This vegan cashew tofu ricotta is blended with fresh basil and has a mild savory flavor perfect for lasagna, toast, or your favorite pasta dish. It’s quick and easy to make, and completely dairy free!
From Scratch Ingredients & DIY Cooking Tips
Ever wanted to make your own cashew milk or learn how to caramelize onions the right way? You'll find my best cooking tips and tricks below so you can really cook from scratch.
Steep your own Cold Brew Coffee or save money by making Homemade Vanilla Extract.
5 Minute Vegan Parmesan Cheese with Walnuts and Cashews
You'll want to sprinkle this vegan Parmesan cheese on all your pasta dishes, sandwiches, and salads! It's made with cashews and walnuts, but you can use any kind of nuts you like. It's also soy free, gluten free, and only takes 5 minutes to make.
Vegan Cultured Cashew Cheese Spread without Nutritional Yeast
This vegan cashew cheese spread is made with raw cashews cultured with rejuvelac without nutritional yeast or other flavorings! It has a mild, tangy flavor just like regular cheese, but is completely dairy free! It can be served as an appetizer as a spread or dip, or used as a base for other vegan cheese recipes.
Vegan Kitchen Essentials: The Must Have Tools for Vegan Cooking
Building your vegan kitchen for everyday cooking and baking? From cookware to appliances, these vegan kitchen essentials will get you started.
How to Make Delicious Oven Baked Tofu
This delicious oven baked tofu is excellent for sandwiches, salad toppers, and stir fries! Prepare it ahead of time with your favorite marinade for a quick weeknight meal, or meal prep for lunch.
Tofu 101: What is Tofu and How Do You Cook This Vegan Superfood?
Are you a tofu aficionado or new to the ‘fu? Tofu can be intimidating at first, but once you get the preparation down pat, it will become a kitchen staple! Read on to learn all about this soy superfood, how to press tofu, how to cook tofu, and tofu recipes everyone will enjoy.
How to Make Pumpkin Puree from Fresh Pumpkin
Homemade pumpkin puree will make your fall baked goods even more fresh and delicious! Leave the canned pumpkin on the shelves—here's how to make pumpkin puree from pie pumpkin or any kind of squash.
Refrigerator Dill Pickles with Garlic
These refrigerator dill pickles are crunchy, full of flavor from the fresh dill and garlic, and best of all, easy to make! You can use any kind of cucumbers, whole or sliced.
Quick Pickled Radishes with Chili Flakes
These quick pickled radishes are full of peppery flavor and make a colorful salad topper or healthy snack that's easy to prepare.
Sweet and Smoky Tempeh Bacon
You won't be able to stop eating this sweet and smoky tempeh bacon! The marinade is full of flavor with liquid smoke, maple syrup, and umami flavor. It's easy to whip up for breakfast any day of the week.
Vegan Aquafaba Mayo (Make it in a Blender!)
This egg free and vegan aquafaba mayo is made in a blender and can be used for sandwiches, salads, and dressings. The aquafaba has similar properties to egg whites and emulsifies with the oil when blended.
Vegan Marzipan Recipe with Aquafaba
This vegan marzipan recipe is quick and easy and tastes sweet and nutty. It can be used just like traditional marzipan—in cookies, candy, baking, for marzipan fruits, or even as a replacement for fondant. Marzipan typically calls for egg whites, but this version uses aquafaba, the liquid from a can of chickpeas. Jump to:🥘 Ingredients🔪 […]
Homemade Vanilla Extract
This homemade vanilla extract is so easy to make and makes a great gift. It will cost far less than store bought vanilla extract in the long run. Jump to:🍨 Ingredients🔪 Instructions💭 Tips🍰 Ways to use💬Comments Homemade vanilla extract is incredibly easy to make, much cheaper than tiny store-bought bottles, and it makes a great […]
How to Make Rejuvelac for Vegan Cheese
Once you learn how to make rejuvelac for vegan cheesemaking, you won't go back to the prepackaged cheese! Rejuvelac is the magic ingredient that makes cashew cheese taste like cheese. But it's not magic—it's fermentation! Jump to:🍶 What is it?🧾 Ingredients🔪 Instructions🥫 Storage💭 Tips❌ Troubleshooting💬Comments 🍶 What is it? Rejuvelac is a fermented liquid made […]
Homemade Hibiscus Vodka for Summer Cocktails
This homemade hibiscus vodka is made by infusing vodka with dried hibiscus flowers (or flor de jamaica). The flowers steep quickly so the vodka is ready to use for colorful summer cocktails within a few hours. This vodka is used in my Hibiscus Moscow Mule recipe. Jump to:🌺 Ingredients🔪 Instructions💭 Tips📋 Variation🍹 Uses💬Comments Step away […]
How to Make Cucumber Vodka
Ever wanted to make your own flavored vodka? This cucumber vodka recipe is so easy to follow, and can be used to make all kinds of cocktails. Skip the store bought stuff and make your own for cocktails like cucumber mojitos, vodka sodas, and martinis. Jump to:🥒 Ingredients🔪 Instructions🍹 Cocktails💬Comments I'm not much of a […]
Cold Brew Coffee with Lavender Simple Syrup
If you make your own drip coffee at home, but will pay for bottles of cold brew coffee, stooooooop! It's ridiculously simple to make cold brew, even more so than making regular drip coffee. Plus, it's ready immediately when you wake up in the morning, so no messing around with coffee machines or waiting for […]
Homemade Cashew Milk
It happened: I've started making homemade cashew milk. Not because I'm worried about additives and toxins, carrageenan, blah blah blah, but because I finally found a non-dairy milk that's simple to make and tastes good (still shuddering from the oat milk experiment). This cashew milk recipe comes together quickly in a high speed blender, and […]
Takeout-Style Kung Pao Tofu
Kung pao tofu is my favorite dish to order at Chinese restaurants because it's crunchy, flavorful, and not too spicy despite containing a good amount of dried chilis. <<< [wprm-recipe-jump] >>> This recipe is just like takeout with its crispy sesame garlic tofu, stir fried peppers and celery, Sichuan peppers, and roasted peanuts. Kung pao […]
Ranch Dressing
This vegan ranch dressing recipe is creamy and peppery and can be use for salads or as a dip for vegetables. It only takes a few minutes to make in a mason jar or any type of container. <<<[wprm-recipe-jump]>>> Vegan ranch is sometimes hard to find in stores, and if you can find it, it's […]
How to Caramelize Onions
I often see recipes that instruct you to sauté onions until caramelized, and suggest that this process will take 5-10 minutes. I've probably been guilty of this myself. Sure, you can brown some onions in 5-10 minutes, but they'll be "stir fry onions" and missing the sweetness and depth of flavor of truly caramelized onions. […]
Chicken-Style Seitan
Ever wondered how to make seitan at home? It's easier than you think! This chicken seitan can be marinated and used in stir fries, eaten in a sandwich, or used in any recipe that calls for it. <<< [wprm-recipe-jump] >>> Hi, my name's Kelly and I have a blog called Seitan Beats Your Meat, but […]
Homemade Chicago Style Giardiniera Recipe
This homemade giardiniera is brined and pickled in oil and vinegar, and super easy to make. It can be made hot or mild to use in sandwiches, salads, or as a pizza topping. The most difficult part is waiting for it to be ready! Jump to:🥪 Uses📋 Ingredients🔪 Instructions🌶 Hot vs mild🥕 Low oil🥫 Bulk […]