Vibrant Plant Based Recipes
Lightened Up Pina Coladas – this light and fresh vegan cocktail is a new take on summer’s favorite – tart and fruity! Light enough to have seconds – CHEERS!
recipe originally published May 24, 2012
Summer weather is here, my friends.
As the temperatures return to warm glimpses of summer, we move back outside.
We grill, we lounge in the sun, we have Happy Hour at Home. We get creative with cocktails, and …
this Baked Pumpkin Oatmeal with Golden Cashew Cream recipe is the answer when quick and easy is needed, with added turmeric benefit – make ahead for a hearty breakfast all week!
I love oatmeal in the fall. I love pumpkin all year round.
This is my first baked oatmeal recipe! and I cannot wait to make it again. and again. As with every food I obsess over, I already have so many flavor ideas.
So …
Waikiki Breakfast Salad and Easy Poppyseed Dressing – a fresh, flavorful, and filling entree to start to the day! Asian inspired flavors of the islands, every day!
I recently spent 10 days in Honolulu with my mom, soaking up the sunshine and eating fresh food. It took a couple days to adjust to the time difference – the first night I couldn’t get to sleep until past midnight, and still woke up at like, four in the morning.
Nothing a nap in the sun cannot fix, right?
We never really got past the early morning hours, though – always up by 5:30 or so. Most of our time on the island was spent at one of my favorite places, Embassy Waikiki Beach Walk. About two minutes to the beach, right in the middle of Beach Walk action and shops, daily cocktail hour and great breakfast.
(see more vegan breakfast recipes here.)
I was able to find great plant based options at breakfast, and I ended up …
Vegan Vanilla Crescent Cookies – perfectly sweet buttery richness in an updated, plant based version – free of dairy, eggs, soy, and gluten, and just as tasty as the original classic!
Do you have a favorite cookie? Like, all time favorite, a thing that began in childhood?
Crescent Cookies would be mine. Mildly sweet, buttery, simple. Like a soft, fluffy shortbread, covered in sugary powder. Mmm. Now they are Vegan Vanilla Crescent Cookies, and they are divine. Gluten free too, and still they have the same flavor and feel. Perfect.
When I was little, my mom had this baking cookbook. It had a recipe for a flour mixture, then each recipe called for a certain amount of that flour mixture. You had to have the flour mixture to make the recipe. We rarely baked from that book.
That is where her crescent cookie recipe came from.
I have a few favorite gluten free all purpose flour blends, so …
Crispy Maple Mustard Stuffed Potato Balls – a flavorful and fun food that works as an entree, side, or appetizer – you will want these all through the holiday season!
I lost count of how many times we made these Crispy Maple Mustard Stuffed Potato Balls in the last month.
While the concept of “leftover mashed potatoes” is foreign to me, I’ll gladly cook up a new batch of potatoes just for this purpose!
I recently made a new tangy sweet jackfruit recipe. When the …
Sweet and Spicy Cashews – a tasty blend of sweet and savory for a warm snack or last minute party food – pop these in the oven all holiday season!
One of my favorite flight snacks is the warm nuts. I am like a kid, bouncing in my seat as I see them coming around… and then I eat all the cashews out of mine, passing the rest to Jason. He often offers his, which still has an equal blend because he is a normal snacker.
Our wordless headphone wearing airplane communication is understood…
I have such an affinity for these warm nuts that among some, I am known for it. My friend Arman even made a recipe for me. Okay, for Rosemary. *sigh*
In the weeks ahead, we will be hosting and attending holiday parties. While I cannot really …
Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes – this quick and easy recipe is anything but basic – rich roasted garlic and flavorful olive oil bring a perfect bite!
Someone recently asked for holiday main dish recipes.
I realized a couple years ago that this recipe blog does not have any holiday main dish recipes. Now, I haven’t even shared my favorite holiday recipe – it is incredibly unique, incredibly awesome, and … just incredible. I may share it one day.
Holiday dinner for me have always been about the sides. Even before formally removing meat from the foods I eat, I rarely chose it. My holiday foods actually focus more on…
Smoky White Chili with Hatch Avocado Cream – rich and creamy, this warming chili has layers of flavor with a spicy kick, is satisfying and oh so comforting.
My favorite ski mountain had snow today.
I wore my tall boots for the first time this weekend.
and a scarf. I wore a scarf.
It is the time of year when Rosemary Dachshund doesn’t like to go outside, when all of the patio furniture gets hauled away for the season, when I take therapeutic hot baths nearly every night.
Did I say the mountain had snow today?!
Okay, it wasn’t a lot of snow, of course. But more is expected, and soon.
The long socks are chosen from the sock drawer. The tights are worn with skirts. The morning run is oh so cold, just as I like. Running in the early morning cold reminds me of high school, when I started running.
Holiday plans are already being formed (yep, I know). The cocktail cabinet now has more whiskey (YEP, I KNOW). The heat has replaced the …
