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Cheesy Taco Seasoning

This recipe is my cooking crutch. When in doubt I add this to veggies, potatoes, hummus, popcorn, anything and it will come out tasting fantastic. Primarily though I use it to flavor my chickpeas for tacos and for my family’s biweekly (if not weekly) popcorn dinner feast. It’s super easy and the nutritional yeast givesContinue reading “Cheesy Taco Seasoning”

Single Serving Pancakes

These are a super quick and easy breakfast, I think they took me a total of 30 minutes start to finish. They are refined sugar free and rely on baking soda, coconut milk, and chia seeds to replace the eggs. It makes a perfect portion of cakes, rounding out at 2 cakes per batch. Surprisingly,Continue reading “Single Serving Pancakes”

Creamy Wild Rice and Jackfruit Soup

This soup was a part of one of our meal preps. We like to do soup for lunch in the fall and winter because its cozy and easy to take for work. Traditionally this soup would have chicken and mushrooms, which was a pinch tricky considering both are things i don’t/can’t eat. I needed somethingContinue reading “Creamy Wild Rice and Jackfruit Soup”

Chickpea and Roasted Sweet Potato Curry

I love, love, love curry. That was something that was definitely a bummer about leaving the UK. In the town I lived in, which was quite small, there were numerous Indian Restaurants to choose from, so I always had my fill of curry. I even learned how to make pretty good curry because the necessaryContinue reading “Chickpea and Roasted Sweet Potato Curry”

Daiya Fire Roasted Vegetable Gluten Free Pizza

Hurray for product reviews! I am starting out with something from the well known vegan brand Daiya, and it’s a pizza! Usually, the Daiya products aren’t something I am crazy about or really any dairy free cheeses. Still, I thought this was worth trying. The packaging was really pretty and based on the first reviewContinue reading “Daiya Fire Roasted Vegetable Gluten Free Pizza”

Lulu’s Local Eatery

Time for my first restaurant review! I decided to start off with a vegan/vegetarian restaurant so I would have plenty of dishes to talk about. I had been dying to try Lulu’s since I moved back to Saint Louis, and finally got to after me and some friends went to the STL women’s march (whichContinue reading “Lulu’s Local Eatery”

Cannoli Cheesecake

This was another treat I made for my step fathers birthday. We all try to eat ~relatively~ healthy (save our frequent popcorn dinners) so I wanted to do something refined sugar free and mostly grain free. The crust I used here is one I have used in other pies before so I had a goodContinue reading “Cannoli Cheesecake”

Everything Bagel Pretzel Bites

I made these little bites of deliciousness for my step fathers birthday. He had been raving about the ‘everything but the bagel’ seasoning we get from Trader Joes. He also LOVES pretzel bites (and frankly don’t we all?), so these were really the perfect birthday treat. I adapted this recipe from one I found online,Continue reading “Everything Bagel Pretzel Bites”

Sesame Sriracha Rice Noodles

We made these noodles as a part of a meal prep to curb a soba craving. While it didn’t really do the trick, they were still delicious! It was pretty impossible to find gluten free soba noodles at the grocery store so I settled for brown rice noodles and dressed them up with a creamyContinue reading “Sesame Sriracha Rice Noodles”

Breakfast Tacos with Chickpea “eggs”

Breakfast is the meal that I find the most challenging, given my dietary restrictions. In honesty, this is a great tragedy, because breakfast is my FAVORITE meal. I have even been known to request it for dinner in my household. That being said, I am always trying to come up with Bailey-Friendly twists on someContinue reading “Breakfast Tacos with Chickpea “eggs””