Today is Good Friday for the Orthodox Christian Easter Holiday, a beautiful spring day, the church bells ringing. Part of the Orthodox Easter is fasting from meat, cheese, eggs and oil. It is kind of like having a country full of vegans for one day here in Greece! We thought of making a lentil version of our Vegan Sloppy Joes (click here), (meaning I wanted to make lentils that Jake would actually enjoy), without olive oil for our friends who fast today! This is especially great for kids who want to follow tradition for their mother’s sake! So we made Sloppy Joes with lentils without olive oil, a quick and easy recipe that leads to a very enjoyable and nutritious dinner. Continue reading Lentil Sloppy Joes →

We have been on a sandwich kick lately and for good reason… they are delicious and there are so many ways to make them! Ever since we found Schnitzer’s gluten free vegan bread at Botanica Bio-mart I have been able to focus more energy on what to put in the sandwich (instead of using energy to make the bread).  Don’t get me wrong, I love making bread, but it is time consuming! So, one day Athanasia brought home another kind of bread from Schnitzer’s and that’s when the idea for this roasted eggplant sandwich was born. I would say it is a fairly simple recipe too. It can take a little bit of time to slice the eggplants I suppose, but it is worth it!

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We recently discovered how our walnut “meat” bakes so nicely on pizza while making our vegan bacon cheeseburger pizza. So, obviously this meant we had to make a vegan Italian sausage pizza! When I developed the Italian sausage recipe I mentioned how it reminded me of the flavor of Rocky Rococo’s Italian sausage I had growing up. Well, this pizza certainly did not fail to deliver on those flavors I remember from childhood! We both loved this pizza and it is even more delicious than it is beautiful to look at. Here is what you will need to make it:

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You may be wondering what a Billie Jean burrito is. I am sure there is a former Taco Bell employee somewhere in Minnesota that is still wondering what a Billie Jean burrito is as well…

As the legend goes, back in 2005 I was the bass guitar player in a band known as Sonic Alchemy. Continue reading Billie Jean Burrito – Gluten Free Vegan Chili Cheese Burrito →

We wanted to make a vegan gluten free stir fry but we had no idea it would be this amazing! What made it truly savory was Jake’s stir fry sauce which highlighted all the flavors and gave it an exotic touch 🙂

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We recently found a Schnitzer gluten free baguette at Botanica here in Patra so we had to try it. It’s not a marble rye but it was still delicious! There are many ideas we had as how to make them but in the end Athanasia had the most interesting idea, vegan chicken nuggets. That’s right! I had never heard of doing this but she has so I had to try it. Here is how we made this gluten free vegan chicken nugget sub: Continue reading Vegan Chicken Nugget Sub →