Week 4: Vegan Pumpkin & “Bacon” Mac-N-“Cheese” & Vegan Coconut Cornbread Dressing – A Compassion is the Secret Ingredient Thanksgiving

Week 4 is here and this week is all about transforming recipes that I've already shared into new recipes that are absolutely perfect additions to your Thanksgiving table! The first recipe that I'm transforming from "everyday" to "Thanksgiving" is my mac-n-"cheese" which I shared with y'all back in March. The original recipe is quick, easy,…

Week 2: Vegan Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Cinnamon Glaze – A Compassion is the Secret Ingredient Thanksgiving

  Week 2 is here and it's time to take on sweet potatoes, but first, a confession... sweet potatoes aren't my jam! I have a crazy-obsessive love for normal potatoes but that love never extended to the potatoes cousin, the sweet potato. I am well aware however, that no Thanksgiving feast is complete without 'em,…

Vegan Burnt Caramel Frosting

  Sweet, buttery, and a little toasty -that's what this frosting is. It was inspired by my mom who asked me to make her a chocolate cake with caramel frosting for her birthday. I knew that I could totally handle the chocolate cake part but the caramel frosting part? I hadn't made vegan caramel before,…

Vegan Mac-N-“Cheese” – Award-Winning Recipe

Update 5/20/18: I entered this recipe into a vegan mac-n-"cheese" cooking competition and tied for 1st place in the judges choice vote! In the people's choice vote, I came in 2nd! I grew up, like most children of the 90s, eating that blue box macaroni and cheese sold by a dinosaur -you know the one…