Lubia means "green beans" and Polo means "rice." This Persian rice dish is traditionally made with meat. The meat can easily be excluded for a plant-based rice dish. The recipe below includes the option to include a plant-based meat alternative. We have used the Beef-less Ground Beef from Trader Joe's, but you could use other … Continue reading Lubia Polo (Green Beans & Rice)
Happy Monday, everyone! Anyone need meal ideas for the week? A friend asked me for plant-based meal planning inspiration so I am sharing what we typically eat in a week. I don’t claim to eat the best or healthiest food, but I do always suggest ethnic food as a great way to eat more plant-based. … Continue reading What we Eat in a Day. Way More than PB&J.
Happy Friday, everybody! Does that mean much anymore? 🤨 For me, Friday is “Fitness Friday.” A reminder to make time for the (garage) gym today. I like setting goals by association. How do you set goals and reminders? If you are doing a “meat-free Friday,” below is how we prepared our Impossible Kabobs on the … Continue reading Impossible Kabobs
Oh hi everyone! Just me, taking a selfie with food from our fridge! My kids think I’m funny. But I had to show you some of our favorite things! This is not an ad! I just really love these brands, and they really helped us go plant-based! It is hard enough feeding kids, but trying … Continue reading These are a few of my favorite things
My six year old daughter loves to cook. Since I can remember, she has always asked to help in the kitchen. This past school year, before the pandemic, she was enrolled in an after school cooking club. While I knew all the dishes she would prepare would be vegetarian, I was pleasantly surprised when the … Continue reading Mini Apple Cinnamon Muffins
We are sharing another recipe using the awesome egg-replacer "Just Egg." It has been so exciting recreating our favorite foods egg-free. Removing egg from our household was very hard not because we loved eating eggs, but because I did not know how to replace the eggs in our breakfast or some of our favorite Persian … Continue reading Egg-free Frittata
DIANE LABOMBARBE / GETTY IMAGES I hear a lot of concern about soy. That ominous, harmful legume. The concern I hear is that soy contains estrogen. But I love soy. I enjoy tofu in my stir fry, tempeh in my sandwiches, edamame as an afternoon snack, and soy milk in my coffee. I think soy … Continue reading So You are Worried about Soy
I am SO excited to finally have a plant-based Mac & Cheese that my kids will eat. Honestly, box Mac & Cheese was the only dairy product we still had in our home because my kids loved it soooo much. Being home over the last four (4) months, however, I have been able to try … Continue reading Easy, One-Pot Mac & Cheese
"Khoresh" is a generic term used for stew dishes in Iranian cooking. Ghormeh Sabzi is my favorite Persian khoresh. When my husband and I got married 14 years ago, my mom cooked the food for our entire wedding of 175 people! I remember she was in the kitchen cooking at the venue until about 1 … Continue reading Khoresh-e-Ghormeh Sabzi (Herb Stew)
It has been one month since I started this blog, and it has been a labor of love, working on posts in the evenings after my kids have gone to bed. My friend once told me, the best way to promote a plant-based diet is not to show people all the horrible conditions of factory … Continue reading Strive not Perfect
An Indian-Persian fusion Vegetable Biryani at the request of my Indian-Persian fusion family-in-law. 🙂 It makes us so excited when people have tried our plant-based food and loved it as much as we do! Biryani is a mixed rice dish from India (not a Persian dish), but my mom lived in India for nine (9) … Continue reading Indian-Persian Fusion – Vegetable Biryani
I always think of Ash-e-Reshteh as the accidental vegan Persian dish. "Ash" means a thick soup and "reshteh" means noodles. Ash-e-Reshteh is a thick noodle soup, filled with herbs and legumes. It is often prepared during times of celebration. I remember my grandmother making Ash-e-Reshteh for Bahai gatherings or special occasions like Naw Ruz (Persian … Continue reading Ash-e-Reshteh – Persian Noodle Soup
We got a new grill, and I am so excited to BBQ again. One of my favorite childhood memories is backyard grilling at my aunt's house during the warm summer evenings, running through sprinklers and watching the thunderstorms from the deck. One of my favorite foods was joojeh kabob. Joojeh means "young chicken" in Persian. … Continue reading Joojeh Kabob (Chick’n Kabob)
It is so exciting to see all the people following the blog who are new to Persian cooking! I am so happy people are interested in plant-based cooking and Persian cooking on top of that! So I wanted to go back to the basics of Persian cooking and share a recipe for making traditional Persian … Continue reading Back to Basics – Persian Rice (Polo) 101
