20 Must-Have Lenten Staples

These 20 must-have Lenten staples are your arsenal to pull a vegan meal together that feeds a hungry crowd in no more than 30 minutes of active cooking time. Bonus: In this post, you will find links to quick and easy recipes to use our recommended staples.

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Loaded Dark Chocolate Bark

This chocolate bark studded with toasted pistachios, almonds, and cranberries are easy-to-make, healthy snack, mood booster, and a decadent vegan treat.

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Egyptian Petit Four by Marian: Happy Coptic Christmas

Food Blogger Marian Guirguis @marianjoyfulkitchen is sharing at Chez Nermine her recipe of Festive Traditional Egyptian cookies known as Petit Four. Not to confuse them with French Petit Four, these melt-in-your-mouth cookies are close to Western butter cookies.

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Coffee-Cardamom Viennese: A Cookie to Brighten Your Day

NON-SPONSORED POST Have you ever tried cardamom coffee before? I hope you have. If not, I strongly recommend it. It is an incredible mood booster in the middle of bleak quarantine days. Personally, I wouldn’t have survived homeschooling without my morning cup of cardamom coffee. The smell alone of the finely ground coffee mixed with […]

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Chocolate-Salted Caramel Tart: A Therapeutic Treat

This tart is adapted from Bon Appetite Magazine. The intensity of the tart dark chocolate glaze cuts through the sweetness of the salted caramel layer. The gooey filling of both the chocolate glaze and salted caramel can’t find a more glorious vessel than this delicate, slim chocolate crust. The crust shatters in your mouth surrendering to an unexpected hint of sea salt that offsets the sweetness and sends you to an island of heavenly flavors.

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Brownie-cookie Hybrid Hearts : Love Your Self

In case you have some leftover of crystallized ginger from Christmas time, and you are growing weary what to do with them, I get you covered. These gingery hybrid of brownie and cookies are a perfect fit for Valentines’.  Simply put, they are hardcore aphrodisiac delicacies. The bottomless depth of dark chocolate and the tantalizing […]

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Flourless Mocha Torte: The Abbey Bookshop

Torte au Chocolat is a royal cross between a pudding and a cake. The creamy interior is encased in a gossamer, crispy crust.  Faithful to French subtlety, it is barely sweetened not to overpower the coffee and chocolate notes.

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