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    Vegan Cajun Pasta

    Cajun food is meant to be rustic and hardy. It is country food with bold, smoky, and spicy flavors. Cajun food can be a little spicy but the heat doesn’t have to be overpowering. It is often misunderstood. People assume Cajun means it will be blackened or hotter than a southern summer. It’s really about building flavors from veggies and spices. This Vegan Cajun Pasta is built on classic Cajun flavors that just take some time and love to develop and thicken. What Is In Vegan Cajun Pasta For our Vegan Cajun Pasta I wanted incorporate the trinity of flavors from bell peppers, onions and celery to make a delicious…

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    Seitan Osso Buco

    Seitan Osso Buco is a modern vegan version of a classic Italian dish. It is a braised dish with carrots, white wine, and broth. I love the carrots in this dish! Feel free to add more carrots than the recipe calls for. They are bright, fresh, and earthy all at the same time. The carrots are complimented by the wine and citrus in the broth. The seitan needs to cook in the broth for an hour. That hour of simmering time also allows the broth to develop complex layers of flavor. The broth is the best part! We like to serve it over grits or polenta. Grits are a Southerners…

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    Vegan Pizza Two Ways

    Pizza is my favorite! Seriously I could eat it every day. When I spotted vegan pizza crusts at my local Publix (they stock them with the pita bread in the deli area) grocery store I had to try them. Brooklyn Bred pizza crusts are amazing! They are so yummy and easy to bake. Two crusts come in each package so we wanted to make Vegan Pizza Two Ways. The first pizza is Grilled Broccoli and Red Onion and the second is a Hawaiian style Pineapple Chutney pizza with sun dried tomatoes and black olives. Grilled Broccoli is so good y’all! We sprinkled the broccoli with nooch and other spices before…

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    Vegan Thai Meatball Wraps

    Secret confession time this meal was a total accident. I saved a recipe on Pinterest for “Thai Chickpea salad” that I was going to make into a wrap but when it was time to make dinner I couldn’t find my Pin or the recipe. I looked everywhere…both my Pinterest accounts…and all of my secret boards. No Pin for thai chickpeas anywhere; no familiar looking images in a quick Google search. I had no idea what I was going to make for dinner. So I did what any sane person would do I bitched about it on Twitter and then I starting searching my kitchen cabinets for something I could cook…

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    Southern Tomato Sandwich

    The tomato sandwich is a southern classic. It is simple, so easy to make, and so so good. The classic version that I grew up with is just basic white bread, mayo, and tomato but this version of a southern tomato sandwich is a little more modern. Elevate your southern tomato sandwich by using quality ingredients. You want to choose a soft bread with medium slices. The bread shouldn’t be too thick because you want the tomatoes to be the star of this sandwich. The quality of the tomatoes you use matters. Nothing beats a fresh ripe tomato from your garden or local farmers market during tomato season. The tomato…

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    Buffalo Seitan Salad

    You know I love a good salad. Too many people think salad is just lettuce on a plate but it is so much more than than that. A good salad should have layers of flavor and texture. So today I present to you my Buffalo Seitan Salad. We make a batch of basic seitan almost weekly. It has just become part of our weekly meal prep on Sundays. We don’t always have a meal planned for it but Eric always takes his lunch to work so we like to have it around for his lunches. Today we had a little extra so I turned it into buffalo seitan salad. Like things…

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    Vegan Seitan Kebabs With Turmeric Sauce

    If you love to grill as much as we do you need to try these seitan kebabs pronto. They are so good! We have have made them twice this week to test and get just right and I could totally eat them again tomorrow. For the skewers we alternated pieces of seitan and cherry tomatoes. The tomatoes are a perfect combination with this. When lightly grilled they are so juicy and will burst open with flavor. We like to serve this over basmati rice or on pita bread to make a wrap. I find that turmeric can be overpowering on its own but the turmeric sauce ties everything together. Eric…

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    Vegan Beet Steaks

    Last updated and expanded on May 20, 2026. Steak night, Date night! When you want a sophisticated, restaurant-quality meal without a mountain of dishes, these juicy Vegan Beet Steaks are the perfect solution. We call it “steak night” at our house because it delivers all the cozy, special-occasion vibes of a classic steakhouse dinner, completely plant-based. They are incredibly easy to throw on the grill, naturally sweet and earthy, and topped with a rich, savory mushroom and onion reduction that completely steals the show. Ingredients & Flavor Swaps You only need a few simple, whole-food ingredients to bring this elegant dinner together: Tips for Prepping Fresh Beets Working with fresh…

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    Spicy Hawaiian Vegan Burger

    Grilling season is in full swing at our house! We love the Beyond Burger from Beyond Meat. I mean we seriously love them. Have you tried them yet? We buy them in the vegan section at Whole Foods. As amazing as they are on their own I wanted to dress them up a little and make a Spicy Hawaiian Vegan Burger. To make the Spicy Hawaiian Vegan Burger you need: Beyond Meat Burgers Buns fresh pineapple Saverne Sriracha raw kraut vegan mayo Yves Veggie Ham deli slices Sriracha Soy Sauce Agave syrup Marinate pineapple slices in soy sauce (2 tbsp), agave syrup (1/2 tbsp), and Sriracha (1/2 tbsp). Cook the…

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    Grilled Strawberry PB&J Sandwich

    I don’t know how many peanut butter and jelly sandwiches I have eaten in my life. Hundreds or thousands? They are so easy and effortless to make. Plus they are pretty filling and pack some good protein. PB&Js are normally thought of as kids food but they don’t have to be. I love a good peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Sometimes changing one simple ingredient and adding some love can make all the difference in a recipe. To make my PB&J sandwich a little more grown up I replaced the sugary processed jelly with grilled strawberries. Fresh fruit on a sandwich! Grilled fruit?! Yes, you can put fruit on a sandwich and…