on Aug 19, 2016, Updated Aug 28, 2020 Love desserts in a jar? Check out my Passion Fruit Cheesecake Jars recipe! I’m bringing in the weekend with these No Bake Mango Cheesecake Mousse Jars! I know mango season is over but I couldn’t resist giving you just one last mango recipe in case you are like me and have a freezer full of mango puree. I can say with experience that these mango cheesecake jars look stunning and disappear in minutes!...

This meal of sheet pan tofu with chickpeas and cherry tomatoes is the ultimate lazy dinner but it’s also incredibly tasty and healthy. It’s the kind of meal you can easily put together when you have barely any time to get dinner to the table but you just don’t want to mess around with unhealthy takeout. The super simple but super tasty sauce needs just four pantry ingredients and it coats the tofu and chickpeas in sticky, spicy, sweet deliciousness....

on Aug 22, 2022, Updated Oct 18, 2022 There are some recipes out there where you can just taste the cultural influences – and this stuffed Brinjal Curry is one of them! Also referred to as Gutti Vankaya (Andhra and Telangana) and Yengai (North Karnataka), this curry is most famously known as Bagara Baingan (Hyderabad). Love South Indian food?? Also try my Idli Dosa Batter – For soft idlis and crispy dosas!...

Brisket gets all the glory and when its great it’s so off the scale wonderful it’s easy to understand why. Brisket is hard to make though – which is why the famous pit masters in Texas are famous. BBQ beef short ribs are much easier to do consistently and while they may not be quite as good as the best brisket I’ve ever had (Franklin’s in Austin if you are wondering), they will likely turn out better than brisket, all other things being equal....

The bright Thai flavours from the sauce bring it all together. It’s well balanced. Sweet, salty, spicy, sour. All the southeast Asian flavours are represented. It’s just tasty. Thai chicken buddha bowls are great any night This is a nice weeknight dinner. Perfect any time but really good on those hot summer nights. The miso chicken has a Japanese meets Korean thing going on. More like Japanese slams into Korean maybe....

When you order a vegetarian platter at an Ethiopian restaurant, you will often find a cabbage or collard greens dish, called tikil gomen (also spelled tikel gomen or tikle gomen ), among the many tasty stews laid out over the spongy injera bread. And although it looks rather unassuming, you can bet it will be one of the tastiest of all those wonderful offerings. I have for you today my tikil gomen recipe, and I daresay it’s as good as any I’ve eaten at a restaurant....

You might also like these recipes for rosemary roasted potatoes, roasted carrots with za’atar, roasted honeynut squash and curry roasted eggplant. This is my kind of food. Delicious, colorful veggies, cut into chunky wedges, roasted in the oven until golden brown and crisp, and served piping hot alongside a veggie burger. Or by itself, because this kind of beauty really needs no complement. I found myself with an armload of root veggies on my hands this week....

If you’re cooking for a crowd tomorrow, you are going to absolutely, positively love this Giant Banana Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie that comes together in minutes. And it tastes so good, you might be tempted to keep it all to yourself. I love baking delicious vegan cookie recipes and with a seven-year-old at home there is a great demand for them. But I am also a huge lazybones when it comes to doing just about anything, and cleaning large cookie sheets that don’t fit into the dishwasher is at the top of that list....

You might also like these recipes for vegan sugar cookies and vegan gluten-free sugar cookies. These vegan cardamom sugar cookies are delicious. They are slightly chewy, which I love, and sweet, with a hint of cardamom for that je ne sais quoi. They are also just the perfect base for this gooey, mango-ey icing free of any artificial colors, although you could eat them without any icing at all. These chewy sugar cookies don’t need cookie cutters – roll them out into little balls and place them on the baking sheet....

So yes, chocolate tastes great and is great for you, and I don’t think anyone will argue with me on that. And chocolate and cherry? That’s a combination most of us, I think, would die for. But you don’t have to die for these vegan Chocolate Cherry Muffins, although one bite of one of these might make you feel like you’ve died and gone to heaven. With school about to start, I am trying to find healthy snack ideas for Jay, who goes into fourth grade this year....

These vegan chocolate chip almond flour cookies are so good, you’ll want to eat the whole batch. And you won’t feel guilty if you do, because they’re not just amazingly good, they’re actually good for you. This is one of the easiest cookie recipes you will ever make, as easy as these amazing vegan chocolate chip cookies, and as delicious. The cookie dough comes together in one bowl and takes just five minutes to put together....

You might also like these recipes for vegan chocolate chip cookies and vegan banana cookies with chocolate chips. These vegan chocolate chip muffins are sweet, moist and soft and they will leave you feeling so proud about giving your family, and yourself, the perfect treat to start the day–or end it, because these are amazing for dessert as well. There’s a surprise ingredient in this recipe–orange zest and juice. It works wonderfully because of how well orange and chocolate pair with each other....

Eggplants are one of our top favorite veggies and they are especially divine in Indian dishes like baingan bharta, baingan masala and bagara baingan. Yet one more favorite is vegan dahi baingan or dahi wale baingan, which I want to share with you here. Dahi is yogurt in hindi, and baingan is eggplant, and just like it sounds, this is a dish that marries together yogurt and eggplants in one memorable dish....

You might also like these recipes for vegan butternut squash halwa and vegan zucchini halwa. Doodhi Halwa is a delicious Indian sweet that is not at all difficult to veganize and which, in its animal-free avatar, ends up being both healthier and more delicious. A doodhi or lauki or bottle gourd is a pretty, pale-green squash that is a known cholesterol fighter and makes delicious subzis. Because the doodhi is very neutral-tasting it lends itself beautifully to a halwa....

I make a lot of mashed potatoes for the resident spud gourmet, my son Jay, and discovering how to make them in the Instant Pot has been truly life-changing. Making mashed potatoes on the stovetop or even in the microwave is by no means difficult, and I have already shared a recipe for vegan mashed potatoes on the blog. But the Instant Pot just makes boiling them to perfection, without water logging them, that much easier, and that much more hands-off....

You might also enjoy these recipes for classic vegan lasagna, vegan Instant Pot lasagna and vegan crockpot lasagna. A cheesy, tomatoey lasagna dip with crispy lasagna noodle chips to dunk in sounds like a ridiculously simple idea for a terrific snack, and so it is. If you plan to gather around the television this weekend with family and friends to watch the game (or just plan to flop down on the couch with your favorite Netflix show) and are looking for a dish everyone will love, you couldn’t go wrong with this one....

My goal this year is to pepper the holidays with as much healthy food as I can while indulging in the inevitable sweet treat. With recipes like this vegan white bean chili, low-carb coconut dal, and this delicious vegan low carb chili, I can stay nicely in sight of that objective. This hearty chili is really simple to make with just a few ingredients. If you are not watching your carbs or want to add more veggies, I have you covered as well....

If you still have a butternut squash or two sitting around, use it up in a creamy butternut squash risotto. A spicy mushroom curry, modeled on a mutton curry my dad made growing up, Thai curried chickpeas, and vegan etouffée round out the list. Happy cooking! What you get in this meal plan You will get six nutritious, delicious and family friendly recipes, meal prep tips and a printable shopping list....

Also on the menu are a scrumptious vegan squash casserole, an oil-free lentil marinara and gnocchi verde, a dish that’s special and yummy. Enjoy a healthy but decadently delicious quinoa biryani on the weekend. What you get in this meal plan You will get six nutritious, delicious and family friendly recipes, meal prep tips and a printable shopping list. Sign up below to get the meal plan directly in your mailbox each weekend, for free....

With Mardi Gras almost here I wanted to share with you another classic New Orleans recipe to add to the many others I already have on the blog, including Vegan Dirty Rice, Vegan Gumbo, Vegan Jambalaya, Vegan Etouffee, and Vegan Fricassee. This vegan Muffaletta Casserole is just as tasty and unique as all of those recipes and I hope that like them it also becomes one of your favorites to make and eat year-round....