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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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Sliced avocado, sliced tomato, basil leaves all layered on a wood cutting board with a balsamic sauce drizzled on top.

Sliced Avocado, Basil, And Tomato Salad

5 ripe strawberries on a small rectangle plate with a dollop of whipped cream.

Fresh and Easy Homemade Whipped Cream

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

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

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)

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

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

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

Indonesian Jamu "Juice" Drink

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

Fresh Chunky Tomato Salsa (Pico de Gallo)

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

Slices of Tomato, basil leaves, crumbled goat cheese on a white square plate with two forks.

Tomato, Basil & Goat Cheese (Chèvre) Salad

Sea Bean Salad Close Up On a White/Blue Plate w/ diced Cucumbers & Red Peppers | EatSimpleFood.com

Crunchy Sea Bean (Samphire) Salad

Lemon Parsley Compound Butter On A Cutting Board With Ingredients. Side view.

Lemon, Parsley, Garlic Compound Butter

White Bowl with black outside filled with diced oranges, chopped parsley and pistachios with a silver spoon.

Chunky Parsley Pesto with Pistachios

3 shelfs of colorful grains in quart size mason jars on stacked wood shelves

20 Easy To Make Pantry Recipes

White oval bowl with orange zest, sliced mint, minced garlic and chopped almonds with a spoon hanging out on a tan and white striped table cloth.

Chunky Fresh Mint and Almond Pesto

Layered sliced feta on the bottom and then arugula and topped with ripe red tomato. 2 small plates. 3 stacks on each plate.

Feta, Arugula, Tomato Salad Stack

Close up of Red Purple Tomato slices, Mozzarella cheese slices, and basil leaf.

Heirloom Tomato Caprese Salad

Top View Of Toast with Mashed Avocado, Scrambled Egg, and Hot Sauce On a Cutting Board with tomato Slices

Scrambled Egg and Avocado Tartine (Toast)

White shallow bowl filled with white rice and topped with potato, eggplant, green bean tan curry with a sliced green onion garnish.

Mixed Vegetable Curry and Rice

Stainless steel pan full of cooked Portobello Mushrooms with parsley garnish and a wood spoon sticking out of it.

Quick and Easy Sautéed Mushrooms

rectangle white plate full of noodles in a yelow sauce with broccoli florets and chunks of sweet potatoes. Chopsticks resting on plate.

Sweet Potato and Broccoli Udon Bowl

Multiple bowls of food on a wood cutting board. brie, apples with blue cheese, cornichons, green grapes, slices of ciabatta, green salad.

Picnic on the Piazza

Corn on the cob in husk, whole poblano peppers (green, red, and orange), quartered eggplant and small red peppers on two levels of a grill

How To Grill Vegetables

2 halves of a peach with dark grill marks sitting inside a wooden bowl.

Easy Grilled Peaches

White bowl of orzo salad with diced artichoke hearts, red onions, red bell peppers with willted spinach. Silver spoon in the bowl.

Easy Italian Orzo Pasta Salad

5 pieces of toasted baguette slices with mascarpone, grapefruit slices, sliced kalamata olives, and fresh rosemary on top.

Grapefruit and Olive Crostini

Grated Carrots, Raisins, toasted Walnuts, and sliced Mint Salad in a white bowl with a blue rim.

Carrot, Raisin, Walnut and Mint Salad

Sliced Pepperoncini, caper, mozzarella cheese, browned pizza topped with fresh sliced basil.

Homemade Pepperoncini & Caper Pizza

Roasted sliced eggplant and red peppers over creamy polenta with fresh cherry tomatoes and garnished with feta and basil

Roasted Eggplant & Peppers w Polenta

one quart size jar of preserved lemons. one quart size jar of preserved clementines. On a white kitchen towel. fresh clementines in background.

Preserved Lemons and Clementines

White deep plate of spaghetti with sautéed kale and thin sliced radishes. Topped with grated Parmesan cheese.

Sautéed Radish and Kale Spaghetti

Blue bowl of green mint and pecan pesto blended with a silver spoon sticking out.

Fresh Mint And Pecan Pesto

Stacked & Fried Eggrolls On a Tan Plate with a white blow of guacamole. side view.

Crispy Southwest Vegetarian Egg Rolls

Sliced Tomato, Sliced Cucumber, Creamy Goat Cheese and Basil leaves on an open faced ciabatta bread slice

Tomato, Goat Cheese, Cucumber Sammy

5 crostini (little toast) with green pesto and parmesan sprinkled on the top. Garnished with lemon zest. On a white plate

Mizuna and Walnut Pesto Crostini

Figs with an x cut in the top and baked and stuffed with Goat cheese and drizzled with honey. Oval off white baking dish.

Roast Figs Stuffed With Goat Cheese (Chèvre)

Kombucha brown drink top view being bottled in flip top jars with a red funnel.

Homemade Ginger Kombucha

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