Plant-based Fresh and Foraged Recipes
Refreshing, flavorful, slightly spicy and a little sour, this vegan cucumber salad includes shallots, cilantro, toasted peanuts and sesame seeds. The extra juicy texture of this salad is thanks to a fun little technique- smashing! And when I say fun technique, I mean it’s a …
It’s sweet, it’s sour, it’s spicy, salty and smoky. It’s fresh, it’s bright, it’s bursting with flavor. There are notes of nuttiness, crispiness, creaminess and crunch. It’s a Thai-inspired vegan pomelo salad, featuring tempeh and avocado! Each bite is a little different than the last, …
Salty, sour, spicy, and a little sweet, it’s cold rice noodle salad with vegan oyster mushroom chicken! This salad bursts with delicious Thai flavors, without using any fancy, hard to find ingredients. It’s full of fresh herbs and vegetables, and the spicy king oyster mushroom …
While I love vegan cheese and elaborately baked pastries, I also really enjoy dishes of simply prepared vegetables. This dish is just that, albeit with a crisp and colorful presentation. This vegan beet tartare is composed of three layers: first, a rich purple beet layer, …
It’s a gloomy October day- dull, gray sky as far as the eye can see. It’s not raining, just gray. It’s not cold, it’s not warm. Just gray and dull. That kind of weather can get uninspiring after a while, so in an effort to …
As the hot days come to a close, I’m treasuring ever last warm moment with this heirloom tomato summer watermelon salad, complete with fresh herbs, spicy peppers, and crunchy cucumbers. The juicy red tomatoes and watermelon are savory and sweet, filled with juice, and complemented …
Salads are lovely, but if I’m eating a salad as my meal it had better be filling and interesting- no plate of iceberg with two cherry tomatoes for me! Sometimes that means I end up cooking and spicing different components, and chopping huge amounts of …
Bright, fresh, colorful, and lemony, this wood sorrel, jicama, and beet slaw is so deliciously refreshing, it’s cooling and invigorating, even on the warmest summer days. The lemony dressing and wood sorrel offset the more earthy flavors in the beets, and the jicama adds it’s …
This simple vegan pasta salad highlights an overlooked vegetable- the pea tendril- and wraps it up in a orange salad dressing with notes of sesame and ginger. Purple cabbage gives that extra little crunch, and toasted almonds and sesame seeds add touches of flavor and …
Light, bright, and super crunchy, this fennel and apple salad is made bite-sized and the perfect healthy appetizer in Belgian endive cups. Or maybe they should be called Belgian endive spoons, as they remind me much more of crunchy, ever so slightly bitter, edible spoons. …