Flora Foodie

Category: Main Dishes

  • Spicy Baked Pasta

    Here’s a super simple weeknight meal that is fast, comforting, and delicious. You really need to pair it with a quick salad for a nutritionally sound meal, but I’m assuming you can manage that 😉 This dish doesn’t require hardly any hands-on time, but if you happen to have leftover plain cooked pasta in your…

  • Pineapple Rice & Jerk Seasoned Lentils

    If you haven’t noticed, I loooove savory (and/or spicy) and sweet dishes.  So full of flavor!   This may be one of my favorite creations yet!   I thought it would be fun to cook rice in pineapple juice.  Well, I was right.  Fact.

  • Sweet Potato & Soy Chorizo Empanadas

    Happy National Empanada Day! It’s been WAY too long since I did a post for one of these super-authentic and totally-not-made-up holidays 😉 So that time has arrived. So have the empanadas!

  • Slow-Cooked Chickpea & Artichoke Saag

  • Savory Spinach & Sausage Bread Pudding

    Vegan. Bread. Pudding. With sausage and spinach and mushrooms and onions! It’s like a tofu scramble.  With bread.  And cheesy goodness. Need I say more? 

  • Caramelized Shallot Rice & Tempeh Bowl

    I was watching one of Kris Carr’s amazing videos the other day (check out her blog & videos!), and she said she boils tempeh in a combo of water and tamari.  Ummmm I eat tempeh all the live-long time, but I have never boiled it. Must try.  So I did.

  • Secret-Ingredient Pasta Alfredo

    I was clearly in the mood for seemingly-indulgent comfort foods this weekend when I planned and cooked the food I’m posting this week.  Coconut water mocha, beer-battered onion rings, this recipe, and a dessert tomorrow.  Hmmm…   Eh well!  This is one of those recipes that makes me feel kind of pompous.  Because it is…

  • Mandarin Chicken-less & Oil-less Stir Fry

    Happy 2013!  I’m guessing that many of you have made some New Year’s resolutions to eat healthier, maybe lose some weight, cut back on sweets/salt/oil/whatever your vice is.  I’ve got a handful of light and healthy recipes lined up for you for January.  I was planning to start with something uber healthy like a green…

  • Guacamole Fritters

    Guess what the forecast is here in Sacramento tomorrow!  100% chance of rain from 7am-1pm (with winds between 17-21mph.)  100% chance.  Why does that matter so much?   Because tomorrow is the California International Marathon.  I am participating with my vegan running group – I’m doing a relay, some folks are doing the fun run, and…

  • Thanksgiving Special: 3 Holiday Recipes!

    I’ve got a monster post for y’all today!  Three Thanksgiving recipes.  A bunch of other exciting things first!  I had an excellent weekend healing-wise.  I woke up Saturday to a much-improved finger.  Until Saturday, my poor injured finger hurt and throbbed if I spent more than about 20-30 minutes without it elevated.  I can now…