Vibrant Vegan Food in Portland
make these BBQ Pulled Porcini Tacos for every Taco Tuesday! super easy and incredibly flavorful, with color and texture to fill a hard or soft taco shell!
Taco Tuesday has a new menu item.
Full of flavor, texture, and color!
Tangy barbecue flavor paired with the crisp crunch of vibrant purple cabbage and mild heat of jalapeño. Honestly? Taco Tuesday has also been happening on Wednesday and Thursday around here.
Bonus! Pulled Porcini is …
Easy Vanilla Chip Buckwheat Bars are chewy with crispy edges, have tasty vanilla flavor flecked with chocolate, and will be your new favorite snack!
Do you like snacks as much as we do?
I have a new snack recipe for you, and it is good.
Soft and chewy with crisp edges, these bars are good eats. Fragrant vanilla and melty pockets of chocolate make a great flavor combination. These Easy Vanilla Chip Buckwheat Bars are vegan, and made without oil.
For those with allergies, they are also naturally gluten free and nut free.
Packed with fiber and flavor, this …
Nourishing Kitchari – a warmly spiced and incredibly flavorful comfort food bowl of wholesome goodness! Follow this versatile basic recipe and customize the ingredients to your liking.
I am sharing an old comfort food recipe from my early spa career. I was first introduced to kitchari in an Ayurvedic medicine / Ayurveda class. Two years later, while managing an Aveda spa, I became joyfully immersed in the science and wisdom of Ayurveda. Kitchari also returned to my kitchen when I learned how to …
these Vegan Deconstructed Stuffed Pepper Bowls have all the satisfying flavor, color, and texture in an easier to eat bowl. great for lunch or dinner – or breakfast – these super flavorful bowls are family friendly, easy to make, and antioxidant rich!
These bowls are one of those assembly type meals that I love to plan ahead and bulk cook for. We love the flavors so much, and could honestly eat like this every day.
Obviously our meals are more varied, but I can legit enjoy this as lunch all week long. And they are super easy, actually – all I do is cook up a big pot of quinoa (I do this most weeks anyway) and make a batch of …
this Lemon Elderflower Layer Cake is royally delicious! bright and light flavors, tasty lemon cake surrounded by smooth and sweet elderflower frosting. perfect for a 4am Royal Wedding breakfast celebration, a Mothers Day brunch, or a Tuesday.
I’m just going to come right out and ask – will you be watching the Royal Wedding?
Airing at four in the morning my time, I will be watching.
and I will be eating cake.
for breakfast, even.
The Royal Wedding Cake is to be a Lemon Elderflower Cake.
The strange fact about the cake? It …
this Crispy Cheesy Vegan Quesarito is an incredibly tasty plant based update on the wildly popular fast food favorite. a classic burrito wrapped as a crispy quesadilla with a melty cheese – you’re gonna love this!
(want more menu choices? try our Taco Crunchwrap!)
Happy Taco Tuesday!
…or Tacos Whenever Day, really.
Burrito Wednesday? I think that …
these Versatile Vegan Meaty Crumbles are the star of every dish you add them to! this recipe brings great texture and flavor to tacos, spaghetti, casseroles, burritos, and so much more!
We have been enjoying these Versatile Vegan Meaty Crumbles for years. They are a milder version of my oh so popular Spicy Vegan Chorizo Sausage Crumbles, and originally modified from the old Raw Taco Filling we still love!
As a long time vegan, I often hear “why do vegans want to mimic meat?” when people see recipes like these Versatile Vegan Meaty Crumbles.
Well.
I have heard a few different answers to this question, including the idea that …
Smoky Tangy Chipotle Lime Burritos are packed with layers of flavor and texture. these rolled up handhelds are quick and easy and supremely satisfying with beans and rice and peppers, oh my! a generous drizzle of Smoky Tangy Cream NOT optional.
As you can see from the varied photos, we make this burrito often. The fillings are simple and so quick to make large batches for lunch all week. I say the sauce is not optional because that is where the real tasty flavor is!
Depending on the day, the sauce is a deeper orange. This is entirely based on the amount of actual chipotle pepper I may have added to the sauce… since we use the canned chipotle in adobo so often, I generally have some in the fridge. I’ll add a whole pepper and / or some adobo sauce for extra spicy flavor.
I will make a …
