Vegan Lemon Poppy Seed Cupcakes
I have always had a love of all things lemon when it comes to desserts! I love tart lemon bars, lemon pound cake, lemon poppy seed muffins! There is just something so delicious about the aroma of lemon zest and refreshing about the balance of tart sweet lemon. I especially love to make lemon desserts […]
Winter Vegetable Lentil Pie
Christmas snuck up so fast this year, I can’t believe I am already posting my Christmas food! I hope you all are having a wonderful holiday season so far! Normally I make lasagna for Christmas but I decided to make something different this year. I have always wanted to make a savory pie for Christmas […]
Creamy Vegan Mushroom Wild Rice Soup
At pretty much every restaurant in Minnesota you will find some version or other of creamy wild rice soup, usually with chicken, and everyone claims that theirs is “famous” and the “best”. I tried a few growing up, and I never thought any of them were that great, except for the version that my Mom […]
Chipotle Sweet Potato and Chickpea Soup
Happy 2022! I know new years was a few days back, but I am getting around to typing up a post now so Happy New Year! I decided to take a few weeks off of making recipes over the holidays because it was just too hectic and I wanted to enjoy them. But now I […]
Vegan Orange Rosewater Creme Caramel
We are in the middle of citrus season, so I have been craving desserts with it lately. I love all of it, lemons, grapefruits, limes and oranges. But this time I chose the oranges because it is what I happened to have an abundance of on my counter fruit and veggie collection this week. I […]
Rutabaga and Yam Fries with Garlic Dipping Sauce
One of my all time favorite things we make at the deli I work at is sweet potato or yam fries. They are so simple but so good. So, often times I will make them at home. I call them my bacon, because they are to me what bacon is to meat eaters. Hard to […]
Vegan Butternut Squash and Chickpea Chowder
We are full swing into soup season, and in the deli I work in it is just flying out of the pots because it is the most popular thing we have right now. I mean, I don’t blame people, I go home and eat warming soup too this time of the year most nights. You […]
Tuscan Chickpea Vegetable Soup
We make soup like crazy in the deli I work in this time of the year, so you would think I would hate making soup at home. But that is not the case at all! I love soup just as much as the customers do, I just prefer to make a big batch for myself […]
Vegan Hot Chocolate Waffles
I loved hot cocoa or hot chocolate growing up. We always had a box of those little packets ready to just add water to. You know, the ones with the mini marshmallows in them? My 8 year old self loved that stuff! Now, I prefer to make my own instead of using a mix. I […]
Peppermint CBD Hot Chocolate
I have been saying to myself for weeks now that hot chocolate sounds good. I caught a whiff of someone’s chocolate creamer going into their coffee at my work and ever since then I have been craving it. I really don’t make it often enough. I used to make it quite a bit when I […]
Root Vegetable Lentil Stew
In the deli I work at, we sell so much soup it is unreal. We sell at least 24 quarts a day. I understand. We do make really good soups and stews from scratch, using organic ingredients. I am the vegan soup maker. Of all of the soups I make, my favorites are the soups […]
Vegan Mini Lemon Tarts
My Mom taught me to love lemon and all things citrus and tart. I think it originally came from my Grandma, who loved lemon as well, and so did her Mom. At least, my Mom told me that my Great Grandma used to always make lemon desserts that were amazing, like lemon meringue pie and cookies […]
Vegan White Chocolate Grapefruit Cake
New Years Eve deserves a special cake, so I knew I wanted to make one, but I wasn’t quite sure what kind. Sometimes my brain is a crazy snow globe with all of my recipe ideas floating around in it at once, getting tangled up with the other things going on in my life. I […]
Vegan Roasted Sweet Potato Pizza
There was a point in my life at which I made pizza every week on a certain day. It became a tradition and something I looked forward too. I would choose different veggies (or sometimes fruits) and cheeses to experiment with every week so it was quite exciting! Some of the combinations were things like […]
Vegan Dark Chocolate Orange Cake
When I was little, one year I got a chocolate orange in my stocking. If you have had one before, you know what I am talking about, but for those who don’t it is a whole normal sized orange made out of chocolate that you whack on the counter to release the wedges. The type […]
Vegan Molasses Spice Cookies
When I was younger, my Mom and I would go to the library, pick out cook books and make a few recipes that we had chosen. I had a few favorite books, most of them were dessert books, including a cookie book with over 100 recipes, and the most beautiful photos! I tried many of […]
Vegan Eggnog Waffles
My Dad gave me a “Frozen” (as in the Disney movie) waffle maker last week, and I was pretty excited about it. Mainly because the waffle mold inside is shaped like a snowflake, and it is now snowing here and practically Winter. Yes, I know I am a kid sometimes getting excited about things, but […]