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Health Benefits: When you need a break from the heavier dishes of winter, look no further than this bright citrusy salad that still uses seasonal produce but switches up the soup season options! Winter Proudce Red Cabbage: While we think of "fresh" produce as being picked yesterday, red cabbage is a winter staple because its dense cellular structure allows it to maintain its vitamin C and antioxidant levels for months after harvest. In the dead of winter, a local cabbage ofte

Health Benefits: For a flavor-packed, one dish weeknight meal, you can't beat this recipe. It's like a garlic tomato-soup bean bowl, all warm, cozy and yet still packed with >25 grams of protein/serving. By adding fresh, canned and sun-dried tomatoes you get a rich tomato flavor even in winter, while we wait for the return of summer tomatoes. And the best part is it takes about 5 minutes of prep then throw it in the oven and let the heat do the work. As always, it's packed wi

Health Benefits: With this recipe, in just about 30 minutes you can have an amazing, beautifully spiced bowl of soup that has so many cool health benefits. I am continually amazed by how incredible plants are and this recipe highlights some of the fascinating ways that how we combine, cook and pair plants together can create an end product that is better than any individual component on its own. Spices:  Spices add not only flavor, but a whole host of potent health supporting

Health Benefits: This is a bowl of winter vitamins! It uses root vegetables that are in season now demonstrating how to eat seasonally with pantry staples. It also makes a wonderful salad for lunches the next day. So while this recipe serves 4, it keeps well for leftovers. A note about tempeh: I've found the key to tempeh is to crumble it and make it crunchy. This recipe does that and it adds a nutty/crispy texture to the dish. It's a good way to try tempeh if you aren't fam

Health Benefits: This is an easy one-pot dish that is perfect for meal prep or freezer meals and I provide modifications below to make it simple to swap out ingredients for what you already have in your pantry. All together it takes less than 30 minutes to prep and you can make it ahead of time and leave on the stove till dinner. It only gets better with time! It also packs a bunch of vitamins and minerals: Plant-Based Protein and Fiber:  Each serving provides 17 grams of pro

Health Benefits:  When you need a quick 15-minute meal that still packs a vitamin/nutrient filled punch for a cold evening, look no further than this beans and greens dish. It's a reminder that simple ingredients done well, don't need much added to them. Escarole is one that has still been available at the remaining farmers' markets so grab a head if you see one and whip this up for a chilly weeknight meal. And if not you could substitute kale instead. Escarole:  Escarole, a

Health Benefits:  This week is another classic French recipe, à la Annie. Lentils have the highest protein content of the bean world (aside from soybeans) with 18grams/cooked cup. They are also high in fiber, folate and iron and are a wonderfully versatile staple to any plant-based kitchen as they can be used in salads, veggie burgers, curries, soups, or roasted to make a crunchy topping to any meal. This salad uses green lentils (also called Puy or French lentils) as they ar

This recipe is a meal-prep win. Ready in about 20 minutes with 4 servings of 27g of protein and 20g, yes 20!! grams of fiber, this is the...

I called this a celebration of fall salad because “Kale, & Arugula Salad with Roasted Squash, Brussels Sprouts, Apples, Pumpkin Seeds,...

A few year's ago I made Julia Child's ratatouille recipe in an attempt to make a French dish "correctly". Over the course of about 8...

Tempeh can be a tricky texture/flavor but its health benefits are worth putting in the effort to figure out a way that works for you to...

Health Benefits: Who needs a frozen chicken nugget when you can have these in just about the same amount of time for none of the garbage...

Health Benefits:  Are you wondering what to do with all the summer zucchinis I know you have laying around or are about to? These...