Pot pies are the ultimate comfort food and if you’ve been here before you know I love them too and have shared recipes for a delicious vegan pot pie, vegan mushroom pot pie, vegan Irish Guinness pie, and so many more. The pie I have for you today has all of the deliciousness of those pies. It also has rosemary-kissed white beans swim in a gooey, creamy bath with potatoes, carrots, celery and leeks....
I’m all about soups and stews as the weather dips, and nothing says comfort like this easy and creamy vegan butternut squash soup. This is one of my favorite fall and winter soups, alongside vegan potato soup and vegan cream of mushroom soup. Butternut squash is one of the more omnipresent winter squashes, and if you freeze up at the thought of cutting it, the good news is that it is often sold pre-cut....
I’ve already shared with you in the past week updated versions of two of my favorite Irish recipes for St. Patrick’s Day: my Vegan Irish Shepherd’s Pie, and my Vegan Irish Stew. And because cooking with potatoes is something I could do every day, twice a day, here’s my Vegan Cabbage, Leek and Potato Tart, a great dish to accompany just about any meal – and it can be a meal all by itself....
Turmeric can be a great addition to baked goods because of its incredible color and its unparalleled healthfulness. In this Vegan Cardamom Turmeric Cake you not only get all of those amazing benefits of this golden spice, you also get a treat that is heart-stoppingly gorgeous and finger-lickin’ delicious. I drew from my Indian background in creating the flavor combination for this cake: turmeric, cadamom and coconut oil. Coconut and cardamom are a match made in taste heaven, and they are a common pairing in homemade Indian sweets....
I made these Vegan Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies for my favorite little man – my son, Jay. But as their rich, intensely chocolate-y, deep fragrance permeated the house, and as I took my first bite, I simply didn’t want to share. Not very mom-like, I know, but, erm, human? Chocolate and hazelnuts are an easy and natural flavor combination, as anyone who’s spread a spoonful of Nutella on toast knows. And in these cookies there’s an armload of hazelnuts and two armloads of chocolate, in the form of raw cacao powder and semisweet chocolate chips....
We love cornbread with its buttery, grainy texture, and this golden, delicious, southern American – and vegan – version is the latest favorite in our home. This is a gluten-free cornbread, made with cornmeal only, and I use vegan yogurt to create a quick buttermilk that gives the bread amazing flavor and adds in some moisture. The cornbread is otherwise free of any added fats except the cooking spray (or tiny bit of oil) needed to coat the skillet....
You might also like these recipes for green tomato stew and green tomato dal. Fried green tomatoes are a classic and even iconic dish from the American south, synonymous with summer and comfort cuisine. It is easy to see why: green tomatoes have an exquisite, unusual sweet-tartness and a firmer texture than ripe tomatoes. Smothered in cornmeal and fried up in a cast iron skillet, they become all crispy on the outside while the insides become warm and gooey and even more delicious....
You might also enjoy these recipes for vegan beef stew and mushroom stew. Traveling vegan is not only easy in Ireland, it is practically a pleasure. This is a very vegan-friendly country, as I found out during out trip there, and the food I ate was nothing short of spectacular. But one thing I didn’t find on a restaurant menu was a hearty vegan stew made with Ireland’s favorite drink, Guinness....
I love a good vegetable biryani for dinner because it’s so easy to make yet it makes me feel so pampered. Sometimes I riff on it with other versions of biryani like eggplant biryani, cauliflower biryani and dum aloo biryani. Of late my hands-down favorite has been this vegan kofta biryani. A big part of this kofta biryani’s allure is those delicious vegan kofta meatballs: so succulent and so full-flavored....
For the past few weekends now, Desi has been a man with a mission: a mission to watch just about every version from everywhere around the world there is of the Pharrell Williams song, Happy. And guess who gets to watch these videos with him? I love the song, mind you, because deep down under my cynical exterior is a die-hard optimist who believes that the sunshine’s just waiting to burst out from behind every gray cloud....
Be sure to check out more yummy pumpkin recipes, including this divine vegan pumpkin pie and this vegan pumpkin bread. In the past few weeks, I’ve noticed something strange happening to my family. I’ve been trying to get my sugar-loving son and my dessert-loving husband to eat more desserts that are naturally sweetened, or made with very little or no fat. A lot of this food has also been gluten-free, not because I’m consciously trying to avoid gluten, but because I’ve really been enjoying baking desserts with almond and coconut flours....
You might also like these recipes for vegan carrot cupcakes and vegan chocolate cupcakes. Everyone needs a great vanilla cupcake recipe for dessert with family and friends, birthday parties, PTA meetings or just because. Here’s the ultimate vegan vanilla cupcake recipe to wow everyone you serve it to (although you might want to keep them all for yourself!). These vegan cupcakes really are scrumptious. They are soft and delicious with the perfect amount of vanilla in each bite....
Turn summer’s bounty of zucchini into these tasty vegan zucchini fritters. Zucchini is a wonderful vegetable to add to savory and sweet recipes, like these vegan and garlicky zucchini quinoa cakes and vegan zucchini bread. It is just as delicious in these zucchini fritters. For the recipe, Zucchini, onions and bell peppers are stirred into a batter of chickpea flour, rice flour, turmeric and herbs like oregano and thyme and then pan-fried to golden crispy perfection on a griddle....
on Jan 19, 2021, Updated Oct 05, 2021 What’s the best way to warm yourself up on a cold winter day? A bowl of steaming hot soup, that’s how! Sweet corn soup is kind of an all-rounder – it’s creamy, it’s naturally sweet from the corn, it’s got Asian flavours, it’s loaded with veggies, and perfect for chilly weather. This vegetarian sweet corn soup recipe is perfect for when you’re craving something hot and soupy....
You might also like these recipes for classic vegan challah and vegan sourdough challah. Challah is one of my favorite breads. It’s almost like a butterless brioche, with the same flaky texture and lightness. It also has a gorgeous braided look that’s pretty easy to achieve with just a tiny bit more effort than is required to shape any old bread. For a vegan, the chief challenge in baking a perfect challah tends to be the eggs that are such a predominant part of any challah recipe....
These zucchini flower pakoras were a brainwave that has since brought us nothing but great joy and perfect eats. Faced with so many lovely flowers from the four zucchini plants in my vegetable garden this week, I pondered what to do with them. Using a pakora batter to fry them up seemed like a great way to go. I love anything deep-fried, but these pakoras were a joyful surprise. They cooked up light, fluffy and simply delicious– a perfect teatime snack for a Sunday afternoon....
on Dec 28, 2022 If you are planning to celebrate this year, whether it’s with two people or five, here’s a list of appetizer and snack recipes that I’ve sorted by the time it takes to put them together. Based on how long you have to cook, choose from a variety of quick and easy recipes that look amazing and taste even better. My favourites are the crackling spinach, retro prawn cocktail, Mexican corn fritters, chicken 65 and muhammara....
I love it when I come across a delicious food idea that I can easily adapt into something easy and nutritious that fits into my lifestyle. Like this Banana Dosa. The word “dosa” would make you think of a paper-thin crepe spilling over the plate, because that’s the kind of dosa you typically encounter at an Indian restaurant. But dosas in south India come in many flavors, colors and sizes, not all of them big....
on Aug 12, 2022, Updated Oct 18, 2024 Looking for more Chaat recipes? Try my Pani Puri (Golgappa/ Puchka) Recipe, Air Fryer Papdi and Easy Aloo Chaat! Imagine crispy bread that’s topped with layers of boiled potato, chopped onions, grated carrot, spicy green chutney, dahi, meethi imli chutney, crunchy sev and repeat – that’s this Bread Chaat for you! The first few bites are textures of crispy bread with all the toppings so it reminds you of a sev puri or dahi puri....
Heresy? Maybe. But I like it. A lot. Because it’s just tasty. And it’s way easier than the original. That’s a dish meant for Sunday dinner. For special occasions. Serious business. This is an easier version of dhansak This is easy. Chicken dhansak for weeknights. Takes a while to get the lentils cooked. But other than it’s a snap. Make the lentils one evening. Set them aside. Finish it the next night....
