WELCOME to my new and improved blog. I feel like this style of blog fits my personality and interests much better. I hope you enjoy the new format and let me know if you like to see anything changed 
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It has been a busy couple days… I have been working 11+ hour days, 9 hrs at work and couple hrs on this blog trying to get it to where I want it to be. Tonight I came home for a crazy day at work and decided to cook my dinner and Raymond’s, yes I made two completely separate dishes and baked Vegan-Gluten Free Banana Nut Muffins…. wooohooo and still have a lot of energy that I need to use up before I go to bed. So are you ready for some recipies?
For dinner I had;
Penne with Roasted Veggies
Ingredients:
- 1/2 Red Pepper
- 1/2 Green Pepper
- 2 Tomatoes
- 2 med Zucchini
- 10 Grape Tomatoes
- 5 baby Portabella Mushrooms
- 1 sm shallot
- 2 cloves of Garlic
- 4 oz Penne Pasta (measured dry)
- 2 tbsp Olive oil
- Italian Seasoning
- Thyme
- Salt
- Parmesan Cheese
Cooking Direction: 2 Servings
- Cut Zucchini into small pieces, salt and let it sit while you cut other veggies
- Chop all veggies.
- Saute Shallot and garlic in 1 tbsp olive oil, add mushrooms and let it cook until soft
- Roast Zucchini in the oven for 10-15 (make sure it doesn’t burn) at 500°
- Toss the peppers in 1 tbsp of olive oil, Italian Seasoning and Thyme, add the pepper to the zucchini and let it broil at 500° until veggies are soft
- Cook pasta in boiled water per packaging directions
- Puree the tomatoes in Magic Bullet until completely liquefied, and then add to sauteed mushrooms
- In a bowl mix roasted veggies, mushroom tomato sauce and pasta
- Serve in a bowl and top with graded Parmesan cheese
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For Raymond I made,
Chicken with Roasted Potatoes, Steamed Veggies and Brown Rice
Ingredients:
- 1 cup brown rice
- 1 full chicken breast
- 1 cup small potatoes cut into quarters
-1/4 Broccoli crown
- 2 Carrots
- 1 tbsp Olive oil
- Italian Seasoning
- Thyme
Cooking Direction: 2 Servings
- Cook rice per packaging direction
- Season chicken with Italian seasoning and bake in the oven at @ 400° until the temperature inside of the chicken is at 165°
- Steam Potatoes until soft, but not too soft, in bowl mix steamed potato, olive oil, italian seasoning and thyme. Roast in the oven under broil at 500°
- Steam Broccoli and carrots
- Serve and enjoy
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Last but not least…. Vegan-Gluten Free Banana Nut Muffins
Ingredients:
- 2 cups White Rice Flour (or 2 cups whole wheat pastry flour, if you are not worried about GLUTEN)
-1.5 tsp Baking Soda
- 0.5 tsp Salt
- 0.5 cup light Agave (or 0.5 – 1 cup sugar, depending how sweet you like it be)
- 0.5 cup grapeseed oil (or regualr vegetable oil, I used grapeseed oil since it is heart healthy)
- 0.5 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 0.5 cup Walnuts
- 0.25 cup Raisins
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
- dash of Nutmeg
- 1 tbsp Vanilla Extract
- 3 ripe Bananas
Baking Directions: Yields a Baker’s Dozen
- Preheat oven to 350°
- Combine flour, baking soda and salt together
- Mix agave (or sugar), oil, applesauce and vanilla together
- Slowly (couple spoons at a time) add the flour mixture to agave mixture, add walnuts and raisins. Make sure you don’t over mix
- Mash bananas in a separate bowl
- Fold in mashed bananas into the muffin mixture
- Bake for 25 min or until done
OH MY GOODNESS! These turned out AMAZING. I loved the rice flour in this mixture. Raymond thought it was a bit grainy but I loved the texture, it is really a personal preference. You can add a bit more applesauce if you like it really moist… to me it was just perfect.
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What do you think of the new blog?
I love the new blog! The new title is very fitting, since all of these recipes are definitely nutritious. I espescially love the pasta with roasted veggies- yum!
I love the new blog! Your photography is gorgeous
Thanks for the recipes
I love your new blog, Gelareh!!! It’s so refreshing, and I see you still retained the orange tones.
The comment box is kind of broken up, though.
Looks great
Love the new formatting
love this new layout girl!! seriously!! AWESOME. so pretty!! GREAT meal- those muffins look awesome!
LOVE the new blog, it looks fabulous and has such great content already, those recipes sound amazing and ahhhh wow i want that muffin! i’m going to update my blog reader right now so i don’t miss out on anything!
I LOVE the new website!! It looks great!
I can’t believe that you make two dinners for you and your hubby! I’m kinda like, if you don’t like what I’m cookin’, you can cook your own! I’m mean though.
LOVE the new blog! Looking good
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All that food looks absolutely stellar and I NEED to make these muffins! They look awesome! (Plus everything with bananas wins my heart immediately
I like the new site, very clean and simple.
I am viewing in Chrome and there are issues with the comments/posts lining up correctly. I had to come down to the second post (Flour 101) to find the comment box for this post, it was lingering in the top of it and throwing the alignment off of the Flour post. The comment box itself also doesn’t line up, it is all over the page. Just thought you might like to know.
Congrats on the new blog! Looks fantastic!
LOVE the new blog! It’s awesome! And so are those recipes…! The pasta looks delicious and anything with banana nut in the title is fabulous in my book. Can’t wait to see what other yummy recipes you post…have a fabulous day lovely!
The new look is awesome! Nice job, you’ve still got the same colors, but the layout is different and I agree that it’s much better (although I did truly love it before too).
Thanks for the gluten free muffin recipe, and your pasta looks amazing!
HAve a great weekend.
The new blog is wonderful! Your photos are just beautiful!
Love the new blog, it looks great!
Congrats on the new blog! It looks great!
Looks great!
I’m going through a blog identity crisis myself. I’ve kept the vegan thing going since the cleanse and am seriously contemplating a full on commitment. I’m going to give it some time, but if it sticks, you may be seeing a blog name change along the lines of: The Ordinary Vegetarian.. gone Vegan!
One note, the HOME button up top wasn’t working for me when I was trying to get back from another tab.
Cheers!
Yum! That penne looks fantastic!!!!
LOVE THE NEW BLOG! I also love the gluten-free banana muffin recipe. It is cold and rainy today…the perfect baking day…and I have all those ingredients on hand! I going to be making a batch in like…oh…5 minutes!! YAY!
New blog looks amazing! And so do both of your meals. Way to multi-cook. xoox
Looks great! Thanks for letting me know you moved. You may have a new blog, but you still make me hungry all the same.
love the new blog! i made sure to update my blogroll too
this is super cute and colorful…perfect!
Congratulations on the new site! I love it!
Your muffins look amazing! (that sounds kind of dirty, but its not, promise!)
I think the new blog looks great and I love the new name! Lovely food pictures too. :3
Wow!!! That penne pasta dish looks amazing and so vibrant. I love using a variety in colors for dishes. And how can I forget the muffins?! They look so scrumptious–if only I could just reach through the screen and grab one
Wow, awesome new blog, Gelareh!!
Thanks for stopping by my new site, as well! Both of your comments did come through, but for some reason, my spam filter caught the first one.
Not sure why! They’re both up now, though. 
I’ll update my blogroll with your great new site!
all that food looks great! I’ll definitely be trying out that penne, and the muffins! I’ll make the chicken for my boyfriend…I’m not much of a meat eater but he would love it!
Oh! And those muffins look DIVINE!!! Beautiful photo!
Love the new look- the orange really pops! I would love to try those muffins- anything banana rocks my world!
love the new look! congrats on the new site
I love the new blog! Your pictures look amazing too
congrats on the new blog! it looks great
Love the new name! And that pasta dish – looks gorgeous! Out of curiousity, do you take these pictures in natural light?? They turn out great – mine never look as good at night!
Love the new blog! Thanks for posting the pasta veggie recipe- I was actually craving something like it this past week but wasn’t sure what to include.
Btw- I love your name- it is so pretty and unique!
that pasta sounds awesome, and the cupcakes look delicious! what a great picture
Love the new blog but I liked the old one too….what i really like is the food pics that are crisp and lovely (and yours always are!). And the vegan muffies look great! Great job on those..and if you dont like rice flour or dont have it on hand, you can always just do like half and half of oat/almond flour. Heavier texture but with the applesauce and/or banana, it keeps them super moist!
HEY! I LOVE the new look! And your recipes look fabulous… I’ve been having a SERIOUS banana nut craving recenlty!
love the new look! It looks very nice and sleek. Ok and your pictures are gorgeous!!!! Do you mind my asking if you use special lights, tripod, equipment? I’ve been looking at ego lights and just want to make it easier taking pictures in the dead of night when I get home
I’ve also been looking at tripods but there are just soo many! Thanks, those recipes sound wonderful. Have a great weekend!
I love the new look and the “new” direction! Congrats!
love the blog face lift and colors and pictures! I am so very happy for you!
Great new website! The pictures are beautiful…like out of a magazine! I am super jealous (in a good way)!
The penne looks delicious!!
Your new blog is absolutely gorgeous!! I don’t know if your pictures got even better or this layout just compliments them so much more, but wow, I’m very impressed!!
Love it!!!!!
Your new blog looks awesome! And great food! I love your photos! Makes me want to reach into my laptop and crab some food…
Happy weekend!
How gorgeous are those muffins! Wow! The colors just pop and it makes you happy to be alive, and a little jealous not to be in your physical company. It gives the impression of ideal eats…yes?
Oh my goodness – SO glad you stopped by my blog, so that I could find yours. It is beautiful, and you have delicious looking meals and beautiful photography and layouts! I cannot wait to keep reading
Love this!
Congrats on your awesome new blog! Can’t wait to see more recipes and adventures.
Love it! And, your food photography is beautiful–as always
Wow you’ve been working a lot! And still managed to fit in all those wonderful recipes- I’m impressed!
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Hey!
I just came across your blog the other day and I really enjoy reading it!!
I would love it if you could check out my blog and follow as well
Jenna
What beautiful photos!
I love the new blog. I love orange. I miss the older header pic though! I felt like it gave the blog character!
Love the new blog! And I love those muffins! Thanks for the recipe.
I am always making 2 separate meals for me and my husband, or at least 2 variations of the same thing.
Your new blog looks great!!
Your food always looks so amazing, its like food porn!
LOVE the new blog! Everything looks so good!
<3 jess
xoxo
I must admit I’m new to your blog, so don’t know what it looked like before, but it looks great! Very clean, easy to read, and highlights your (very delicious-looking) recipes really well!!
the site looks wonderful! as does the recipe…
YUM! That pasta dish looks wonderful!
Congrats on the new blog!
Check out the giveaway over on mine!
I love your new blog!!
And your penne pasta with roasted vegetables looks amazing… I think I may have to try this recipe soon!
New blog looks great. As do those muffins.
I swear I love gluten free flours more that regular flours now! My husband has celiac and ever since I started baking for him…I think I eat the gluten free stuff faster than he does! Those muffins look delicious!
I’ve never been to your blog so I can’t tell the difference. But, I like the way you write- it’s almost as if we were talking on the phone. Thank you.
I have copied the recipes and will make them soon. The penna tonight !
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