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Tangy Lemon Crabless Cake Salad

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Tangy Lemon Crabless Cake Salad – a quick, easy, and tasty salad with layers of flavor and texture – warm plant based crabby cakes over crisp cool greens.

 

Tangy Lemon Crabless Cake Salad @spabettie

Fast Food Friday @spabettie

When I wake up and it is dark and cold, and it is still cold when I return home from tennis, I want something warm. Earlier this week, I also wanted that something to be light, fresh, and bright – like the summer we just had.

Fall is my favorite, do not get me wrong! You all know I love my comfort food as much as anyone. Still, sometimes I want bright and fresh.

and warm.

and fast.

Tangy Lemon Crabless Cake Salad @spabettie

Today, our Fast Food Friday non recipe takes me back to my childhood. Every Fourth of July, our family would meet at The Embarcadero for a weekend of contract rummy, cocktails…

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Shroom Hunter Smoky Grilled Cheese

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Shroom Hunter Smoky Grilled Cheese – a mushroom hunters favorite comfort food – sautéed mushrooms with smoky gouda are a perfect pairing!

 

Shroom Hunter Smoky Grilled Cheese @spabettie

Hello from record breaking sunny Portland!

We are seeing temperatures in the high 80 range – which is a stark contrast to the snow I just saw in Boulder and Denver. I experienced that two day, most flights canceled, blizzard of Colorado.

and we had a great time.

More on my trip later – I want to talk about what I made when I got home.

Shroom Hunter Smoky Grilled Cheese @spabettie

Before I left for Colorado, I found a new cheese I had been looking for, and I could not wait to try it!

I finally …

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Cashew Hot Cocoa with Cinnamon Whip and Double Chocolate Mug Cake

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Cashew Hot Cocoa with Cinnamon Whip and Double Chocolate Mug Cake – this quick and easy hot cocoa is free of many top allergens, and tastes incredible!

 

Cashew Hot Cocoa with Cinnamon Whip and Double Chocolate Mug Cake @spabettie

Usually when we have snow days and are stuck at home, we enjoy some Baileys Irish Cream in our coffee. This year when we had our day of snow and another day of ice, I was sipping on a deliciously rich hot cocoa from a mix.

The next day? A fluffy, fiber rich double chocolate mug cake. Two ingredients, from a mix.

Fiber rich? Yep – the hot cocoa was too. This unique hot cocoa …

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Shiitake Shallot Quiche

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Shiitake Shallot Quiche – packed with flavor and texture galore! this plant based breakfast classic is soy, dairy, and gluten free but full of tasty goodness!

 

Shiitake Shallot Quiche @spabettie

I have never made a quiche before.

Before vegan, I was not a big fan of eggs, they grossed me out just as meat did. I do love a good tofu scramble however – that Kala Namak brings that perfect salty sulfury flavor. I love French toast, and all kinds of other things typically made with egg.

When Follow Your …

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Epic Tofuna Melt Sandwich

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Epic Tofuna Melt Sandwich – a flavorful and crunchy plant based tuna and a truly epic and melty vegan cheese, this sandwich is one you will crave often.

 

Epic Tofuna Melt Sandwich @spabettie

Fast Food Friday @spabettie

I have two epic things to share with you today – a new plant based tuna, and some of the best plant based cheese I have ever tasted.

First, the tuna. A fellow Portland vegan recently …

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Chili Cheese Stuffed Jalapeños

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Chili Cheese Stuffed Jalapeños

Chili Cheese Stuffed Jalapeños – a protein and veggie packed spin on everyone’s favorite classic jalapeño popper. These work well as both an appetizer or a dinner – a warm salad topper!

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I was invited to develop recipes for the McCormick Gluten-Free Recipe Mixes Launch as a member of the Healthy Aperture Blogger Network. I received product, was compensated for my time, and all opinions are my own.

You know I am all about game day food, appetizers, shared plates and Happy Hour at Home. I have said more than once that I love appetizers for dinner (and often order a couple small plates rather than the huge entrees most restaurants want to give you).

So, did we actually eat jalapeño poppers for dinner?

Why, yes. Yes we did.

McCormick Gluten Free Chili Spice

These are perfectly acceptable for dinner, though – a protein and veggie packed update on the cheese filled original. Fantastically spicy and filling, we ate these with a simple salad on the side.

Plus, you can eat a whole bunch of them.

These peppers are not only …

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a Simply Balanced picnic

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rosemary date crisps with goat cheese

I love a picnic.

You can probably guess why.

I suppose when I think about it, I kind of always have a portable picnic going on wherever I go. I may not have the fun checkered blankets or a basket (um, handbag!), but I always have snacks.

You never know when you’re going to need snacks.

Many factors go into the snack choices I make, and …

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veggie miso soup

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A couple weeks ago, I made a huge batch of miso soup. We enjoyed that soup for days – I found myself drinking it out of mugs on cold mornings. Better than coffee, I tell ya.

I have never followed a recipe for miso soup, I generally chop up some broth friendly veggies I have on hand, add some miso and broth… taste… adjust… taste… so it was good for me to finally write down a method I sometimes kinda loosely follow.

I recently had the opportunity to try a gluten free soy sauce, Little Soya. In addition to being gluten free, it is non GMO, contains no MSG, and is packed in single serve fish:

Cute, right? Recyclable and resealable – these cute little fishies are good to go! I have tried so many soy sauce products and Little Soya has a very good flavor – which to me is just as important as a gluten free product. The portability is nice as well – we can take this with us to use anywhere we go!

Want to try this yourself? Little Soya will send six readers their own gluten free soy sauce fish!

veggie miso soup

dairy, egg, and gluten free, vegan

2 tablespoons sesame oil
1/2 pint baby portobello mushrooms, chopped fine
4 1/2 cups vegetable broth (32 ounce box)
1/4 cup miso paste
3 teaspoons soy sauce (approximately 2 Little Soya fish)
1 tablespoon Nori Komi Furikake
3 green onions, chopped 

In large pot, saute mushrooms in sesame oil. When mushrooms soften, add remaining ingredients and simmer over medium-low heat 20 minutes.

Garnish with cheesy jalapeno miso biscuits.

The giveaway – SIX winners, several ways to enter – leave a comment for each:

#1) do you cook with soy sauce often? 

#2) what recipes would you like to see me prepare with soy sauce?

#3) tweet about this giveaway, including a link back to this post (tweet this):

enter to win gluten free soy sauce from @spabettie – SIX winners! –> https://www.spabettie.com/?p=10869

#4) follow Little Soya on twitter

#5) like Little Soya on facebook

Enter through midnight Tuesday November 20th. Winners are selected via random number generator and notified via email on Wednesday November 21st. Winners have 72 hours to respond before another winner is chosen.

COMPENSATION WAS PROVIDED BY LITTLE SOYA VIA HELLO HOUSTON MEDIA.  THESE OPINIONS ARE THOSE OF SPABETTIE AND ARE NOT THE OPINIONS OF LITTLE SOYA.

 

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