Stop the presses!! This just in, I have just made and consumed the best lunch ever and on #NationalShrimpDay no less!! This is a single serving recipe but you can easily double, triple or quadruple it as you need to for more servings. Packed with nutritious and delicious spinach, garlic and five ounces of delectable …
Fat Free Vegan Mayo
Eureka! I am currently doing a fat free cleansing diet for one month and I have to say I miss my mayo when it comes to eating dry Albacore Tuna. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE TUNA… and I have eaten tuna “dry” many times, but that was regular tuna with it’s own lovely fattiness. …
Low Fat, Starch Free Dirty Rice
Dirty Rice is one of my husband’s favorite cajun dishes. A spicy comforting dish of seasoned rice and meat. I am currently adhering to a low fat diet and have successfully lost 60 pounds thus far, so my challenge is coming up with ideas that fit my diet but will please my whole family. On …
Callaloo
Callaloo is a dish of greens cooked Jamaican or West Indian style. It is based on a dish that originated in Africa and traveled to the West Indies with the slave trade and is made with a leafy green vegetable like spinach, collards, chard, and can even include Okra. There is also a green veggie …
Potato Kale Pie
I felt like making a quiche for dinner for the three of us, my husband was working late and that seemed simple enough. But then I discovered I was flat OUT OF EGGS!! WHAT!?! Sadly, I had already started grinding down the kale in the Ninja and I had this nice little potato crust assembled …
Vegan Paprikash
Paprikash is a classic Hungarian dish that literally translates as Paprika Chicken because of the ample use of the spice paprika in the dish. It bears a family resemblance to Goulash. Typically the meat is slowly simmered in a paprika infused roux and then onions, sweet peppers, tomatoes and such are added in. The finishing …
Rutabaga alla Puttanesca
Pasta alla Puttanesca or pasta with puttanesca sauce is my all time favorite pasta dish. However, it is not necessarily something you would find on any weight loss plan, so I like experimenting with other pasta alternatives. I have tried gluten free pastas and they all work really well but the calories are still higher …
Vegan Sugo alla Puttanesca
Puttanesca or rather alla puttanesca is my most favorite pasta sauce. It is fragrant, tangy and robust and contains some of my favorite things. Merriam Webster defines it as “served with or being a pungent tomato sauce typically containing olives, garlic, capers, hot pepper, and sometimes anchovies” and the literal translation from Italian is “in …
Zoodles alla Primavera
The name Pasta Primavera or Pasta alla Primavera literally means pasta with Spring vegetables. In this case my pasta IS a vegetable. Zucchini noodles or Zoodles have become all the rage because they are gluten free and low carb which fits in very nicely with many diet regimens today. Our vegan pasta alla prima vera …
Romanesco Crunch Salad
This weeks Local Fare Farm Bag brought me four small heads of Romanesco Cauliflower. This vegetable enigma is called a Romanesco Cauliflower in North America, but in Germany they call it a Romanesco Broccoli or Cabbage. It is called Romanesco because of it’s beautiful ringed, cone-shaped florets. This is a cross between broccoli and cauliflower, …
Pear Gorgonzola Salad
Looking for an elegant side salad or light lunch? Look no further than your pantry and a can of sliced pears in juice. With just four main ingredients this salad comes together in just a few minutes complete with a very easy pear vinaigrette dressing! All you need are some mixed Spring Greens, a can …
Vegan Starch-Free Stuffed Peppers
I grew up in a family where stuffed peppers (Green Bell Peppers stuffed with a rice filling with tomato sauce, onions and ground meat) were a regular feature on my mom’s table. I always looked forward to stuffed pepper night too, because well, my mom made the very best stuffed peppers of course. I still …