VIBRANT AND VEGANFULL
Food & Thoughts for your health and the planet


"Fish" Tacos with Brussels Slaw and Garlic Cream Sauce
Lately I have found myself pretty disappointed. Disappointed in quality, standards, and people in general. We have mistaken simplicity...

Curry Spiced "Crab" Cakes Over Spinach with Roasted Garlic Drizzle
When I was young (up till choosing a college major), I wanted to be a Marine Biologist. I formulated Science Fair projects around...

Grilled Veggie Fried Quinoa with Korean Bibimbap Sauce
Nature is astonishing. I'm never more amazed or bemused by it than Spring. Through the depths of winter, the trees, the grass, the...

Whole Wheat Holy Trinity Cajun Linguine
Whenever I start on a new recipe, an accompanying level of uncertainty lurks in the background. Anyone from the best chefs, home cooks,...

Roasted Onion, Tomato & Zucchini Pizza
Today is pi day, nope, not like pie, but like the 3.14 mathematical number - pi. The total geek in me loves that we celebrate Pi day...

Fresh Strawberry Cake with Strawberry Scented Frosting
If you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be? For me, it's strawberries. Amazingly, I have never gotten...

Warm Turmeric Potato Salad with Arugula and Tempeh Bacon
My husband's family hails in half from Italy (which I think I've mentioned) but the other half is Austrian-German with the first...

Spicy Sausage, Mushroom & Kale Pesto Pizza with Cherry Tomatoes
Pizza pizzazz! You want pizza? Yeah! You want classic flavors like sausage and mushroom? Yeah! You want fast and easy and delicious?...

Grecian Spinach Salad with Tofu Feta over Lemon-Garlic Roasted Potatoes
Textural, temporal, flavorful; here I am with another salad and potato combo to make your next dinner stellar! Layered dishes are...

Roasted Cauliflower Over Pesto Rice with Macerated Cherries
Whenever my creativity ebbs for recipes, flavor combinations or even sustainability spotlights on this blog, I do two things: a) give...

Easy Peasy, Lemon Squeezy Bars
Lemon bars have been my vegan nemesis; I just couldn't get it quite right, but after 6 attempts (and a lot of terrible lemon bars), I...

Soul Soothing Ramen Bowl with Hoisin-Glazed Tofu Nuggets
In the dredges of winter when the Earth is gray, the skies are cold steel and everything sleeps, sometimes I need a soul soother. ...

Protein Packed Hot Madras Curry over Power Grains
If you want global comfort food, loaded with all the spices but warm and creamy; yeah, then this recipe is for you! I've played around...

Coconut Maple-Glazed Granola with Buckwheat & Chia Seeds
I was late in life to loving granola and it really wasn't until I started making it myself that it truly appealed to me. I load my...

Zucchini and Yellow Squash Piccata with Roasted Asparagus
What are you doing making a "spring" / "summer" dish in winter you ask? That's not very Sustainable Spotlight of me, is it? Except, it...

Crunchy Roasted Fennel
Here on the vegan side of vegetables, I have found new flavors and a lot of new ways of preparation to make those vegetables really sing....

Weeknight One Pan Chipotle Fajitas
Recently, I've been streaming another season of an 80's revival show based around karate (you can probably guess which one). Now, I'm...

Fiery Sweet Potato, Carrot and Kale Pasta Fagoli with Gremolata
Is it soup? Is it pasta? Is it a vegetable bomb for dinner? Yes, to all of those things! When I crafted this dish, I was looking to...

Maple-Cider Roasted Butternut Squash with Fennel and Crisped Sage
It's officially winter in my part of the world - icy snow glitters in the sunlight and soft powdery mounds gather at the base of trees. ...




















