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There is nothing wrong with having a simple breakfast lunch or dinner. A bowl of oatmeal, lots of chopped raw and steamed veggies, a bowl of quinoa or brown rice with slivered almonds, and a bean salad make up the perfect dinner. It is fun to expand on this though and I spend a decent amount of time searching recipes that sound great and trying them out. I will put the 2 or 3 ingredients that I have in a search (you can add "oil free or fat free vegan" to make sure that it does not have meat or cheese in the recipe) and lots of great recipes come up. I usually greatly minimize the amount of oil they are calling for. It takes some playing around with recipes to make sure they still taste good once you take a lot of the oil out. Some of it is just getting used the the flavor of food when it isn't drowning in butter or oil.
There is nothing wrong with having a simple breakfast lunch or dinner. A bowl of oatmeal, lots of chopped raw and steamed veggies, a bowl of quinoa or brown rice with slivered almonds, and a bean salad make up the perfect dinner. It is fun to expand on this though and I spend a decent amount of time searching recipes that sound great and trying them out. I will put the 2 or 3 ingredients that I have in a search (you can add "oil free or fat free vegan" to make sure that it does not have meat or cheese in the recipe) and lots of great recipes come up. I usually greatly minimize the amount of oil they are calling for. It takes some playing around with recipes to make sure they still taste good once you take a lot of the oil out. Some of it is just getting used the the flavor of food when it isn't drowning in butter or oil.
RECIPE OF THE WEEK 1/11/16..
Brown rice pasta veggie lasagne
14-oz. pkg. firm tofu, well drained
½ cup chopped fresh basil
⅓ cup chopped fresh Italian parsley
⅓ cup pine nuts, toasted
2 cloves garlic, peeled (I don't use, but do if you like garlic)
2 Tbs. lemon juice
1 tsp. salt
2 T nutritional yeast (optional)
½ tsp. red pepper flakes
¼ tsp. sugar
1 Tbs. olive oil
4 medium-size zucchini, cut into ½-inch slices (about 3 cups)
1 very thinly sliced large eggplant
5 cups marinara sauce
16 no-cook lasagna noodles (9 oz.)
1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat 13×9-inch baking dish with cooking spray. Combine tofu, basil, parsley, pine nuts, garlic, nutritional yeast, lemon juice, salt, red pepper flakes and sugar in food processor; blend until smooth and similar to ricotta in texture.
2. Put oil and zucchini and eggplant in large nonstick skillet. Sauté 3 to 5 minutes over medium-high heat, or until just tender. Don't worry too much because it will be bake long enough to soften up.
3. Spread 3 Tbs. marinara sauce over bottom of prepared baking dish. Cover with layer of noodles, overlapping slightly, half of tofu mixture and half of zucchini/eggplant mixture. Top with another layer of noodles, remaining tofu and zucchini, and 1/2 cup sauce. Finish with another layer of noodles and remaining sauce.
4. Cover with foil, and bake 1 hour. Let rest 10 minutes before serving.
Favorite Recipe Links. Click here for my quick, simple go-to meals :
Parmesan Substitutes - These are made with nuts and nutritional yeast and are amazing subs
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Vegan Cabbage Rolls..The best that you ever had...
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Vegetarian Portuguese Caldoverde Green Soup.....Wow! How delicious.
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Verde green soup... YUM!
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Burrito bowl....Plant based Mexican is the BEST!
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Curry Girls Black Bean Burgers - The Curry Girls kitchen is a great website with lots of plant based recipes...
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Kale & white bean Minestrone... My good friend Pamela Salzman is a cooking Goddess and has some amazing plant based recipes
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Sweet potato and black bean tacos...This site has lots of goodies on it and I looooved these. You can totally play around and vary up what you put into these little beauties.
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Sugar snap pea and carrot soba noodles.... I like sobas but since they have wheat I ate this with brown rice noodles .So good!
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Vegan sloppy joes.... I made these with lentils and although they were falling apart they were so good!!
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Roasted chickpea broccoli burrito - Hilarious site and book. Great recipes! It is definitely a novel way of supporting veganism… Lots of a word that starts with F and end with K :)
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Parmesan Substitutes - These are made with nuts and nutritional yeast and are amazing subs
.........................................
Vegan Cabbage Rolls..The best that you ever had...
...........................................
Vegetarian Portuguese Caldoverde Green Soup.....Wow! How delicious.
…........................................
Verde green soup... YUM!
…........................................
Burrito bowl....Plant based Mexican is the BEST!
............................................
Curry Girls Black Bean Burgers - The Curry Girls kitchen is a great website with lots of plant based recipes...
............................................
Kale & white bean Minestrone... My good friend Pamela Salzman is a cooking Goddess and has some amazing plant based recipes
.............................................
Sweet potato and black bean tacos...This site has lots of goodies on it and I looooved these. You can totally play around and vary up what you put into these little beauties.
..............................................
Sugar snap pea and carrot soba noodles.... I like sobas but since they have wheat I ate this with brown rice noodles .So good!
.............................................
Vegan sloppy joes.... I made these with lentils and although they were falling apart they were so good!!
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Roasted chickpea broccoli burrito - Hilarious site and book. Great recipes! It is definitely a novel way of supporting veganism… Lots of a word that starts with F and end with K :)
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