plant based recipes & tales of a short chef in a big kitchen
If you’re anything like me, you’ve run out of ideas for lunch on those really hot summer days and you do NOT want to make some involved recipe. This simple quinoa salad is made with cucumber, cherry tomatoes, red onion, basil, vegan mozzarella cheese, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and lemon. Since this salad is so […]
We’ve finally started getting some winter weather here in Texas! How fun, but the cedar allergies have been brutal, so I whipped up a comforting ramen- inspired noodle soup that is packed full of healthy ingredients including Luna Fixa Golden Paste.
There is nothing better than enjoying a morning pastry with your coffee or tea and scones are my favorite choice. They are perfect wether they are sweet, savory, or somewhere in between. This batch of scones is perfectly moist and still flaky and crumbly at the corners. These scones also make a nice weekday breakfast […]
When tasked with making dessert, the thing that most often comes to mind are either snickerdoodles or those adorable frosted sugar cookies. It only made sense that they be combined somehow. I know spring is almost here, and that means summer too, but that doesn’t have to mean depriving ourselves of cookies. I thought of […]
Its my birthday month, and for my birthday every year I like to have a wine and cheese party. Right around my birthday a few years ago I decided to go vegan, which meant I had to come up with amazing vegan alternatives to my favorite birthday cheese platter. Enter my homemade oat/ almond flour […]
I love the holidays because it means time in the kitchen with my family. Most fancy dinner parties and holiday events, I remember my mom would always make this beautiful cheesecake but I never really ate it because I didn’t like cheesecake, until I discovered that I’m a pretty big fan of dairy free cheese […]
If you don’t like kale you probably haven’t had it prepared correctly, because it can be SO delicious and flavorful. Kale is a dry green, which means you have to supplement that with an awesome dressing, which I think I’ve done with the awesome spicy harissa dressing. This salad is great as a side or […]