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enjoy it with sauerkraut and sprouted crispy chickpeas!

Vegan Green Pasta (East meets West) is a great combination of flavor from Asian cuisine & Western pasta. With lots of leafy greens, and a few simple ingredients, this dish is incredibly tasty and healthy!

As a multicultural family, the way we eat is unique. I’m Thai and of course, Thai foods are my first choice.

However, living outside of my own land makes it difficult to find the exact same ingredients for authentic Thai dishes. I have learned to adapt the way I eat according to what I can find locally for many years now.

The result? It’s worked out great. I have created many of my own dishes by combining the ingredients I can find locally with a few simple but essential Thai ingredients I can find easily enough here.

However, this Vegan Green Pasta is not related to Thai foods directly. There’s a crucial ingredient I became addicted to from living for a year in Taiwan–It’s fermented tofu or “chao.”

I like chao so much, and finally learned to make my own after we left Taiwan.

Living here, I have to admit that pasta has become one of our comfort foods. However, eating pasta usually has some kinds of cheeses involved.

When I tried to eat less dairy, it wasn’t easy to give up cheesy pasta dishes. I challenged myself to make them tasty without using any dairy cheese, and chao has come to play a major role. It offers a pungent cheesy flavor, and makes any dish taste uniquely good!…

This Vegan Alfredo Zoodles recipe is unbelievably tasty & simple. Besides lots of vegetables, the other ingredients are water, salt and miso!

I never thought I could enjoy alfredo without pasta, let alone vegan until I started making this recipe.

As I was determined to live without dairy, I sometimes craved rich and creamy alfredo sauce. Eating a big plate of it is so comforting. However, too much pasta makes me feel uneasy and bloated.

When I learned that there’s a simple tool to make zucchini into noodles, I decided to get one. I purchased a simple spiralizer that can be easily put away when I don’t use it.

Ever since, I use it often to make zoodles to substitute for flour pasta.

For the alfredo sauce, to make its texture thicker without using too manny cashews, I add cauliflower, onions and lots of garlic to it. It’s amazing that these Vegan Alfredo Zoodles are so tasty, seasoned with only a touch of salt. …

This Easy Vegetable Curry is like its name—easy. It’s full of vegetables with plant protein, perfect for a bowl of warm rice or simply eat it plain!

The saying “don’t go grocery shopping when you are hungry”, it always works for me and my daughter. We tend to buy more than we need whenever we go out food shopping while we are a little bit hungry.

A few years ago, on the day that I created this recipe. We went to a grocery store while we were, again a little bit hungry. Thanks to my daughter’s craving for Indian food while we were walking past the daily section.

The smell of the Indian spices made our mouth water. She asked if we could get some indian curry to take home. I didn’t want to get more single used containers home, so I told her no, but I promised to make it at home for dinner that night.…

This Vegan Red Curry is full of vegetables, and it’s so tasty & healthy without shrimp paste, fish sauce, or meat. It’s wonderful with a bowl of warm rice, quinoa–or plain!

Vegan Red Curry is one of the tastiest comfort foods to resort to. With the mixed flavor of vegetables and other simple ingredients, this dish can easily become a favorite.

If reducing waste from cooking is one of your goals, you can make your own sprouted tofu, coconut milk, and even red curry paste like I do too.

For the protein, besides tofu, you can use tempeh, or garbanzo beans as well.

As for vegetables, this Vegan Red Curry recipe is so flexible, you can choose your own favorite vegetables and put them in there, adjust the taste to your own liking, and you are all set for a healthy & tasty meal!

Ready to make this healthy meal?…

Are you looking for a ways to consume a variety of vegetables at the same time? This Vegetable and Bean Soup is what you are looking for then. It’s so flavorful from different kinds of fresh vegetables, and packed with the plant-based protein of beans. Simply put everything together, season it with only salt and cumin, and you are set for a tasty & healthy meal. Is it that simple? You bet!

I make this soup almost every week, it’s a reliable meal when it’s time for something easy & fast. It can be eaten as a bowl of soup with homemade bread, or it can be served over pasta if you prefer.

There are 2 main parts of ingredients in this Vegetables and Beans Soup. One is vegetables, and the other part is beans.

The vegetables I use in this post are to guide you, but you can use any kinds of vegetables you like. However, there are two kinds to always keep in the mix:. onions and tomatoes. …

enjoy!

Dreaming of having freshly made artisan bread from your favorite bakery anytime you want? Try this No-Knead Artisan Bread recipe, and your dream will come true. With only a few seconds of physical work, and good planning, you can have fresh bread made by you whenever you want!

I was so intimidated by the look of fancy artisan bread, and thought it would be beyond my ability to make. Now, I can’t stop asking myself “why did I wait so long to try?.

Really? What was I thinking? This No-Knead Artisan Bread is too easy not to make your own. However, it requires at least 12-18 hours, but don’t let this time period scare you away. The actual work literally takes seconds, and the rest is just waiting.…

With a perfect combination of vegetables, nutritional yeast, cashews and salt, this Vegan Mac & Cheese recipe will take your cooking to the next level. You are not going to believe you are eating your favorite comfort food without any dairy products!

Even though mac & cheese is so common, easy to cook, and always gives a smile on my daughter’s face, I always refused to cook it as a main ingredient is dairy cheese. However, that hesitation from a few years ago is gone now.

Now, I cook this Vegan Mac & Cheese recipe almost every week. It’s unbelievably easy, and I usually can get everything done from start to finish including cleaning up the kitchen in less than an hour!

It’s so tasty and healthy without any hidden ingredients we don’t know, as the main key to make the sauce so creamy is vegetables. If you are trying to get your love ones to eat more vegetables this Vegan Mac & Cheese is another great option. It’s also perfect to make it during busy weeks. It’s already full with vegetables, and can simply be a perfect one-bowl meal.

Ready to try eating mac & cheese in a healthier way?…

Pad Thai is the most commonly ordered Thai dish by people I know. From young picky eaters who don’t like to try anything new to grown up eaters who like to try everything new, they all appreciate a good Pad Thai.

Pad Thai is so famous, and very easy to find. If there is a Thai restaurant in your areas, you are in luck for trying it. However, because fish sauce is one of the main ingredients, it’s not easy to find vegan Pad Thai for plant-based eaters like us….

Vegan Paella can easily becomes your favorite dish: Simply replace the meat from the original paella recipe with vegetables!

Besides our fond memories of living in Spain, another thing that will be a part of our lives from now on is the food. We have adapted a few Spanish foods to fit the way we eat, and while we are still here, I’d like to introduce how I make our favorite Vegan Paella with you.

Paella is a famous dish that’s easy to find in most restaurants, and it has a long and fascinating history.

There are a few things people here say they can’t make paella without, and bomba rice, a paella pan, and saffron are on top of this list.

The reason to use Bomba rice because it can absorb the juice and flavor better than other kinds of rice. Even though Bomba rice is not too hard to find in my area, the small organic store I buy most groceries from doesn’t carry it. They say it’s hard to get it organically, so I substitute regular white organic short-grain rice for it instead–and that works fine too. Short-grain rice can absorb the juice better than long-grain rice, and the nutty flavor after cooking makes paella taste unique….

Vegan Lentil Soup is healthy with no doubt, but if you want to go the extra mile, making ordinary, lentil soup extraordinary–try this!

Even though it looks just like normal healthy lentil soup with a lots of vegetables, the lentils have been fermented, and are sure to be easily digestible.

I used to prepare it with dried lentils, but when I learned how to prepare whole grains, beans and legumes in a traditional way, I started to ferment lentils first too.

The fermentation process gives the Vegan Lentil Soup extra flavor too, although it does require some planning. Since I learned the benefits of fermenting, it’s been hard going back to using dried lentils. Let’s try it together….

Stinky Tofu is a famous snack both in China and Taiwan. If you go there and don’t get to try Stinky Tofu, you are not there!

I lived in Taiwan for a year, and I loved having Stinky Tofu as a snack or sometimes, even for a light dinner. The combination of the special marinated tofu, sautéed cabbage, and the spicy sauce give a very unique flavor. It’s the first thing
I used to ask for whenever went back to Taiwan.

However, soon after I learned the secret ingredient to make the traditional stinky tofu was fish or shrimp, and I stopped buying it completely. I tried searching for vendors who make Stinky Tofu without marinating tofu with fish, but there were none. So, I started to experiment my own way. Unfortunately, no matter how much I tried, I can’t make it the same.

I gave up trying to make it to be the same, and started doing it my own way. With just simple ingredients, pan fried instead of deep fried, and the Stinky Tofu vegan style is very healthy and tasty. Are you ready to give it a try?…

Vegan Fried Rice is an all-time Thai classic guaranteed to satisfy everyone–even picky eating kids who don’t like trying anything new.

I don’t usually make this dish as I feel like it’s too typical. Recently, I had a very frustrating experience eating fried rice from a Chinese restaurant on a trip, and want to prove that Thai Vegetarian Fried Rice, packed with yummy vegetables, is really easy to make.

With a perfect combination of simple ingredients, I also go the extra mile, fermenting the rice to make it even healthier, along with lots of vegetables.

Indeed, I can confirm after making it again that it’s both easy and satisfying….

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