Get better soup. Immune boosting and sinus-clearing soup made with ginger, turmeric, garlic, sweet potatoes, squash, and more. I was feeling terrible today with a cold and all I wanted was the couch and some hot soup. I thought about making a miso soup or maybe a bean soup, but then I thought about packing in [...]

Lemon garlic sauce for pasta or vegetables. Easy to make sauce made of garlic, olive oil, vegetable bullion, and lots of lemon flavor. Perfect tossed with pasta or cooked vegetables. One of my favorite quick dinners, when I was non-vegan, was a simple pasta tossed with broccoli, lemon, butter, garlic, and parmesan cheese. I would use [...]

Vegan mozzarella spread. Mozzarella style flavored vegan cheese made with cashews and spices. It has a beautiful sauce-like consistency and is perfect on top of pizza, sandwiches, or pasta. You have got to try this vegan mozzarella spread. The taste and consistency are right on the money. Most store-bought vegan mozzarella is too firm and doesn’t [...]

Vegan Boston baked beans. Navy beans mixed with molasses, maple syrup, garlic, mustard, onion, and tomato then baked in the oven for 6 hours at low temperature. This is a classic version of Boston baked beans, but veganized. I simply used olive oil in place of the salt pork that is traditionally used and kept [...]

Vegan brown bread baked in a can. Rye, wheat, and corn flour blended with raisins, almond milk, molasses, baking soda, and salt then poured into a greased coffee can and baked in a water bath. This vegan brown bread satisfies my soul. I don’t know if it’s because I’m from New England and the air [...]

Vegan kimchi cream cheese stuffed rice balls. Dashi simmered rice is stuffed with a mixture of chopped kimchi and vegan cream cheese, rolled in panko and then baked in the oven. Served with sriracha cashew sauce and scallions. If you haven’t noticed, I like to make a dish and then think about other ways that [...]

Rigatoni with Vegan Butternut Sage Cream Sauce and Toasted Pine Nuts. Rigatoni pasta is tossed in a sauce made of butternut squash, miso, cashews, sage, veg stock, and nutritional yeast and then topped with toasted pine nuts, fried sage leaves, and drizzled with white truffle oil. I know I’m a little obsessed with this vegan cheese [...]

Vegan kombu dashi simmered rice. Sushi rice is mixed with kombu dashi, soy sauce, sake, mirin, and sesame oil and then simmered. As the rice cooks the sugars in the mirin wine caramelize on the bottom leaving a beautiful caramelized crust. I struggle sometimes with what recipes are best for this blog and what the [...]

Miso vodka sauce with shiitake bacon for pasta. Vegan tomato basil sauce with cashew cream, red miso paste, vodka, and shiitake bacon tossed with pasta for a unique vegan umami meal. I’ve been playing around with umami flavors a lot lately and the pairing of miso and tomato came to mind as an idea to [...]