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Chili Miso Red Cabbage Steaks (Vegan)

Chili Miso Red Cabbage Steaks (Vegan)

One pan meal of roasted red cabbage steaks drizzled with chili miso sauce from side

Vegan steaks! How does that work?

Just cut some thick slices of red cabbage, roast and season them, and you have yourself a delicious vegetable main dish.

Appetizing photos of cauliflower steaks have been popping up all over my Pinterest feed lately. So, why not try out the same method on another favorite vegetable like red cabbage?

For these red cabbage “steaks”, I topped them off with an Asian-inspired chili miso sauce that is a balanced mix between spicy, sour, sweet, salty, and umami. I’ll definitely be making this combination again for dressings and more.

As usual, the best part about this meal was that it took less than 20 minutes from inception to consumption.

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Two-Ingredient Almond Mango Ice Cream (Vegan)

Two-Ingredient Almond Mango Ice Cream (Vegan)

Scooped Two-Ingredient Almond Mango Ice Cream from top up close

I was driving home from work this week and craving a sweet frozen treat. I knew I wanted something light and quick when the idea to make a five-minute nice cream hit me.

With a half opened carton of almond milk in the fridge and a bag of mango chunks in the freezer, I had all of the ingredients I needed.

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Blood Orange Syrup

Blood Orange Syrup

Action shot of pouring homemade blood orange syrup on Trader Joe’s frozen pancakes from side up close

I made my own blood orange syrup and you can too! All you need to make your own flavored syrup are two ingredients: sugar and flavoring, and you can make any custom syrup you want.

Creating your own syrup is simple and fun. The base of simple syrup is just sugar and water boiled together on a stovetop until the mixture reaches the desired syrup consistency.

Though it may seem more difficult, the process of making flavored syrup is just as easy as making simple syrup: boil together the flavoring, sugar, and water together, and voila! Flavored syrup!

This is where it gets fun.

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Hearty Black Bean Pasta with Marinara

Hearty Black Bean Pasta with Marinara

Hearty Black Bean Pasta with Marinara and Trader Joe’s Organic Black Bean Rotini from angle

Ye haw! I’ve jumped on the healthy pasta bandwagon—carrot spirals, lentil sedanini, tofu noodles, edamame spaghetti, zoodles, brown rice and millet ramen, spaghetti squash, and more.

Most recently, I tried Trader Joe’s Organic Black Bean Rotini. It’s like eating a bowl of beans (holy protein!), but it tastes like pasta!

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