Promise us you won't miss this episode if you're looking for a guilt-free feast, packed with flavor and nutrients, and brought to you straight from nature's bounty. Today Katie and I are painting a picture of a festive table that's as vibrant and inviting as the conversation around it. We've set our sights on 12 delightful dishes (breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert) that are 10 ingredients or less and only 15 minutes of prep time. Whether you're a seasoned plant-based eater or just starting your journey, our insights are sure to infuse your holiday menu with nutrition and deliciousness.
Resources from this Episode:
Forks Over Knives
Minimalist Baker
Vegan Richa
Plant You
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Dessert
_____________________________________________________________________
WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
Have a question, suggestion or comment for the podcast? Fill out form here
Plant Centered Nutrition Essential Resources:
Promise us you won't miss this episode if you're looking for a guilt-free feast, packed with flavor and nutrients, and brought to you straight from nature's bounty. Today Katie and I are painting a picture of a festive table that's as vibrant and inviting as the conversation around it. We've set our sights on 12 delightful dishes (breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert) that are 10 ingredients or less and only 15 minutes of prep time. Whether you're a seasoned plant-based eater or just starting your journey, our insights are sure to infuse your holiday menu with nutrition and deliciousness.
Resources from this Episode:
Forks Over Knives
Minimalist Baker
Vegan Richa
Plant You
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Dessert
_____________________________________________________________________
WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
Have a question, suggestion or comment for the podcast? Fill out form here
Plant Centered Nutrition Essential Resources:
Welcome to the Plant-Centered and Thriving Podcast. I'm your host, ashley Kitchens. I'm a plant-based registered dietitian and virtual nutrition mentor. I was raised on an Angus Cattle Farm, grew up with a lot of GI issues and used the power of plant-based eating to promote healing. Here you'll find inspiration, ideas and encouragement for your own plant-based journey. I'm so thrilled you're here today. Let's get started. Welcome to the show Plant-Centered Listener. My name is Ashley and I'm Katie, and we're together again having a wonderful podcast recording. We're only 30 little miles away, it's true, so today we couldn't be in person, but we are 30 miles, recording this online, and it's the second best thing, I suppose.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we're making it work.
Speaker 1:Well, we hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. This episode, which I'm actually really excited for this episode we're going to talk about some really incredible, easy, amazing recipes for the holidays. But really, katie, any of these recipes you can make anytime you want, because they're like warm, cozy recipes that are like perfect for this time of year.
Speaker 2:Yes, and they are simple. I don't know about you guys out there, but when it comes to the holidays, which is two weeks away, I just want something easy. I don't want to wreck my kitchen, I don't want to reinvent the wheel. I want something that is straightforward and simple.
Speaker 1:Yes, and I don't know about you, but I've seen so many videos online on Instagram and TikTok of all these really cool festive meals that you can create, which you can go to the extremes if you want to, or you can make it really, really simple. But, man, I'm looking at some of these videos and like, wow, that is incredible.
Speaker 2:My favorite. I am like totally into the vegan charcuterie. Oh my gosh, the tablescapes. If you guys don't know, I used to be an event planner. So I used to. I didn't do it, but I used to think it off in my brain and then the event managers would actually execute it. They did the hard work, but I am obsessed with those reels. I love those.
Speaker 1:Yes, Katie, I can't remember if I told you this. This might have been a couple of years ago now. We had this really big vegan charcuterie board at our family Christmas my sister was hosting. My sister is vegan. Her and her family and my mom ordered a bunch of cheeses from Meocos and they're these beautiful cheese wheels that we placed out on this table. Well, my someone in my family I won't mention it Lea no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Although I'm sure she would have loved to, she did not know that the cheeses were vegan and, yes, we are well aware of her allergy, so there was no concern there. But this person is eating them and thinking it's real cheese and it wasn't. And she was so shocked when we told them oh no, that's actually plant based.
Speaker 2:And I mean she loved them and so I was like, yeah, oh my gosh, I remember we had some at the Retrie and that was like one of my favorite parts, those Meocos cheeses are so good.
Speaker 1:They are so good. Okay, before we get into today's episode, let's talk about the course really quick, because we have this incredible course that can teach you how to go plant based in 30 days. And well, it can.
Speaker 2:It will teach you 30 days You're pulling my legs. That's incredible.
Speaker 1:And it has everything you need to really start from eating the standard American diet to going fully plant based in 30 days. And we have a bunch of like guest lectures. We have incredible footage to how to survive the holidays, even a lot of bonus materials that supplement the core of what it takes to go plant based, including where you're going to get all your protein. We cover macros, we talk about supplementation. We go through everything that way. You walk away feeling like I am doing this and I'm doing it well and I'm giving my body everything that it needs to thrive on a plant based diet. So really stoked for this course. The link is in our show notes. You can easily access it or share it with somebody who maybe is looking to go plant based in 2024.
Speaker 2:I mean perfect stocking stuff for just print off that first page with Ashley's beautiful face on it and put it in there stocking. They're going to be like oh my God, the best gift ever. I'm honored.
Speaker 1:Okay, so let's talk about what we look for when it comes to choosing holiday recipes. We kind of already touched on that. You said simple, quick, easy, nutritious, colorful, beautiful, eye catching all the things. Your senses are just like drawn to this plant based meal.
Speaker 2:Yes and I think this applies for anybody who's looking to simplify their meal planning as well is I'm looking for simple kind of whole food ingredients. So if it calls for a lot of really expensive things that I have to go to like three different grocery stores for, that's usually a big turn off. I want limited ingredients and simple things that I can spell and recognize.
Speaker 1:Gosh, that sounds like my poor mom who goes to multiple grocery stores in her spagy To get all the ingredients for our like holiday meals.
Speaker 2:I like when I can just go to, I click, jump to the recipe and if I'm scrolling through the recipe, multiple clicks, I'm already turned off. Yeah, I want a short little ingredients box and a short little prep box and I like a nice short prep time. This is just me personally. I don't want to mess up a lot of pots, I want as few pots as possible. So I really look to if it's a one pot meal, that's like one that I'm saving for sure. If I like the ingredients and the pictures pretty, I'm like one pot, I'm sold, yep.
Speaker 1:I completely agree Gosh Katie, who invented the jump to recipe? Because that link has been a game changer. I appreciate the blogger's life story, but now, when I'm looking for a recipe and I want it right away, ain't nobody got time for that.
Speaker 2:But I do if it is a first time recipe. Once I've committed to the recipe, I do appreciate they have some tips and tricks, but yeah life stories I know. I'm sure it's fascinating you guys. But sometimes I just get to the recipe.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, yes. Thank you to whoever invented, jump to recipe and started that.
Speaker 2:So yeah, so that's what those are, some things, those you know kind of criteria that I'm looking for to before I commit to a recipe.
Speaker 1:Yes, I completely agree. So when eating plant based during the holidays, really changing your presentation is sometimes all you need to do to feel festive. And, katie, I know that you were an event planner and you had some clients that had very different requests and so really was up to you to maybe, like, serve something similar, but just totally change the decor so that looks really festive?
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely. So. I know the dishes that I use are white so I can kind of use, like I said, kind of accent pieces to bring in some color. But you know it can be real simple. I mean just candles, like some branches from outside, some pine cones.
Speaker 1:Oh my goodness just go to your backyard and start chopping stuff down.
Speaker 2:But you know, you know napkins, a red napkin in a glass, like a red napkin on a white plate, like all of a sudden you know whatever you end up presenting is very festive and you know it doesn't have to be red, it can be blue like snowflakes, or white on white. You know, have some fun with it, but don't feel pressure like, especially when we're plant based eaters. I kind of take pride in thinking outside the box and kind of challenging tradition and doing our own thing. And so you know, I kind of like to mix it up a little bit and get away from the traditional dishes. So hopefully these will inspire you guys.
Speaker 1:And some of these things you can use over and over again. I bought little Christmas trees at Target maybe eight years ago and I still use them to this day All my other little decor. So if you're afraid of buying something, that's whatever the equivalent of fast fashion is for decor. A lot of that stuff is actually you can repurpose over and over again, so you don't have to necessarily throw it away, which is nice, and you know if you don't have a pine tree in your backwoods like a lot of us do here in North Carolina.
Speaker 2:I'll give you mine. I can pine trees. They're everywhere.
Speaker 1:Okay, katie, sorry quick story on pine trees. So, nick and I, our first Christmas we I was in school, he was like fresh out of school, so we didn't have money to really buy anything when it came to Christmas decor. So we went out behind a Harris teeter parking lot and it's just proud. Is this illegal? I don't know. I should share this. It's a long time ago. We chop, there you go. We chopped down like this small little pine tree and brought it in the house and I like tied it to the wall with like dental floss so it hang up, like actually hang up.
Speaker 1:It was pretty, it's pretty sad.
Speaker 2:It's like our little.
Speaker 1:Charlie Brown Christmas tree.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, that is too funny. I would have killed to see a video of that. Yeah, yeah, hey, you gotta get. You gotta do what you get to do. That's true, that's right. Well, what are your? If you're looking for recipes, let's say you know Christmas is two weeks away. You have people coming over. You're not sure what to make. Maybe it's your first time. Do you have some go to resources that you really like?
Speaker 1:I do, actually, actually had a client slack me this week and it's funny that you put some of this. These lit these resources down. She asked me just for some like whole food, plant based recipes that were holiday friendly, and I sent her forks over knives. If you just Google like forks over or, I think, like top plant-based whole food, plant-based holiday meals forks over knives is one of the first ones to come up, and they have like a hundred different recipes that you can create, which is a little overwhelming, but they do have some really like easy to make whole food plant-based recipes, so that's probably one of my favorite resources. Forks over knives is just like the OG.
Speaker 2:So oh, I love they have such. It's a lob. But they have such a variety. They have like really elaborate, really simple, like anything you can think of they have.
Speaker 1:Yep, I couldn't agree more. Also, Minnilus Baker is another one of my favorites. When you go to her page there, when you go to recipes or all recipes, there's a way where you can categorize everything or really limit things down to what exactly it is you're looking for whether it's an appetizer, whether it has dairy or not dairy in it so you can really get specific on what you're looking for when it comes to a whole food, plant-based holiday meal as well, which is really cool I love. Her tool is amazing.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I don't know where she got that, but it's. There's very few websites that have that kind of filter function, and for recipes there is nothing. I have not found another one that is that user friendly because she has so many, so she is always my first stop Shout out to.
Speaker 1:Minnilus Baker yes, yeah, because you can also even limit the amount of gradients you use. I think she has like 30 minute, one bowl, 10 ingredients, all those things.
Speaker 2:So so good for beginners. So if you're a beginner, that's you got to start there, because so user friendly.
Speaker 1:It's very user friendly. Vegan Richa is another one. Oh my goodness, I feel like every time I look up a recipe, hers is like top of the list, and every recipe I've made of hers has been delicious. So she is a great resource and she's got some fun festive holiday recipes as well.
Speaker 2:And she has a killer newsletter. I think I've been, I've been on her newsletter for like 10 years. I have so many. I have so many recipes saved. She's also very amazing. Just because she's been doing it so long. She just has so many options.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we love her, yeah, yeah, she's great. Plant EO is another one. She's always pumping out some really good recipes, so she just came out with a cookbook in 2023. So, yeah, really exciting. Congrats to her, yeah. And then, of course, we have our own meal plans when it comes to wanting to cook.
Speaker 1:So we have a five day meal plan and a one month meal plan. They are not holiday specific, but if you're looking to go into 2024 and mindlessly have your meals planned for you for an entire month, that one month meal plan is perfect for you. So highly recommend those. If you don't want to think or plan your meals after the holidays. I try to convince Nick all the time to like. Can we just like order some meals online?
Speaker 2:Yes, no, we're saying the same money and make our own, like fine. Whenever anyone asked me like what would you do if you won the lottery, the first thing I would say was like personal chef, like I will live in a shack, but I'm paying a personal chef to live in three meals a day. Do it, do it to it, I want to. That sounds amazing. The dream yeah. But what I like about the meal plan is that follows. A lot of those recipes follow those same criteria that we were talking about at the beginning minimal ingredients, short prep times, no strange ingredients, a lot of one pot meals. So if those are the criteria you're looking for, pick up that meal plan, because everything is super delicious, super nutritious, super easy, yep.
Speaker 1:And then, when in doubt, support your local vegan restaurants. That was Katie's idea and I loved it so much because there are so many restaurants locally, depending on where you live, that often have vegan options available or even stuff that you can order online. I remember last year there was some sort of like. It was like a vegan roast or something that you could order. It was very expensive so I did not order it, but it looked amazing. So there's lots of options.
Speaker 2:Spoiler alert. That's what I did Thanksgiving. No one's listening to this, but I totally ordered from my one of my favorite restaurants and I put it in my own containers, like I made it myself. Yes, there's a hack for you.
Speaker 1:I love it, Katie. I would not mind actually just going up and buying a plate of food. That actually sounds wonderful.
Speaker 2:I'm serious, I'm gonna do that. I might do that for Christmas.
Speaker 1:I mean you get the variety without having to like make everything it sounds lovely, you have a plate.
Speaker 2:You don't have to risk, like everybody, eating your vegan food before you even have a chance to get it.
Speaker 1:Yes, Well, let's get into the recipes. Okay, so we're going to talk. What about three different recipes Dessert, dinner, lunch and breakfast? Right, yeah.
Speaker 2:So we just kind of put together some options for you guys. We're obviously going to give you the links for the actual recipes that you can pick up in the show notes. But this is just to kind of give you some inspiration for the holidays. Because what I like a lot about these recipes they are all 10 ingredients or less and they are all 15 minute prep times and less. We all got 15 minutes, even I got 15 minutes, and when it comes to the holidays, that's about all I want to do. So all of these three recipes for each meal are 15 minutes or less. So I love that. So let's bring it home with breakfast.
Speaker 2:So again, these are very, very simple, concentrating on whole food ingredients. So good old granola with like a little ginger bed twist, and this one has like a like a thicker baked granola, and so you can actually take cookie cutters and make them into little shakes. No way I am a sucker for a cookie cutter. Yep, I love cookie cutters. So this is from my girl, minimalist Baker, her gingerbread granola, again under 10 ingredients. You could also do this. If you have a really good baked oatmeal recipe, you could do the same thing. So your normal recipes that you're comfortable with, that. You know that you like. You're comfortable with the ingredients. Who feel good when you eat it and make it festive by just cutting out some cute little snowmen and candy cane stars and all that good stuff? Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1:Okay, we're shutting this podcast down.
Speaker 2:We're going to go make some gingerbread granola.
Speaker 1:I'm drooling. Okay, that sounds delicious. Now, next, we have vegan churro scones, and this is from Vegan Richa, and, oh my goodness, 10 ingredients, 10 minute prep time. I am also your sucker for cookie cutters. You're still my sucker for scones. I love a good scone. So vegan churro scones how festive. It sounds absolutely delicious.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. I think, like with a recipe that's like maybe not necessarily wouldn't relate it to holiday, but you add a holiday spice and all of a sudden it's like, ooh, it's so warm and toasty and it's a scone, it's from Britain, it's fancy, automatically.
Speaker 1:That's right. Level up your breakfast with a scone.
Speaker 2:What do they say? They say scone. Okay, yeah, scone.
Speaker 1:Gosh, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love this. If you have people coming in, you can actually make this one overnight. So I love a good French toast casserole. It was super easy Again under 10 minutes, under 10 ingredients. You don't need to do a lot of baking or you don't need to be Martha Stewart. Super easy, you can double, triple the recipes super easily and it looks very, very pretty in the bowl.
Speaker 1:Yeah, love it, love it. Overnight French toast and baked in the next day in the morning is fantastic, because you also wake up to that smell which is delicious. And this, okay, no one's not the same, but it kind of reminds me of that movie. Where is it? Sarah Jessica Parker takes something out of the fridge and she dumps it.
Speaker 2:Family stone.
Speaker 1:Family stone yes.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's such that's. That's one of my go to Hollywood movies.
Speaker 1:That's a good movie yeah.
Speaker 2:And I love the strata that she spells strata.
Speaker 1:That's not.
Speaker 2:French toast casserole, but you know it's a gist, but you know what I'm thinking about. So I'm picturing like a casserole dish, a little plate of scones and little granola in shapes, what, and that makes such a good breakfast. Oh, I need to plan weddings again. No, I don't. It was. It was the worst.
Speaker 1:What about lunch time? So we could do a butternut squash soup. This comes from delishcom again. 10 ingredients 10 minute prep time, warm and cozy and also really colorful, like butternut squash. Just has a nice like vibrant sort of rich yellow color, and you can always add some pepitas and like a drizzle of vegan sour cream or something like that, some sort of crème.
Speaker 2:Yes, so pretty in the bowl. Yes, it's so easy to throw everything in the blender. Yes, yeah, dunzo's love it. Dunzo's so hearty. I love a casserole and I love the fact that when I used to kind of eat the standard American diet, the casserole was like very super, like meat heavy and dairy heavy. And now I get to enjoy a casserole and it's still very hearty, but with whole food, plant based ingredients. I don't feel like garbage after eating it. So the great thing about casserole, again, your knife skills don't have to be perfect, you can just dump it, bake it, one pot meal, throw it all together. Beautiful in the plate, delicious.
Speaker 2:So again this one is 15 minutes. 10 ingredients sweet potato, rosemary casserole oh that sounds so good.
Speaker 1:And rosemary, you know, if your neighbor has a lot of rosemary grown Like escaping, just go quick. This girl just getting, don't do it, just fevery. No, only if they said that you can, obviously. Okay, katie, I was looking up where casserole came from.
Speaker 2:There are way too many different places, but one of them says everyone wants to claim the casserole.
Speaker 1:Everyone wants to claim the just delicious, amazing Midwestern casserole. But one says the word casserole is derived from a French word that means saucepan. So apparently casserole's originated as a communal pot that people shared for meals. So I don't know how accurate that is, that's just Google, but there's a lot of options here. Where they came from? Excellent, okay, just a little fun. Little history, a little history, okay. So we had the casserole, we've got the soup and now we have, oh Katie, vegan. I know that salad Served warm, oh so good.
Speaker 1:Yes, this comes from the Urbi Vore. And again, 10 ingredients, 10 minute prep time. Oh man, a good vegan apple walnut salad is just chef's kiss.
Speaker 2:So good. I love a fresh salad with lots of color on my holiday table. It's a must. It's a must.
Speaker 1:Yep, my aunt makes a salad similar to this and every single year, when she asks what can I make or what can I bring to Christmas, and you know I'm like, bring your salad because it's so good, nice, hold the feta and put it on the side.
Speaker 2:See, and that makes it that's such a good tip, because you know that's a tip that you can give your host like. Would you mind like putting it on the side, so I can enjoy it too and then everybody can add their own. We can just have that on the table. Such a good tip, yep, I'll bring my own.
Speaker 1:if I need to, okay, yep. What's next?
Speaker 2:I just love my gourds during the holidays, so anything that you can stuff. Typically the recipe is pretty easy. So I love stuffed peppers during the holidays. You know twice baked potatoes, sweet potatoes, and this one is from Minimals Baker, again roasted stuffed butternut squash. You just stuff it with again nuts and rice and different veggies and a little bit of a sauce and you are done. Yep, yeah beautiful.
Speaker 1:Okay, we talked about this, I think right before Thanksgiving, about making pies like savory pies. Oh, nick, he decided he didn't want to make any pies, so that was fine. I was really looking forward to him trying some things out. We did some different things. We actually took a there's a brand out there that has a vegan and gluten free pie crust. I'm totally blanking on the name right now. I think we typically get it at either Whole Foods or Sprouts, and what we did is we turned one of them into a pie we made like a bourbon pecan pie, very tasty and then the other one, because it comes in a two pack. We thought it out and we made vegan pigs in a blanket and they were so fun.
Speaker 1:I mean, it would sound like things you know, the same thing that I grew up eating as a kid, but it worked just the same. So, and the reason we did that is because I tend to eat gluten free mostly. But you mentioned this before Thanksgiving as well, that what are those crescent rolls that are vegan? The Pillsbury crescent rolls? Yes, the Pillsbury crescent rolls are already vegan, so you can do it with those too. Are they gluten free?
Speaker 2:No, oh yeah, that's okay. They're really good. But I'm telling Nick I'm very disappointed at him.
Speaker 1:I was really looking forward to those pies.
Speaker 2:There's always next year Exactly.
Speaker 1:So we have a vegan shepherd's pie for you. This comes from minimalist baker. It's 10 ingredients, 15 minute prep time and I'll tell you what a good vegan shepherd's pie. Again, I feel like I keep saying this, but it's so good. And this time of year, when it's a little bit cooler and you just want to cozy it by fire, why not bring a slice of vegan shepherd's pie with you?
Speaker 2:Absolutely. It's so easy and the reason I like this one is because meat lovers you know meat eaters they're not going to miss the meat, it's so good. I am a lentil person, so this one has lentils, is kind of the main quote, unquote meat in the middle. But I think every plant based person has to have meat, should have a good shepherd's pie recipe, and this one's perfect because it's easy 15 minutes and less Easy, Easy.
Speaker 1:Easy Okay.
Speaker 2:We're going off the rails.
Speaker 1:We are. It's this holiday, like loopiness, that everyone I know senior, senior right, yes, Okay.
Speaker 2:What's next? So I think, same thing shepherd's pie. I think you also need a good vegan meatloaf recipe. This is one I forgot to mention. Nora cooks also fantastic resource for beginners, so this is the only one that has. It has 11 ingredients, but salt and pepper is one. So I don't I don't really count that, but 10 minutes or less. You just shove everything in one of those loaf pans and bake it. So a meatloaf again is so nice to have in your repertoire In case you are entertaining. You know both plant based people and meat eaters, so you know you don't feel like you're doing anything kind of out of the box. It's just that same kind of hearty meatloaf that you got when you were a kid. Tastes just as good.
Speaker 1:Oh my goodness growing up eating meatloaf. That was one of my least favorite meals in the whole world. Who wants to eat a loaf of meat?
Speaker 2:Like.
Speaker 1:Katie, I would pretty much just like eat the top where the ketchup was, because I just I did not care for it. But a vegan meatloaf I don't know what it is. It's so good, so flavorful, oh my goodness.
Speaker 2:So mutually sense, it stays juicy, it's colorful and again, you can customize it. So like, just like Ashley said, like if you don't like carrots and yours, leave the carrots out, put something else in or leave them out. That's what I love about a lot of these recipes is when there's not a lot of meat and dairy. I feel like you can substitute out things a lot easier.
Speaker 1:Yep, yep. I could not agree more.
Speaker 2:That's right.
Speaker 1:The best part, well, in my opinion. So let's start with a no bake Biscoff tart. No bake, so no baking, no bake. And anything with Biscoff in the name is like yes, so good.
Speaker 2:That's one of those things that's accidentally vegan. Yes, they make a cookie butter vegan. Yeah, it like. When I found that out, I was like no way, because this thing is that stuff is so delicious.
Speaker 1:So good.
Speaker 2:You can. You can take the cookies. You can make it a pie crust, you can mix up the cookie butter with and make it into a batter, which is, I think, what the little blog of vegan does. So this is great because you don't have to. You know, let it sit in the fridge, for you know hours and hours and hours, or let it sit in the let it bake in the oven. If you're baking, something else works, works great.
Speaker 1:Yes, and it's eight ingredients, 15 minute prep time and these are the same cookies that airlines serve, right? Little Biscoff cookies that are also vegan.
Speaker 2:I think so.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I don't know how they got that contract, but lucky us yeah exactly Lucky for all the vegans in the world.
Speaker 2:That's right. But I love all these recipes because a lot of these are very versatile. So the next one is a pumpkin pie trifle. So again, if you're like Ashley and I and where you watch British Bake Off, they usually have a trifle week or something. So it's basically just a glass dish that has something cake like or crunchy, something cream and then some kind of flavored filling, and so this one, technically has to, is pumpkin pie, but you can totally make it whatever you want. You can make it sweet potato chocolate, and it's very, very versatile. Super easy Nine ingredients, 10 minutes, and it looks so pretty in the glass. Like if you have a glass container, oh, and you can make a big one. Or if you have mason jars, which they're all the rage, you can fill it up with little. Everybody's their own individual dessert, which is fancy.
Speaker 1:They're fancy, love it. Yep, it sounds delicious. Okay, if you're a peppermint fan and you are going to love this last one that we have for you, which is peppermint bark seven ingredients, 15 minute prep time from loving a vegan and not only does it taste delicious, but it also looks really festive as well. So this really can elevate, you know, because cookies or different desserts sometimes tend to be brown or chocolate. This can really elevate it with some nice pop of color.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and if you think about cookies, like when I was looking for recipes for this episode, they have a bazillion ingredients and who's got time for that? And then it's just a cookies. They're so simple, but this looks I'm always thinking about like how it's going to look. So this one actually is double, where they have like the white chocolate and the dark chocolate together with the little white and red peppermint, so it looks so festive and fancy.
Speaker 1:So festive. Okay, katie, proposition for you. We both make some desserts, we get together tons of blankets, fireplace on and we have a Christmas movie marathon. Off of Christmas party, yeah, off of Christmas party. White Christmas, christmas story, all these things.
Speaker 2:I love that idea because I've seen white Christmas and I think that was one. I kind of want to watch that with somebody.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think it's worth watching it with someone, especially someone who appreciates it, because it is a really just, it's a classic, it's so good.
Speaker 2:And it's so meta because in the family stone they watch white Christmas. That's right. So Christmas within a Christmas.
Speaker 1:Yep White Christmas in 1954. Wow, that's crazy. It's the one that the life came out before that, 1946.
Speaker 2:Wow, okay, fun fact I know everyone's like oh, that's only 50 years ago. No, that was 70 years ago.
Speaker 1:What is that? Like millennial math or something Exactly?
Speaker 2:Yep. Well, I hope these ideas you know gave you some inspiration. I hope you guys will really try to give yourself grace over the holidays. Make things simple for yourselves. Don't stress. It's all about having fun. It's all about what can you take off your plate. And so hopefully again, we'll put these links in the show notes and you guys can use these if you want to. So they're they're trying true, delicious, nutritious plant based.
Speaker 1:We love it. Yep, and all your guests will be asking for the recipe. So you can check out all those links below. We have them all listed there for you so you can easily access them.
Speaker 2:Oh my goodness, I cannot wait to make some of these tonight. I really want to make the biscoff tart. It smells really good.
Speaker 1:Okay, so we're actually together in person, we can make it. Okay, okay, all right, okay, we hope you have a wonderful holiday season. We appreciate you. Thank you so much for being here. We wouldn't be here without your support, so, thank you, have a wonderful holiday. How many times can I say that, katie Cause, I really do.
Speaker 2:And stay tuned because we will be showing our best of 2023. Of the podcast, two volumes coming out. That's right.
Speaker 1:So if you're a new listener, this is actually a great way to kind of binge some of our content from this past year and like really get an idea of who we've had on the show and some of their amazing stories. And oh my gosh, gosh, katie, we've had some really great I'm thinking back to like earlier this year. We've had some really fantastic guests.
Speaker 2:Yes, such powerful stories, so much inspiration, so much good education from the experts. So we're going to combine, we're going to condense them all into like the best nuggets of the. We usually have a professional episode or episode and then like a personal story episode. So, yeah, just like Ashley said, if you're a beginner, perfect ones to binge.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, thank you for tuning in today. I'm going to go make some hot chocolate or something. I've been in the mood for something warm and cozy. All right, happy holidays. Happy holidays. We'll catch you on the next episode. Bye. Thank you so much for listening to the Plant Centered and Thriving podcast today. If you found this episode inspiring, please share it with a friend or post it on social media and tag me so I can personally say thank you. Until next time, keep thriving.