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Color Me Vegan: Maximize Your Nutrient Intake and Optimize Your Health by Eating Antioxidant-Rich, Fiber-Packed, Color-Intense Meals That Taste Great
By Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Fair Winds Press - 2010
Almond Butter and Strawberry Sandwich : page 211
An awesome twist on PB&J! This opened up a whole world of delicious sandwich possiblities for me. I never thought of putting fresh berries in with your sandwiches before, but it makes sense and tastes even better. This one had almond butter, strawberries, banana, and berry jam in it, but you can use any nut butter to fruit combo that you can think up. I ate these for my two weeks of field work since they travel so well. You can also leave out the berries, then when you stop for lunch you just make sure you're next to a berry bush and you top it up with whatever amazing fresh berry is sitting next to you. Yum!
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Banana Oat Date Cookies : page 187
These are three star cookies that get bumped up to four for being sugar-free and super healthy. They're also a kitchen sink type recipe and could easily be played with to change ingredients and flavours, while still keeping the healthiness in tact.
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Beet Burgers : page 34
So freakin' good. Vey soft burgers with some crunch from all the seeds. So much flavour!
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Blackberry Breakfast Bars : page 156
I used blueberries instead of blackberries for this. I imagine any berry would work well with this recipe. These are what I wish those awefull blueberry bars tasted like at Starbucks!
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Blueberry Croutons : page 149
I like the idea of these better than I liked them in reality. They are very hard to get just right. The cookbook talks about this, but I thought she was exagerrating. On one side your oil is too cold and your bluebries explode before the outside crisps, on the other side your oil is too hot and your ouside crisps before the berries are done. I erred on the side of cold and as a result had semi mushy berries. :( I would recommend erring on the side of hot. At least you will have crispy croutons!
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Cajun Red Beans and Rice : page 37
Delicious and versatile dish. You can never go wrong with beans and rice.
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Caramelized Bananas : page 101
I ate these on top of cashew ice cream. Super rich and decadent.
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Carrot and Roasted Bell Pepper Soup : page 51
A beautiful blended vegetable soup. Very straightforward until you get to the miso and say, "Really, 1/3 cup miso?!" But I out it in anyway, despite raised eyebrows, and I loved it. Carrots heart miso.
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Carrot Fries : page 59
Cooking time is way off for these. They were starting to burn about halfway through. They also didn't crisp up very well.
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Cashew and Red Lentil Burgers : page 183
Very moist and flavourful. I baked half and fried the other half and they were great both ways.
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Chilled Blueberry Mango Soup : page 140
This is listed in the Mains section of the book, but it is totally a dessert soup. Amazingly yummy though! I made the blueberry croutons to go on top of it, but they were underwhelming and I'll leave them out next time.
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Chocolate Zucchini Bread : page 215
Amazing! I wouldn't change anything about these. I made this into two mini loaves (30 min. bake time) and seven muffins (20 min. bake time).
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Chocolate, Banana, and Almond Butter Panini : page 248
Forget dessert, I had this bad boy for breakfast! CPG is a sandwich genius. Grilled and melted chocolate with my almond butter and banana sandwich? Yes, please!
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Cornmeal Blueberry Porridge (Sautauthig) : page 95
This is my new favourite porridge recipe! And I am a porridge fiend who doesn't say this lightly. It's soft, creamy, sweet and delicious. I used fresh blueberries, which exploded everytime I even thought about biting them. Yum!
I will leave the maple syrup out of the recipe next time and just use it as a drizzle. The recipe didn't taste overly sweet, but I suspect itisn't totally necessary either. Therer's also aminor typo that lists water as a drizzle for on top of the porridge, but that should be milk.
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Green Tea and Pistachio Cupcakes : page 126
This recipe has a typo in it for sure. The batter was waaaaaay to thick. These were hearty green tea muffins. I would add another half cup of milk at least if I made these again. But I probably won't since Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World has the most perfect Green Tea Cupcake ever.
On the plus side, the flavour was still great and they're certainly not getting any complaints from the munchers, but if you're going to call something a cupcake, it's got to be melt in your mouth fluffy deliciousness.
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Kale Chips : page 117
This uses chili powder and nutritional yeast for flavourings. Could have held quite a bit more chili powder though. I will double it next time.
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Kiwi Banana Muffins : page 130
A little too moist for my taste, but it's hard to pack this much fruit into a muffin without that happening. Great kiwi flavour though, but overall this muffin wasn't awesome enough to justify the $4 I spent on kiwis for it.
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Peanut Butter Pancakes : page 210
Batter came out a little thick, I will add more liquid next time. Otherwise, these were fracking awesome! Had it with sliced bananas and maple syrup on top.
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Raspberry Lemon Muffins : page 41
A hair on the side of too moist, but very nice and lemony otherwise.
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Spinach Soup with Basil and Dill : page 113
I didn't have any dill for this, so I replaced it with a little tarragon. It was a delicious, very green, blended soup. It's a shame about the dill though, i kept thinking while I was eating, how much more amazing it would have been with it. The potatoes in it made this a very filling meal.
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Walnut Basil Pesto : page 108
A great basic pesto recipe. I'm always a fan of pesto that leaves out pine nut$.
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