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Build Your Own Plant-Powered Protein Bowl
Sheet Pan Tofu Black Bean Fajita Bowl. – Photo by Kristina Todini Choose your bowl’s “base” ingredient: greens (kale, spinach, arugula), grains (quinoa, rice, oats), noodles/pasta (soba, rice noodles, lentil pasta), roasted veggies, cauliflower rice, potatoes (any type), or broth for soup. What’s in this bowl? Cauliflower rice. Pick your plant proteins: tofu, tempeh, beans, lentils, edamame, nuts, or seeds. What’s in this bowl? Baked tofu and black beans.
10 Beginner-Friendly Vegan Recipes for Festive Feasting
Are you looking to whip up some vegan food this holiday season? There’s no need to be intimidated if you’re a beginner vegan cook; there’s more in common between non-plant-based cooking and plant-based cooking than you might think! And there are an endless amount of recipes that won’t cause you to stress in the kitchen because they use familiar ingredients and flavors or easy cooking methods. We scoured the Food Monster App to find some beginner plant-based recipes you can cook for the holidays.
Beet Greens Pesto
Home → Recipes → Recipes by Meal Type → Sauces, Dressings + Dips → Beet Greens Pesto Beet Greens Pesto, a simple food waste recovery recipe using beet leaves in place of basil in pesto sauce. Easy, tasty, and a great way to use edible plant parts that would otherwise get thrown out! Did you know that you can eat the leaves on beets?
A Seat at the Global Table: Dining Etiquette from Around the World
Dining out while traveling can be an adventure—and a learning experience. Table manners differ from country to country, and what is considered polite in one may be the height of rudeness in another. It’s best to be aware of a culture’s dining etiquette before traveling to avoid the embarrassment of committing a major eating faux pas. To save you from a dining disaster, I consulted foodies from around the world to learn more about what is considered tacky at the global table.
Carrot Top Pesto
Carrot Top Pesto, a simple pesto recipe made from fresh carrot greens, pine nuts, parmesan cheese, garlic, and oil. A unique food waste recovery recipe! I have something to admit: I’ve been throwing away carrot tops my entire life. Or rather, I buy carrots without their tops and don’t give a second thought to where the carrot tops are going. How many beautiful, nutritious green carrot tops have I wasted because I didn’t know carrot tops could be consumed?
Dijon and Mushroom Sourdough Breakfast Strata
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Roasted Fennel and Beet Salad with Honey Mustard Vinaigrette
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Roasted Fennel Beet Salad with Honey Mustard Vinaigrette
Roasted Fennel Beet Salad with Honey Mustard Vinaigrette, a simple roasted winter vegetable salad with red and golden beets, fennel, shallots, and a homemade honey mustard vinaigrette using Maille Old Style Mustard. Enter to win a year’s worth of Maille mustard! This post is sponsored by Maille, thanks for supporting the brands that make Fork in the Road possible. Want a free year’s worth of Maille Mustard?
How to Cook With Your Kitchen Scraps
Stop! Don’t toss that banana peel! You have in your hands the beginnings of a perfectly plush and fluffy banana layer cake—yes, really. Lindsay-Jean Hard’s banana peel cake—made using two banana peels, cooked down and blended, and no other part of the fruit—may be one of the more difficult-to-swallow recipes in her cookbook, “Cooking With Scraps.” But the cake is a universal crowd-pleaser: “It’s actually my daughter’s very favorite recipe in the book,” Hard said.
Southern Chicken and Cheddar Chive Dumplings
Southern Chicken and Cheddar Chive Dumplings, a healthy twist on traditional old fashioned southern chicken and dumplings recipes with onions, carrots, celery, and thyme and cheddar chive dumplings. Cold weather comfort food! Chicken and dumplings sends me back to my childhood, growing up in the Midwest. My mother perfected her version of the classic southern recipe and it was a family favorite through the cold weather months. Jump to today and I still love the hearty, homemade southern soup.
Easy, Spicy Gazpacho
PARTNER POST: Let Pomì’s premium quality, Italian tomatoes bring the fresh and healthful taste of Italy to your cooking, no matter the cuisine or season. Easy, Spicy Gazpacho, is a simple vegan cold tomato and cucumber soup that comes together in only 15 minutes. A delicious superfood soup! Ah, a bowl of cold and spicy gazpacho. The answer to a soup lover’s summer woes, when traditional warm soups are too hot for the heat but you’re craving a simple soup from the season’s fresh vegetables.
Pineapple Pico de Gallo Avocado Cups
Pineapple Pico de Gallo Avocado Cups, simple healthy plant-based superfood salsa recipe featuring fresh pineapple, tomatoes, onions, cilantro, and lime stuffed in an avocado. Perfect for parties and picnics! Are the kind of person who attacks the salsa when it hits the table, or is that just me? I could very well do without ordering an entree when ordering Mexican food because I can (and often do) stuff myself with chips and salsa.
4 Effortless Tricks to Stop Food Waste in Your Kitchen
As a food blogger who’s indulged in food around the world, I’m sharing four kitchen habits anyone can do for a greener, fresher, and less wasteful lifestyle. Follow these tips and turn your small mistakes into big wins for the environment (and your wallet). 1. Shop With a Grocery List We all know how easy it is to overfill our carts when grocery shopping without a plan, especially on an empty stomach.
4 Practical Ways to Decrease Your Food Waste
We’ve all found that forgotten apple in the back of the refrigerator or had to throw away some moldy bread that wasn’t eaten in time. It’s often a result of shopping too much while hungry or forgetting expiration dates. But one apple can turn into many more, and over the course of the year these apples and breads contribute to the 1.3 billion tons of food that’s lost or wasted worldwide.
Autumn Apple and Pear Hasselback Fruit Platter [Vegan, Gluten-Free]
Hasselback Fall Fruit Platter with baked apples and pears with homemade maple granola. A perfect seasonal autumn fruit pickable platter. If you’re not familiar with the culinary term “hasselback”, it means to thinly slice a vegetable or fruit about 75% of the way to keep it’s full form but also expose thin slices of its interior. It’s a culinary technique most commonly used for preparing potatoes but also can be used for other vegetables and fruit.
Autumn Maple Sage Acorn Squash [Vegan, Grain-Free]
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Heirloom Tomato Bloody Mary Mix [Vegan, Gluten-Free]
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A Simple Shift Toward More Sustainable Eating - Food & Nutrition Magazine
PHOTO: THINKSTOCK/MONKEYBUSINESSIMAGES We’ve heard it all before — the lifestyles we lead, the products we buy and the foods we eat can have detrimental effects on the planet. From the amount of meat we consume to the fruits we buy out of season, our collective food-purchasing decisions and modern agricultural systems are one of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. The scale of the global sustainability crisis is so large that it can be daunting to eco-conscious individuals.
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