Happy Fall, Autumn Equinox, vegan PSL weather, back to school, cold weather, and most relevant here, cooking and baking weather! When it's too hot to cook, Chicago offers plenty of summer dishes, markets, and restaurant specials. While I wasn't doing much recipe creating over the summer, I did try a few new things like making […]
Vegan Breakfast Recipes
Whether you like it sweet or savory, you'll find something you want to make for breakfast here! There's pancakes, waffles, smoothies, homemade cereal, and more.
Try my Tomato, Basil, and Mozzarella Vegan Crepes, Fluffy Vegan Pancakes, or Homemade Lucky Charms!
Vegan Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls
These vegan pumpkin cinnamon rolls will make your home smell amazing with the spice blend of cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg. Make them a weekend brunch tradition in the fall!
Vegan Pumpkin Muffins with Streusel Topping
These vegan pumpkin muffins are moist and perfectly spiced with a pumpkin spice blend and topped with a crunchy cinnamon streusel topping. Enjoy for breakfast with a steaming cup of coffee, or save them for dessert on a crisp fall day.
Vegan Apple Pie Pancakes with Cinnamon Apples
These vegan apple pie pancakes are perfectly spiced with apple pie spice and topped with warm gooey cinnamon apples.
Easy Vegan Cinnamon Rolls
These vegan cinnamon rolls are easy to make for breakfast or an anytime sweet treat! They're full of cinnamon sugar and topped with a sweet glaze.
Vegan Potato Pancakes with Wild Blueberry Apple Chutney
These vegan potato pancakes (or latkes) with homemade blueberry apple chutney are made with aquafaba instead of egg, and so easy to make for Mother's Day brunch or Hanukkah.
Easy Vegan Tofu Scramble with Onions and Peppers
This vegan tofu scramble is a great, easy breakfast full of protein. Serve with toast and tempeh bacon or add to breakfast burritos!
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 Maple Bacon Cinnamon Rolls
These vegan maple bacon cinnamon rolls are soft and pillowy and made with real maple syrup. They’re topped with a sweet maple glaze and crunchy vegan maple bacon chips.
Vegan Apple Cider Donuts (Fried)
Do you miss eating cider donuts at the apple orchard? These fried vegan apple cider donuts are here to the rescue! They have all the flavor of the classic autumn treat finished with a cinnamon sugar coating. Now that snow is falling and the weather is shifting from pleasantly crisp to bitter cold in Chicago, […]
Bakery Style Vegan Chocolate Chip Muffins
These bakery-style vegan chocolate chip muffins are so easy to whip up for breakfast! The muffin cups are overfilled to make tall muffin tops coated in crunchy coarse sugar and mini chocolate chips. Jump to:🍫 Ingredients🔪 Instructions💭 Tips🥞 More vegan breakfast recipes💬Comments I looove those huge chocolate chip bakery muffins with big crunchy muffin tops […]
Beet Smoothie Recipe with Blueberries and Ginger
This vegan beet smoothie recipe is made with raw beets, berries, banana, and ginger. It's sweet, tart, and has a nice earthy flavor and bright pink color from the beets. Jump to:🍋 Ingredients🔪 Instructions💭 Tips🥛 More smoothie recipes💬Comments This smoothie was another "beets from the CSA box" recipe (the other one was this Roasted Beet […]
Cranberry Vanilla Tea Apple Crepes
Now that autumn is winding down and December is here, several layers of blankets and piping hot beverages sounds like the perfect way to spend leisurely weekend mornings. One of my favorite parts of those slower mornings is getting up early, and making a giant, time-consuming breakfast while sipping coffee over the stove. I’ll often […]
Vegan Lucky Charms
Reporting back with another vegan meringue development: you can make vegan Lucky Charms out of a can of freakin' chickpeas and it's blowing my mind. When I made Lemon Meringue Pie and a test batch of meringue cookies over the weekend, my first thought was, "oh shit, this tastes like Lucky Charms marshmallows!" I waited […]
Tomato, Basil, and Mozzarella Savory Crepes
When I lived in Milwaukee, WI while I was going to school, I would get vegan crepes at a little food cart called Satellite Crepes. They set up at farmers markets around the city throughout the spring and summer. In addition to the traditional egg-laden, meaty offerings, they served vegan crepes and gluten-free crepes! While […]
Halloween Lucky Charms
Happy Halloween (Cereal)! It's the best time of year! I could, however, do without the fact that it's supposed to snow in Chicago on Halloween. But on the bright side, it's an excuse to stay in, have a warm dinner, and then snuggle up and eat a bunch of candy (and if you want to […]
Cheers to Pumpkin Beer Pancakes
Now that it's October, you're probably prepared to face an overabundance of pumpkin-themed posts and photos in your blog readers and on social media. For me, the pumpkin craze is a reminder of the impending doom that is winter, which makes me swear, every year, that I need to move far away from the Midwest […]
National Waffle Day: Chicken and Waffles
If you've ever taken a social media or blogging workshop, or researched ideas for food blog posts, one piece of advice that usually shows up is writing about one of the many unofficial national food holidays (check out one of the many lists all over the internet). Never worry about coming up with ideas for […]
Avocado Toast Houses
Upon learning that avocado toast is the primary reason millennials are not homeowners, I knew some self reflection was in order. I, a person who was born smack in the middle of the birth year range that classifies millennials, am an avid consumer of avocado slices on toasted bread. I also rent my apartment without […]
Agave Bunches of Oats
As a child, one of my favorite cereal was Honey Bunches of Oats. Obviously, from the name alone, this wasn't a cereal that remained one of my favorites through the transition to veganism. Luckily, there were plenty of new culinary discoveries that made it easy for this cereal to disappear into ancient memories (this is […]
The Best Fluffy Vegan Pancakes
These light and fluffy vegan pancakes are the perfect weekend breakfast! They're easy to make and ready for pure maple syrup. <<< [wprm-recipe-jump] >>> My dad and I used to make pancakes from an old cookbook every Sunday morning when I was growing up. My job was usually measuring and mixing ingredients, careful not to […]
Vegan Unicorn Pancake Cereal Recipe
This magical vegan pancake cereal is made with unicorn colors and topped with rainbow sprinkles! Eat them in a bowl like cereal or as a tiny stack of pancakes. Jump to:🌈 Ingredients🔪 Instructions💭 Tips🦄 More magical recipes💬Comments First TikTok brought us dalgona coffee (which I'm pretty sure is just Cuban coffee), and now pancake cereal. […]
Vegan Rainbow Pancakes Recipe
These vegan rainbow pancakes are easy to whip up and make a fun weekend breakfast! Top them with maple syrup and vegan butter, or add some vegan whipped cream and sprinkles. Jump to:🥞 Key Ingredients💭 Tips🌈 Art prints🎥 Video💬Comments I'm sharing the recipe for Pride month, but they are wonderful any time of year. While […]
"I made French toast."
Don: "What's on this?" Sally: "Mrs. Butterworth's." Don: "Go get it." ... Don: "That's rum. Read labels." Sally: "Is it bad?" Don: "Not really." This exchange between Don and Sally happens in season four's 'The Beautiful Girls' when Sally Draper proudly presents homemade French toast to her father. ("Oh daddy, I do it all the […]