Vegan Chocolate Orange Mousse Recipe

The perfect summer dessert and easy too! I got the idea of making a mousse with silken tofu from 101 cookbooks’ Amaretto-spiked Chocolate Mousse Recipe. I changed it to fit my taste, I love chocolate with orange.
I found the amount of chocolate in her recipe to be a little rich for me. This time [...]

Vegetarian Fried Rice

You could make this a vegan recipe buy leaving out the eggs. You should be able to find some good ones at your market that are free range and haven’t been fed any antibiotics.
On the farm tour we went on a month or so ago, we saw some true free range chickens fertilizing the fields [...]

Vegan Slow Cooker Lentil Chard Soup Recipe

It’s slow cooker Thursday!
See other great recipes at Diary of a SAHM
Adapted from Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker

I would have never put chard in this without her recipe!
Slow Cooker Vegan Lentil Soup - 4 large servings

1.5 cups uncooked Lentils
1 Onions chopped
3 cloves Garlic minced
2 Carrots cut into medium irregular chunks
6 cups water [...]

Fresh from the Market Menu Monday-part 2

You too can participate in Menu Plan Monday, just go over to I’m an Organizing Junkie and add your menu to Mr. Linky - or just look at everyone else’s menus.

Dandelions
Curried Red Lentil Soup with Dandelion Greens
Dandelion Green Gumbo with Good Thyme Rice
Salad of Dandelion and Fresh Goat Cheese
Warm New Potato & Dandelion [...]

Fresh from the Market Menu Monday-part 1

You too can participate in Menu Plan Monday, just go over to I’m an Organizing Junkie and add your menu to Mr. Linky - or just look at everyone else’s menus.
Cheryl was nice enough to take photos of my farmers market purchases. There was more produce than I could possibly cook this week, [...]

Vegan - Zesty Escabeche Soy Cutlets

I found a new blog that I have a crush on - Rockin’ The Stove. Not only was the recipe I made from there amazing, she is also from Durham like me! And I went to a new restaurant (Toast) per her recommendation and loved it.
First off, I had no idea what Escabeche was, but [...]

Vegan Heirloom Carrot Salad with Seared Oyster Mushrooms

This was a yummy experiment. When I was looking up heirloom carrot recipes I came across Ms. Glaze’s Oyster Heirloom Carrot Salad with Warm Oyster Vinaigrette. I chose to make it vegetarian, and to substitute oyster mushrooms for the oysters, but that recipe was definitely my inspiration.
Heirloom Carrot Salad with Seared Oyster Mushrooms on Toast

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Farmers Market Menu Monday

Last week I made some yummy stuff. This weekend was a dining out whirlwind that ended with leftovers for dinner on sunday. I still have more of the Sweet potato, white bean stew with greens and that’s what we’ll be eating tonight with a salad made of speckled lettuce that I got from the market. [...]

Grow your own lettuce

I’ve become fascinated with the resurgence of the Victory Garden. I think everyone has the idea that it would be nice to get your salad from your own backyard, patio, or balcony. And the truth is you can. And people long before us did it. In fact, there was a time our Grandmothers (or great [...]

Garlic Scapes and a Vegan Slow Cooker Recipe

Garlic Scapes - what?! They are the flowering stems from certain kinds of garlic, or at least that’s what I got from my googleing. I saw them at the Raleigh Farmers Market and had no idea what to do with them, so of course I bought them. This is green vegetable week at my house!
I [...]