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Without a doubt, the best part of publishing a personal post like my Why I Gave Up Running post is reading all of the amazing responses people share.
Seriously, thank you all so much.
I’ll try to make the blog a little more personal in the future, although it’s difficult because most of the personal stuff in my life involves other people. To respect the privacy of my real-world friends, I have a rule to not write about them or post their photos, which is why most of the pictures you see on this blog are of just me.
For today, you get another recipe… with chocolate. Hopefully you won’t mind. 😉
I’m honored to feature a recipe today from Tosca Reno, a New York Times best-selling author and one of the most well-respected and influential figures in the world of healthy food. This bread pudding recipe comes from her Eat Clean Diet Vegetarian Cookbook, which contains 150 meat-free recipes free of processed ingredients, refined sugars, and anything artificial (note to vegetarians: there is a chapter on fish).
The book, which comes with complete nutritional information for every recipe, is divided into ten chapters from breakfast to dessert. It also covers topics such as how to be a healthy vegetarian, eating vegetarian on a budget, and making fast-food and holiday recipes. Upon receiving the cookbook in the mail, I right away bookmarked at least fifteen things I wanted to make. With bananas, cinnamon, and chocolate chips, this healthy bread pudding was obviously on top of the list!
Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Pudding
(Adapted from Eat Clean Diet Vegetarian Cookbook, reprinted with permission)
- 2 1/2 cups (640ml) milk of choice
- 3 tbsp (45ml) arrowroot or cornstarch
- 1/4 cup (60ml) sucanat or sugar of choice
- 1/3 cup (80ml) pure maple syrup
- 1 tbsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 5 cups day-old bread, torn into 1-to-2-inch pieces, lightly packed
- 2 extra-ripe bananas, peeled and sliced
- 1/2 to 1 cup (120-240ml) chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350F (177C). Grease a 1.5 to 2-quart ceramic dish and set aside. Thoroughly whisk together all but last three ingredients in a large bowl. Add remaining ingredients, and stir to combine, mashing the bananas a little and allowing the bread to absorb most of the liquid. Scrape into the prepared dish, and press down to smooth the top. Let sit 15 minutes so bread absorbs more liquid, then bake uncovered until lightly brown and firm (about 30 minutes). Serve warm. For questions about this recipe or substitutions, please feel free to ask this recipe’s creator, Tosca Reno!
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Quick Giveaway!
For the chance to win your own copy of Tosca Reno’s Eat Clean Diet Vegetarian Cookbook, simply leave a comment answering the following question: What is your favorite meatless meal?
Favorite veggie meal: a ‘roast chicken’ dahl I made with rosemary, garlic and coconut pl. my best friend asked if I put chicken stock in there, and was surprised when I said it was just herbs and oni
One of my favorites is a bowl of cold leftover brown rice with chopped up walnuts or pecans, whatever fresh fruit you have (in summer blueberries, strawberries, banana etc – lately I’m using honeycrisp apples) and sprinkled cinnamon with soy milk. It’s good for any meal 🙂
I could use a cookbook to get ideas and help my husband and kids start eating more like I do 🙂
Favorite meatless meal is anything with peanut butter, haha. I don’t cook much, so maybe this cookbook will help get me started in that department!
My everyday go to is a huge salad. Bean burritos are great comfort food.
My favorite meatless meal a veggie stir fry. I just love all of the flavors. I am also so glad you posted this because I wanted to make something healthy for Thanksgiving and I do believe this is it!
My hubby and I have been eating a plant-based diet for the past year and have so many vegetarian dishes we love…I think one of our favorites is lasagna! There are so many delicious varieties that don’t include meat!
I am a 12 year old girl who is obsessed with your blog! I read it, try out recipes, change them, and share them! I’m not vegan so most of the time I make your recipes with cow milk ect. I also love cooking. I beg my parents to let me cook sometimes. And I actually most often cook meatless meals. I don’t think I could choose a favorite, because they are all so good, but I think if I had to choose a favorite, it would by my orange tofu. I invented this recipe, and revised it, and now I don’t even have it written down. It just stays in my head. I have always been a big runner. I’m on a track team, and cross country team, and I have gone to district of the Hersheys meet, meaning that I was one of the fastest girls my age for the 800. I have been in many cross country meets, and I often fear that what happened to you, will someday happen to me. But I know that whatever happens to me will be my choice, and that I have tried over 20 physical activities, so I will have some choices. Thanks so much for providing giveaways and such good food recipes! Keep up the good work!
Stuffed shells are our favorite meat free meal.
My favorite meat-less meal… quinoa, veggie, and black bean bowl, with some greek yogurt to top it off 🙂
I would have to say my favorite vegetarian meal is sauted veggies with quinoa. I will saute any vegetable I have on hand and top quinoa with the mix. Super easy, filling, and depending on the veggie mix, tastes different each time.
Ooh I love meatless meals, for breakfast I love my volumising oatmeal which I have everyday, I add mix berries, banana, cinnamon, ginger, chia seeds, LSA mix (I try to eat as many superfoods a day as I can).
For tea I love to make a tofu stir-fry with pad Thai noodles.
I bulk it up with heaps of veges usually cauliflower, broccoli, kale, cabbage, onion, mushroom, peppers, zucchini, carrots.
I make my own sauce and use half to marinate the tofu, the sauce is usually made up of rice wine vinegar, soy sauce, oyster sauce, sesame oil, chili, ginger, garlic, coriander.
I cook the noodles in boiling water and let soak for five minutes. Cook the veges in the wok, add the sauce and tofu to heat through, then add the noodles and serve, yum!!!
At this time of year my favorite meatless meal is vegetarian chili; though all year I can eat a good vegetable lasagna. I use the zucchini as noodles so it’s even gluten free. Thanks for sharing whatever you do, personal or not.
Right now my favourite meatless meal is a salad I make with frozen vegetarian potstickers from Trader Joe’s, edamame, and stir-fried veggies in a little sesame oil.
My family loves spaghetti and salad. Simple and easy for little ones in the house. But, a new cookbook would give some great inspiration for new meals! thanks
Favorite meatless meal is my Kelp Noodle Mac and Cheese! So yummy!
I have so many, but my favorite meatless meal is vegetable lasagna!