We love BBQ! You have to love BBQ in The South. I think it’s a prerequisite to living here. You have to put up with the heat and humidity but you get to enjoy good BBQ year round. BBQ Seitan is easy to make. This recipe is for a ground or pulled style of barbecue that makes a great sandwich. How to Make Ground BBQ Seitan Seitan is easy to make but it helps to have a few kitchen tools. If you don’t have an Instant Pot you can bake it but the Instant Pot keeps the seitan extra moist and juicy. The seitan cooks in the instant pot for…

This Everything Bagel Vegetarian Breakfast Casserole is an easy breakfast or brunch recipe. All the prep work is done the night before so all you have to do in the morning is pop it in the oven. Super simple. Even though it’s just the two of us Eric and enjoy making a big weekend breakfast or brunch at home. I love casseroles. They are so easy to make and you can do other things while they bake. Plus did I mention the leftovers?!? Leftovers are the best. I love when I make a big weekend meal and I have leftovers for weekdays when I don’t have time to cook. If…

I love a good salad! The chopped seitan makes this salad more of a full meal than just a side. Plus it’s a great use for leftover seitan. Waste not want not. We made seitan ribs this past weekend and chopped up the leftovers. The smoky BBQ flavor was amazing on the Chopped Seitan Salad. Yum! If you have a food processor use it to chop the seitan. It shreds it in to fine little piece and the texture is really nice. Don’t have a food processor or don’t want to drag it out? No problem! Just chop it up finely with a knife. You may not get the same…

It is a little known fact that I love pizza and could eat it everyday. I love to experiment with different flavors but the idea for this BBQ Peach Pizza actually came from a local restaurant. The local pizza joint, to remain nameless, was offering a special pizza that sounded amazing. It was a BBQ Peach Pizza with Andouille Sausage. When I asked the waitress if I could order it without the sausage she came back to the table and said “No, the chef won’t make the peach pizza without the meat on it because then it would just basically be desert pizza.” WTF?!? Needless to say I was pissed.…

Last weekend our little local farmers market had a blackberry and blueberry festival. I am a sucker for fresh summer berries. So of course we had to stop by and check it out. Several farms had pints of blueberries but only a few had blackberries. The berries they had were huge! Like the size of my thumb! Ok maybe not that big but close to it. More important than size they were delicious and juicy. I bought enough berries to make a Vegan Blackberry Cobbler and to munch on fresh berries all week! I love cooking in cast iron. Our cast iron skillets were passed down to us from Eric’s…

Have you ever made a salad in a mason jar? It’s so easy! Mason jars salads are great for picnics or weekday office lunches. Our pesto flavored vegan pasta salad in a jar is quick and simple to make. Everyone has a few old unused mason jars sitting around the house right? Cue southerns shaking their heads yes in unison. They are just so dang useful. All you have to do is layer a few simple ingredients in your mason jar. Then just shake the jar up or mix in a serving bowl when you are ready to eat. Easy peasy any you have yourself a vegan pasta salad in…

I love the crunch of fried foods but hate the grease and mess of frying things. Let’s not even start talk about the calories in fried foods. Oven Baking or Air Frying is totally the way to go at home. It’s so much healthier and easier. Way less clean up involved. I rarely fry food at home any more. We used to have an Air Fryer, and I loved it until it broke. That was a sad sad day. Luckily our new oven is also a convection oven. I have tested this recipe for Oven Fried Cauliflower by baking normally and using the convection oven setting (like any air fryer).…

For our Seitan Carne Asada we wanted to get a juicy but charred flavor. Carne Asada is typically a beef dish but this seitan recipe is a little bit closer to a roasted pork flavor. We love making seitan at home. It’s a great vegan substitute for meat to help fill your plate and give you added protein. Seitan is fun to make especially when you get to grill it. I love grilling in the spring! Plus you can add so many different flavors to it. It’s easy to develop layers of flavor into seitan by simmering, mixing in different ingredients, or marinading it. This recipe is a little time…