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Edible Plants
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Delicious Chickpea Tu-“No” Salad
Chickpeas are the base for this classic plant-based spin-off of (fish-based) tuna salad. This tu-“no” salad recipe is simple, delicious, and customizable! Combine chickpeas and pinto beans, mix chickpeas and black beans together, or keep it simple and use just chickpeas. Don’t have chickpeas? Substitute for all pinto beans, or mix 1 cup of hummus…
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Pumpkin Seed and Cashew Balsamic Dressing
This simple, 6-ingredient* salad dressing is delicious and takes only a few minutes to prepare. Enjoy on salads, buddha bowls, and vegetables that you’d serve with hummus (like carrots, broccoli, and bell peppers). Or consider using this dressing on a Delicious Chickpea Tu-“No” Salad, which can be served as a salad as the name suggests…
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Lentil Kale Salad with Cucumbers, Walnut Crumble, and Tahini Dressing
A salad should never be boring. Here’s a recipe for a flavorful lentil and kale salad with cucumbers, tomatoes, grapes, a walnut crumble, and a tahini-based dressing. As with all (non)recipes, the ingredients are customizable to the delight of your taste buds. For example, if you prefer black beans instead of lentils or enjoy raisins…
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Creamy Curry Tofu Scramble with Spinach and Tomatoes
As with most things in life, there’s always more to learn about tofu. While I think most people have heard of it and know it is made of soy, that’s about the end of their knowledge. They might think it’s a bland, dull block of off-white cheese-like substance, and I don’t think they are wrong.…
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There’s No Apple Sauce Like Home(made)
Homemade applesauce is incomparable to store-bought applesauce. You will know what I mean once you try it. Lately, the recipes I have been posting use an instant pot, but this recipe also provides options for cooking the applesauce on the stove. A strainer is required for this recipe, though you could easily peel your apples…
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The Buddha Bowl
A buddha bowl is a flavorful meal that combines grains, legumes, greens, vegetables, nuts and/or seeds, and fermented foods (optional). The meal goes by many names, including the one bowl, the macro bowl, and in my opinion, the salad. As someone that eats a lot of plants, I have found that the world outside my…
