Summer Squash and Corn Chowder Who says you can’t have a chowder in summertime?! The key to creating a summer soup that packs a punch of flavor, as well as that familiar comfort we experience in winter is…
Category: Soup
Filling Winter Soups to Make in Large Batches
Hot soup is wonderful in the winter. In the warmer months, we always have a big bowl of banana ice cream (frozen bananas blended with cocoa powder) with our standard lunch of a large green salad with tofu strips…
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What Vegan Bodybuilders Eat for Lunch Every Day
This lunch, of basic things like lentils and sweet potatoes, does great things. It makes our lives easier by being simple to make in advance, satisfies sweet cravings on a daily basis, makes our one-year-old happy, and wins bodybuilding competitions.…
Holiday Recipes
Another Thanksgiving…another chance to try out a bunch of delicious holiday recipes! This was our menu: Squash, Corn, and Quinoa Chowder (see Greens & Grains on the Deep Blue Sea) Whole Wheat & Spelt Herb Biscuits (see Vegan Brunch) Mashed…
Red Lentil (Dal) Soup and Flourless Flatbread!
Been making a lot of Indian food lately, inspired by an awesome cookbook I picked up: The Indian Vegan Kitchen. There’s a ton of vegetable and bean dishes that, so far, (I’ve tried 4) are great and healthy if you…
Creamy Butternut Squash Soup 2 – Marcella
Super easy! It’s amazing how little effort goes into this simple soup…it has such a rich flavor. Almost like dessert in soup form. Creamy Butternut Squash Soup 6 cups cubed butternut squash (peeled first) 5 cups water 1/4 tsp salt…
Minestrone – Marcella
Very quick and easy; eliminates any need to buy the canned variety. I usually make it without any pasta, but in this case I had a mini-box of kamut ditalini, so I used that. Minestrone Soup 1 onion, chopped 2…
Recipes – Marcella
Broccoli Cream Soup 4 cups water 1 tsp salt 1 1/2 – 2 lbs broccoli 1 clove garlic 1/2 cup soymilk 1 Tbsp lemon juice Separate broccoli tops from stems and peel stems. Cut into chunks. Boil the water and…
Indian Dal Soup – Marcella
I’ve been cooking a lot of Indian food lately, having been inspired by some Indian feasts at the home of our friends’ Deepak and Matt. We don’t go out for Indian anymore, since it’s generally very oily and hard for…
Apple Butternut Squash Soup – Marcella
Recently we got dinner at the salad bar at Ellwood Thompson’s (1/2 off after 8:30 p.m.) and decided to try some of the vegan mashed sweet potato. It was disappointingly gross, having been drenched in margarine and sugar – so…
Simple White Bean and Chard Soup – Marcella
Soup always sounds good when it’s cold out. I’ve decided to do a lot of soup and salad nights, since it’s a lot easier to make that particular combo nutritious and filling and bread-less. I have no patience for bread…
Chickpea and Tomato Soup
Impromptu soup for lunch: Chickpea and Tomato Soup 2 carrots, cut lengthwise and chopped 1/2 onion, chopped 2 celery stalks, chopped 1 can chickpeas, drained and rinsed 1 can low sodium diced tomatoes around 4 cups water 1/2 tsp cumin…
Ranting about Recipes and Some…Recipes
I should probably mention that most of the recipes I post are just modifications of things I’ve always made or from cookbooks or websites that may or may not even be vegan to start with. Some recipes lend themselves easily…
Split Pea Soup and Seitan Stir-Fry
Lunch Thanks to Derek’s client who so thoughtfully brought him fresh greens, tomatoes, and peaches from a local farmer’s market as a birthday present! Because of that we got to enjoy salads despite our fridge being on the fritz and…