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Rasta pasta is a Jamaican-Italian fusion dish that pairs penne with red, yellow, and green bell peppers and a creamy sauce infused with jerk seasoning. It’s easy enough for a weeknight, too! Rasta pasta gets its name from the red, yellow, and green bell peppers in this dish, which match the colors of the Rastafarian movement. Think of it as a more flavourful version of mac and cheese—instead of a mild cheese sauce, creamy rasta pasta sauce is made with fiery jerk seasoning, smoked paprika, and other spices....

This vegan Sweet Potato Gnocchi is soft, pillowy, and delicious, especially when it’s finished with a fabulous rosemary-infused garlic butter sauce! This is a restaurant-quality dinner that’s easier than you think. It took me a long time to come around to making my own gnocchi because I thought it was going to be fussy and difficult. But making Cauliflower Gnocchi showed me just how wrong I was! So this homemade sweet potato gnocchi was next on my list and I don’t think my family will ever let me buy it from the store again....

Tabbouleh is the perfect side dish for pairing with any Middle Eastern meal, but also excellent for meal prep lunches! With lots of herbs, fresh vegetables, and bulgur, it’s packed with flavour. Tabbouleh (sometimes also spelled tabouli) is a traditional Mediterranean dish made with chopped parsley, tomatoes, mint, and bulgur wheat dressed in olive oil, lemon juice, and spices. The mint and parsley give tabbouleh a refreshing, herbaceous flavour, making it a fantastic accompaniment to dishes like beet falafel and vegan kofta , or as part of a meze platter with spicy roasted red pepper hummus ....

Thai peanut noodles make for a flavourful, effortless lunch. You’ll want to eat the gingery peanut sauce with a spoon! These Thai peanut noodles are something I would have happily packed for lunch in high school and definitely when I was working my day job as an attorney. They’re satisfying and they taste like something you’d buy at a restaurant, but they’re practically effortless to make. Does it get any better than that?...

Fluffy Vegan Vanilla Sheet Cake with whipped buttercream frosting may be simple, but it’s also the definition of delicious! This moist, homemade vanilla cake is perfect for parties, an emergency/short-notice dessert, and more! What Makes this the Best Vegan Vanilla Cake? It’s Low-Maintenance: Nothing in the list of ingredients will surprise you. There’s some vanilla extract, some sugar, and a little vegan buttermilk, but no super-secret, hard-to-find ingredients. In fact, you’ve probably got everything you need ready to go in the pantry/refrigerator!...

These are my 10 Favourite No Bake Vegan Desserts! Whether you need 15 minutes, or have an hour, this list will have you covered. Everything is so delicious! Happy Friday! Is anyone else ridiculously hot?! If your summer is going like mine, aka fun but very hot, then you’re going to want to check this entire list out. I’m a big fan of not turning on my oven everyday during summer....

These 30 Freezer Friendly Recipes are perfect for Back to School! Plan ahead with these breakfasts, snacks and dinners for an easy back to school season loaded with delicious meals! Just like that, more than half of 2017 is over and it’s back to school season! Just like I mentioned in my last post about back to school meal planning , freezer friendly recipes are such a life saver for back to school prep....

These easy stovetop candied pecans are deliciously crunchy and perfect for topping everything from breakfasts to salads and desserts. You just need 3 ingredients to make them! If you’re a salad lover, there’s a good chance you’ve probably bought those candied pecan packages in the supermarket, or even had them in your salad when you ate out at a restaurant. Well, the latter is exactly what drove me to make these at home—I wanted to replicate the pear and gorgonzola salad I had at my favourite restaurant....

This garlic mushroom pasta is savory and creamy, packed with tender mushrooms in a rich, garlicky sauce with vegan Parmesan, parsley, and coconut milk. It’s ready in 30 minutes and sure to be a new favorite weeknight dinner! We all have those go-to recipes that are in regular rotation on our dinner menus, from coconut chickpea curry to creamy tomato pasta , and this creamy vegan garlic mushroom pasta. I’ve been making it for years, but it never occurred to me to post it because, well, I didn’t realise it was so special until I shared a photo of it on Instagram and got requests for the recipe!...

I’m here to let you know that, not only can your Mondays be better, but these Double Chocolate M&M Brownies are a part of the plan. I know for many of us, Mondays bring about a type of dread that seems to pull throughout the entire week, so that even one entire week later on Sunday night, we are still complaining about Monday. To be honest, I’m not really a Monday hater....

This vegan Greek panzanella salad is bursting with Mediterranean flavors like olives, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, and feta cheese. It’s super easy to make, gluten-free, and sure to be a hit at your dinner table! This recipe for a vegan Greek panzanella salad is one of my all-time favorites. The flavors of this dish work together so well. Briny olives and vegan feta cheese pair perfectly with the freshness of cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, and onion....

Here’s absolutely everything you know about how to make spaghetti squash! My tricks on how to make it turn out perfect (no soggy squash!) and what you can do with it. There are many tutorials on cooking spaghetti squash on the internet, and I thought about differentiating this one by calling it “How to Make Spaghetti Squash You’ll Actually Want to Eat.” Because when it comes to spaghetti squash, technique is everything —use the wrong cooking method and you’re left with a squash that’s watery, bland, and not all that appetizing....

Homemade almond butter is so worth it! It’s easy to make, more affordable than store-bought, and it’s absolutely delicious. Here’s how to make almond butter at home! Almond butter is so expensive at the grocery store, but despite this, it’s hard to resist—I mean, it’s good stuff . It’s supremely smooth and creamy, it’s the perfect addition to so many of our favourite breakfast foods (I love to slather it on milk bread toast!...

Lemon pepper tofu is here to spice up your weeknight dinners! Chewy, crispy tofu is tossed in a sweet, citrusy sauce with loads of black pepper for a flavour-packed vegan protein that is perfect for meal prep. Consider this lemon pepper tofu a basic building block for a delicious dinner. You can make an old-fashioned protein-starch-and-vegetable dinner plate by pairing it with rice and air fryer asparagus. Or add it to a Buddha bowl for some flavourful protein....

These vegan Loaded Sweet Potato Skins are a twist on the traditional version, but just as crispy, cheesy, and packed with flavor! Friends, let me introduce a recipe that’s all my husband: these vegan loaded sweet potato skins. They’re super loaded (seriously, they couldn’t hold any more fillings if they tried!), satisfying, easy to make, and fun to eat. If you’re looking for a game day snack that won’t completely wreck your New Year’s resolutions, this is it!...

This Marinated Tofu recipe will make you fall in LOVE with tofu with LOTS of great tips! It’s great for baking, pan-frying, grilling, in the air fryer and so much more! Perfect for a multi-purpose simple marinade and makes your tofu so flavourful. A common question I hear is, “my tofu is so bland by itself – how do I get it to taste tasty?”. I love hearing this because it means there are SO many possibilities and that I get the opportunity to blow someone’s mind with how good tofu can taste!...

This moist and delectable banana bread is loaded with nutty pecans for a flavour boost! It’s so good that you can’t have just one slice! Isn’t banana bread the best? The overripe bananas, the sweet smell wafting through your home. The ease of making and slicing. I mean, you mix all the ingredients together, pour into a pan, smooth and bake. Couldn’t get easier. My family is the biggest fan and I really wanted to make a holiday version that took it up a notch....

This Quinoa Stone Fruit Salad is a beautiful summer salad loaded with peaches and plums and drizzled with a maple lime dressing that comes together in just 20 minutes! Every single thing in this Quinoa Stone Fruit Salad worked together, and I have a story to prove it. Cue me, three hours out of town, lost and desolate, starving. Okay, that’s minus the lost and desolate part since I was perfectly fine (added for dramatic effect)....

This Scotch bonnet pepper hot sauce will blow your mind—and your taste buds! It’s absolutely worth making your own hot sauce at home when it tastes this good. What Are Scotch Bonnet Peppers? Scotch bonnet peppers are a type of chili pepper popular in Caribbean and West African cuisine and named for their resemblance to the Scottish tam o’shanter bonnet. They’re related to habanero peppers and like habaneros, they’re fiery hot—40 times hotter than jalapeño peppers on the Scoville scale, in fact!...

If you didn’t believe tofu was capable of magic, Silken Tofu Chocolate Mousse will convince you! Velvety smooth, exceptionally rich, and intensely chocolatey, this easy 5-ingredient vegan dessert is the definition of swoon-worthy. Over the years, I’ve made a few desserts with tofu, like this Tahô recipe. But if you’re looking for a tofu treat that packs in lots of chocolate goodness, this silken tofu chocolate mousse is IT. It’s indulgent and decadent, and I pinky promise, you’re not going to taste the tofu!...