Vegan caprese salad, the perfect quick and easy summer appetizer or side salad!There are typically only three main ingredients: tomatoes, basil, and cheese.Each coinciding with one of the colors on the Italian flag. 🇮🇹 Since there are so few ingredients, freshness is key to making this simple dish absolutely delicious! Tomatoes 🍅 If you’re growing tomatoes in your garden, you’re gonna really see their flavor shine with this recipe.If you don’t grow tomatoes and don’t have a friend/family member/neighbor who is, then please try to go to a farmer’s market for some fresh tomatoes. It really makes a difference! Otherwise, I suppose you can settle for the ripest tomatoes you…
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Cucumber Salad
Need a quick and easy summer recipe? Try out this simple, delicious, and refreshing cucumber salad. It’s a great way to keep cool when it’s hot out. Plus, you get to use up all those extra cucumbers from your summer garden! My mom has always made variations of this salad for me while I was growing up. I think she was inspired by a sushi restaurant that we regularly frequented which had a similar salad, sunomono salad. Read on to see detailed instructions on how to create this delicious cucumber salad! Visual Instructions for Cucumber Salad Ingredients 2 cucumbers, preferably from your garden half of a large red onion rice…
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Beyond Burger Vegan Meatloaf
The other night I made a Beyond Burger Vegan Meatloaf, and it was so good! “Wait a minute….vegan meatloaf?? I thought vegans don’t eat meat?!” Well, we do eat meat, just not the animal based kind. 😉This vegan meatloaf is made out of Beyond Burger patties, which closely mimics the taste and texture of traditional animal-based ground beef. “Why not just make a chickpea or lentil loaf like every other vegan?” I’ve already tried a few of those recipes and they ended up too dry and obviously lentil tasting. Plus my significant other is not the biggest fan of legumes. Sad, yes I know. So what is a vegan to…
