Vibrant Vegan Food in Portland
Juicy Peach Mint Chia Pudding – a quick and easy, juicy sweet recipe that celebrates the freshness of the season. Great as a satisfying breakfast or snack.
I know it is only May, but the peaches I found over the weekend tasted like they were picked straight out of the middle of summer. So juicy sweet, really!
Messy eating outside in the sunshine juicy.
Save a couple few to make some Peach Mint recipes juicy.
Run back to the store for more that same afternoon juicy.
If these …
Vibrant Protein Rich Pineapple Chia Pudding – this tropical fruit breakfast or snack is packed with essential protein, fats, flavor, texture and crunch!
I am back to chia pudding breakfasts lately. On a normal day, this is such an easy breakfast for me – I usually make one first thing and stick it in the fridge to ‘set’ while I enjoy my coffee. By the time I am ready for breakfast, the chia is ready and I can add banana, berries, granola, whatever sounds good that day.
In addition to the heart healthy omega 3 fatty acids, chia seeds are packed with antioxidants, minerals, protein, and fiber. When I was testing Fruit Sweetened Brownie recipes, I may have had extra fruit concentrates in my freezer. These were perfect to flavor my chia puddings – so versatile!
Loving these quick and easy chia pudding breakfasts…
My latest chia pudding is such a great green, right?
It is easy to see why this …
Smoky Rich Double Layer Rice Paper Bacon – a savory nut butter version of a totally unique vegan bacon concept. Quick and easy recipe with great flavor!
Vegan Goat Cheese Bacon Wrapped Dates
I really dislike that phrase life changing when it is used to describe something that is most decidedly not.
I am not going to, but if I were to utter the phrase, this would be the time.
I have been mostly vegetarian from a young age. Like, way before the Hot Dog Incident even. Before making that conscious decision to not eat meat, one thing I enjoyed the flavor of was bacon. I loved the flavor, I loved the smell – that’s about it. I rarely ate it.
In the last year, I have eaten more of this bacon than any real bacon ever. and I have been making all kinds of things with it – like wrapping it around stuffed dates. Mmm.
Let me tell you – when you cook this bacon? Your kitchen smells. like. bacon. Actual bacon. This also …
Oil Free Spicy Ginger Vanilla Granola – a quick and easy snack with a deliciously warm and spicy flavor everyone will love. Vegan, Gluten Free, Tasty!
This Oil Free Spicy Ginger Vanilla Granola is inspired by …
Spicy Mango Tango Smoothie – this protein and veggie packed smoothie has vibrant colors and bright tropical flavors everyone will love!
Happy Smoothie Saturday!
We have had a busy schedule lately, and smoothies have been our go to dinner on nights where we need a satisfying, complete and quick meal, or something to take on the go. During the extended snow and ice storms Portland has been experiencing, having a little bright tropical flavor is just what we need.
This Spicy Mango Tango Smoothie recipe is incredibly nourishing, with that spicy ginger we both love. (I may be heavy handed on our ginger in these.) Chia and spinach gives it the staying power I want from a smoothie, and the mango makes me giddy for our next visit to the islands. This …
Sweet Holiday Nog Pancakes – these quick and easy pancakes are sweet and fluffy and taste like a sugar cookie! Perfect for a snow day, or any day!
Today is a snow day in Portland! Jason is working from home, Rosemary and I are bundled up in front of the heater, and we enjoyed a late brunch this morning. We started with Holiday Nog in our coffee while I impatiently stood at the window like a ding dong, waiting for snow.
Then I made Sweet Holiday Nog Pancakes.
These are sweet like a sugar cookie, with a slightly crisp edge around super fluffy insides. The key to a fluffy pancake is …
Strawberry Oat Crumble Bars – these sweet bars are a perfect ‘anytime’ bar – lunchbox, snack, and breakfast. Top a warm bar with ice cream for a fruit cobbler dessert.
We are calling these Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars at our house. Jason’s favorite way to enjoy them is heated, with a scoop of Very Vanilla Ice Cream. Mmm.
Honestly – we like these so much, I have made three batches in the recent weeks – with sunflower seed butter, as the original recipe goes, and with cashew butter. Oh so good.
This is just one of the …
Vegan Bacon Wrapped Mini Breakfast Burritos – now you can have your bacon and eggs and veggies all rolled up in a mini hand held, breakfast style!
When burritos are mini, you can eat more of them, right?
So, I recently shared my Vegan Goat Cheese Bacon Wrapped Dates – made with vegan bacon inspired by the original Lækon-strimler (bacon strips). When rice paper bacon first hit the vegan food scene, just like everyone else I could not get enough. Every day I was makin’ bacon.
My first idea, really, was keeping the rice papers intact – not cutting them into strips. Making a crazy bacon wrapped spring roll. Almost immediately that thought turned into a mini breakfast burrito.
Because, bacon. and asparagus:
But really, you can …
