particular version is a cross between balsamic onions from this galette and the cheese...
Spiced Carrot Muffins with Millet
My attempt at a healthy muffin that I would still want to eat.
Chickpea Shawarma Stuffed Pita
Given my love of bread, my freezer is packed full of different bread and bread-like items. English muffins, naan, bagels, and pita round out the supply of bread I keep stashed. It's a handy supply for when I don't know what to cook. I love making pita. It's a little effort but there's a certain...
Black Bean Salad with Roasted Sweet Potatoes
A great twist on summer potato salads!
Broccoli Soup with Ginger and Lemon
When I first started eating healthier, soup became my go-to meal for eating out because in my mind, it felt healthier. In retrospect, it was not. The soups I fell in love with were often overloaded with salt and cheese. Similar to all those salads that should be healthy but after a hefty handful of...
Roasted Spaghetti Squash with Thyme Butter
For the longest time, I did not like spaghetti squash. I loved the creaminess of the butternut squash and the earthy flavor of the acorn squash. I had a hard time getting past the stringy texture. Once I got past what it wasn't, I fell in love with what it was. Roasted Spaghetti squash became...
Caramelized Cauliflower Salad
When it comes to recipes, I love ingredients that come together to form a great base. I want to be able to add as I see fit and be encouraged to play a bit with the recipe. There are of course exceptions but in my day to day routine, I'm more up for throwing something...
Butternut Squash Toast with Fried Eggs
I've found that cooking for one can be an art form. It's easy to make a big meal and have leftovers for a few days. Sometimes though, I just want one meal. For me, these meals happen at lunch or when I'm hungry before M gets home. I've learned a great deal about cooking for...
Maple Custard Pie with Spelt Crust
My school of thought when it comes to sweets is that if I am making a treat, I shouldn't really worry about making it 'healthy'. This custard pie might seem like it goes against that thought. However, the two swaps I've made to the original recipe are less about health and more about flavor. The...
Curried Cauliflower Pizza
One of the things I love most about food is the ability to connect. Connecting to people or in the case of this cauliflower pizza, a place. Shortly after moving from my hometown, a pizza place started up that is delicious and inventive in their pizza toppings. I posted this pizza a couple years ago...
Ginger Bok Choy Soup with Noodles
Thank you for checking out this recipe. Note, this recipe has been archived and will stay here to be used as a reference. Here is where you can find the updated version or feel free to peruse all recipes. Without fail, I get sick every winter. It changes from year to year but I'm down...
Black Bean Burrito with Guacamole
My love of rice, beans, and guacamole shoved into a burrito.
Fried Millet with Brussels Sprouts
I am notorious for throwing random leftover ingredients in a pan and calling it dinner. This type of cooking lends itself well to recipes like fried rice. I've shared a couple versions of fried rice on the site and it's one of the recipes in The Easy Vegetarian Kitchen. Fried rice is such a great...
Chili Baked Potato with Cheese
Growing up the way I did, on a good amount of junk food, I still have cravings. No matter how many salads or vegetables I eat, on occasion I get a craving for something greasy. Sometimes, I cave and order out but other times, I want to make something that only seems like it would...
Peanut Butter Buckeye Balls with Popped Quinoa
Fried Egg Biscuit Sandwich with Garlicky Greens
Loving food as much as I do, there are certain foods I will never pass up when offered. Croissants top that list followed by tacos, roasted sweet potatoes, and french fries. And of course, biscuits. My love of biscuits started when I was younger at a shall remain nameless fast food chain where I'd only...
Baked Farro Risotto with Cauliflower
If you've picked up a copy of The Easy Vegetarian Kitchen, you're probably already familiar with my love of using farro in risottos. The chewy texture of cooked farro lends itself well to the overall dish. Even when using the pearled variety, it feels a bit heartier than if using arborio rice. Of course, time...
Pear Chutney Cheese Toast
I hesitated posting another cheese toast recipe because it would be easy to think that toast has been played out. There are probably 100's of variations of avocado toast (which, I've never had- the avocado never makes it past the waiting for the bread to toast), toast cookbooks, and even restaurants serving toast. Over the...
Bulgur Vegetarian Chili
One of the very first recipes I created was a take on this bulgur vegetarian chili. My mother had told me about one of her favorite recipes: a bulgur chili. She had made it a couple decades ago, with chocolate and a few other ingredients, but had since lost the recipe. At first, my attempts at...
Delicata Squash Spring Rolls with Spinach
As you read the title of this recipe, you might be thinking to yourself that the two main items, squash and spring rolls, don't scream fast. Squash takes time to prepare and the wrapping of the spring rolls can be tedious. However, using delicata squash (no-peel, quick cooking) and a small batch of spring rolls...
Sesame Kabocha Squash Soup
| Disclosure: This recipe was created for Ancient Harvest. See below for more details. | In the super market or farmers' market, it might be easy to over look unfamiliar produce. It's easy to gravitate towards the knowns such as broccoli, sweet potatoes, and butternut squash. However, when dealing with winter squash, there is abundance of...
Butternut Squash Galette with Balsamic Onions and Ricotta
A delicious fall savory galette
Moroccan Carrot Salad with Millet
I had grand plans to share a pot pie recipe for Thanksgiving today but we've entered a new era of short naps which meant, I've not had a ton of time to shoot a slightly more intricate recipe. Enter this Moroccan Carrot Salad. It can easily be cooked and assembled in about 25 minutes, has...
Brussels Sprout Pasta with Lemon Cream Sauce
We don't make a huge to-do about Thanksgiving in our house. Since moving to California, it's been a small, casual affair. I make up a few traditional side dishes/pies and M's nephew comes over. Each year, I also create a new vegetarian main. It started with quiche and has since spanned from this Brussels sprout...
Homemade Whole Wheat Pasta
Homemade pasta is so much better than dried!
Stove Top Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese
I am not a meticulous person. I'm moving too fast, have too much on my mind, or just too many ideas swirling around. My attention to detail is mediocre at best and I'm okay with stopping at things that are good enough. With recipes, I know many could be even better if I took a...
Delicata Squash Pizza
Between M and I, we have very few repetitious patterns. On any given day, we fly by the seat of our pants. I think part of this is because neither of us have set times to be some place during the day, we work until we feel like we can wrap up the day, and...
Grilled Turnips with Dill Olive Oil
As we dive into the cooler months, I thought it was time to share one of my favorite recipes from The Easy Vegetarian Kitchen: grilled turnips (yes, I said turnips). It's simple but that's a big reason why I like it along with the idea of using turnips in something other than a mash. I'm...
Grilled Fennel Salad with Orzo and White Beans
Balsamic Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Polenta
One of the things I enjoy most about Sacramento is the cool evenings. No matter how warm the days get, the evenings cool off and most days we're able to open the windows (minus a the few weeks of summer when it's just hot.) Recently, these cooler evenings have pushed me more into heartier cooking....