This salt, oil and sugar free vegan ceviche is full of fresh mango, tomato, jalapeno, and radish. It’s flexible too, there are many ways you can substitute the ingredients to end up with an equally pleasing and healthy salad for lunch or dinner. I will sometimes also add some avocado to this dish, which is […]
Vegan Golden Beet Spread: for sandwiches, or dipping veggies or flatbread
This middle eastern inspired golden beet spread is as delicious as it is healthy and pretty to serve. It would make a great addition to any party platter to dip vegetables or spread on pieces of toasted flatbread, and is versatile enough for adding to sandwiches too. The beets give the spread a nice sweet […]
Cucumber and noodle sunomono salad recipe (Low Fat, Vegan) – Updated recipe!
This magnificent side-dish (or meal-sized if you believe in yourself) is cold, refreshing, and of course entirely plant-based. A sunomono salad roughly translates to Japanese Vinegar Salad (or, “vinegared” food)- it’s kind of like sweetened vinegar soup, in a way, since the food is often in a small to large amount of “broth”. It’s delicious. […]
Baked sesame ginger lotus root: Healthy side dish
I recently found some poached lotus root at our local Japanese grocery store. I love lotus root, having ordered it (pickled) in salads for years – a very common preparation at Vietnamese restaurants. I will certainly have a vegan version of that salad on this website in the near future. However, I wanted to use […]
Crunchy Chili Lime Sweet Corn side dish (Low fat, Vegan)
It’s corn-on-the-cob season, and I’ve heard a lot of questions lately throughout various plant-based diet and vegan groups on Facebook about how to flavor fresh corn without using butter or oil (which is basically what vegan butter is). The good news is there are a whole bunch of flavorful ways to prepare your corn. One […]
Cauliflower Garlic Sauced Vegetables and Pasta recipe (Oil Free, Vegan)
Yesterday I wrote about a garlic cream sauce made with steamed cauliflower. The following recipe is one very simple way to use this sauce. The recipe I posted makes a ton of sauce, so you will have ample resources to make several meals from your spoils. In this recipe, you simply combine the pasta, vegetables, […]
Chia seed grape jam (Raw, vegan, low sugar)
I don’t have much patience, so I love a quick and easy recipe. This grape jam is so easy to make: you don’t need to cook anything, you don’t need many ingredients (no pectin or anything else), and you barely add any sugar either. You just juice your grapes, add some chia and a bit […]
Crispy and savory chipotle vegetable corn bake (Oil Free, Vegan)
The goal for this recipe was to make an easy meal that was low cost, provided a bunch of leftovers, and had a ton of flavor. And it worked! While you do need to dice a bunch of vegetables for this one (a dicing tool or food processor really helps!), it’s super easy to put […]
Oil-free Super Garlic Hummus (Low Fat, Vegan)
My favorite hummus from a store comes from the deli counter of a small local shop. The owner confidently states “If you come back for anything, it’ll be for the hummus.” He was right. The first thing you notice is the GARLIC. It punches you right in the face, but it’s absolutely delicious! I was […]
Tomato Jam with chia seeds (Vegan, SOS free)
Tomato jam is an excellent and versatile condiment to add to your repertoire. You can use it in sandwiches, on “carrot dogs” (as a replacement for ketchup), in your buddah bowls and so on. You could quite possibly use this sauce in place of tomato paste too. It’s really healthy too, containing vegetables, chia seeds, […]
Garlic Mashed Potatoes recipe (Vegan, Salt free, Oil Free)
One of my all-time favorite things to make is the simple mashed potato. Maybe it’s texture, or part nostalgia, it’s truly one of my favorite foods. I used to make mashed potatoes so unhealthy by adding butter, cream, and all sorts of other things (bacon bits, you name it). But the crazy thing is that […]
My favorite Fattoush salad (Oil free, Vegan)
Without doubt, this salad is my favorite to make and it’s a meal in itself. This Fattoush salad fills the plates with plants for the most part, but adds texture and a bit of carb in the form of crumbled flatbread or pita. It’s incredibly healthy, but won’t leave you feeling deprived in the least. […]