Realistic Vegan Cooking
As a lover of rye bread, especially dark rye, when I came across this German cucumber radish sandwich, I had to have it. I love cucumber sandwiches, anyway, and the addition of radishes seemed perfect. As I read through the various recipes, though, I found that usually the bread (rye or wheat) is spread with […]
I wasn’t sure what to expect from this low fat blueberry oat breakfast bars recipe, but I’m very please with how it turned out. The blueberry filling is sweetened with agave and has a pretty strong sweetness, but the oats layers are only mildly sweetened. It’s a very nicely balanced dish. I’ve been eating a […]
This chocolate peanut butter smoothie veers so far from my normal fruit smoothies that it almost registers for me as a milk shake. But, I wanted to do something sweet and decadent for Halloween. We’re avoiding candy this year – totally – and giving ourselves treats in healthier ways. This recipe uses frozen bananas, something […]
Well, it’s October, so my vegan naan pizza has a Halloween theme! While I made my naan pizzas with spiders as toppings, you can use whatever you want on yours. But if it’s spiders you are looking for, just use large or jumbo black olives. Cut an olive lengthwise to get two bodies, and cut […]
These puffed brown rice cereal treats are a slightly healthier alternative to Halloween candy. Even though my diet was healthy before becoming vegan, we always bought a bag of Halloween candy for us each year. This year we didn’t want to go off the deep end, so we’ve tried to think of reasonable snacks that […]
I had never tried making homemade vegan naan before I found this recipe on Connoisseurus Veg. This week, I made Vegan Potato Curry and wanted a nice bread to go along with it. After a fail with a not-so-hot onion roll recipe, I wanted to try something different. I love making this naan! The recipe […]