Farro Salad with Tomatoes and Charred Peppers #SundayFunday

This delicious salad can be served as a side to whatever summer foods you are grilling and is hearty enough to be a main dish for any vegans at the table.

The Sunday Funday Bloggers are sharing Vegan Recipes today......

Quick and Easy Charred String Beans

This quick and easy side dish is perfect to serve with whatever you have on your holiday table.  I used a mixture of green and yellow beans for color but you can use all green beans if you like.  

We are sharing Holiday Side Dishes this week......

Q is for Quinoa

This Asian Quinoa Salad is a healthy, delicious way to Eat a Rainbow.  

Q is for Quinoa....

Vegetable Biryani #SundayFunday

Warm Spices, Basmati Rice, Garbanzo Beans, and Raisins.  A wonderful Vegan meal that even your hardcore carnivores will love.

The Sunday Funday Bloggers are sharing Vegan Main Dishes today........

"Little Christmas" Gathering for the 12th Day of Christma

Merry Little Christmas Everyone.  Today is our final gathering as we celebrate Epiphany when the 3 Wise Men followed the star that led them to our Savior's birthplace.

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Chickpea and Farro Soup #SundayFunday

I have been waiting all month to share this delicious, wonderful, comforting soup with you.  This creamy soup made with chickpeas and farro is the perfect start to a meal or a complete lunch or light dinner paired with a salad.  As a bonus. if you omiit the bacon, it is completely vegan.

The Sunday Funday Bloggers are sharing recipes starring chickpeas today.....

Spring Vegetable Soup, a Book Review and the Weekly Menu

Healthy, light and delicous this soup is a perfect starter for a Springtime celebration.  

Now that Lent is upon us and Easter is around the corner, my thoughts turn to Spring.  I served this soup for Easter Dinner last year and never got an opportunity to share it with you.  I am happy to rectify that today.

Paganens (Algonquin Wild Nut Soup) #SundayFundayBloggers

November is National American Indian Heritage Month.  I'm sure this month was chosen as it was when Europeans first emigrated to the New World and were met by friendly Indigenous Americans who celebrated their arrival with a feast.  We now acknowledge that arrival and feast each year in Thanksgiving.

The Sunday Funday Bloggers are celebrating American Indians today.........

Quick and Healthy Butternut Squash Soup and the Weekly Menu including Friendsgiving and Thanksgiving #SoupSaturdaySwappers

 Holidays can be very busy.  This quick and healthy Butternut Squash Soup starting with frozen squash is a time and stress saver.  It takes only a few minutes of hands on time and half an hour cooking time.  It can be made ahead and rewarmed so there is zero soup stress on the big day.

It is time for the Soup Saturday Swappers.......

Sweet and Sour Eggplant Salad #WorldVeganMonth

This delicious salad is not only a great side but you can serve it over toasted pita pieces and turn it into a meal.  It is one of those salads that gets better with time so you can make it the night before and pack it into your lunchbox to enjoy.

The Foodie Extravaganza Gang are celebrating World Vegan Month......

Turkey Hollow Beet Hummus #MoviesandMunchies

I was doing a search on my television for Thanksgiving Movies and came across Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow which evidently was a made for TV movie that was shown on Lifetime in 2015.  

I was not familiar with this movie at all but I do love the Muppets and their movies are always fun so I decided to see if the members of our Movies and Munchies group wanted to join me in watching it for November.

Cucumber, Corn and Tomato Salad #BBQWeek

 This post is sponsored in conjunction with #BBQWeek. The sponsors, Rainier Foods and Intensity Academy, generously provided samples to participants to aid in the creation of the #BBQWeek recipes and prize packages to give away to the readers. However, all opinions are mine alone.

This wonderful summer salad is a great side for your next BBQ.  Sweet corn, grape tomatoes and cucumbers dressed in a garlicky vinaigrette with just a hint of heat and touch of sweet.

Today is the final day of BBQ Week.......

Italian Bean Soup with Greens #SoupSaturdaySwappers

This delicious, healthy soup comes together in minutes and is hearty enough to be served as a vegetarian main course.

The Soup Saturday Swappers are adding greens to their soup this month.......

Acorn Squash and Apple Soup #SundayFunday

This silky smooth soup is made in an instant pot, making it a quick and easy first course or light lunch served with salad and a slice of bread.

The Sunday Funday Bloggers are cooking with Winter Squash today.......

Drinking and Dining Sustainably and Organically featuring a Guyanese Chickpea Salad #EattheWorld #WinePW

This delicious and easy salad goes together in a snap.  The bright vinaigrette is perfect with the creaminess of the chickpeas.  I served it as a side salad but also enjoyed it for a light lunch one day with a glass of wine.  

We are traveling to Guyana today in the Eat the World Challenge........

Zucchini Fritters (Gluten Free) #SundayFunday

These vegetable fritters are high protein, gluten free, vegan and whole grain.  Nutritious, delicious and a great way to use up the zucchini that is going crazy in everyone's gardens right now.

The Sunday Funday Bloggers are cooking and baking with Chickpea Flour today.........

Green Vegetable Minestrone #SoupSaturdaySwappers

This Minestrone is chock full of vegetables in all different shades of green. It is nutritous, delicous and feels like you are eating Spring.

It's time for Soup Saturday Swappers......

Sudanese Peanut Stew #EattheWorld

This vegetarian stew is warm, comforting and delicious. Filled with sweet potatoes, spinach and tomatoes then flavored with peanut butter it is healthy, colorful and nutritious.

We are traveling to Sudan today with the Eat the World crew........

Life is Returning to Normal so Here is the Weekly Menu

Frank was released from the hospital for the third, and hopefully last time, this past Monday.  It was nice because he got to see Chuck before he left early Tuesday morning.  

Since then life has been a whirlwind of making doc appointments, setting up home care and fielding phone calls.  Add to this that the Teen is starting a new semester in school and the bowling team has resumed and I have been pretty busy.

I didn't have a menu made for this past week but I did have lots of recipes and ingredients that I had gotten for prior menus that never got made so we got by pretty well.  I served up this Vegan Vegetable Soup that was hearty and filling.  I am sharing the recipe with you today.  It is a wonderful way to Eat a Rainbow and to try to build my husband's strength and immune system back.

Chateau Haut-Pognon and Mediterranean Stew #Winophiles

This Bordeaux from Entre-deux-Mers is reasonably priced and delicious, making it the perfect wine for a casual weeknight dinner of Mediterranean Stew.  The stew, chock full of vegetables and flavor, is slow cooked requiring only minutes of hands on time.  Perfect meal to come home too after work or a day of running errands.

Join the French Winophiles as we start the New Year off discussing What's New in Bordeaux.......