Category: Lunch

  • Kinpira Style Vegetables

    My last weekend of homework for the Natural Kitchen Cooking School is quite bittersweet. This weekend of recipes was titled “Kitchen Pharmacies” and focused around home remedies and other great-for-you foods. An interesting dish that I never made or tried before attending this culinary program was kinpira style vegetables, which is a Japanese style of […]

  • Tempeh Mock Tuna

    Dead tuna fish sandwiches were always hit or miss with me back in my pre-vegan days. I have never tried to make a mock version of it either until we were assigned to do so in our Natural Kitchen Cooking School program. I was amazed that I enjoyed an adapted version of this recipe so […]

  • Green Bean Beet Salad

    The consistent assumption about vegans is that we must eat boring salads all the time. During our April weekend of “Foods in a Flash” at the Natural Kitchen Cooking School, we learned how to make an amazing salad that was far from the normal green house salad one would expect us to be munching on. […]

  • Grilled Seitan & Portabella with Chimichurri

    I’ve always wanted to make my own seitan, but figured it would be too time consuming and overwhelming. During our April weekend of classes for “Foods in a Flash” at the Natural Kitchen Cooking School, we tried our hands at making homemade seitan. At school, it came out fantastic…with the help of my classmates and […]

  • Romaine Salad with Sesame Cilantro Vinaigrette

    In our March weekend of classes at the Natural Kitchen Cooking School, we were given The Saucy Vegetarian by Jo Stepaniak, a favorite vegan cookbook author and inspiration. One of our assignments was to choose a recipe from the book and to make it this past month. It was a difficult process as there are […]