Blog Topic: Recipe

Fiesta Mac n' Cheese

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Have you ever had an idea rattling around in your head that's a lil' strange and if executed could either be weird and gross or innovative and totally awesome?! 

Well that's the deal with this recipe. For a while now I've wanted to dump chunky salsa over my mac n' cheese. Color me crazy, but it just seemed like a great idea ...


Whole Wheat Vegan Sweet Potato Biscuits

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When I was hanging out in Emeril's kitchen, one of the first things he made were these stunning sweet potato biscuits. His recipe could be easily veganized by substituting earth balance for the butter, but I wanted to try making fat-free biscuits -- and with whole wheat flour, too. 

Since I had such good luck using bananas instead of butter in my maple-cornbread biscuits, I ...


Fat-Free Vegan Oatmeal Cookie Smoothie Recipe

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I know what you're thinking, "Is she ever going to make real food again for us?" Yes, I am ;)

I just happen to be on a smoothie kick (thanks to HH30) and really loving starting my day with a nutrient packed tastes-like-dessert breakfast. This one is my favorite yet!

It has all the right flavors to make it taste exactly like an oatmeal cookie ...


Fat-Free Honey Roasted Nuts (Chickpeas)

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Anyone who has ever visited New York City has experienced the wonderfully intoxicating aroma that wafts from the Nuts-4-Nuts carts all over the city. Heck, even if you haven't been to New York City surely you've had the delicious taste experience that is a honey roasted nut!

Before I was a health-conscious vegan I could easily sit down and put away an entire ...


Fat-Free Vegan Pumpkin Pie Smoothie

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Even though its unseasonably chilly here in NYC (44 in mid-May?) I'm still enjoying smoothies for breakfast. Not in the mood for my usual peanut butter cup smoothie or neapolitian smoothie I decided to shake things up a bit with pumpkin.... mmm... it's like pumpkin pie in a glass.

Have leftover pumpkin? Make these fat-free pumpkin-raisin oatmeal cookies

BTW, Happy Herbivore will be ...