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Vibrant Protein Rich Pineapple Chia Pudding

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Vibrant Protein Rich Pineapple Chia Pudding – this tropical fruit breakfast or snack is packed with essential protein, fats, flavor, texture and crunch!

 

Pineapple Chia Pudding in a glass with banana slices

Many of you know, I add spinach to lots of things. Waffles. Pancakes.

Good green.

So adding the vibrant green to my chia pudding? Totally normal.

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…

Pineapple Chia Pudding in a glass with banana slices

My latest chia pudding is such a great green, right?

It is easy to see why this …

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Vegan Jello Salad

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this retro Vegan Jello Salad recipe is a light and bright fluffy dessert that just might remind you of childhood. a mildly sweet dish for holidays, potlucks, anytime!

recipe originally published March 23, 2017

 

Retro Jello Salad served in a white bowl, topped with fresh orange segments, full orange fruit in peel in background

Vegan Jello Salad Recipe

This “salad” was a holiday staple when I was a kid – gracing every Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner table. While it is sweet, and definitely a dessert, this was not our dessert. (I now mix it up with different flavors at the holidays, like our Cranberry Fluff Jello Salad.

This was served with dinner – dessert happened several hours later, right? That is …

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Indo Chinese Corn Soup

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Indo Chinese Corn Soup – this fragrant and flavorful soup is a quick and easy recipe – everyone will love this warmly spiced dish!

 

Indo Chinese Corn Soup @spabettie

I love, love LOVE sesame. The scent, the flavor… tahini, oil, seeds, all of it! I do not know why I am not cooking with it daily. This glorious Indo Chinese Corn Soup calls for sesame oil in the recipe, and I also added a little bloop to the bowl when serving. A perfect finish.

This warmly spiced and fragrant soup is …

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Grilled Vanilla Pint Cake with Strawberry Sauce and Pistachio

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Grilled Vanilla Pint Cake with Strawberry Sauce and Pistachio – fresh summer berries top a unique take on a pound cake – fresh summer flavor!

 

Grilled Vanilla Pint Cake with Strawberry Sauce and Pistachio @spabettie

While I enjoy ice cream any time of year, summertime is when we celebrate it more, right?

We have been enjoying a unique take on a pound cake recipe – seriously, I cannot stop making this pint cake with all the flavors. Yes. Pint Cake. See what I did there? This super easy cake recipe is a variation of my dear friend Katie’s recipe – one that came from her Bubbie. It uses a pint of the Cashewmilk Frozen Dessert, and is the perfect dessert cake similar to a pound cake!

Seriously. You know how many different flavors of pints So Delicious has?

Endless flavor …

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Veggie Burger Recipe Collection

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Veggie Burger Recipe Collection – burgers for every flavor craving, even those you may not know you have – protein packed and plant based burgers for all!

 

Spicy Peanut Butter Burger @spabettie

 

Although it is raining today (is she really talking about the weather again?), the sun will be back tomorrow! We are planning to bring the outdoor furniture out of storage this weekend, and we might fire up the grill.

That first grill of the season – isn’t it the best?

Well, maybe not – any time we grill is pretty right on. I cannot wait for my first fresh grilled corn on the cob.

In compiling this veggie burger recipe collection, I stuck to burgers for the most part – with the exception of my favorite Cheesy Nacho Mushroom Melts. Right after that one, we are right back to burgers with a burger topped salad, for those who want to forgo the bun.

Or just love a warm protein topper to a cool crisp salad. *Raises hand*

This collection has some old favorites – my Sushi Ramen Burgers really need to be made again soon. My Chick-quin Burgers stuffed with Miyoko’s Mozzarella are always a welcome flavor – Marinara and Basil Aioli? Yes please and thank you.

Two of my cheese sauce recipes are also included. I recently made the Tangy Cheese Sauce – you may see it soon as a Totchos recipe.

Until then, bring on the burgers!

 

Veggie Burger Recipe Collection

 

Ramen Burger - Sushi Style

Ramen Burger – Sushi Style

 

Mozzarella Stuffed Chick-quin Burgers with Marinara and Basil Aioli @spabettie

Mozzarella Stuffed Chick-quin Burgers with Marinara and Basil Aioli

 

Garlic Kale Stuffed Portobello Burgers @spabettie

Garlic Kale Stuffed Portobello Burgers

 

Tangy Cheese Sauce on a Beastly Pretzel Slider

Tangy Cheese Sauce on Beastly Pretzel Sliders

 

Quinoa Basil Bean Burgers with Basil Aioli @spabettie

Quinoa Basil Bean Burgers with Basil Aioli

 

Spicy Peanut Butter Burger @spabettie

Spicy Peanut Butter Burger

 

Red Lentil Sweet Potato Hemp Burgers with Ginger Basil Sauce @spabettie

Red Lentil Sweet Potato Hemp Burgers with Ginger Basil Sauce

 

Sushi Veggie Sliders

Sushi Veggie Sliders

 

Cheesy Nacho Mushroom Melts

Cheesy Nacho Mushroom Melts

 

Veggie Burger Salad and Quick Dill Pickle Dressing @spabettie

Veggie Burger Salad and Quick Dill Pickle Dressing

 

 

which would you try first? do you have a favorite burger topping?

 

 

Classic Vegan Potato Salad

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Classic Vegan Potato Salad – just like mom used to make, with pickle – a picnic favorite gets a plant based update that tastes just like the original!

 

Classic Vegan Pickle Potato Salad in bowls, diced pickles with knife on cutting board

 

Classic Vegan Pickle Potato Salad @spabettie #vegan #glutenfree #oilfree #soyfree #BBQ #dairyfree

Classic Vegan Pickle Potato Salad

I am so ready for summer.

For longer and warmer days, when our patio and deck become an extension of the living room. We are ready to drag out the patio furniture, fire up the grill, have people over for all the summer food favorites.

One of my summer food favorites is a Classic Vegan Pickle Potato Salad that I have adapted over the years from the recipe I grew up with – my moms potato salad. Classic flavors, not a lot of extras to distract from that simplicity I love.

Classic Vegan Pickle Potato Salad @spabettie #vegan #glutenfree #oilfree #soyfree #BBQ #dairyfree

 

Classic Vegan Pickle Potato Salad @spabettie #vegan #glutenfree #oilfree #soyfree #BBQ #dairyfree

I add extra dill pickle flavor to mine, though. A tangy tasty crunch.

Of course, while we have had a …

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Waikiki Breakfast Salad and Easy Poppyseed Dressing

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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!

 

Waikiki Breakfast Salad and Easy Poppyseed Dressing @spabettie

Waikiki Breakfast Salad

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.)

Waikiki Breakfast Salad and Easy Poppyseed Dressing @spabettie

Easy Poppyseed Dressing

I was able to find great plant based options at breakfast, and I ended up …

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Peaches and Cream French Toast

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Peaches and Cream French Toast – a fluffy French toast with a perfectly crisp edge and a natural sweetness from super juicy end of summer peaches – this is brunch ready!

 

Peaches and Cream French Toast @spabettie

If you ask me what my favorite late summer food is?

This year I would have to say peaches.

I think I have had the best peaches of my life this summer, no lie.

Dramatic? I don’t know. The peaches I have enjoyed are simply perfect. That exact right amount of natural sweet, and so juicy. This is like, one of three recipes I have bothered to make with peaches this summer, since I cannot get beyond just eating them as is.

Like, in the car on the way home from the market.

My new car may have had a few sticky spots on the steering wheel that needed cleaning last week.

French toast gets talked about here often enough, yes? You know I like it, you know I channel Grandpa Z with his fluffy salted French toast. This is the first time I made this particular idea for a custard, using a sweet combination of …

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