Can you Eat Brussels Sprout Leaves? Yes you can! Vegan Recipe for Brussels Sprout Greens/Leaves

So, I was looking at my garden and I noticed that the Brussel(s) Sprout plants I planted had these perfect green leaves. It suddenly dawned on me, hey, maybe I can eat that.

I looked it up, and yes, you can eat them, so I did!

I chopped of the top parts of the plant and rinsed off the leaves, cut them with scissors and put them in this pan with a little water and garlic granules. I sauteed a few minutes until they were brighter green and tender. And guess what?! They were fantastic!

Brussels sprout leaves taste like…Brussels sprouts! LOL! Which of course, why wouldn’t they? I heard they cook faster and are more tender than collards, and in my experience, this was correct.

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Quick Vegan Lunch, Greek Style

Hummus, pita bread, kale salad, dill tomato gigantes (huge lima beans), dolmas, and tree of life cashew cheese.

 

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Vegan Soul Food

Vegan Soul food

Cornbread, greens, rice n beans with tofu.

 

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Vegan Shells and Cheese, Review of Annie’s Organic Brand

The box and a bit extra..

I bought 2 boxes of the new Annie’s Vegan mac and cheese.  The first version got complaints from the kids “It’s too sweet”

So on the second box, the shells version, I decided to ‘adult’ it up with a few additions. seen below:

Ingredients

By adding, a bit of garlic granules, paprika, curry, mushrooms and peas, topped with some organic home grown and homemade Serrano pepper hot sauce, and this became a 5 star combination of tastiness.

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Vegan Hot n Sour Soup, Vegan Gumbo

Vegan Hot n sour/gumbo Soup

It’s pretty much okra season around here, and along with the surplus of tomatoes and peppers we have to come up with interesting ways to enjoy the bounty while it is here.

And so is the new creation of adding okra to Hot n Sour soup.  It’s a bit of a gumbo and a bit of traditional hot n sour, that has of course been veganized.

The results- deelicious and good. Seconds please!

Southern style Vegan Comfort, Mac n cheese, Fried Chiken and Broccoli

Fried Vegan ‘chiken’, broccoli and mac n cheese

Oooh, this oily comfort food is something I can not eat at all, but the other veg I was with loved this dish from The Remedy Diner in Raleigh N.C.

I did have a taste of the mac, very tasty, but the rest was to oily for me to even try.

 

Chili Stuffed Baked Potato with Cashew Sour Cream

Chili stuffed Baked Potato with Cashew sour cream

Easy to do! Bake a potato and cut open. Pour a spoon of homemade chili over the top, and top with cashew sour cream.

Cashew sour cream take a little planning but is super easy to make. Soak some raw cashews for about 4 hours, add  a bit of lemon and apple cider vinegar, salt and water and blend in food processor, until it’s creamy. It tastes even better after it’s chilled a few hours.

Vegan Bean Soup, Spicy Stew Recipe

Vegan Bean Soup, Spicy Stew

This is an easy to make winter delight.

1. Gather an assortment of dried beans, lentils, split peas and maybe even oats.
2.  Wash very well and soak over night.
3. Drain out the water and re-wash
4. Put beans into a large pot and cover with 2 inches extra over the top of bean mixture with clean water, Toss in your favorite vegan bouillon cube.  This is the spicy part: Add in frozen fresh hot chilies. I grow a large amount of chilies every summer. I put the whole fresh ripened organic peppers into a freezer bag strait into the freezer and take them out when I need them for cooking. This soup has 1 Tabasco pepper, 1 Mayan Hot habanero, 1 Caribbean habanero and 2 Nubian peppers.Boil at a med heat for a few hours.
5. Cut up some onion and toss it in the pot, Cut up some carrots and toss it into the pot. Add a bay leaf, crushed dried Italian flat leaf parsley, and a few shakes of garlic granules. This is the point where you could also add a potato, celery, etc. what ever veg you have on hand you’d like to eat. Boil, then turn to low heat and simmer for a few more hours.
6. Technically you could make this in much less time, but if you have all day to stir the pot, this is the best way to make bean soup it will get creamy naturally.
7. Don’t forget to take OUT the hot peppers and the bay leaves before serving up to eat. Due to the spiciness you might also want to stir in some vegan sour creme, or vinegar, or serve with some bread or put the whole dish over rice. Kids really like this in a tortilla wrapped up like a burrito.

Enjoy!

 

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BBQ Jackfruit Sandwich

Jackfruit sandwich

Here is a BBQ Jack-fruit sandwich with dill pickles, spinach and vegan blue cheese on french bread.

Lately one of my fave things to eat is jackfruit. Some claim it is a great vegan substitute for pulled pork, but (thankfully) never having eaten that particular pile of carnage before, I can neither affirm nor refute this claim.  I eat it because it is a tasty minimally processed food, with a healthy reputation .

In my mind it has a similar texture (not taste) to bamboo, pineapple and mushrooms.

I have noticed that including the brands I use is helpful to new vegans so they know what to look for in the store:

Upton’s bbq jack fruit and vegan blue cheese dressing

When cooking my jackfruit, I added organic dried garlic granules and organic curry powder.

If you’d like to add cheese, here is my current fave:

heidi ho chia cheese, smoky flavor

 

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Vegan Ethiopian Food

Vegan Ethiopian Food

An assortment of vegan delights, Ethiopian style.

Hummus, Red lentil,Collard Greens, greenbeans/potato/ carrot stew, potato salad, spinach and onion, red veg stew, lentil dish, cabbage, spinach salad, and special bread. Oh, rice and a pineapple in the middle too.

I do not recall the names of these, but the delicious taste will stay on my mind for some time.

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