Recipe Category Archives: Vegan Recipes

Stir-Fried Kale Seaweed Shiitake Recipe

By on February 14, 2017 in

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Mushroom Medley Levana Nourishments

kale seaweed and shitaki

Kale is so delicious and versatile

Here Stir-Fried Kale is overlaid with so many wonderful Asian flavors.

I bet you don’t always know what to make of – let alone with – those masses of leaves and roots piled demurely at every ethnic food market display you pass hurriedly on your way to and from work: kale, mustard greens, turnip greens, collard greens and whatnot. The good news is there’s plenty of ways you can use them, beside stir-fried kale and other greens: In smoothies, in soups, in salads. They cost pennies, taste delicious and deliciously spicy at no caloric cost, are veritable nutritional powerhouses and are a snap to prepare. In short, they are every bit as fascinating as they are tasty!

Seaweed is easy to find in health food stores

Explore with the whole gamut: Hijiki, arame, wakame, nori, kelp etc…). Throwing it in turns this simple stir-fried kale dish into an incredibly nourishing main course.

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Soba Noodles with Roasted Roots

By on January 23, 2017 in

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Garden Vegetable Levana Nourishments

soba noodles roasted root

Roasted Roots are as delicious as they look demure and homely.

Roasting the roots intensifies their flavor and is practically all you have to do to make this delicious pasta with roasted roots. And the cinnamon is a great match for the roasted roots flavors.

 Return to your roots!

Would  you  like  to munch on the roasted roots all by themselves?

Go right ahead and snack on them: they are fantastic. Or serve them with roast turkey or chicken. I  trust  my  book  amply  bears  this  out: I  am  crazy  about  all  roots,  and  why not?  Lean, delicious, versatile,  incredibly  nutritious—how  can  you  miss?  I run  home  with  all  roots—no  matter how misshapen and grimy and odd- looking—I find at the market, the way people bring home cast-off, disheveled animals and by dint of love and attention groom them into perfectly domesticated pets. Roots always make me think of the universal line in Psalm 118:23: “Even Maasu Habonim Haita Lerosh Pina,” which translates as “The stone that the builders discarded has become the cornerstone.” Yes, even humble roots are involved in thrilling rags-to-riches stories!

Remember to use a hammer to dice all those large roots! That will make your job a breeze.
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Vegan Raspberry Chocolate Mousse Recipe

By on January 22, 2017 in

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Cocoa Coffee Levana Nourishments
raspberry chocolate mousse

My Raspberry Chocolate Mousse is my new rock star.

That’s the consensus! It doesn’t in the least hurt that my raspberry chocolate mousse, a cousin just once removed from my vegan chocolate mousse (see below) is, like the great favorite many of you are used to, also vegan, gluten-free, no-cooking, ridiculously easy and tastes sinfully rich even as it is made with very sensible ingredients. I couldn’t keep my hands off it all day Friday, and kept sneaking a spoon in one of the glasses every half hour, until I wiped it out. I just ordered a dozen little 5-ounce mason jars just like the one in the picture, in honor of this dessert.

The pairing of chocolate and raspberries in this raspberry chocolate mousse is sublime.

As always when working with berries, I prefer frozen berries, as they are full-flavored and at the height of their ripeness and sweetness, and always good to go. I could see using frozen pitted cherries instead of raspberries; in this case just cut them in two or three pieces so they are distributed more evenly in the mousse. Likewise, I could see using cranberries: only in this case, add a little sugar.

Plain Vegan Chocolate Mousse:

I can’t tell you how many people make my recipe!
– Skip the berries and the creme de Cassis.
– Add 1 tablespoon instant coffee, decaf OK, dissolved in a few drops of warm water.
Proceed exactly as instructed in the recipe.

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Flax Oat Gluten-Free Banana Bread Recipe

By on January 22, 2017 in

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Vanilla Bean Levana Nourishments

gluten-free banana bread

 

My newborn gluten-free banana bread just hit a home run!

Perfect for breakfast: minimally and naturally sweetened; it relies on the natural sweetness of the bananas.

I looked around me in my daughter’s kitchen, after the children asked me to make a banana treat. I was intent on making a very high fiber bread that would promote… regularity (a perennial quest, for many of us), even while it tastes fantastic.

My gluten-free banana bread may well be the answer to your lower carb prayers!

My daughter, and indeed, all my children, have a super healthy pantry, just as I do, so finding what I need to make the healthiest treats is no trouble ever.

I just threw all my ingredients in a bowl, mixed, poured, baked and prayed.

It’s the best! It is so nutritious that you can very easily make it a significant part of your meal: a nice slice of my gluten-free banana bread with a smear of butter, cream cheese or nut butter makes a terrific breakfast. And with a big salad or soup, it will make the perfect meal.

Both the oats and the flax give the gluten-free banana bread its hearty flavor and texture. Oat is the dream grain, in every respect. Flax is a nutritional powerhouse, with a mild and unobtrusive flavor, and very inexpensive. And the optional touch of cocoa gives it its deep dark color and added zing.

 

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Black Bean Burritos Recipe. Vegetarian Option

By on January 20, 2017 in

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Garden Vegetable Levana Nourishments

black bean burritos

My black bean burritos are in my Dairy-Free Cookbook.

I whip up my BBB recipe, as I call it, whenever company is coming on short notice. If I don’t have the burritos or corn tortillas on hand, I simply put the filling in a bowl.

Black Bean Burritos are so much fun to eat!

Let everyone dig in, with corn chips and guacamole, vegan yogurt or vegan sour cream, tomato salsa, vegan cheddar etc..

Chocolate, beans and beer! Yum!

A mischievous and wonderfully messy little trio, brought together in these burritos: how can you miss?

Black Bean Burritos are great the vegetarian or vegan way too!

There are so many terrific flavors in the dish, it will never miss the meat! Great to know for those times we must accommodate meatless guests.

 

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