Vegan
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Roasted Veggies with a Spicy Cashew Cream … and a peek at Tahoe
We are cloistered away in one of our favorite spots in the world: Lake Tahoe. Back home, family is keeping an eye on the house, the dogs, the garden, the lawn … but here, we barely glance at the clock. Our biggest challenge of the day is trying to decide whether to read on the couch or on the balcony. You can probably guess which usually wins out. Last year, while staying in this same condo (a gift from the owner. “Come stay whenever you like,” she said five years ago. And we do.), we went off our vegan diet, which we’d been faithful to for six months. “Just during…
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Vegan Minestrone and Garlic Bread
For those of you who emailed me or commented on the Twig and Feather Facebook pageĀ asking for this recipe, I’m sorry it took a few days to get the post written. I have been running around this whole week like a chicken with my head cut off. Hmm. Perhaps that’s an inappropriate image for a post with two vegan recipes … So I’m late, but here it is. I hope you like it as much as we do. And below, I’ve posted the recipe for our new favorite bread, which goes perfectly with this minestrone (or “min-i-Tony,” as Gage calls it) for lunch or a light dinner. Enjoy! Vegan Minestrone…
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Roasted Veggies with Mushroom-Merlot Sauce
Don’t you just love when cleaning out the fridge becomes something spectacular? Me too. Here I was two nights ago, staring at a very clean fridge but a handful of items that needed tending a.s.a.p, when this little plate just kind of came together. Yay for serendipity! I had the following: asparagus, a handful of sliced carrots and red peppers we had brought with us to Leavenworth but didn’t finish, shitake and crimini mushrooms, half a lemon, and three red potatoes left over from the batch I’d boiled the night before. I also had, up in my cupboard, a bottle of balsamic glaze. “Glaze” sounds fancy, but it’s really just…
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Avocado Pesto … for pasta, for veggies, for eating off a giant spoon.
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! My husband surprised me with a trip out of town. š We’re spending Valentine’s Day in Leavenworth (not the prison. The Bavarian village), so I have a whole day full of cute-store browsing awaiting me. That means … quick post! I couldn’t wait to share this with you. I know I say this a lot, but this seriously my most favorite food now. I’ve had it six times since whipping up the batch a few days ago. Six. And if there was any left, I would have it a seventh time. It’s just a-may-zing. It fills that, “now that I’m vegan, how will I live without…
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Crock Pot Pasta Primavera … and Vegan Almond “Parmesan”
Happy Monday! More specifically, happy Meatless Monday! (At least for another hour and fifty-three minutes). Can I let you in on a little secret? We’ve not just gone meatless Mondays anymore, but meatless Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays as well. Yep. We’ve gone vegan. I can’t say for certain this very moment if this will be a lifelong lifestyle, because I have a feeling that somewhere down the road I’m going to have a hankering for Anthony’s alder-planked salmon, but I can say that I plan to be a 99% vegan. I think that makes me a flexitarian. So here’s my new favorite recipe. This was a clean-out-the-fridge recipe that worked beautifully.…
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Spicy Vegan Slaw
It’s Meatless Monday!!! And today, we have my new favorite side dish: Spicy Vegan Slaw. Now, don’t get your knickers in a twist over that middle word in the title. It’s just five little letters. Try it out: say “vegan.” Say it slowly. See? You lived! There was a time when I wrinkled my nose at those letters too. And sort of grimaced. But then there was the time about a week and a half ago when I heard my friend, Lynette, say the word, and heard it in the same sentence with, “My vegan diet took me off my blood pressure medicine.” That’s all I had to hear. My blood…
