I grew up not eating squash or zucchini. I was given the idea that I didn’t like squash and therefore always picked it out if it were any in a dish that I ordered at a restaurant. Recently, I decided it was time to change the way that I think about squash by finding the best recipes and learning how to make squash that I fall in love with. Read more »
Archive for the ‘Main Dishes’ Category
How to Cook With Spaghetti Squash
Vegan Fettuccine Alfredo With Mushrooms
I really love Alfredo sauce. I have always been a white sauce over red sauce kind of gal. Ever since we went vegan, I have been craving a great bowl of Fettuccine Alfredo, but I really didn’t know how I was going to substitute that heavy cream sauce. Incidentally, you can make an amazing “cheese” sauce using nuts! Cashews and almonds are great staples for making mac n’ cheese around this house, so I figured, why not in my Alfredo sauce too? This dish was WAY WAY less fattening than a normal bowl of Fettuccine Alfredo would be. Read more »
Vegetarian Hawaiian Sloppy Joes For Labor Day Deliciousness
The first time that I tried to make sloppy joe’s vegetarian style, I used tofu. I thought that I could just stir fry the tofu the way that I used to brown ground beef. That batch of “sloppy joe’s” was soooo wrong. I had no idea how to use tofu, so I hadn’t properly pressed all of the juice out of it before using it. The sloppy joe’s turned out totally soft and without any sort of crunch to it. It was like pouring a thick ragu’ on a bun and trying to eat it. Needless to say, I have come a LONG way from that first attempt at making vegetarian sloppy joe’s. Read more »
There is NO Way That Lasagna Was Vegan…Just NO Way!!!
I have to say, I was not a believer. I couldn’t imagine that I could find a vegan recipe for Lasagna that was ACTUALLY a replacement. I didn’t think that there would be one that tasted SO good, I could bring it home to my mother to try. She would adore this. I am most definitely now a believer. One of the foods that I had a hard time giving up in my head was in fact, lasagna. Recently, I have found THE most AMAZING recipes all in one little vegan cookbook (that I purchased on my Kindle Fire!), “Chloe’s Kitchen” by Chloe Coscarelli. Read more »
Spinach & Feta Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms aka AWESOMENESS!
I just LOVE, love, LOVE Portobello mushrooms. Well really, I just love mushrooms in general. When I order a pizza and there is a one topping deal, you guessed it, I order with mushrooms. Recently, it has been discovered the nutritional power of mushrooms. Most people thought that they were just nutritionless fillers for your meals, but these babies are chock FULL of a VERY important vitamin, Vitamin D. The only other thing that gives you vitamin D in such large quantities (naturally, not fortified) is the sun. Read more »
Portobello Pot Pie For The Comfort Foodist
I LOVE comfort food! When I went vegetarian, there were quite a few comfort food dishes that I felt like I HAD to try and make vegetarian. Pot pies are definitely on the top of that comfort food list. I made this for Thanksgiving 2011 and Christmas dinner 2011. We were new to being vegetarians and I had no idea what to make for Thanksgiving main dish. Side dishes are easy as vegetarian, but I just couldn’t imagine something replacing my turkey on the big day. Read more »
LENTIL LOAF…the better than meatloaf loaf
I am really big on comfort foods, and one of those comfort foods that my mother used to make me was meatloaf. I always loved meatloaf for what it is; a way to stuff all of your vegetables into a dish and hardly taste any of them at all! My grandmother (RIP) used to get my Uncle Matthew to eat his veggies (as he absolutely despised anything resembling a vegetable) Read more »
Are those chicken nuggets? NO! They’re CAJUN FRIED CAULIFLOWER NUGGETS
My husband used to tell me that he hated cauliflower because it was so “bland tasting”. Before we became vegetarians, Andy was obsessed with fried chicken, so what better way to help him get over his fears of cauliflower than to cook it the way he used to love his chicken? After eating the entire first batch of fried cauliflower, my husband is now obsessed with it. He even asks for it when we pass by the cauliflower in the grocery store. Read more »
