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Meatless Monday Guest Chef Mary Rose Roberts’ Rice Crust Healthful Garden Pizza Recipe

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Who doesn’t freakin’ love Pizza? Right? How about an awesome pizza for Meatless Monday? I’m a vegan so this one isn’t for me (with all that cheese), but I’m trying to be inclusive in promoting Meatless Monday so this one is for all of you!

I’m excited to introduce another wonderful guest chef, Mary Rose Roberts. I love the detail she gives on her blog, the breadth of green topics and how fantastic her food looks. Mary Rose has been a professional journalist for 15 years writing about green technology and communications, among other topics, for Penton Media–one of the largest business-to-business companies in the U.S. She also is the editor of a green news, product and lifestyle blog: Next-Gen Green. Follow her on twitter @NextGenGreen and if you still use Facebook she’s on there, too! 

Here is the story and recipe for Mary Rose Robert’s Rice Crust Healthful Garden Pizza:  Read more... (776 words, 4 images)

Guest Chef Jessica Nazarali’s Wake Up Smoothie for Meatless Monday

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Here is another wonderful vegan chef that I’m excited to introduce you to, Jessica Nazarali from Live Healthy Simply. Jessica has loads of great recipes on her site and I encourage you to follow her on twitter @JessicaNazarali. Once you’ve been through her site and have seen the food (and the wonderful photography) I’m sure you’ll be hooked!

Jessica grew up on a farm in the Hunter Valley and was raised vegetarian. Today she’s ditched the junk food and the ice cream and gone vegan. She feels it has done wonders for her skin, her digestion and helped her lose some weight. Now she calls Sydney, Australia home.

She has contributed a wonderful, healthy breakfast smoothie to our series. I hope you enjoy it!

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Guest Chef Professor Vegetable’s Vegan Southern-Style Collard Greens for Meatless Monday

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Please welcome my friend Adam, aka Professor Vegetable. He has a fantastic blog and offers great ideas for veggie meals on a budget. A vegan that occasionally goes vegetarian (he’ll eat eggs once in a while), Adam also loves sign language. A geek at heart he’s also a sci-fi fan and into reading fantasy books. A lot of Adam’s recipes reflect the Asian food that he grew up with. Give him a follow on twitter and quiz his sci-fi knowledge @professorveg. 

I hope you enjoy his collard greens!

I’m participating in a sort of group blogging exercise for meatless Monday. The theme I was given: Soul Food. My first thought was collard greens. I’ve been cooking these things for years. I’ve always done them in a meatless way. I do not claim that my recipe for collard greens is traditional. Like, I said, I do them meatless and traditionally they’d be done with ham or ham fat and butter. Traditional or not, my recipe is good and I’m technically a southerner. I was born and raised in Virginia. Though when I say Virginia what I really mean is a suburb of DC in Northern Virginia and it’s not the most southern place but I do like to think that I know a thing or two about greens.  Read more... (533 words, 2 images)

Guest Chef Alyson Blair’s Meatless Monday Caramelized Sweet Potatoes

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Another wonderful chef that I’m excited to know and feature is Alyson Blair. Alyson has been vegan for four months and has this to say about her recent transition:

 

Within 30 days, I lost 10 pounds, my skin texture improved, a chronic illness seemed to disappear and more than anything, my ability to connect with the earth and those around me went into hyperdrive.  What was once cloudy was clear, what seemed right before proved itself to be wrong.  My shift to veganism has been life changing in many ways. 

 

In addition to her alternative diet, she is a single mother to a very handsome toddler, a Marketing Advocate for Pin-Up Promotions, an avid reader, pretty much hilarious and a great cook. You can follow her funky tweets @PinUpAltPromos. 

 

I hope you enjoy her recipe!

 

Caramelized Sweet Potatoes 

 

This is an ideal holiday dish, but I serve it throughout the year as a side-dish, breakfast and even dessert alternative.

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Guest Chef MJ Marti’s Recipe for Meatless Monday

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Ready for Plan B is kicking off a new series where we will feature guest chefs each Monday. The goal is to help our readers to find great recipes to have success with their Meatless Mondays (and beyond!). There are so many great vegan chefs and bloggers out there and I’ve been fortunate to link up with many through twitter and the blog. I am very grateful to them for helping me pull this off and we hope you find this series helpful!

The first recipe is a product of a conversation I had with my friend MJ on twitter. I was curious and it lead to chat and here we are… our first guest chef!

MJ Marti’s Breaded Veggie Scallops
Ingredients:
1/4 cup corn meal
1/8 teaspoon adobo
1 can veggie scallops
Oil for frying (I like using olive oil.)

Preparation:
1. Mix the corn meal and adobo in a bowl.
2. Cut the pieces of scallops in half.
3. Dip the scallops in the dry mix until completed covered.
4. Once the oil is hot enough (oil should slightly bubble when you put the first scallop in) put the scallops in the pan for about 2-3 minutes or until golden.  Read more... (242 words, 1 image)