Recipe Category Archives: 30 Minutes or Less

Lasagna Shells Recipe. Vegan Variation

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Garden Vegetable Levana Nourishments

 

lasgana shells

Lasagna Shells are my perfect lazy lasagna!

I swore off slaving on layered lasagna some years ago, after a lasagna I made with my grandchildren grew a little too high and took forever to cook. Oh, and made a big mess.
Seriously, I find making lasagna too time consuming, but I love the dish.

So, lasagna shells to the rescue: same ingredients, same great taste, and no layering!

Stuffing the shells takes no time flat. And they cook in a fraction of the time lasagna takes.

Enjoy some now, and freeze the rest!

The recipe I am giving you here is beyond simple. Just mix, stuff, bake and enjoy.  All the wonderful flavors are in!

No problem making vegan lasagna shells:

Substitute vegan cheese, sour cream, nutritional yeast etc for the feta and ricotta.

I would love to find some gluten-free jumbo shells, for our gluten-free friends. I’ll keep looking:-)

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Pasta Tuna Sauce with Fennel Recipe

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Garden Vegetable Levana Nourishments

pasta with tuna sauce

Pasta Tuna Sauce and Fennel:

Opposites attract, in the kitchen and beyond! Tuna and Fennel: yum! Besides, my funky pasta tuna sauce is a whole new and fun way to eat canned tuna! Do not be alarmed by the fact that I don’t drain it—that’s practically all the oil contained in the dish, and that’s where all the good flavor is.

No added salt, please, as the tuna has enough to season the whole dish.

I adore Fennel: I think you can tell!

Just browse through my recipes and you will see how liberally I use it. Delicious, nutritious, low carb, low calories: Go for it!

You need not write off pasta as a high-carb dish:

Choose spelt pasta, or soba noodles, or rice noodles etc…. and enjoy pasta as often as you like, as do I!

I recommend Linguini or Spaghetti for my pasta with tuna sauce, but you can play with other pasta, just as long as it is not hollow, as this sauce would be too rich. I could see any flat noodles work very well.

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Turkey Oat Quinoa Chili Recipe. Vegetarian Option

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Garden Vegetable Levana Nourishments

oat quinoa chili

Oat Quinoa chili is the answer when beans don’t love you back!

You can make a perfect chili substituting oat, quinoa and rice in any proportion for the feisty beans, so you can have your chili and eat it too!

Ground turkey is an ideal choice for this oat quinoa chili, as it is so lean and so full of flavor, but any good lean ground meat will be suitable.

You can easily make this oat quinoa chili vegetarian:

It has lots of great flavor going for it even without the meat. Just skip it, and keep going, or use the suggested options.

If beans are no trouble, by all means use them. 6 cups total beans, and no quinoa or oats.

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Blueberry Scones Recipe

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Mixed Berry Levana Nourishments

blueberry scones

Blueberry scones and all scones are wonderful year-round!

Whipped up in minutes and full of flavor. I make them with spelt, my grain of choice for baking absolutely everything, but you will find them totally adaptable to Gluten-Free.

All the ingredients that go in my blueberry scones are so healthy it is OK even to have them for breakfast without any guilt!

If you happen, as I always do, to have frequent unseasonable and uncontrollable yens for blueberry scones, cake or muffins, simply use frozen blueberries!

Frozen blueberries rule!

Look for the blueberries marked IQF (individually quick frozen) or IFF (individually flash frozen). This means that the berries (or any other fruit, or vegetable, whole small fruit or larger fruit cut in chunks) are first frozen very briefly in one layer, then conditioned into their final packaging. The step of freezing them individually before freezing them en masse affords you the opportunity of taking out only the amount of berries you need (perfect for smoothies and fruit sauces), saving the rest for next time; it also means they won’t make a mess and turn your whole batter purple. Simply leave them in the freezer until the minute you need to fold them into your batter; they have ample time to thaw during baking.

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Pumpkin Corn Soup Recipe

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Garden Vegetable Levana Nourishments

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Pumpkin Corn Soup. Quick and Healthy: My war cry!

It speaks of holidays, celebrations, good times and togetherness.

My pumpkin corn soup is ready in a jiffy!

Here’s where frozen, and of course unprocessed, butternut squash always comes to my rescue: In less than 10 minutes’ preparation time, and about 30 minutes’ cooking time, I got a potful  of fabulous soup!

Don’t divide: Freeze!

Oh yeah, that’s my other war cry, and I feel quite smug about it. Boy, you will be happy to find a container or two of perfect soup in your freezer when you are short on time!

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