The ever humble carrot gets transformed magically into the most lovely, velvety cream soup right in a Vitamix blender. This is a vegan recipe that uses no dairy, no oil, no salt and no nuts! Roasting the carrots, onions and garlic, gives it a real flavor boost. An oven roasted sweet potato adds another level…
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Tom’s Dump Soup
You asked for it and Tom finally has written down a recipe for Tom’s Dump Soup! Chef AJ was at our house one day when Tom was making Dump Soup for his lunch and she thought it looked good and smelled good so she asked him to make it on the Truth About Weight Loss…
Delicious Plant Based Recipes For Entertaining
We all know that if we don’t learn how to make the food easy and delicious we won’t stay with this whole food plant based no oil lifestyle for the long haul. With that in mind we decided to do some hands on cooking with the 14 people who participated in our Ultimate Weight Loss…
How To Make Vegan Sushi Rolls
In May of 2019 spent a week with Chef AJ and her husband Charles. While there, our dear friend Heather taught us how to make Vegan Sushi Rolls with brown rice! These are SOS free and incredibly delicious. I was surprised at how easy they are to make. These will be something we will make…
Hearty Lentil Vegetable Stew
Fall is in the air and it makes me want to start cooking soups, stews and chili. Yes good old comfort food. I love a hearty lentil soup and we tend to like ours to be more like stew – really thick and packed with goodness. For a while now I have been making a…
Crispy Spring Rolls – Breville Air Fryer-Vegan-Gluten Free
Let me just say that I was perfectly happy with my whole food plant based lifestyle prior to owning a Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer. Having said that I must admit that an air fryer really is a game changer because you can make so many amazing oil free foods in it. I didn’t realize…
Fresh Spring Roll Wraps / Gluten Free
One of my favorite appetizers or light meals is Vietnamese Spring Rolls. They are so refreshing and light because they are not fried. I love the colorful, crunchy fresh vegetables all wrapped up inside a rice paper wrap! They are so easy to make at home and you can use whatever vegetables you happen to…
How To Make My Big Beautiful Salad – BBS
If you follow me on the Nutmeg Notebook Instagram account or facebook you have seen my photos of what I have dubbed “BBS” – big beautiful salads! Hubby Tom and I love these giant salads that are indeed a full meal. When I first transitioned to a whole food plant based diet I was following…
Vegan Multi Bean Soup – Slow Cooker
Vegan Multi Bean Soup – Slow Cooker 9 cups low sodium vegetable broth 1 – 20 ounce pkg dried multi bean soup mix, sorted, rinsed (toss the flavor packet that comes with it) no need to pre-soak the beans 4 medium carrots, peeled, chopped 3 medium stalks celery, chopped 2 cups of peeled, diced potato…
Donna’s Vegan Cheeze Sauce
I am super excited to share this recipe with you all today! In the past two years since moving to a plant based diet I have tried many vegan/plant based cheese sauce recipes. Some of them were down right awful and others were just okay. That all changed when my friend Donna Weifert shared her…