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vegan miso soup recipe with soba noodles

Miso Noodle Soup

This Miso Noodle Soup makes a quick, complete lunch. No microwavable kit is necessary; you can make your own healthy miso noodle soup from scratch in under 15 minutes and skip the loads of sodium and other questionable ingredients often found in instant soups. You will need to stock up on some special …

vegan gluten free sweet potato gnocchi

Sweet Potato Gnocchi

I’m excited to share a recipe for sweet potato gnocchi that’s not only vegan, but gluten free. It makes a perfect dish for a dinner party or stay-in date night, served in a rich cashew cream sauce and sprinkled with flavorful toasted walnuts and fresh sage. Pronunciation guide: Gnocchi = NYOH-kee (roughly). Traditionally, gnocchi are dumplings …

Winter Minestrone (vegan)

Winter Minestrone

Perhaps nothing is as comforting as a hearty, healthy bowl of hot soup on a cold, grey winter day. This recipe brings you from chilled-and-tense to toasty-warm-and-relaxed through the magic of fresh vegetables. Leftovers will freeze well or store nicely for a few days in the fridge, so feel free to …

Pineapple Coconut Buckwheat Salad

Saturday was a fabulous day. The city of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania hosted a one-day, entirely vegan street festival, the Bethlehem VegFest, and it was beyond anything I could have imagined. When I first heard that the event would be held this summer, I started following updates on Facebook and that’s how …

Vegetable Lentil Stew

Hello again. After a long period when my workload left me with very little free time for blogging, my schedule has opened up and is allowing me more time for my favorite kitchen projects. In the meantime, my husband and I have moved from the desert landscape of Las Vegas back to …

Moong Dal Vegetable Curry

If this dish were on a restaurant menu, it might read something like this: Split mung beans with eggplant, broccolini, cremini mushrooms, baby spinach and sweet cranberries in a light, creamy curry sauce, served over steamed basmati rice. Sounds fancy that way, doesn’t it? This recipe has a really diverse …

Inspired Vegetable Broth

It’s flu season. I just finished nursing my husband back to health from a rather nasty version of the bug that had him laid out for three full days. During that time, he and I subsisted almost exclusively on this vegetable broth. It’s nutritious, warming and comforting, and it also …

Steamed Buckwheat-Stuffed Kale Leaves

These steamed wraps are based on Mediterranean dolmades (stuffed grape leaves), but in this recipe I do them with an Asian twist and use a Thai-inspired flavor combination for the filling. The slight bitterness of the steamed kale leaves is a nice complement to the sweet and spicy filling. I …