Since barbecue is one of our most popular Memorial Day foods, I decided to slow cook two different kinds of seitan yesterday in my own homemade barbecue sauce. (Recipe to follow, once I refine it a bit!) Baked beans are also traditional, too. But instead of navy or Great Northern beans, I baked ...
Easy Weekday Recipes
New Twist on Pesto Chicken
After lots of good feedback on my Pesto Chicken recipe from Fool A Carnivore, I made it tonight with a pepper crusted goat cheese instead of mozzarella and eliminated the pine nuts. It adds a much more sophisticated flavor to what has become a family favorite in our home. We paired it with a lovely ...
Almost Egg Salad Sandwiches
If tofu is a four-letter word in your household, don’t let your family know that this easy Saturday lunch uses tofu instead of eggs. While tofu may never replace eggs in the minds and mouths of the carnivores in your home, you may want to try this sandwich to help them lower their cholesterol. ...
Meaty Ziti – Seitan Bolognese
I am always on the lookout for new products. Although I have been using WestSoy Seitan for years, I was delighted to recently discover a new brand - Upton's Naturals. Their Italian Seitan looked intriguing, spiced with garlic, fennel, onion, oregano, and black pepper.I gave it a try in my recipe for ...
Bangers and Mash – My meatless version earned a 9.5 from my carnivore hubby!
Bangers and Mash is a classic British dish. Even if you’re not a Brit, what carnivore wouldn’t love a huge mound of creamy mashed potatoes, topped with a sausage or two? Talk about the ultimate comfort food! When I started researching this recipe, the unifying factor seemed to be delicious onion ...
Can a Vegan Crab Cake Fool a Carnivore?
True confession time: as a Baltimore resident for five years, my husband and I ate many delicious jumbo lump crab cakes. So, I was intrigued to see a new product labeled Vegan Crab Cake by Sophie's Kitchen. The good news is that it is gluten free, soy free, and 100% vegan. At 120 calories, with 170 ...
Pesto Chicken – Low Time Investment Yields Big Flavor
Coming home from the office today, I had a dilemma. I wanted to take a nice long late afternoon walk along our lovely greenway, but I also wanted to enjoy a delicious dinner. Fortunately, I remembered an easy recipe from my cookbook that can literally be put together in minutes. Here was my ...
My Vegan Mushroom Sauce is Gluten-Free, too!
Since my mushroom-hating son is away at college, his mushroom-loving dad and I can revel in the bounty of early spring mushrooms. I bought my fresh shitake and oyster mushrooms from "the mushroom man" at the Charlotte Farmer's Market, and supplemented them with some baby portobello and white button ...
