Kathy Hester's Blog, page 50
April 8, 2017
Full of Veggies Vegan Menu Plan
Here’s a new vegan menu plan that uses strawberries, potatoes, and lots of other veggies. Use it as a template for your week and use some of the extra time you have to enjoy all the beauty of sping.
Breakfast: These Vegan Strawberry Spelt Biscuits take the best fruit that spring has to offer and makes it into a whole grain breakfast. Best of all you can make a batch on Sunday and eat them all week long!
Monday: Easy Avocado Lemon Basil Pesto from The Easy Vegan Cookbook from The Easy Vegan...
April 6, 2017
Middle Eastern Iced Coffee with Homemade Cardamom Vanilla Syrup and Rosewater
Disclaimer: This post was sponsored by the J.M. Smucker company. All opinions and the yummy recipe are my own.
I wake up, go upstairs to feed the cats and then make my first iced coffee of the day. I almost always add vanilla nondairy milk and sometimes I add a homemade syrup or two to create a drink you can’t even get outside of my own kitchen.
Today, I have a new and exciting coffee drink for you – a Middle Eastern Iced Coffee. It’s inspired by a coffee on the menu at Cocoa and Cinnamon in...
April 3, 2017
Make Cold Brew Coffee in Your Own French Press
Photo by Ann Oliverio
Today’s post is a cold brew coffee concentrate recipe. It makes me crazy that you can buy it premade in the store because it’s very expensive. Once I show you how to make coffee concentrate with a French Press you’ll never buy premade again. You can buy a cold brew coffee maker on Amazon, but all of them cost more than the French Press that’s already in your cabinet. No French Press? The direction tell you how to make cold brew coffee in a mason jar too!
Cold brew coffee...
Step by Step Cold Brew Coffee from The Easy Vegan Cookbook
Photo by Ann Oliverio
Today’s post is a step by step on how to make cold brew coffee concentrate, which is the base for almost all of my coffee drinks. It makes me a little crazy that you can buy it premade in the store because it’s very expensive. At Starbucks, they even sell a kit where you can make 2 batches and then buy another kit for the next one.
Cold brew coffee is ridiculously simple to make. All you need is a French Press
or a mason jar and a fine mesh strainer
. My recipe is from my...
March 31, 2017
12 of the Best Vegan Asparagus Recipes
Happy asparagus season! It warms my heart to see it popping out of the ground, even if it does look a little like an alien invasion. I’ve gathered 12 of the Best Vegan Asparagus Recipes from some of my favorite bloggers to share with you. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!
photo by Hurry the Food Up
Creamy Asparagus Risotto from Hurry the Food Up is one of my favorite ways to enjoy asparagus. It’s creamy, decadent, and full of the taste of spring.
photo by Diane’s Vegan Kitchen
March 29, 2017
Vegan Strawberry Shortcake with Aquafaba!
I can’t leave well enough alone. I love to tinker with recipes and it drives Cheryl crazy. She would love to have a plain dinner or at least the same pasta sauce I made the week before. It’s just my nature to change things up each time. That’s why I made a Lavender Gin Strawberry Shortcake instead of the plain one I grew up on.
I have loved strawberries my whole life and I would eat them a punt at a time as a child. I still look forward to strawberry season every year. They are as addictive...
March 28, 2017
Vegan Air Fryer Recipe: Twice Air-Fried Vegan Stuffed Idaho® Potatoes
In case you haven’t heard, I’m working on my new book, and it’s an air fryer book! I teased you with my no oil added beignets last month and now I’ve got some awesome Twice Air-Fried Vegan Stuffed Idaho® Potatoes that you can make in your air fryer.
This is another in my series of posts sponsored by the Idaho Potato Commission. I love potatoes and they are amazing in the air fryer
.
Of course, you can bake these in your oven if you don’t have an air fryer. Potatoes for everyone!
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March 24, 2017
Welcome Spring Vegan Menu Plan
It’s the next chapter of unpredictable weather, but that still doesn’t need to change up your dinner plans. This week there’s gluten-free apple teff pancakes for breakfast, quick and easy weeknight vegan dinners, and a few surprises for the weekend – including some mini vegan avocado chocolate cupcakes.
Happy Spring!
Breakfast: Celebrate another awesome morning with these Gluten-free Apple Teff Pancakes with Homemade Date Caramel Syrup. Great for weekends, holidays or any time you’d like a...
March 22, 2017
Nancie McDermott’s Strawberry Shrub
It’s finally strawberry season and I have a recipe that you can use fresh strawberries if you’re in my part of the world or frozen ones if yours aren’t quite ready yet.
A shrub is an old-fashioned way of preserving fruit flavors and is an amazing mocktail or cocktail. You heat apple cider vinegar and then infuse the strawberries in it for 1 to 2 days. Then you strain the liquid into a saucepan and heat with your sweetener. Nancy calls for sugar, but you could use the sweetener of your choice...
March 21, 2017
Vanilla Gluten-free Vegan Pizzelles Made with Teff Flour!
There’s something fun about these thin, crispy cookies that look as delightful as they taste. When The Teff Company asked me to create a vegan gluten-free pizzelle, I ordered a pizzelle maker and never looked back.
Please note that this post is sponsored by The Teff Company, the makers of Maskal Teff™ products
. If you can’t find them in your local store you can order Maskal Teff™ products on Amazon.
I did try a batch of these without oil and they worked pretty well. You may need to use a lit...
