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Crispy Tofu and Green Beans

One of my favorite ways to make tofu is to cut it into cubes, usually 1/2″ to 3/4″ on each side, and then fry them in very hot oil until the crisp. After that, they can be added into just about any dish, and there isn’t any fear of them flaking or falling apart. They also taste amazing and have a much better texture, too!

This dish was one of those ‘spur of the moment’ ideas that I came up…

Summer is coming – no really. It is. I swear. It might not feel like it this year, depending on where you live. But when it gets here, it’s going to be hot. And that means days at the beach, or the pool, packing a cooler full of picnic-style items. One of my wife’s favorites, is definitely mac salad. We both love it, actually. In fact, so much so that we’ve had nothing but a bowl of mac salad for…

Garlic Sesame Snow Peas

I absolutely LOVE snow peas. They are one of my favorite items in Chinese food, and I’ve always loved finding them on veggie dip trays at parties. But eating them as a main dish just always sounded weird. Then we planted some snow peas in our garden, and they produced prolifically. A long, cold, rainy winter will do that, I guess.

We were eating them as fast as we could, adding them into…

Oven Roasted Potatoes with Kale and Parsley Pesto

For whatever reason, since my wife and I have gone vegan, we can’t eat enough potatoes. Seriously. We’ve mashed them, and fried them, and baked them, and made soup from them. So, today as I was looking through the pantry trying to decide what to make for lunch, what do you think stood out to me? Yep. Potatoes.

I’ve done them in so many different ways already, that it took me a moment to think…

Feeding Your Chakras: Part 4, The Manipura (Solar Plexus) Chakra

Welcome to the third stop on our Feeding Your Chakras journey. We’ve made it up to the Manipura Chakra, which is the base of all of our power. It’s our body’s stronghold, our fortress. The word, Manipura, translates as ‘city of shining jewels’. Just like the castles of myth and legend, this fortress in our solar plexus holds an inestimable fortune; our sense of self.

It is from this chakra…

There’s one main ingredient that is in just about every bowl of fried rice that you find at just about every Chinese food themed restaurant. Arsenic.

No, they don’t have a big jar of it in the kitchen, and they’re not purposefully adding in to your food. But it’s there. Now, that doesn’t mean it’s going to kill you. It’s just something to be aware of. You can read more about it here. https://…

VGF Black Bean Pasta Primavera

Everyone knows there are a ton of different pasta noodles to choose from. Spaghetti, linguine, angel hair, rotini, macaroni, etc. etc. etc. For me, there is only one problem with that. I need gluten-free options, and pasta is traditionally made from wheat. I’m also vegan, so finding a pasta that doesn’t use eggs.

When my wife and I first went vegan, there were a few gluten-free options, but…

Recently I decided to go caffeine-free again. I’ve done it before, back when I cut all sodas out of my diet. This time, all I had left that was caffeinated, was coffee. I thought I would just switch to decaf, but a friend mentioned that even decaf coffee can have a negative health effect. So I began to do some research. At the same time, my wife found a brand of organic, herbal based coffee…