With the winter storm battering the Carolinas yesterday, I decided to stay indoors and make old-fashioned comfort food. Since I make a lot more Italian food than Hungarian, I decided to honor my Hungarian heritage and make a vegan version of a childhood favorite - Stuffed Cabbage. I bought a ...
Weekend Meals
British Cottage Pie
It seems like every week there is another alert about food products that have been tainted with Salmonella. The latest beef recall brings the total up to about 12 million pounds, with several hundred people in 25 states being affected. And right before Thanksgiving, I was stunned to read that ...
End of summer classics: Stuffed Baby Eggplants and Peach Burrata Salad
The sun is finally peaking through the clouds here in my part of South Carolina - and that's a good thing after three relentless days of rain from Hurricane Florence. Many parts of the Carolinas are still under siege from power outages and rising flood waters, and I pray that the waters will recede ...
Spinach Chorizo Enchiladas for Cinque de Mayo
Since Cinque de Mayo is just a week away, I wanted to put a fresh spin on enchiladas with my favorite plant-based chorizo, El Zapatista from my friends at No Evil Foods. Since we wanted it loaded with veggies and our favorite chorizo plant meat, we included sauted onions, yellow ...
Ricotta-Sausage Stuffed Eggplant Rolatini
With my 92 year old mom finally out of rehab, I’m reverting for a few weeks to a decidedly Italian orientation in my cooking to try and please her somewhat finicky palate. When my hubby enthusiastically returned home with two large eggplants he’d gotten for a buck at Harris Teeter, my first ...
French Onion Soup Redux
On a bitter cold day, there is nothing better than a bowl of French Onion Soup. Unfortunately, this is one of the soups I can never order in a restaurant because it is always made with beef stock. I’ve updated the recipe from Fool a Carnivore to include a terrific product that I didn’t know about ...
Baked Ziti with Vegan Sausage
Belated Happy New Year! If your holidays were as hectic as mine were – followed by a seemingly endless string of days of bone-chilling temperatures – you may be looking for a fresh take on a comfort food favorite. One of my all-time favorite comfort foods is baked ziti – but for a ...
Enhancing Quorn Turk’y Roast for your Thanksgiving Table
If you've read my blog before, you know that Quorn Turk'y Roast is my go-to plant-based protein for holiday dinners. And I'm always trying to find new ways to make it more appealing to carnivores. A couple of years ago, I created a marinade that included extra virgin olive oil, maple syrup, ...