The Happy Gluten-Free Vegan

One of the things that makes it difficult for some vegetarians to cut out dairy is cheese. In part this is because it’s an easy and tasty source of protein. Our super-easy cheese sauce has 16 grams of protein in a full batch. The other issue is taste, and our cheese sauce is the closest we have come to tasting like actual dairy-based cheese sauce.

Chick peas are a good source of protein, fiber, iron and vitamin B-6, making them an excellent food for vegans. Chick peas also make an excellent mock tuna salad, which is perfect for lunches, quick dinners, or hearty snacks.

Chili and cornbread are a natural pairing. These recipes for vegan chili and gluten-free vegan cornbread are easy to make, and delicious!

This easy vegan butter recipe will give any of the commercial vegan butters a run for their money, with great taste and fewer ingredients!

Over the Christmas holiday at Chez Chef, we found ourself with pre-shelled, pre-cooked chestnuts, a half an onion, and an apple. We kept looking at these three things and thinking “Hrrmm, those really seem to want to go together.” So we let them be together, in what turned out to be an incredible, and extremely easy, pureed soup! This delicious soup has only a few ingredients, the alchemy is in how they blend together.

So many people have asked “Can you cook pasta right in the sauce in the Instant Pot?” and the answer is yes! You can cook the sauce and pasta together at the same time in an Instant Pot! Here’s how! We call this a Costco recipe because we use one or more ingredients from Costco, but of course you don’t have to.

Deciding whether to call it a “vegan omelet” or a “vegan omelette” is the hardest thing about this oven-baked vegan omelette recipe, because it’s that easy! Plus our oven-baked vegan omelette recipe has no chickpea flour, no tofu, in fact no soy at all, because it uses Just Egg! This makes for an incredibly easy breakfast, brunch or dinner main dish which you can stuff with lots of yummy add-ins, and which needs no babysitting because it’s baked in the oven! And because you can even freeze Just Egg liquid right in the bottle, it just doesn’t get any easier! Grab a bottle from your freezer, let it thaw, and put your vegan omelet in the oven!

Want an easy, delicious, gluten-free vegan doughnut recipe? One that doesn’t even resort to flax eggs or the like? Whether you call them donuts or doughnuts, our gluten-free vegan cinnamon doughnut recipe is going to become your new best friend! This is also a vegan Costco recipe because it features ingredients from Costco (although of course you don’t have to get yours from Costco!)

These brown rice spinach veggie burgers are not only delicious, vegan, and gluten-free, but they are so easy to make!

This snack is incredibly high calcium (467mg of calcium!), and yummy (we think at least), and also high protein! Coming in at just 220 calories, what more could you want, especially from just three ingredients? Now, we do have to say up front that it uses very specific ingredients, and that one of them is Orgain vegan organic protein powder. So, if you’re not into that you may want to skip this ‘recipe’, and that’s ok too.

Share or save some yum!If you have a sweet tooth, or are just craving something sweet, or have kids who you are trying to wean away from processed sugar, then this Vegan German Chocolate Fudge should fill the bill. Of course in addition to being vegan it’s gluten-free (after all,…

Golden Turmeric Cups (nicknamed Golden Cups or even Golden Fat Bombs) are super-easy to make, super delicious, and super good for you! And of course they are gluten-free and vegan. Full of healthy fats, and with the MCTs from coconut oil, and protein from nut butter and protein powder, they are a great ‘pick-me-up’ snack, and perfect for quick-quenching a bit of hunger! We get all of the main ingredients (all three of them :~)) at Costco, but you can of course get them elsewhere as well.

Mmm…doughnuts! Whoever imagined that donuts could be gluten-free, vegan (and baked, not fried!) and still be this good?! Not to mention so easy and fun to make!

Chestnut cream seems like such an exotic thing, but it is actually so easy to make, especially when you start with the pre-peeled chestnuts available at Costco and other places. And while sweet chestnut cream is typically made using a simple sugar syrup, ours is sweetened with dates, and so even easier to make! There are lots of things that you can do and make with chestnut cream, but one of the classics is a Mont Blanc dessert, which is, traditionally, sweet chestnut cream piled onto a meringue base, and topped with whipped cream (doesn’t that sound yummy?) Following our recipe and directions you can make the entire thing vegan, including with vegan meringue!

We love getting organic, shelled, roasted peanuts, however often they come with the skin on, which can be very messy when eating them as a snack. And of course for lots of recipes you want the peanuts without the skins. If only there were an easy way to remove the skins of peanuts. Well guess what! There is! Here it is.

Our vegan chocolate pistachio butter recipe has it all: it’s easy, it’s out-of-this-world delicious, it’s only 4 ingredients, and it’s a very healthful nut butter!

Here are the directions for the PlantStrong pancake and waffle mix (you’d be forgiven for assuming it’s “Plant Strong”, rather than the portmanteau of the two). Finding a truly gluten-free and also truly vegan pancake mix is not easy, especially when so many of them then include adding eggs in the directions.

Has this ever happened to you? You open a brand new package of Lightlife sliced tempeh (also called ‘tempe’ by some), such as the bacon flavored tempeh, and it is covered in what appears to be black mold or some sort of black spoilage? So you freak out, check the ‘best by’ date (which is likely still weeks out), and try to figure out just what could have gone so horribly wrong?

This incredible vegan bean dish is as delicious as it is nutritious, with just a little heat. And it’s really easy to make!

It’s almost pumpkin spice season, and it’s definitely ice cream season, so we figured we’d get ahead of things and give you our new vegan pumpkin spice latte ice cream recipe now! Of course, if you don’t like the “latte” part you can always just leave out the coffee!