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vegetarian

Cooking Challenge Day 3 recipes: Microwaved eggs and the “vaguely Middle-Eastern dinner”

Remember that granola I made the first day? It’s coming back to play! It’s a totally Megan-simple breakfast morning — granola cereal, and I’m going to share with you the trick my dad taught me for making scrambled eggs with only ONE dish to wash afterwards. For lunch and dinner we’re making a “delicious sauce thing” and the “vaguely Middle-Eastern dinner.”

Cooking Challenge Day 2 recipes: Brunch frittata and taco salad Tuesday!

I have a feeling that making this frittata is going to take me FOREVER, and it’s going to be too big for just one Megan to eat on my own for breakfast. So we’re going to make this recipe a two-fer: breakfast and lunch. Then, since it’s Tuesday — the day the lord hath made for tacos — Jessica gave us her recipe for a meatless taco salad. Of course, feel free to use real meat, it’ll taste just as delicious!

Cooking Challenge 2.0 begins: Game planning and Day 1 recipes

Hey Homies! I know it’s a Sunday, and we rarely ever post anything on a Sunday, but it’s a special week on Offbeat Home & Life. It’s the week of Megan’s Cooking Challenge, the second. Here’s how we’re breaking this down…

“Baskets!” moment: Your veggie scraps are actually delicious soup in the making

Next time you’re chopping up some veggies, get out a gallon-size zip-top bag. Toss in any edible pieces that you’re trimming. This includes peels, end bits and weird fleshy bits that wouldn’t look appetizing, but are harmless. Then use those veggie bits to make soup stock!

Megan-simple kale salad (with bonus scavenger cocktail action)

It seems my friends make EVERYTHING with kale — salads, risottos, pastas, and even drinks. I go to my buddy Jessica’s house once a week so that she can make sure I’m eating at least one meal that’s not microwavable, and this time I stopped drinking wine long enough to document her incredible kale salad recipe. (Not only that, but we got a little creative and made a cocktail out of the leftover kale stocks.)

Make Megan-simple applesauce in the slow cooker

This dead-easy version of homemade applesauce has no added sugar and only a couple of ingredients. You don’t need to watch it, you don’t need to know how to can, and the only special ingredient you need is a slow cooker.

Megan-Simple taco beans with zeera rice

Here’s a recipe for Megan-simple taco beans with rice. This is something that will please everyone, veggies and meat-eaters alike, and it’s SO FREAKING EASY. It also stores and saves well, so you can dish up three or four portions and stick them in the fridge and you have lunch for part of the week.

Fantastic, Megan-simple, five-ingredient guaco tacos

These Guacamole Tacos are so simple, delicious, vegan, and full of rich, velvety avocado and sweet corn that I just had to share with all the Offbeat Homies! Plus they can be made with just five ingredients — or you can top them with as many things as you’d like!