vegan

Simple Zaatar Flatbread – vegetarian recipe

Easy Homemade Za’atar Flatbread

Simple za'atar flatbread is my fast bread fix: store-bought whole wheat dough stretched thin, brushed with olive oil, and blanketed in za'atar and sesame seeds. It bakes up crackly-edged and smells like a bakery first thing in the morning. The first time I...

The Ultimate Smoky Eggplant & Chickpea Dip – vegetarian recipe

Smoky Eggplant & Chickpea Dip (Healthy Baba Ghanoush)

This smoky eggplant and chickpea dip is my oven-on, people-coming-over staple: a whole roasted eggplant whipped with chickpeas, tahini, lemon, and cumin until smooth and just fiery. It's hummus's moodier cousin. The Ultimate Smoky Eggplant & Chickpea Dip...

Hearty Honey & Nut Granola Bars – vegetarian recipe

Hearty Honey Nut Granola Bars

Hearty honey and nut granola bars are the ones my family grabs instead of store-bought: oats and almonds glued together with honey, nut butter, and egg whites, baked low and slow until they chew instead of crumble. One pan, twelve bars. Say goodbye to store-bought...

Vibrant Five-Bean Salad – vegetarian recipe

Vibrant Five-Bean Salad (The Perfect Potluck Dip!)

Vibrant five-bean salad is the potluck bowl I've carried to every cookout: five kinds of beans, sweet corn, and crunchy vegetables in a zesty vinaigrette, marinated until everything knows each other. It serves twenty-four and costs almost nothing. Looking for the...

Citrus Blueberry Yogurt Parfait – vegetarian recipe

Citrus Blueberry Yogurt Parfait (No-Cook!)

Citrus blueberry yogurt parfaits are my winter-morning brightness: Greek yogurt layered with grapefruit, minneola, and blueberries, topped with walnuts, wheat germ, and flax. Fifteen minutes, four jars, breakfast handled. Looking for a breakfast that's as beautiful as...

Triple Berry Barley Crunch Granola – vegetarian recipe

Berry Walnut Barley Granola Recipe

Triple berry barley crunch granola is the one I keep in the car and the desk drawer: flaked barley and walnuts toasted in maple, loaded with dried strawberries, blueberries, and goji berries. It crunches like cereal and eats like a snack. I used to think of barley as...

Homemade Maple Pecan Granola with Raisins – vegetarian recipe

Crunchy Coconut & Pecan Granola (Easy & Healthy!)

Homemade maple pecan granola with raisins is what my kitchen smells like on slow weekends: oats, pecans, almonds, and sunflower seeds bound with maple syrup and egg whites into fat clusters. The clusters are the whole point — see the tips. PREP: 15 minutes | COOK:...

Crustless Kale & Sweet Potato Mini Quiches – vegetarian recipe

Crustless Kale & Sweet Potato Mini Quiches

Crustless kale and sweet potato mini quiches are my freezer-workhorse breakfast: tender kale, sweet potato, and leek baked into twelve eggy cups with pesto stirred right into the custard. No crust means no rolling, and nobody misses it. Looking for the perfect,...

Skillet Eggs in Smoky Tomato and Butter Bean Sauce – vegetarian recipe

Hearty Butter Bean Baked Eggs in Tomato Sauce

Skillet eggs in smoky tomato and butter bean sauce is my one-pan answer to hard weeks: eggs poached right into a smoky tomato sauce with kalamata olives and butter beans, mopped up with crusty whole grain bread. Most of the forty-five minutes is unattended simmering....

Your Daily Dose of Sunshine Smoothie – vegetarian recipe

Tropical Sunshine Protein Smoothie

This daily dose of sunshine smoothie is my gray-morning rescue: frozen mango, pineapple, and strawberries blended with soy yogurt, hemp seeds, golden flax, and oat bran. Ten minutes, one blender, three glasses. Your Daily Dose of SunshineDreaming of a sunny beach...

Quick 5-Minute Brown Rice Breakfast Pudding – vegetarian recipe

5-Minute Brown Rice Breakfast Bowl

This quick 5-minute brown rice breakfast pudding is my no-cook morning fix: cold day-old rice stirred through with milk, almonds, ground flaxseed, maple syrup, and nutmeg. It tastes like rice pudding without any standing at the stove. Remember the comforting, sweet...

The Only Bran Muffin Recipe Youll Ever Need – vegetarian recipe

The Best Vegan Bran Muffins (Seriously Addictive!)

This is the only bran muffin recipe you'll ever need, and I stand by the title: dark, molasses-deep, and tender, thanks to bran soaked in boiling water and coconut oil in the bowl. They taste like a good bakery's morning muffin, and the batch makes fifteen....