Those of you who are friends and family know that my 93-year old mother, Ida Olah, died six weeks ago. My posts have been sporadic (at best) the past six months, since my mom was extremely ill and under Hospice care in her home. Since I did all the cooking for my mom during the last dozen years ...
Festive Purple Cabbage Slaw
Looking for a perfect side for your Memorial Day celebration? Look no further! My Festive Purple Cabbage Slaw is vegan, refreshing, healthy, simple to make . . . and delicious! It takes less than 20 minutes to prep your vegetables and make the dressing. Here are the veggies in the raw, ...
Baked Risotto Cakes – the Perfect Solution for Leftover Risotto!
Risotto is one of my favorite dishes. But the sad truth is that it's only truly delicious when it is first made. Or is it? Recently, I quickly transformed some well-chilled leftover mushroom, spinach and pepper risotto . . . . . . into some crisp and tasty baked risotto cakes to ...
Spicy Sesame Noodles with Vegan Porkless Bites
I love taking meaty recipes - and making them meatless! This month's issue of Cook's Country had an interesting recipe for Spicy Sesame Noodles with Pork . . . so I decided to simplify it and make it meatless! For my meat analogue, I chose Gardein's Porkless Bites. I've used Porkless ...
Delicious Hungarian Chicken Paprikash – with vegan and gluten-free options!
Every few months, I get a hankering for Hungarian dishes from my childhood. One of my favorites was Chicken Paprikash - but even though I ate meat until I was 19, I still enjoyed the delicious sour cream, bell pepper, and sweet paprika laden sauce over wide buttered egg noodles much more than I did ...
Lentil and Chorizo Stew – in a Flash with Instant Pot
I'm still amazed at how quickly I can make dinner in my new Instant Pot. My Lentil and Chorizo Stew takes me at least 6 hours in my slow cooker, so I was shocked when my same basic recipe took just 18 minutes of cooking in the Instant Pot. Talk about a time saver! In addition to saving time, ...
East Skillet Bratwurst Dinner – featuring Beyond Sausage Brats!
Move over, Tofurky and Field Roast . . . Beyond Sausage is here! I've never tasted a vegan sausage that tasted so much like meat - before now. My carnivore hubby, ever eager to please, brought me Beyond Sausage Brats home from Sprouts - and we couldn't wait to them them out in some of my ...
Easy Vegan Jambalaya . . . Just in Time for Fat Tuesday
Fat Tuesday came to my home a few days early (yesterday, to be precise!), so that I could figure out how to streamline my recipe for Jambalaya. With a little tinkering, I eliminated four ingredients, reduced eight steps to three, cut the prep time by 20 minutes, and reduced the cooking time by ...