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The most amazing vegetarian nuggets are baked to crispy perfection. They’re so good that you might finish a few servings in one sitting! {Vegan, Vegetarian} I’m not a huge sports fan but I get super excited about football season every year, because it is the time that friends gather to have fun and enjoy party food. Recently I noticed that I’m getting more and more requests for vegetarian snacks. That’s why I developed these vegan crispy tofu nuggets that taste even better than chicken nuggets!...

A quick and delicious summer drink that only requires three ingredients! One thing I love about breakfast in Thailand – they always serve so many types of freshly made juices and smoothies. It seems like every morning they serve a brand new selection of fruits, different from that of the previous day. I believe that if I were to spend a few more days there, I’d come up with a recipe series for 30 days of smoothies, totally effortlessly....

The sweet note of beets combined with aromatic spices and coconut gives this beetroot chutney a wholesome flavor. I agree to be sent email. Chutney is very easy to prepare and can be made using different vegetables (and sometimes even fruits), lentils, and spices. I decided to start off my chutney recipe series with this fabulous Beetroot Chutney. Beets are highly nutritious and heart-friendly root vegetables. They are inexpensive and are readily available in most grocery stores....

Do you want to elevate your cooking game and create smooth, authentic textures for your curries, chutneys, and masalas? I have good news - all the resource you need to know about blenders is right here! A blender is more important than a food processor when it comes to an Indian kitchen. I agree to be sent email. That’s because sometimes you deal with tough ingredients in small quantities and sometimes you have dry and wet ingredients in larger quantities....

Published on January 11, 2023 Black Bean Quinoa Enchilada Bake- this hearty vegetarian enchilada casserole is a family favorite meal. Meat-lovers, vegetarians, and even kids love it! Serve with your favorite toppings and tortilla chips for dipping! This recipe also freezes beautifully! This Black Bean Quinoa Enchilada Bake is in my top 5 favorite meals of all time and my family loves it too, even my kids! You HAVE to try it....

Published on June 02, 2023 This easy and fresh Black Bean Salad with corn, avocado, tomatoes, red pepper, cilantro, and lime is always a crowd pleaser! Serve it as a salad or dip with tortilla chips! One of my favorite recipes to make during the summertime is this Black Bean Salad. It is my go to because I love it and because EVERYONE loves it. It is always a crowd pleaser!...

Updated July 05, 2019 June is sailing on by. That means the 4th of July will be here before we know it. This week I am going to share a few red, white, and blue recipes to get you in the mood for the big holiday. We are starting with breakfast, the most important meal of the day. We always make a special breakfast on the 4th. Josh usually wakes up early to help the Scouts put flags around the neighborhood....

Here’s another vegan superfood that you will want to try this fall season. . First off, I used the cruciferous twin of Broccoli - Cauliflowers. I agree to be sent email. The two vegetables are similar in many ways, but cauliflower florets have a more delicate taste relatively speaking. They are less fibrous than Broccoli, hence offering a creamy texture when they are cooked and blended. The other secret ingredient in getting the creamy texture is nutritional yeast....

Published on October 11, 2023 Brown Butter Dutch Baby with cinnamon apples is the perfect breakfast or brunch for fall. Serve with maple syrup, a dusting of confectioner’s sugar, and whipped cream. A Dutch baby is like a crepe, popover, and pancake all in one recipe. You make the batter in a blender, pour it into a hot skillet, and bake…and that’s where the magic happens. After a few minutes, the Dutch baby will start to climb up the edges of the pan and then all of a sudden, poof, you have a light, fluffy, and puffy pancake....

Updated February 10, 2019 Best Blondie Recipe for the Holidays I have been baking a lot of Christmas cookies: snickerdoodles, peanut butter blossoms, chocolate kiss cookies, and my favorite soft gingersnaps. While I was enjoying a soft gingersnap cookie, my mind began to wonder and I started dreaming about a ginger molasses blondie. I LOVE blondies and felt like I needed to bake up a festive blondie for the holidays....

Everything is better served bowl style, ya know? I laid mouth on Sweet Green’s Harvest Bowl recently and I thought, “Hmmm. I can totally make a copycat version of this…possibly even better?” We’re swapping the wild rice for quick whole grain farro and roasting up pre-chopped squash to cut down on prep. Like my arugula salad with farro, apple, and pumpkin spice pepitas, this bad boy just screams fall! I landed on “build-your-own because you can really personalize these!...

I love winter. I love that I get to cook soups, stews, curries and roasts weekly. I love the root vegetables that are available in abundance and I love experimenting with them. Using them in all ways, shapes and forms. One of my favourites at the moment is celeriac. It’s a knobbly, quite alien-looking root but its flavour is phenomenal. It has a gentle celery flavour (as you would expect due to it being the root of the celery plant) and when cooked and blended with stock and flavourings, makes for a delicious, creamy soup....

My family and I LOVE meatballs. Which should come as no surprise to you since I have about eleventybillion meatball recipes on this blog. And these delectable cheese-stuffed wonders are a particular favorite. Not only are the meatballs soft and juicy but the molten cheese center is the stuff dreams are made of. They are pretty perfect cooked in a pan and served as they are as a snack but cooked in a rich tomato sauce and served over pasta?...

What is it about sweetcorn? Why is it so damn delicious? I have always loved this humble vegetable but of late I find myself craving it. Simply steamed, slathered in butter, mixed into batter to make a delicious corn bread or roasted in a salad. I am obsessed. My favourite way of all to eat corn however is in a corn fritter. Make me a good corn fritter and I’m yours....

Chinese tea eggs were one of my favorite snacks growing up. Yes, while you might have been snacking on chips or cookies, back in China, we snack on savory eggs 🙂 The tea eggs are so popular and you can find them everywhere – from a breakfast street vendor who has a big pot of these eggs constantly ready on the side of her cart, or packaged peeled tea eggs at Seven Eleven....

Meet my little friends. When I was home in Cleveland last weekend, my dear mumsy told me about a pear blondie recipe that my fam has been loving lately. I got quite a kick out of the 1992 cookbook it came from, oohing and ahhing over the “butter flavored crisco” and cake mix that nearly every recipe called for. Apparently trans fat was the thing in the early nineties. When I got to the pear blondies recipe, I got all excited because the ingredients weren’t that bad....

Updated May 16, 2011 I made several treats over the weekend. I love baking for crowds. Everything gets gobbled up which means no temptation for me:) I usually don’t bake peanut butter treats because Josh is allergic, but I knew everyone else would love them. I made chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips. A very chocolaty cookie, more like a brownie with peanut butter chips. Nothing too special or out of the ordinary, but just a good cookie....

Updated November 13, 2011 When I was a kid, I was always the first one up-if I even went to sleep at all. I would always wake my brother and sister up at the crack of dawn. They used to yell at me to go back to bed, but I was always too excited. I used to sneak down to “get a drink of water” and to peak to see what was under the tree....

When it’s cold outside, there’s just nothing better than a bowl filled with warm soup. And let me tell you, this creamy broccoli chicken gnocchi soup is the kind of comfort food you’ll crave all too often once you try it. Using gnocchi in soup is a pretty genius idea. Not only does the gnocchi add creaminess to the soup, the little potato dumplings also soak up all the flavors, making each bite a delight....

Ingredients Full recipe with amounts can be found in the recipe card below. Onion. Leeks can be substituted. Garlic. Risotto rice. I used Arborio. White wine. Substitute with stock if needed. Chicken stock. Butter. Parmesan. Pecorino or Grana Padano can be substituted. Baby spinach. Salt and pepper. Chicken breasts. Boneless chicken thighs can also be used. Mushrooms. I used a variety of mushrooms but any mushrooms you have will be delicious....