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Recipes using vegetables, legumes or grains as the main ingredient

Chopped Kale & Red Cabbage w/ slices of raw red peppers, shaved carrot, sliced green onions w/ brown rice & cilantro in a white bowl with a side of brown peanut salad dressing

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Blue bowl of green cilantro sour cream sauce on a wood cutting board with a red spatula on the side. Blender top in the background with green sauce all over it. Close up.

Easy Cilantro Sour Cream Sauce

Close up of crispy baked tortilla chips in a wood bowl. Side view.

Homemade Baked Corn Tortilla Strips

Close up and top down view of broken pieces of dark chocolate with nuts on top.

Easy Homemade Dark Chocolate Nut Bark

White bowl of orange soup with green garnish with blue napkin and silverware on the side. Top View

Carrot Soup with Coconut Milk

6 tomato halves filled with wild rice, basil pesto, pine nuts, and feta cheese with Parmesan cheese broiled on the top. Close up.

Stuffed Baked Tomatoes with Pesto

Side view of white bowl of orange yellow butternut squash soup with a spoon on the side and toasted coconut flakes and mint on the side. Stainless steel pot of soup in background with a ladle.

Coconut Curry Butternut Squash Soup

Mason quart jar filled with whole okra and sliced red peppers.

Easy Quick Pickled Refrigerator Okra

White bowl of crispy shiitake mushrooms with 4 sprigs of rosemary in it and a purple napkin on the side. Side View.

Fresh Pan Fried Shiitake Mushrooms with Black Pepper

Browned flour tortilla quesadilla cut in half with filling showing on a wood cutting board with a chef's knife. Ingredients are black beans, arugula, cheese, and tomatoes. Close up.

Easy Egg Tortilla Breakfast Wrap

Close up. Fresh Creamy basil pesto in a small white bowl on a delicate flowered napkin. Spoon sticking out and cherry tomatoes in background.

Fresh Basil Pesto - Fix A Bitter Pesto

Roasted Whole Baby Potatoes With Rosemary in Shallow White Serving Bowl

Easy Roasted Whole Baby Potatoes with Rosemary

Fresh asparagus, red onions, cherry tomatoes and a dijon mustard & white wine vinaigrette.

Fresh Asparagus And Tomato Salad

Side view of white bowl of green salad with shelled edamame, pecans, cherry tomato halves. Fork sticking out.

Arugula, Edamame, Tomato Salad

Broccoli w/ Tamari (Soy Sauce) & Cashews on a rectangle white plate on a copper table. Cashews in jar in background.

Broccoli with Cashews and Tamari (Soy Sauce)

Top view of 3 black bowls of edamame with ginger and soy sauce on a wood cutting board with 3 sets of chopsticks.

Easy Shelled Edamame with Soy Sauce

2 spring rolls cut in half (4 halves) filled with avocado, grated carrots and red cabbage, rice noodles, green lettuce on a wood cutting board.

Healthy Vegetable Spring Rolls

Brown Tan plate of cooked green beans in sauce with wooden utensils on the side.

Quick and Easy Teriyaki Green Beans

2 wood bowls of cole slaw with sliced red peppers, green onions and celery with cilantro and peanut garnish. Dressing, two forks and napkins in background.

Asian Inspired Napa Cabbage Salad

Cooked Green Beans & Fresh Cherry Tomatoes on a long white rectangle plate.

Fresh Green Beans and Cherry Tomatoes

Top view of a bowl of cole slaw: cabbage and grated carrots in a white bowl. Forks on the side.

Simple and Easy Coleslaw

Eggs poached in Pork Green Chile in a pan with a napkin and a spoon in the pan with a tortilla on the side. Pan laying on an open newspaper. Cup of coffee.

Eggs in Pork Green Chile

3 Grilled Banana Halves and One Whole, still in skin & grilled. Set on a white plate and has a honey butter glaze.

Easy Grilled Bananas

White bowl of chunky red onions, cucumbers, tomatoes, yellow and red peppers salad. Wood spoon it it.

Easy and Simple Summer Salad

Close up of halved cucumbers with seeds taken out tossed in a soy / sesame oil sauce and topped with sesame seeds and cilantro.

Simple and Easy Asian Cucumber Salad

Two wood bowls of seaweed salad (1 bowl is dry and 1 bowl is rehydrated) with 3 sets of chopsticks. Side view.

Easy Wakame Seaweed Salad

Blue bowl of blended tan pinto bean hummus on a wood cutting board with a lemon half and spoon in the background.

Easy Creamy Pinto Bean Hummus

Small glass Of fresh jamu juice in front of a blender with a lime on the side

Indonesian Jamu "Juice" Drink

Small blue bowl of off white hummus with a mint garnish. Spoon inserted into hummus.

Easy Homemade Hummus

Close up of fresh diced tomatoes, jalapenos, red onions, cilantro in a bowl.

Fresh Chunky Tomato Salsa (Pico de Gallo)

Round pie pan filled with sliced zucchini tomatoes with walnuts and cheese baked and crisp. 2 fork in the background. Close up.

Baked Zucchini and Tomato Casserole

Roasted Asparagus with Feta garnish on a white plate with a black rim. side view.

Easy Roasted Asparagus with Feta Cheese

Rectangle white plate of cooked asparagus spears topped with crumbled feta cheese. Close up.

Easy Blanched Asparagus with Feta Cheese

3 Mason jars full of blueberry smoothies. 3 with lids. blueberries and pecans laying on tablecloth in front of them.

Easy Blueberry Banana Smoothie

White plate of romaine lettuce, chunked beets and chopped pecans with a white dressing and orange zest garnish. Wine glass filled with water in the back. Outside table.

Simple Beet and Romaine Salad with Pecans

Tan bowl of sliced black olives with walnuts and chopped figs mounded in bowl with a spoon and garnished with parsley. side view.

Easy Kalamata Olive Tapenade with Figs

Romaine lettuce chunked, chunks of tomatoes, red peppers, whole olives and crumbled feta cheese. On a white plate.

Easy Mediterranean Salad with Feta Cheese

White Bowl of Browned Roasted Broccoli Florets with wood tongs. side view

Easy Roasted Broccoli and Broccoli Stems

Arugula Salad topped with small mozzarella balls and cherry tomatoes on two white plates with knife and fork and salt and pepper shakers. top view.

Arugula Caprese Salad with Ciliegine Mozzarella

Side view of mound of red quinoa with diced red peppers, artichoke hearts, capers, and pepperoncinis topped with crumbled feta on a white plate.

Quinoa Salad with Feta, Artichoke, Olives

Top view of zucchini noodles with carrots, red onions, red peppers, green onions and cashews on a white plate with chopsticks.

Asian Zucchini Noodles (Zoodles)

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I’m Beckie Hemmerling. I love food and I think of it on a basic level of providing strength & nourishment. Cooking has helped me *try* to figure out life, not just my own, but also other people's. I have cooked through many joys / sorrows and cooking has always been a meditative place through these highs & lows. More background info →

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