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Roasted Veggie Pizza with Arugula Greens and Balsamic Glaze

This pizza Is simply delicious, loaded with flavorful roasted veggies, creamy ricotta, and served with a topping of arugula greens and balsamic glaze.

Making homemade pizza doesn’t have to be laborious. Actually it can be one of the quickest meals to make. Simply grab some flatbread and your favorite toppings and you’ll have pizza in minutes.

However, this pizza takes a bit longer than…

Easy 5 Minute Pizza Sauce

This Easy 5 Minute Pizza Sauce is filled with flavor using pantry staples you may already have on hand. After making this you’ll say goodbye to pre-made store purchased sauce.

Pizza for dinner or lunch happens at least once a week and sometimes more in my house. But it’s not take-out or store purchased pizza, it’s homemade.

Everyone gets to customize their pizza with their favorite toppings…

Coconut Cashew Chocolate Cups & Bars

Sweet and delicious date-nut mixture covered in dark chocolate sprinkled with dried coconut flakes. Satisfy your sweet craving with this healthier sweet treat free of gluten and refined sugar.

I have a serious sweet tooth but I try to avoid overly processed sugar, that’s why dates are one of my go-to sweeteners.

Dates are amazingly sweet and filled with nutrients.

Dates provide 2.5g of…

Easy Vegan Tempeh Pho

Easy Vegan Tempeh Pho is filled with aromatic vegetable broth bursting with flavor ladled over tender rice noodles, topped with pan-fried tempeh and a mixture of mushrooms and sliced Brussels sprouts seasoned with Hoisin sauce. So easy to make!

What is Pho?

Pho is a Vietnamese soup consisting of broth, rice noodles a few herbs, and meat, primarily made with either beef or chicken. It’s a…

Roasted Butternut Grain Bowl

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Roasted Butternut Grain Bowl filled with aromatic roasted butternut squash, fiber packed grains, spicy arugula, all topped off with sweet. tart cranberries and crunchy pepitas. Such an easy and healthy lunch or dinner.

Are you ready for another simple and delicious meal that comes together in 30 minutes or less? I certainly hope so, because this veggie grain bowl is sure…

Sun-Dried Tomato and Chickpea Soup

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Sun-Dried Tomato and Chickpea Soup – Comforting and satisfying, filled with both sun-dried and crushed tomatoes with hearty chickpeas, perfect for warming you when it’s cold out. And it’s ready in 30 minutes or less.

There are days when I crave a big bowl of hearty soup, especially when it’s cold out. It’s the perfect cold weather comfort food.

Not only is this soup…

10 Delicious Cleansing Recipes

The holidays are over and the new year is here, a time when many of us are planning ways to cleanse and detox to recover from holiday indulgence.

If you are planning a cleanse there is no need to starve or deprive yourself of solid foods, not all cleanses include fasting. Actually eliminating processed foods and drinking plenty of water is a great way to keep your body in a daily state of…

8 Favorites To Celebrate The Flavors of Fall

Grab some pumpkins, apples, and cinnamon, summer is almost over so here are 8 Favorites to celebrate the flavors of fall.

We have celebrated Labor Day and now it’s full speed and straight ahead into fall. One could easily say that pumpkin, apple and cinnamon are some of the most popular flavors of the season. So to help get you started I’ve round-up a few of my favorite recipes that are sure to…

Vegan Eggplant Mushroom Bolognese with Casarecce

Vegan Eggplant Mushroom Bolognese with Casarecce, a healthy, hearty and bold with flavor pasta dish. Perfect for a busy weeknight dinner.

Bolognese sauce over spaghetti was once one of my favorite meals and it was always better the second day. When I stopped eating meat I had to find other ways to bulk up my pasta sauce.

Adding chunky veggies is a great way to add bulk, however, I’m not a big…

Spicy Vegan Sweet Potato Pitas with Cucumber Slaw

Spicy Vegan Sweet Potato Pitas with Cucumber Slaw – Spicy sweet potatoes, smooth creamy avocados, and crisp cucumber slaw, these pitas are filled with a medley of wonderful flavors.

Growing up whenever we had sweet potatoes, I thought it was pretty special. They were always baked and served with a dollop of butter and a sprinkling of brown sugar.

Looking back at it I think sweet potatoes were…

For most, Labor Day marks the end of summer, but not the end of the heat, especially here in Texas.

To help cool me down I made some tasty Zip pops, using Zipzicle, a zip-top ice-pop mold. I love these things, because I control the ingredients without the worries of allergies, dyes or too much sugar.

 It’s so simple and easy to transform fresh fruits and veggies, yes, I said veggies, into…

What do you do when you want to eat more veggie? Include them in your desserts!  I’ve made breads and cakes with zucchini, but I wanted to try something different today, and my go to veggie was kale. Yes, you read right, kale, kale and avocado, what a wonderful combo. They’re awesome together in salads and in these brownies, they’re no different. The perfect way to hide veggies is to do it…

When I think of fall I think of pumpkins!  This weekend the air was much cooler and it put me in the mood to cook with pumpkins, so I whipped up these yummy pumpkin blondies.  Add a hot cup of tea, cider or coffee and you’re all set to enjoy a taste of fall.                                                                                            Print RecipePumpkin Blondies Ingredients 3…

I absolutely love the sweet tarty flavor of whole cranberry sauce mixed with smooth, creamy cream cheese, add the pungent flavor of red onions, crisp spinach, all between hearty wheat bread, it’s a taste explosion for the mouth. If you don’t have any leftover cranberry sauce, you may want to make some just so you can make this sandwich. You can find recipes for cranberry sauce HERE and HERE. …

WIAW – Sunday Eats

It’s been a whiiiile since I’ve shared my eats, so I though I would share this week my eats from Sunday.

Started the day with warm lemon water before having  a very large green smoothie with sweet pineapple, bananas and baby kale.

Mid-morning I enjoyed a cup of coffee out on the patio, because the weather was so wonderfully cool.

Lunch was a tomato and pesto brown cheese pizza on whole wheat,…

Moroccan Inspired Chickpea Tartine with Spinach and Chard

This Moroccan Inspired Chickpea Tartine with Spinach and Chard is a simple easy and delicious meal. Crisp garlic toast topped with sautéed greens and chickpeas seasoned with a Moroccan inspired spice blend.

If you were to look through my pantry you are sure to find several cans of chickpeas or dried chickpeas. They come in handy when I’m in need of a quick meal or snack. When I’m in the mood…

Harissa Spiced Grilled Veggie Kabob Recipe

Harissa Spiced Grilled Veggie Kabob Recipe, it’s the perfect summer side or main dish.

Today I’ve got a hot one for you, it’s a Harissa Spiced Grilled Veggie Kabob recipe. With grilling season in full swing and the weather heating up I’ve been using my outdoor grill more often. Much better to keep the heat outdoors or in my food and not in my kitchen.

I’m guest posting today over at Kathy…