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Meatless Mondays: Spicy Breakfast Bowl featuring Gardein 🍲

Published on April 20, 2020April 20, 2020 by NAWaterman4 Comments

Hey my friends!

So I’ve teamed up with Gardein to share with you this amazing breakfast bowl I created using Gardein’s spicy breakfast sausage patties. This is by far one of my most favorite breakfast meals I’ve been making for months …of course when I’m not doing the intermittent fasting!

It is quite a simple, yet tasty recipe and here are the ingredients you need for 1 serving:

1 Gardein spicy breakfast sausage patty
1 1/2 cups of baby spinach
1 cup firm tofu ( 12 tbsp of egg white if not vegan)
Olive oil butter
Jalepeno

First thing you want to do is heat frying pan with a dab of olive oil butter. Once heated, add the sausage patty into the frying pan. Chop the baby spinach and jalepeno into small pieces and set to the side. You also want to cut the tofu into small pieces, as the goal is to make it look like scrambled eggs whites.

Before the sausage is fully heated, chop the patty into small pieces and add the chopped spinach and jalepeno into the frying pan. Once the spinach gets wilted, add the tofu and stir all the ingredients together (for those who prefer to use egg whites, add 12 tbsp of egg white liquid). You don’t need to add any seasoning to this dish, as the Gardein sausage patty is already spicy and well seasoned. Once completed stirred, pour into the bowl and enjoy.

I hope you enjoy this breakfast bowl as much as I do. And don’t forget to purchase your Gardein breakfast sausage patties. And if you don’t like spicy, they do have the original option.

As always, talk to you soon my friends. Please stay home and stay safe 💋

Blogmas #16: Meatless Monday… Sweet Potato Cornbread Muffin

Published on December 16, 2019December 16, 2019 by NAWatermanLeave a comment

Hey my friends!

So the other day I had leftover mashed sweet potatoes. I am not a person that really enjoys eating leftovers. Don’t know why, I guess I’m just weird.

Anyhow, I wanted to do something fun with the sweet potatoes, so I thought about turning it into muffins. I then thought about how I can make sweet potatoes into muffin due to its consistency. So I them thought of making sweet potato cornbread muffins…vegan style.

Here’s what you need for mashed sweet potato:

4 medium sweet potatoes
1 tbsp Cinnamon powder
1 tbsp nutmeg
2 tbsp Plant based butter (loving the country crock plant based)
1/2 cup almond milk

Here’s what you need for cornbread:

1 cup Cornmeal
1 cup Almond milk
1 cup Flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1/4 cup Plant based butter melted

Boil the sweet potatoes after you peel and cut into quarters. Once cooked and after draining the water, mash the potatoes, add the milk, butter, cinnamon and nutmeg. Whip until you get a fluffy consistency. Set aside. ..

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. In a separate bowl, add all the dry ingredients (cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt) and mix. Begin adding in the almond milk and melted butter. Mix well. Once you have completed mixing, begin adding in the mashed sweet potato. Mix well.

Add mixture to the muffin pan (make sure the pan is sprayed with coconut oil spray or use cupcake liners). Put the pan in the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes.

These muffins are great as a side dish to your Christmas dinner or perfect for Christmas brunch 😋.

Blogmas #9: Meatless Monday…Italian Spicy Sausage Pasta

Published on December 9, 2019 by NAWaterman3 Comments

Hey my friends!

Now that the holidays are upon us, that means spending lots of time with family and friends. That also means family style meals…

I don’t know about you, but when I think about a hearty meal, I think about Italian food. Italian food has to be my favorite type of food. And with all the plant based meat alternatives, I don’t have to give up some of my favorite dishes.

One dish I love to make is Italian spicy sausage pasta. I think it’s not only a hearty dish, but festive due to the colors in the meal. And bonus, it’s so easy to make.

Let’s begin…

The ingredients you will need to make this meal are:

1 box Tomato penne pasta (I love Barilla pasta)
8 oz. Tomato basil pasta sauce ( if you don’t have time to make your own, I personally love the Ragu Simply pasta sauce because they don’t add the extra ingredients we simply don’t need)
4 Plant based sausage ( I recommend the hot and spicy Beyond sausage)
Italian seasoning
Red pepper flakes
Extra Virgin olive oil
2 cups of Baby spinach

The first thing you want to do is boil a pot of water (add a teaspoon of the olive oil, italian seasoning and red pepper flakes to the water). You always want to add the seasonings to the water, then bring to a boil. When you do this, the pasta gets infused more with the seasoning.

In a pan, add a tablespoon of olive oil and heat the pan on medium. Cut the sausages (I like to cut them diagonally) and then add to pan. Cook on each side for about 5 minutes. Stir the pasta sauce into the pan. Add some more red pepper flakes if you like your food extra spicy. Drain the pasta and add a little at a time to the pan with the sausage and pasta sauce. Put the temperature on low to simmer because you now want to add in the spinach.