Plant-based Fresh and Foraged Recipes
White chocolate coated oats with creamy cashews, crunchy pumpkin seeds, and sweet, dried, flavorful wild blueberries. How could that be anything but delicious! Vegan white chocolate is a little bit of a novelty for me, but this vegan white chocolate granola really hits the spot. …
For a brief few weeks in my teen years I worked for a catering company, and formed a very strong association between fancy parties and spanakopita. It’s very possible I need to go to fancier parties, but even so these spinach filled phyllo dough bundles …
There is no finer luxury of spring than cooking up a fresh, wild growing, vegan morel mushroom recipe. Wild morel mushrooms have a rich, savory quality that no other mushroom can match, but Christmas Lima beans provide a similar, more earthy umami element. To make …
Some salsas are chunky, some are smooth. This one is smooth. Some salsas are sour, some salsas are sweet, some spicy. This is all of the above, plus a little sour. Some salsas use tomatoes, or tomatillos, some salsas use wild invasive plants. This one …
One of the best parts of the holidays is blending sweet, comforting flavors into warm freshly baked cookies. The cookies I ended up making use a simple, crispy shortbread cookie with sweet, nutty almonds and pops of tart, fruity, winter rosehips. The rosehip cookies are …
Have you ever bit into a chocolate coated candy, and been met with a jelly-like cranberry flavored center, and thought “oh yay! A mushroom!”. No? Well I’m here to make that a possibility for you. These chocolate coated cranberry wood ear mushrooms are perfect for …
Click Here for a Print-Friendly Version Mashed potatoes are as iconic to Thanksgiving as cranberry sauce or stuffing- billowing white clouds of creamy, fluffy potato drowning in rich, silky gravy is a feature on most plates at Thanksgiving. To shake things up a little, I …
The crispy yet light faux crab cakes (vegan lion’s mane crab cakes) are made up of mushrooms and chickpeas, with a carefully selected blend of spices to enhance the flavor, and breadcrumbs, aquafaba and vegan mayonnaise to provide the perfect texture. Served on a bed …
Pawpaws- the soft, sweet, caramelly, custard-like, tropical fruit found across the decidedly non-tropical tasting fruit. The caramel hints inspired me to use the pawpaw, along with coconut milk, to give a common caramel sauce a tropical touch. This pawpaw caramel sauce can be drizzled over …
Blueberry muffins are always a treat- sweet, purple berries, plump and juicy bursts of goodness interrupting what might have otherwise been a more mundane muffin experience. These muffins are brought to the next level, because in the background of the blueberry bursts, a fruity, tropical …