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Zucchini Noodle Aglio e Olio

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This recipe is for when you aren’t in the mood to make dinner and you’re hoping that one more spoonful of almond butter will nudge you into the ‘not hungry anymore anyway’ zone. Except that almond butter for dinner might be the saddest meal fate of all time (I’ve done it, it was sad).

It is easy to make just for yourself, but it’s also very easy to make for two of you, or even a group. It is the simplest classic Italian pasta, ‘Aglio e Olio’ (‘Garlic and Oil’), only instead of feeling the almost entirely vegetable-free guilt and making a salad to go with it, we make it with zucchini noodles, therefore turning the whole thing into a salad.

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Plant-based ‘Escargot’ with Butter Lettuce Salad and Chickpea Pancakes

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I’m so excited, I’ve wanted to do a post for Bastille Day (July 14th) since starting this blog but have never gotten it together until this year.

It’s sort of ironic considering this is the first year I’ve had a little Sous Chef with serious FOMO and no desire to sleep unless she is in a moving stroller or is being carried by someone who is acting like a moving stroller (I therefore have an 80s suntan and a sore back, neither of which I want to talk about).

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Steamed Veggie & Quinoa Bowl with Garlic ‘Butter’

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Steamed Veggie & Quinoa Bowl with Garlic 'Butter'

This recipe may win the prize for the simplest one on this site so far. It is simply steamed veggies with quinoa and melted coconut oil with garlic. Maybe this is why it took so long to make it onto the blog, I don’t know, do you really need a recipe for this? But then someone pointed out to me it’s not always about the recipe but the inspiration to make something. So I hope this inspires you, it really is worth the effort.

Steamed Veggie & Quinoa Bowl with Garlic 'Butter'

I have to admit, this isn’t something I make for us very often. I guess it’s humble enough to forget about by grocery list/dinner-making time. It’s inspired by a stall at the Granville Island Food Court that always sold salad rolls that my sisters and I would get for lunch when we were little (to go with our donut holes and pizza pretzels).

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Fresh Chimichurri Sauce with Avocado Wedges

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I am in the land of avocados, grapefruit and sunburns. I don’t even remember what rain feels like and we have been eating the freshest, most delicious produce and absolutely nothing that is reminiscent of our long chilly winter. Our little one felt weather-induced sweat for the first time (infant sweaty hair is the cutest) and the palm trees are waving to us like ‘welcome, we didn’t think you were going to make it this year!’ we weren’t sure either but we did, and does it ever feel good!

Whenever we have a kitchen on a vacation, I try to shoot a blog while we’re there because I find more culinary inspiration on vacation than any other time. So, I literally shot this yesterday while my little slept on her Dad and then we enjoyed it with some fresh grapefruit and then again for dinner drizzled on more avocados with some tomatoes, greens and roasted asparagus. Vacation should always taste this good.

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