A Brief Guide to Better Salads
Salads get a pretty bad rap and it’s time to put an end to that. If we think about salads the way we think about any other food, they have the capacity to be the star of the show, an entire, satisfying, delicious meal in and of themselves. So, when constructing your salad du jour, I think it’s best to keep in mind some guiding components that can help elevate ingredients and bring your salad to the next level.
Vegan Cream Sauce
Emulating the rich, fatty flavor and texture of traditional cream sauces has remained a challenge for the vegan food-world, often only overcome by time-intensive processes or hard-to-find ingredients. This sauce uses only a few ingredients, comes together in minutes, and is sure to surprise the palate.
Vegan Curried Coconut Tomato Lentils
These heartwarming vegan curried coconut tomato lentils pack a plant powered protein punch! Obsessed with Indian food since her time there, this has become one of Hannah’s go-to’s.
Pantry Pesto Pasta
The wintertime typically means there’s a little extra emphasis put on the pantry, especially if you’re trying to eat seasonally! But that doesn’t mean you have to settle for dull or bland! Canned, bottled, or frozen foods are fantastic additions to the dry goods and root vegetables you may be enjoying, and can really bring some pantry staples to life. This weekday pasta harnesses the rich umami of pesto, the spice of red chili flakes, the brightness of some lemon juice, and a little added protein from frozen peas!
Roasted Carrots with Tahini and Toasted Almonds
This recipe puts a new twist on a seasonal staple. Roasted with red onions, olive oil, salt, and cumin, these sweet and rich carrots are paired with a creamy and tangy lemon-tahini sauce, and topped with crunchy toasted chopped almonds to bring brightness, texture, sweetness, and mountains of flavor.
Chewy Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies
This delectable cookie recipe comes to us from contributor Lily Mazzocco. These cookies are chewy, soft, and even better a couple of days later. It is easy to modify and the recipe is vegan in nature as the pumpkin omits the need for an egg. Plant-based butter, dairy-free chocolate chips, and the opportunity to swap the all-purpose flour for a gluten-free 1:1 substitution make this recipe enjoyable for everyone!
Cilantro Chutney
Archana Choudhary is back to bring us an amazing Cilantro Chutney! Everyone loves a fun sauce to jazz up a dish, and this chutney brings some incredible tangy freshness to everything it touches!
Lentil Chili
This protein-packed chili is an easy go-to when looking for some hearty fuel in the midst of a chilly winter, is a “one-pot” recipe, and is an oasis for amazing garnishes and accoutrements. So! Get out your heaviest pot and call over some friends (or maybe, for now, just send them some Tupperware) because this chili feeds a crowd and soothes the soul!
Vegetarian Ramen
Never has a noodle soup garnered more universal praise and admiration than RAMEN! Well….maybe pho…but, one recipe at a time. I mean, what’s not to love? A rich, umami packed broth. Springy, slurpable noodles. A WORLD of garnish options. A satisfying, surprising, complex Japanese comfort food that keeps the world coming back for more.
Hot-Honey Butternut Squash Soup
My new favorite butternut squash soup! Hot-honey adds amazing sweetness and spice to an already savory dish, and the croutons add an incredibly flavorful crunch to the whole mix. This is soup is the ultimate fall comfort food in my book. Want to try it? Check out the recipe!
Miso Soft-Scramble Breakfast Sandwich
This is not only one of our favorite uses of Miso, but one of our favorite simple breakfasts of all time: an open-faced miso-egg sandwich with fresh spring onion garnish. The warm fluffy umami of the eggs over some crunchy buttery bread, with the crisp brightness of thinly sliced spring onions comes together in minutes and hits every note you need to start your day!
Vegan 3-Ingredient Sweet Potato Gnocchi
This 3-ingredient vegan sweet potato gnocchi is is surprisingly easy (and fun!) to make. Saute the gnocchi in a bath of buttery, sage and tomatoes to finish them off, and you have yourself a delicious early fall dinner!
Mushroom Shawarma
Warm fluffy pita, bright crisp vegetables, creamy tahini sauce, citrus, olive oil, and of course warm mushroom shawarma. This hand held shawarma pita embodies all of the bright richness of a traditional shawarma and capitalizes on seasonality as we enter Fall!
Ar-Chana Masala
In this recipe, Archana discusses her rediscovery of Indian home cooking, a journey that began with her favorite Chana Masala. This rich and versatile dish is not only easy to make and source year-round, but is an amazing introduction for many to the world of Indian homecooking.
Sara’s Spanish Gazpacho
September is here! The days are still warm (even hot!) and the garden’s bounty remains plentiful—tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and onions still overcrowd my kitchen counter. In my mom’s world this means it is time for gazpacho!
WiN-WiN: Roasted Beets and Beet Green Pesto
For the next installment of the WiN-WiN recipe series (Waste Not, Want Not) where we try to make use of every last bit of a vegetable, fruit, legume, we take on beets! Making a delicious combo of roast beets and beet green pesto.
WiN-WiN: Cauliflower Steaks with a Cold Sesame Salad
This is our first installment of the WiN-WiN recipe series (Waste Not, Want Not). In this series, we try to make use of every last bit of a vegetable, fruit, legume, etc. Doing this not only respects all of the time and energy that went into producing that beautiful food, but offers you a ton of extra use, a new world of flavors and textures, and a door to a new realm of creativity and experimentation.
Tandoori Cashew Mash
In an effort to offer a spreadable, protein-rich and fat-rich alternative for your wraps, sandwiches, and crackers, we developed the Tandoori Cashew Mash! This spread packs in the hearty texture of blended cashews, the incredible umami of sun dried tomatoes and sautéed garlic and shallot, and the beautiful complexity of Tandoori Masala.
Fish Tacos
So let’s say you checked out our guide to being a sustainable seafood consumer, sourced some sustainable catch, and now have some beautiful fish/shellfish/crustaceans. There are a million ways to cook them, but what better way to enjoy the summer and the people you’re with than a fish taco station?
Leftover-Herb Chimichurri
In the spirit of waste reduction, our #UseItUp challenge, and the endless quest for deliciousness, we present to you, the “leftover-herb chimichurri”. It’s really simple, if you have leftover leafy-herbs, you can mix them with some olive oil, garlic, onion/shallot, red wine vinegar, and salt, and you’ve got yourself a refrigerator stable flavor bomb to drizzle over any dish.