Another week, another WIAW! I gotta tell you guys, I am hooked on these weekly WIAW parties. I’ve been doing them every week since June of last year (except for a couple of times) and I love seeing what all of you who participate in WIAW have been up to, eating-wise.
This week’s edition won’t be what I’ve been eating this week, because let’s be honest, it hasn’t been too interesting–just finishing up a lot of stuff before spring break rolls around. But I want to share some of the recipes I’m planning on making next week when I’m home for break. I’ve been dying to get back into the kitchen and get my chef on so I’ve got a lot of recipes I want to try out.
Seitan Makhani (Vegan “Butter Chicken”)
From AllRecipes.com
I remember when I was a lot younger, my family went out to eat at an Indian restaurant in our city quite often–I was introduced to spicy foods and different cuisines at a young age, which is why I love them today! Anyways, my sister and I would usually split an order of butter chicken, along with some onion bahji and fresh-baked naan and it was super delicious. Being vegan and a lot more health-conscious now, of course I don’t eat butter or chicken but this veganized recipe sounds really amazing and pretty healthy. I’ve never cooked (or eaten) seitan before but I definitely want to experiment with it.
Raw Key Lime Cashew Cheezecake
Photo from Evolving Wellness
I don’t have a specific recipe in mind for this, I just want to make my own based off other raw cheezecakes. After a failed raw key lime pie experiment in January, I really want to make a key lime flavored cashew cheezecake, since key lime is perfect for spring and I’ve been wanting to make a cashew cheezecake for a while.
More kale chips
Photo from thehealthyeatingsite.com
After my first homemade batch a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been craving these yummy green chips like no other! Again, I don’t have a specific recipe in mind but I want to try a sweet and spicy batch and maybe a batch coated in vegan ranch dressing…
Carrot Cake Pancakes
From wholefoodsmarket.com
Whole Foods always has the most drool-worthy recipes and photos, and when I saw these little gems, I knew I had to try them out. I love carrot cake in overnight oat form, so why not in pancakes? I’ll have to change a few things around to make them vegan, but they look simple enough and they’ve got tons of yummy things in them, like pineapple, raisins and pecans.
Orange Poppyseed Muffins
Photo from shine.yahoo.com
For some odd reason, I have been thinking about lemon poppyseed muffins lately! But why not a twist on the traditional–vegan orange poppyseed muffins? Fresh citrus flavors are really appealing to me since spring is just around the corner so this sounds perfect!
BBQ Tofu Pizza
Photo from foodbuzz.com
I still have yet to experiment with tofu, so what better place to start than on a pizza? I’m planning on marinating some extra firm tofu in a natural barbecue sauce and topping a brown rice tortilla (best pizza base, in my opinion) with some red onions, red cabbage and possibly fresh pineapple. Though really, any kind of homemade pizza would be delicious!
Peanut Flour Banana Bread
Photo from thedailygarnish.com
I actually want to create my own recipe for this, using some kind of mix of peanut flour, oat flour, vegan chocolate chips and bananas (duh). I don’t know how it’ll turn out, but the flavor combo just sounds awesome.
Carrot Mango Smoothie
Photo from wholeliving.com
Not so much a recipe as an idea–I have no idea why I thought of this, but it just sounds really refreshing. I know a lot of people make Green Monsters…this will be an Orange Monster!
I may not get around to making all of these recipes, and I might try out other ones, but these are just my ideas as of right now! I’m getting excited (and hungry!) just thinking about them.
Pink cardigan (on arm, Abercrombie & Fitch), green floral dress (Hollister), pink crystal necklace (American Eagle)
Oh, and on an unrelated note, this is what I wore today! It has been almost 70 degrees here the past two days, and I couldn’t be happier that it feels like spring…even though snow is in the forecast for later in the week. Booooooo! My dress isn’t actually that bright of a green, it’s more of a sea foam green but I always have to color correct my photos because of the bad lighting in my room so things turn out weird colors. Also, don’t ask why my cardigan is hanging off one arm–I was trying out different poses, okay? You can check out more photos on my fashion blog!
What recipe looks the best to you? Have you ever “veganized” a recipe?
almostveggirlie 
All those recipes sound awesome… I’ve always wanted to try lemon poppyseed muffins,and the orange twist sounds absolutely wonderful! If you try them,you have to tell me how they turned out,okay? 🙂
I didn’t know you have a fashion blog yet (how could I miss that?!),but I’ll definitely check into it later as I love your style! ❤
Have a great day,Ashley!
I’ll definitely let you know how they turn out and share the recipe too if they’re good!
That key lime cashew cheesecake thing sounds SO good! I need to find a holiday or reason to make that pronto haha 😀
It sounds like you’re gonna have so much fun whipping up all these recipes over spring break, I cannot wait to see how you like them all!
Hope your day is rockin sista!
Haha let’s totally make up key lime cashew cheesecake day! There are so many other crazy national food holidays so I think we should make up our own 😉
Those foods sound really good, but the only one I’ve made is the peanut butter banana bread (it was good, we like banana bread though). Hope you have fun making them over Spring Break- let us know how they turned out.
Glad to hear the banana bread turned out well! And I will for sure share the recipes for things if they’re good!
I love your dress!! I wish it was that warm here right now. BBQ Tofu Pizza sounds awesome. I’ve been meaning to pick up some tofu because I haven’t had it in ages!
If you have any tofu prepping tips, I’d love to hear them! I’m a tofu newbie but I really want to try baking or grilling it myself.
You just gave me so many recipe ideas for my spring break too! Thanks Ashley 🙂 The carrot-cake pancakes intrigue me the most… oh and that bread, yum!
Cute outfit too lady!
Thanks! I know, the carrot cake pancakes look so delicious!
I want to make everything, it all looks so delicious! And your dress is adorable
Aww thanks! I really want to make everything too, but I doubt it’ll happen, at least not all over spring break!
I always plan to make delicious things and it never actually happens because I have too much fun being lazy and relaxing.
I can’t wait to see your raw cheezecake recipe! Also, that outfit is too cute – spring is here! 🙂
Thank you–yay for spring 😀