Let me guess, you are afraid of winter squash. I bet you are so afraid that you gladly pay the premium for already cubed and bagged butternut squash at Trader Joe’s. C’mon now… Your fear is holding you back from something incredible (so typical of fear!). The cooked flesh of winter squash is certainly one of…
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Easy Avocado Chickpea Salad
If you subscribe to our bi-monthly email, you know we just got back from a week away (if you don’t, sign up at the bottom of this post). Translation: we started the week with an empty fridge and no meal plan. Chickpea Salad (a vegan play on chicken salad) is the perfect make-ahead lunch. It’s…
Happy Hippie Cookies
A few weeks ago we went to the Seed Festival at Baker Creek and it did not disappoint. Crunchy-granola people are my kind of people. The founders of Baker Creek are vegans, so there was plenty of tasty, plant-based food– including Happy Hippie Cookies. Oh. em. gee. These babies were nutty, seedy, chewy, sweet- everything…
Blueberry Overnight Oats with Ginger-Vanilla Cashew Cream
Last week we covered the basics- this week, we’re gonna get a little fancy pants with our Vegan Overnight Oats. We totally dig cashew cream here at PEM. Exhibit A: Coconut Cashew Chickpea Curry Exhibit B: Creamy Vegan Tomato Soup Exhibit C: Vegan Creamy Jalapeno Soup Exhibit D & E: Herb Aioli, Classic Aioli Exhibit…
Vegan Cocoa Rice Crispies
Last week our nephew Waylon turned two years old. He requested a Dirty Messy Mud Cake just like Oscar The Grouch… naturally. He is quite the little foodie, so I knew I had to make something extra special (and I had to top last year’s vegan chocolate beet cupcakes!). I chose one of my favorite dessert…
No-Bake 5-Ingredient Sunflower Bars {gluten-free, nut-free}
Food allergies are thriving, in the form of both medical diagnoses and diet trends, turning something as innocent as the peanut butter sandwich into a downright villain. Peanut allergies alone have increased threefold since 1997. And just about everyone I meet has a shtick with gluten (FYI, I heart gluten). Many theories about causation are…