Recipe Category Archives: Vegan Recipes

Chocolate Truffles Recipe. All Variations

By on March 18, 2017 in

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Cocoa Coffee Levana Nourishments

chocolate truffles

These Chocolate Truffles are nothing but trouble!

I think you can tell! They are a snap to make, dairy-free, luxurious, luscious. I am including all variations. I would walk miles for the Sea Salt Caramel Chocolate Truffles, my favorite. But trust me: All of them are worth making.

As always, use very good quality chocolate, for this and all chocolate treats. Why bother with anything else?

Chocolate truffles keep very well in the refrigerator

You might want to double or triple the recipe, then take them places: divide the mixture and add the flavor of your choice to each smaller batch. They freezer very well too. I often arrange them in pretty boxes, and store them directly in the freezer.

So, here comes! Told you they were trouble!

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No Bake Vegan Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie Recipe

By on March 18, 2017 in

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Cocoa Coffee Levana Nourishments

no bake chocolate peanut butter pie

My chocolate peanut butter pie star was born very recently.

I was trying to make a no-bake off the cuff chocolate dessert on a crazy-hot day, using what I had on hand without having to turn my oven on. Let’s see…. Chocolate, cocoa powder, silken tofu, peanut butter, graham crackers. I got to work, mixed and prayed. I fretted all day, and sampled smidgens of the mixture a dozen times to see if it was setting. I needn’t have worried: the chocolate peanut pie was just fabulous. It was all I could do to save a piece from the onslaught, so my children could taste it the following day.

This chocolate peanut butter pie has all possible assets:

Beside being heavenly and totally wholesome of course: that’s a given! No baking needed, vegan, and easily adapted to gluten-free. What more could you wish for? You will be totally satisfied with a small serving: Mine yielded about twenty portions!

For this recipe as for all chocolate recipes: Only the best, please! You’ll see the difference at dessert time, maybe even before, if you are one of those bakers who like to help with cleaning by licking the batter!

It freezes very well.

So don’t divide please. Make the full recipe, and freeze the rest.

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Pasta in Pesto Sauce Recipe. All Variations

By on March 18, 2017 in

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Garden Vegetable Levana Nourishments

pesto sauce

Pesto Sauce is one of the most versatile pasta sauces I know.

The perennial Pesto sauce favorite is based on basil, olive oil, and toasted walnuts; but we have seen it recast with a different herb or nut, and tasting just as delicious and interesting. Use it not only as a pasta sauce but as topping for cooked chicken or fish, or a dip. I find that toasting the nuts intensifies the pesto’s flavor, so don’t skip that step!

Did you know you can make pesto sauce with many other herbs than basil?

Scroll down, you’ll see!

And did you know you can make it vegan?

Ditto

It keeps really well, so don’t divide the recipe. Besides, I doubt it will last you long enough to go bad. A slather on a fantastic piece of sourdough toast and you will watch it go down fast!

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Millet Burgers Recipe

By on March 18, 2017 in

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Garden Vegetable Levana Nourishments

millet burger

Millet burgers are proof that millet is not just bird feed!

I have been making these wonderful veggie millet burgers since long before the gluten-free craze set in, and for no other reason than that I am devoted to experimenting with every single grain out there. As satisfying as a meat burger, only much lighter and much more nutritious!

The tiny millet grain is a nutritional powerhouse!

Millet, the tiny giant, is full of wonderful surprises! Easy to cook, easy to incorporate in salads and in soups. it works even in lieu of rice in rice pudding. Its flavor is pleasant and unobtrusive; it will obediently combine with other flavors you pair it with.

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Vegan Vegetable Scones Recipe

By on March 18, 2017 in

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Garden Vegetable Levana Nourishments

vegan vegetable scones

Vegetable scones are ideally easy to make, hearty and delicious.

And not just for breakfast, but also like a mini meal. You can make them at the drop of a hat, and they are quite close to bread and quick bread, and every bit as satisfying. Vegetable scones – interchangeable with vegetable biscuits – also pack a great nutritional punch, and do not include eggs to begin with: the ideal vegan breakfast treat.

Although you can make these vegetable scones with regular flour (in this case, simply use 3 1/2 cups regular flour total), I just love the idea that they are so easy to make the gluten-free way, and that they can be made with a wonderful selection of flours: No potato starch if I can help it, and help it I can!

Feel free to explore with other gluten-free flours, just as long as you total 3 1/2 cups flour, including the tapioca: Rice flour, chick pea flour, quinoa flour, etc…

I am on a kick tinkering with sorghum flour.

I love sorghum for the gritty texture it imparts to baked goods, especially if, as here, you include that little bit of vinegar for good volume.

Be sure not to forgo the nutritional yeast, this is what will give your “Un-cheesy” vegetable scones that cheesy je ne sais quoi in the flavor.

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