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, […]
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 […]
Simple miso gravy recipe (Oil free, Vegan)
A miso gravy recipe is a useful tool to have in your hands during the holidays. This simple vegan gravy is easy to make quickly for the holiday meal. I love the flavor profile of miso, and it lends itself wonderfully to a simple gravy recipe. You can make this gravy in advance of the […]
Winter Stew recipe: Vegan Mushroom Barley with turmeric and garlic (Oil Free)
I am excited about this easy to make vegan winter stew recipe. The mushrooms and barley are really filling, and the stew features a bunch of ingredients that are inexpensive if you buy them, or easy to grow if you garden them. Turmeric and garlic flavors the stew, but doesn’t overpower the dish. I tried […]
Kale pesto and farro salad with tomatoes, spinach and peas recipe (Oil Free, Vegan)
This salad uses our recently posted recipe for an oil free vegan winter kale pesto. This kale pesto is what we tend to make when basil is not in season. It’s really hard to find basil where we are in any quantity even when it is in season, so we largely grow and use our […]
Wildly delicious vegan alfredo sauce recipe (Oil free, low sodium)
I have developed this recipe over the past 6 months or so. I just kept making it, revising it, and then forgetting to add it to the site. But we kept making this over and over again because it is so delicious, we always had the ingredients in the house to make it happen, and […]
Spicy Vegan Drunken Noodles Recipe (Pad Kee Mao – Oil Free, Low Fat)
I have been working on perfecting an oil free vegan version of drunken noodles (called Pad Kee Mao) to put into our regular meal “rotation”. I am a sucker for noodle soups and noodle based dishes, and drunken noodles ticks the boxes for being flavorful, filling, and versatile (in that I can use whatever type […]
Cheap Vegan Chili recipe (Low fat, oil free) – but still rich, filling, and expensive tasting
In a fun thread on Vegan Twitter a couple weeks ago, there was a claim about how expensive vegan chili was to make. That making a pot of chili cost $36. It turns out that other costs, such as gas and utensils were included in the financials. However, it made me realize that I should […]
Creamy Cauliflower Garlic Sauce recipe (Oil Free, Vegan, Low Fat)
This dairy-free creamy sauce seems like it should have something like cheese or cream in it, but it doesn’t. The base of this sauce is cauliflower, which means that it has all the benefits of vegetables instead. But because I add a whack-ton of garlic (and honestly, that’s probably what I need to start measuring […]
Vegan Pepper Gravy (Oil free, Fat free, low sodium)
Making a healthy gravy is so easy, and (to me) tastes almost exactly the same as the kinds that are loaded with grease and oil. Gravy is all about the spices, flavor and texture anyway. And you can make a gravy that has all of these things without loading it down with salt or fat. […]
Spicy and Creamy Chipotle Bean and Potato Stew (Low Fat, Oil Free, Vegan)
This meal is inexpensive, and filling… also creamy but entirely low fat and dairy-free. It will either feed a crowd, or offer a bunch of leftovers in the fridge for later in the week. It’s starch forward, low fat, vegan, made of whole foods, and does not contain any oil. But despite this it is […]
How to eat out when following a low fat plant based diet (Mary McDougall)
It’s usually quite difficult to eat out when following a plant-based diet. But what about when you are following a whole foods plant based diet, without oil. Maybe no salt. What about when you decide to eat low fat too? It might seem impossible at this point, but it isn’t necessarily. It certainly isn’t easy […]
Lemongrass tofu scramble (Low Fat, Vegan)
Lunch is sometimes a conundrum. You want to eat quickly, get back to work, get back to what you’re doing… but you don’t want last night’s leftovers or to grab something processed out of the cupboard. Then I discovered the tofu scramble: a flavorful, warm and filling food that is also versatile (see the next […]
Thai Green Curry with Potato, Kale, and Peas (Low Fat, Vegan, Oil Free)
This recipe, again, came from what I happened to have in the fridge and pantry. The tomatoes needed to be used up (they were starting to wrinkle), and the fingerling potato bag was beckoning to me. I love fingerling potatoes. So I had a tin of Thai Green Curry paste and thought it would go […]
