Vegan Ricotta Cheese that's homemade, herbed up, and prepped in five minutes. A soy-free, plant-based cheese that's as tasty and versatile as the traditional version! Vegan Ricotta Cheese Soaked raw cashews make up the base for my recipe. I love the cheesy flavor and creamy texture that cashews add to everything. They also bring the light sweet notes that are familiar in traditional ricotta cheese--but with all the goodness of a plant-based ricotta cheese. You can soak your cashews ...
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Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies (Gluten-free, Plant-based / Vegan, Refined Sugar-free, Nut-free)
Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies offer a moist chewy inside surrounded by a lightly crisped outside. Hints of chocolate, brown sugar and vanilla dance at your nose while satisfying your palate. An overture to your senses! Why Ultimate? The final point in a journey, the zenith--the best! I have been aching to develop a chocolate chip cookie recipe for years! But I waited until now. There are so many different recipes available that I wanted mine to add value to the vast selection of this ...
Lemon Garlic Oven Fries (Gluten-free, Plant-based, Oil-free)
Lemon Garlic Oven Fries take the guilt out of a guilty pleasure! These crisp yet fat-free fries go where no potato has gone before. Who would have thought that four ingredients could taste so good?! Easy-Peasy Just four ingredients (not including salt and pepper) and most of them are probably already in your kitchen. Juice your lemon, mince your garlic, chop your potatoes--in the oven they go! Lemon Garlic Oven Fries have the home-style love french fries always bring to a meal with a ...
Cookie Dough Blondies (Gluten-free, Plant-based / Vegan, Refined Sugar-free)
Cookie Dough Blondies are the things that dreams are made of: mind-blowing decadence, guilt-free ingredients and so easy! Ten ingredients, ten minutes to prep and fifteen minutes to bake. Oh yeah, this dream is coming true! The Haves and the Have Nots These Blondies taste . . . well, like chocolate chip cookie dough. That butter-meets-vanilla-meets-brown sugar goodness, with pops of chocolate throughout! With a soft melt in your mouth texture (just like cookie dough), it will be an ...
Chickpea “Chicken” Salad (Gluten-free, Plant-based / Vegan, Sugar-free)
Chickpea "Chicken" Salad is guaranteed to satisfy your sandwich craving. You know what I'm talking about -- we all get it! The desire to cradle two fresh slices of bread in your hands with something delicious and mouth-watering tucked in between peeking out at you. Something you can sink your teeth into and experience an abundance of diverse tastes and textures all in one bite! Chickpea "Chicken" Salad Sandwich Chickpea "Chicken" Salad is the answer if sandwich is the ...
Vegan Brazilian Cheese Bread (Gluten-free, Plant-based, Sugar-free)
Vegan Brazilian Cheese Bread, better known as Pão de Queijo! These light and fluffy gluten-free balls of "cheesy" bread goodness will be at your fingertips in 20 minutes with only 5 minutes of prep. Pão de Queijo Pão de Queijo literally translated means bread of cheese. A traditional recipe in Brazil, these rolls are known for their light and airy texture. If you are unfamiliar with traditional Brazilian Cheese Bread, you can expect a delicate crisp outside enveloping a chewy, soft ...
Sweet & Spicy Ginger Nuts (Gluten-free, Plant-based, Refined Sugar-free)
Sweet & Spicy Ginger Nuts satisfy your savory and sweet flavin' cravin' at the same time! A snack that packs a protein punch while serving up all the health benefits that ginger has to offer. Sugar & Spice In the past I have not been a huge fan of mixing savory and sweet, treats and heat, sugar and spice -- not so nice! But my recipe for Candied Ginger changed all that. Since transitioning to a plant-based diet, my palate has opened up to so many new and wonderful flavors and ...
Candied Ginger (Refined Sugar-free, Gluten-free, Plant-based)
Candied Ginger: Spice up your sweet or savory dishes and add all the health benefits ginger has to offer. An easy DIY! If your prior experience with ginger goes no further than a gingersnap or gingerbread, take note: Ginger is spicy! It can really bring some kick to your dish. But it brings more than heat . . . Ginger or ginger root comes from the rhizome (or underground rooty stem) of a flowering ginger plant. It has been used for centuries by other cultures for its medicinal value. ...
Simple Skillet Chili (Gluten-free, Plant-based / Vegan)
Simple Skillet Chili! Scrumptious, salubrious, effortless! A great weeknight meal anytime of year, but a lifesaver when that winter illness is refusing to let go. That was the cold I had recently. It should have relented after just a few days but the beast continually reared it's ugly head, demanding my attention and killing my energy. I have become a little spoiled. Since transitioning to a plant-based diet and eliminating gluten and refined sugar, I don't get sick nearly as often as I ...
