Vegan French Mustard Seitan is a terrific dinner dish for special occasions like date night, birthdays, and holidays. In this recipe, tangy mustard sauce perfectly coats cooked seitan. It’s easy enough to make for weeknight dinners, too. Mustard Hater Turned Mustard Lover Growing up, mustard was my enemy. I had friends who would add it their…
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Vegan Slow Cooker Kung Pao
Spice things up with meatless Kung Pao! This recipe from The Vegan Slow Cooker by Kathy Hester is super easy to make. Place all of the ingredients in your crock pot in the morning, and dinner will be ready when you get home from work in the evening! Vegan Kung Pao can be made with seitan,…
No-Huevos Rancheros from Chloe Flavor
This post is sponsored by Nasoya, but all opinions are my own. Your day will be off to an amazing start when you begin it with vegan No-Huevos Rancheros from Chloe Flavor! It’s made with tofu, black beans, seitan, and a spicy rancheros sauce. This deliciously healhty dairy free recipe is perfect for breakfast and…
Top 10 Refrigerator Vegan Essentials
Keep your refrigerator stocked with my top 10 vegan essentials and mealtime will be a breeze! A few weeks ago, I posted a list of my top 10 pantry vegan essentials. The list was full of items that I keep on hand pretty much all the time to make sure there’s always something in the…
Where Do You Get Your Protein?
The one question that I get asked more than anything else is, “Where do you get your protein?” It usually comes right after “You haven’t eaten any of the egg salad or cheese dip. Are you one of those ve-guns?” I’ve been eating this way for so long, that I’m actually kind of tired of…
Praise Seitan
One of my favorite vegan protein sources is seitan. Despite how the name sounds, seitan isn’t food of choice for satanic vegans, it’s actually a tasty meatless food made from wheat gluten. It’s pronounced as it looks – say-tan. Praise Seitan As a meat substitute, seitan isn’t quite as popular in mainstream cuisine as tofu…
Seitan Chimichurri Tacos
Filled with seitan, mushrooms, peppers and onions, these Seitan Chimichurri Tacos have become a Taco Tuesday favorite in my house. If this recipe gives you a sense of déjà vu, it’s because it was inspired by the Seitan Skewers I posted a few weeks ago. I had a hankering for tacos, and I saw that there…
Unicorn Tacos from The Great Vegan Protein Book
“Where do you get your protein?” “I could never go vegan. I need my protein.” “I tried to go vegan, but I felt week. I just wasn’t getting enough protein.” These are all things I’ve heard many, many times. The question, “where do you get you’re protein?” is so ridiculous that the last time someone…
Stop Calling Vegan Food “Fake”
I recently watched a rerun of the canceled-too-soon show Raising Hope, and Cloris Leachman’s character Maw Maw was eating a plastic apple. “This apple tastes awful!” she exclaimed, and her granddaughter Virginia told her she was eating one of baby Hope’s toys. It reminded me of the bowl of fake fruit we had on our…
Vegan Seitan Gyro with Tahini Sauce
Seitan, vegetables, and tahini wrapped in a whole wheat pita – a Vegan Seitan Gyro with Tahini Sauce is the perfect filling lunch! I never had a gyro in my meat-eating days, so I’m not 100% what they taste like. They seemed to me to be some sort of flesh smothered in some sort of dairy-laden…