eileen's kitchen!

I've been messing around with different variables in my meatless loaves this winter.  The ones with eggs definitely hold their shape bet...

We try to do a 3 day raw food cleanse from PuraVegan once a month.  This is one of the dinners that is usually a part of it.  I really l...

My sister-in-law's dad is from New Orleans, and always makes gumbo for Christmas Eve.  I volunteered to make the veg version for the oth...

Believe me, I tried to find a way to avoid the superbowl, especially this year since my city is being held hostage by a billionaire team own...

I was watching my favorite show, America's Test Kitchen, and they made this.  It's a lot of work, but it is also really interest...

My friend Mike was gifted this pile of peppers and passed them onto me hoping I could make better use of them.  I didn't really know wha...

We had something pretty similar to these during our Puravegan cleanse.  After buying some collards on a whim today at Local Harvest, I d...

Smoked shitake mushrooms, baby kale, chipotle salsa, cucumbers Panko encrusted tofu, pickled red cabbage, cucumbers After pressin...

Easter is the only holiday I'm "allowed" to host since I don't want meat in my house or on my dishes.  I think my family ...

I've always thought cleanses were kind of stupid.  But after a decadent couple of months, and a few extra lbs, I was craving a way to j...

My mom often made lamb stew when I was a kid.  I don't remember it being super flavorful, as is often the way with traditional Irish fo...

In November we took a vacation to NYC with our only two goals being 1) see friends and 2) eat lots of delicious things.  On our very first ...

Sometimes when I'm snowed in, I have to spend the entire day cooking so I don't lose my mind with the boredom.  It is not that ...

I was planning a Mexican menu for a dinner party and went in search of a recipe that did not contain corn and would not be too filling....

This was dinner was prompted by my spotting of whole wheat egg noodles at the store.  I would have made this a lot sooner if I had known h...

 There are very few places in town where you can grab some real food on the run.  OR Juice and Smoothie is one of them.  The owner is one...

The next time you have a layover or are stranded in Chicago's O'Hare airport, or hell, even if you only have a few minutes, plan on ...

Brussels sprouts, halved and cooked face down in coconut oil in a cast iron skillet.  It is all I want to eat lately.  I have been know...

  I got a fancy new blender with a shredding blade, which worked pretty well to turn a head of cauliflower into the consistency of rice...

  I first had this soup years ago at Ernesto's, a little wine bar in Benton Park.  Then I forgot all about it until Sauce Magazine...