GF ALMOND RHUBARB CAKE

Makes 6 Servings Soup, 15 Butter Rolls

103 Calories Per Serving Soup, 86 Calories Per One Tablespoon Crunchy Topping, 227 Calories Per Butter Roll

Whole scenery of the farmer's markets are beginning to change drastically, spring and early summer vegetables are starting to show their vibrant and bright appearance on vendor tables.. I'm so excited to start eating fresh again, either from our garden or my trusted organic farmer's stand.. And what better way to enjoy the fresh flavors of spring than this delicious yet nutritious soup ? Crisp, tender asparagus is combined with flavorful slightly sweet over wintered spinach, garlic, and potatoes, then served with protein loaded crunchy quinoa and seeds-mania topping for extra kick - you can use this topping for salads, soups, Buddha bowls, and morning yogurt cereal bowls; versatile and perfect & easy way to add a healthy crunch into

Makes 12 Muffins

161 Calories Per Muffin

These uber healthy strawberry oat muffins are ridiculously easy to make and insanely delicious, nutritious and convenient grab-and-go breakfast or snack option that doesn’t need heating and can be literally eaten on the run, and that's far better for you than take-away on the way to work or outside.. I’m talking about the type that doesn’t make you feel like you’re eating cake for breakfast; a muffin that is just sweet enough to satisfy but loaded with goodies that fills you for long hours.. More filling and less sweet than energy bars which make them perfect snack for afternoon hunger attack.. I roast the strawberries briefly before adding into batter which is a game changer for the recipe.. This little process makes strawberries sweeter and dries them out so the muffins stay still moist without getting too soggy.. Wonderfully tender and moist muffins have the best texture

Makes 10 Servings

372 Calories Per Serving With Toppings

If you love cheesecake and also love pudding, then this recipe is a perfect combination of both..This easy no - bake citrus loaded semolina cheesecake is delicious and wholesome with carrot + oat + dried fruit crust, rich and creamy with semolina pudding - which you can not get that silky texture with a traditional cheesecake - and amazingly tasty with homemade citrus jello.. Effortless to make with only handful ingredients, and so healthy, light, and fluffy.. This Sunday is Mother's day; let's spoil your mother and celebrate her day with this special cheesecake.. What better way to show your love to her than this.. Serve this show stopping cheesecake with homemade meringues, 

Makes 6 Servings Dutch Baby Pancake, 10 -2 Portions Rectangles Savory Cake

202 Calories Per Serving Dutch Baby, 263 Calories Per 2 Portions Savory Cake

If you’ve never had a Dutch baby before, now is your chance !! A dutch baby pancake is a fluffy pancake that airy - eggy batter pours into hot piping skillet, bakes in the oven and puffs up around the edges and leaves the bottom custardy and delicious; and most importantly you can have this mouth watering oversized pancake in 20 minutes on your table for easy crowd entertaining.. All you need is just one blender and one skillet, hello to easy cleaning !! No, despite the name it's not from the Netherlands, actually Dutch baby is a German style pancake that known or named as

Makes 6 Burgers

425 Calories Per Burger

We don't discriminate any vegetables in our home, all of them equally love and use; but mushrooms.. Not because they're a great replacement for meat in any vegan recipes, because they simply taste amazing !! If you want to try this finger - smacking tasty vegan pulled mushroom burger, then all you need is king oyster mushrooms.. You can not use just any other mushrooms here, simply they don't create the same texture and flavor like king oyster mushrooms.. You need to pick thick stem mushrooms for easy shredding with a fork - or cut them with a knife as thin as you can -, then seasoned them with a spice mix before roasting them in the oven.. After 30 minutes of roasting; shredded mushrooms turned into tender and juicy goodness with perfectly crispy edges.. You can use them as is or pan fried them with a homemade BBQ sauce 

Makes 12 Servings For Chocolate Cake, 9 -2 Portions Petit Fours

559 Calories Per Serving Of Chocolate Cake, 464 Calories Per Petit Four

Whenever I see the warmer temperature and sunshine, I'm going out to the garden for cleaning, weeding, planting and making plans for new plantings.. Touching dirt and leaves, feeling the spring scent on my face, seeing the newly coming shoots under the piles of mulch, and hopes that something will grow there soon ; it's my meditation.. Spring means beginning of the busy days for us, but for now, I'm so excited to share this uber - moist cake and delicious seven layers petit fours with you today !! First, let me tell all about this amazing chocolate cake.. This simple - takes one bowl to whisk up - yet extremely sophisticated fudgy + moist cake keeps beautifully for days, and you'd never guess that's free of diary, gluten, grains, nuts and refined sugar; because it tastes like the most decadent chocolate cake ever !! I used 9 inches springform cake pan, then cut in half to create two layers cake with blueberry flavored mascarpone coconut cream.. I finished the cake with pistachio edges and creamy chocolate ganache on top, and decorating with fresh blueberries, blackberries and homemade meringue kisses for extra

Makes 6 Tacos

323 Calories Per Taco

I'm always on the lookout for fast, easy yet healthy lunch + dinner ideas - especially summer time -, and this one is a new family favorite.. These fish tacos are super easy to put together, either for celebration - Cinco de Mayo is around the corner - or healthy and filling weekday meal.. First salmon marinated with a gingery, garlicky, tamari - sesame glaze, then fish pieces caramelized in the hot pan for perfect crusty texture.. Best of all, you can whip up a creamy taco sauce while the fish cooks.. Rest is just fun, fill them into char / warm up corn tortillas ( the biggest trick to corn tortillas is to warm them properly, cold corn tortillas and warm / charred corn tortillas are night and day, you can char them individually on gas stovetop, directly over the flame, for about 15 to 25 seconds per side, and then immediately transfer them to a kitchen towel to stay warm for serving, or warm up them in the microwave for 10 seconds and cover immediately with a towel ), and add crunchy vegetable garnishes -pickled jalapenos, red onions and red cabbages - .. Voila it’s a meal !! These insanely delicious tacos are bursting with flavors by itself but if you top them with

Makes 30 Servings

203 Calories Per Serving

This is a delicious savory breakfast pastry that is made of perfectly crispy layers of hand rolled dough - tastier and healthier than puff pastry or phyllo dough - and a comforting filling of onion + garlic sauteed spinach and tangy feta cheese.. This recipe is fabulous as-is, but you can also change some of the ingredients to customize the flavors to your tastes.. Feel free to add other veggies to the filling such as diced mushrooms, roughly mashed potatoes or sun dried tomatoes.. You can also add other types of greens besides spinach such as kale, dandelion, wild garlic.. Or try adding some cooked ground 

Makes 8 Halves of Pita Pockets

366 Calories Per Halve Pita With 5 Meatballs and Garnishing

I love chickpeas in any form; they're so versatile, delicious and packed with quality / easy digestible protein.. So there is no surprise here that they also work wonderfully in these vegan meatballs.. These tasty meatballs are made with flax egg ( flax meal and water mixture ), mushrooms, chickpeas, rolled oats, panko and Italian seasoning.. Simple pantry ingredients come together into ball shape "heaven " and feed your body & mind nutritiously.. YES, they're kid-friendly, omnivore - approved, and easy to make just in 20 minutes !! Like my other amazing vegan meatballs recipes, you'll have more meatballs than you need for one meal; but they can freeze beautifully for future uses - easily corporate them into any dishes, such as pasta 

Makes 5 - 2 Servings Cake

492 Calories Per Serving

These pretty two-serving cakes are an eye- catching centerpiece for any birthday - especially for someone who doesn't like or eat spinach - or celebration such as Easter Sunday or Mother's Day ( or any day ).. Ohhh, also they make a lovely afternoon tea or snacking cake ..They look uber cute and tasty from outside, but real drama comes when the cutting them open to reveal the inside.. Flavorful, rich and tender crumbled green cake is prepared with homemade pistachio flour and packed with good amount of spinach, and these two layers of pistachio + spinach cake are sandwiched together 

Makes 6 Servings

440 Calories Per Serving

If you're like me and can't get enough soup - especially these temperature changing days -, then you should definitely try my version of classic Italian soup !! Delicious Tuscan soup is classically made with sausage, kale, potatoes, onion, and garlic then topped with cheese, and bacon, but here I enriched the texture and flavor with addition of homemade beet & potato gnocchi, tofu bacon and spicy chili oil.. And YES, it is the most delicious, nutritious and filling zuppa toscana ever.. Easy, tasty, comfort-y, and completely vegan !! Also,If you make gnocchi with chickpea flour, then effortlessly whole soup will become gluten 

Makes 46 Big Taralli or 108 Tarallini

30 Calories Per Tarallini

Taralli or smaller version tarallini Pugliesi are a delicious, addictively crunchy - yes, they are crisp but not hard - snack from Puglia, and made with simple ingredients; white wine, olive oil and flour.. Taralli are fantastic, and everyone likes them because they can be prepared in so many ways depending on the areas of production; round or drop-shaped, small or large, savory, spiced, even sweet, and flavored with different types of spices and seeds, as here mixture of fennel, caraway, anise seeds, black peppers and crushed red pepper flakes.. In Italy, generally they use as a bread substitute to enjoy along with cheese and antipasto platter, and also they are amazing when dip in red wine.. But often I eat taralli by itself as a uber tasty snack for

Makes 6 Servings

720 Calories Per Bowl, 58 Calories Per Meatball

You already know, I'm crazy about wholesome vegetarian / vegan meatless meatballs.. Just for a second, close your eyes and think about savory, hearty, tender, garlicky meatballs just the ones like you grew up eating.. but totally meatless.. Instead of meat, they are packed with protein, mushrooms, nut & seed, plus bursting with full of flavor, totally vegetarian, and optionally gluten-free.. Who wouldn't want to eat them ? I think I'm not alone on a roll with meatless meatballs !! It's easy to cover weekday nutritious lunch or dinner with them, if you consider per 4 meatballs serve 10 grams of protein, but put them on top of quinoa 

Makes 12-14 Cookies

155 Calories Per Cookies

Today, I'm sharing a family favorite with you - the world's best cookies !! Growing up, these thin biscuit based pillows topped with fluffy marshmallows and covered with dark chocolate, were my mom's sweetest treat for me !! Right now, I'm as a long term gluten - friendly, vegetarian - most of the time vegan - eater who religiously avoid overly processed package goodies and ingredients; but still craving childhood favorites that are no longer fit into my diet.. This is why I gladly spend time in my kitchen for healthier version of all my favorites.. As usual, simple pantry friendly ingredients used in these cookies, and they're so easy to make that you can even get your kids involved.. Traditionally these cookies are made with butter loaded shortbread cookies, marshmallow - which is on the " no " list - and chocolate sauce - again so many unknown ingredients -; but here I made

Makes 6 Servings

446 Calories Per Serving

Traditional Mexican breakfast is made with not-so-traditional way with spicy jackfruit - hoping you all tried the previous recipe and have some leftovers from there-.. What's not to love about this meatless vegetarian chilaquiles, actually you'll be obsessed with it after the first bite; because ready in 30 minutes in one pan - hello to no-mess breakfast -, so versatile - you can serve with any kind of eggs - fry, scramble -, stir up with cheese or use leftover roasted veggies on hand -, and crazy delicious !! Crispy tortilla chips are tossed and simmered in smokey tomato base sauce, and topped + layered with addictively tasty caramelized jackfruit, pan fried eggs, avocado slices or crema, radishes, cojita cheese 

Makes 12 Tacos

Calories

If you never tasted or tried jackfruit in your meat - free lunch / dinner meal before, then highly recommend it.. But I have to warn you, after the first taste, it becomes an obsession.. Vegans or non-vegans will be pleasantly surprised and addicted their flavor packed taste and crispy texture.. Canned young, green, unripe jackfruit - because ripe jackfruit is sweeter, it goes really well with overnight oat breakfast bowls or ice creams, desserts - has the same stringy texture of a pulled meat, but doesn't actually taste like meat on its own - 100 times better than meat for sure - .. Pretty much like tofu, jackfruit takes on the flavor of whatever sauce, marinade or spices you're cooking with, tangy, crispy, chewy and uber tasty.. It's so versatile, I tried them in every possible way to incorporate in our diet; tacos, enchiladas, pizzas, wraps, salads or even for breakfast in chilaquiles .. All are

Makes 8 Servings

655 Calories Per Serving

This luxuriously creamy tortellini soup with black bean meatballs is the perfect meal of your dreams and ideal for keeping you cozy on cold days and nights.. Nothing is better than " heart and soul " warming soup when temperatures take a plunge.. Please try it first then thank me later !! You won't believe how flavorful this bowl of soup is while getting tons of veggies along with.. Really, there are many things going on in this recipe.. Lets start with homemade vegetarian tortellini - of course you can sub with store bought ones -that stuffed with Brussels sprouts, leek, mushroom, goat and ricotta cheese, and joined in the party with crunchy outside soft inside " best of the best " vegan meatballs that made with black beans, sunflower seeds, rolled oats, flax meal, spices and seasonings, then those two key components of the dish enveloped in a rich, creamy, tangy 

Makes 8 Croissants

247 Calories Per Croissant

You don't need to be an experienced baker to make homemade croissants; anyone can make these amazing chocolate croissants, because they are made with easy way - skipping the long process of rolling, folding and chilling which called lamination of dough - yet still delicious, light, buttery but not overly, perfectly golden, still soft in the center and extra flakey outside like traditional ones.. Absolutely yummy !! You can choose from two different special techniques for making them easy..First method is that yeasted dough roll once, fold around the chilly cold butter like an envelope, place in the fridge for 30 minutes then roll it out once more to distribute butter pieces evenly into the dough.. Second method is; cut the dough into 12 pieces, roll them out into rectangles, and stack them up with butter in between each layer.. Then, you chill the dough, roll it out, cut into long + thin triangles and simply roll on up around chocolate chunks into crescents.. Voila !! Doesn't matter which way of