Welcome to vegan pozole verde, the recipe you need to spice up your winter soup collection. It’s the dead of winter, things are still gray and cold, and you’re tired of making the same soup over and over and over. That’s exactly when you need pozole verde, a burst of green in the middle of…
Category: Main Courses
Main dishes
Vegan Char Siu (Chinese BBQ Pork)
If you’ve been to a Chinese restaurant serving dim sum, then you’ve probably seen the fluffy white steamed buns filled with a sweet and flavorful red-hued pork. This was always my favorite dim sum dish – a bao bun filled with char siu, a Cantonese barbecue roasted pork. I loved the glossy meat that had…
Instant Pot Red Red (Ghanian Black-Eyed Pea Tomato Stew)
I’ve wanted to make a dish from West Africa for awhile now, but I admit I’ve been a little intimidated. I’ve tackled some recipes from East Africa and Southern Africa, but West Africa, not yet. Perhaps the reason is that I’m simply less experienced in eating and cooking food for this part of the world,…
Cheddar & Gouda Beer Fondue
As I look outside watching large flakes of snow drop from the sky, nothing sounds better than curling up and dipping stuff in warm, gooey cheese with family and friends gathered around the pot. I’ve been making fondue for years. One of the first pieces of cookware I owned was a fondue set, gifted to…
Mushroom & Lentil Vegan Lasagna
My mom is known for her lasagna. Family gatherings, parties, holidays, she always made lasagna. I have many memories of making lasagna together, trying to pull out the cooked noodles from the pot without breaking them in half (it always happened anyway) and setting it in layers. Mom recently shared her lasagna recipe with me….
Vegetarian Spicy Stuffed Peppers (Rocoto Relleno)
Let’s talk about Peru. This is going to be tough, because there is so much to say! It remains one of my favorite countries I’ve ever visited: Incan ruins, deserts and canyons, the Amazon rainforest, the highest navigable lake in the world, and thriving cities, to start. And oh yeah, the food. Always the food….
Ethiopian Lentil Stew (Misir Wat)
At this time last year, I announced an entire month dedicated to Ethiopian cooking in celebration of Ethiopian New Year. We made homemade berbere spice (a blend essential to Ethiopian cooking), niter kibbeh (Ethiopian-style clarified butter), shiro wat (chickpea stew), and attempted injera, a fermented flatbread (maybe someday I’ll get it right…) And in an…
Sichuan Chili Oil Fried Rice
I remember the first time I tasted Sichuan cooking. It was at a now-closed restaurant in NYC and a Chinese friend had brought me there because the food was authentic and affordable. I enthusiastically ordered the Mapo Tofu (side note: I thought this tofu dish was vegetarian, but it’s not, whoops) After a few delectable…
A Really Good Sandwich
It all started about a year and a half ago. A friend of mine said she was looking to learn more vegetarian recipes and I wanted to help by using this blog to make vegetarian versions of recipes that would be familiar to her. One of my first ideas for her was a faux BLT…
Simple Roasted Cauliflower
Some days it seems that cauliflower has taken over the internet. It’s appealing in particular to vegetarians and health food enthusiasts because it can be a good substitute for chicken (try my cauliflower buffalo bites or BBQ cauliflower pizza if you need convincing), or as a replacement for refined grain foods like white flour in…
Marissa Makes Food 