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🌿 Vegan Recipes + Sustainable Lifestyle

Inspired Epicurean is a food and lifestyle blog featuring healthy comfort food, sustainable lifestyle ideas, and much more. Here, you will find vegan recipes, older flexitarian recipes, and lifestyle content that aligns with a low-impact, eco-friendly footprint.

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Walnut Shortbread Cookies

These shortbread cookies are filled with toasted walnut pieces and coated in granulated sugar for a sweet, nutty, and rich treat. A perfect choice for the holidays!

Recipe

> ❤️ Most Popular Posts

Take a closer look at our most popular recipes and guides to living a more sustainable life. Flexitarian recipes celebrate our plant-forward (but not quite vegan) days, and our newest content celebrates all things "vegan cuisine!" Scroll down to view specific recipe categories.

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    Red Lentil Tortillas (Vegan, Gluten-Free)
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    Red Lentil Pasta Salad
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    Braiding Sweetgrass Book Club Questions
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    Blueberry Blast: Blueberry Crescent Rolls
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    Easy Beer Biscuits
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    Air Fryer Frozen Asparagus
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    Avocado Oil “Buttermilk” Vegan Skillet Biscuits
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    Matcha Baked Oats (Vegan, Gluten Free)

Explore delicious recipes ranging from vegan and plant-based meals to plant-forward flexitarian recipes that merge traditional heirloom classics with a modern, more healthful twist. Healthy comfort food is easy, approachable, and quickly becoming the gold standard. We wouldn't have it any other way. 

> 🌱 Vegan Recipes

Delightful vegan recipes celebrate Mother Nature with dishes that are plant-based, beautiful, and enticing for every palate. Bursting with flavor and simple to make, you'll find a little of everything: healthy comfort food, simple snacks, and elegant dishes fit for the finest occasion.

  • closeup of stacked walnut shortbread cookies
    Walnut Shortbread Cookies (Vegan)
  • overhead closeup of maple roasted cashews in small serving bowl with individual cashews spaced on the counter
    Maple Roasted Cashews
  • closeup square image of thyme simple syrup in glass jar with thyme sprigs on the side
    Thyme Simple Syrup (Sugar Free)
  • closeup of strawberry basil simple syrup in glass jar with honey dipper in jar and strawberries and basil in foreground and background
    Strawberry Basil Simple Syrup

See more vegan recipes →

> 💪🏼 Flexitarian Recipes

These plant-forward, flexitarian recipes are too good not to share. Developed prior to our vegan switch, these recipes are a great option to explore dishes that are fantastic for any occasion, or as a transition to a vegan diet. *Note: The majority of these recipes can be adapted to a vegan diet with appropriate substitutions.

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    White Chocolate Matcha Muffins
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    Gluten-Free Red Wine Pasta
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    Sautéed Radish + Green Pea Pasta
  • overhead image of pomegranate rosemary brie bites
    Pomegranate Rosemary Brie Bites (Flexitarian)

See more flexitarian recipes →

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About Melanie

Welcome to Inspired Epicurean, a space to bring vegan recipes and sustainable living tips to the mainstream. As a recipe developer who believes simple, healthy food and low-impact living can still be luxurious, I hope you'll find recipes, resources, tips, and discussions that will help you embrace a life that inspires.

Learn more about me →

> 🥣 Recent Posts

Enjoy what's new! Find the latest content from our kitchen to product recommendations and so much more.

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    Caramelized Apples (Vegan)
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    Grocery Glow-up Digital Guide (Freebie)
  • side closeup of cinnamon shortbread cookies stacked with a bite removed from the top cookie to show interior texture
    Cinnamon Shortbread Cookies (Vegan)
  • overhead closeup of guacamole in bowl with chips and sliced jalapenos accenting the top
    Fresh Vegan Guacamole Recipe

> đź’ˇ Lifestyle

A sustainable lifestyle goes hand-in-hand with a vegan diet. In fact, vegan recipes are the ideal starting point to embrace more eco-friendly habits. While you chow down on some delicious treats, take a look at posts that cover sustainable lifestyle tips, personal updates, and much more.

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    Epicurean Edit: April 2025
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    Bringing Nature Home Book Club Questions
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    Eco-Friendly Gift Guide: Thoughtful and Sustainable Choices for the Holidays
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    FALL in Love with Autumnal Instagram Story Stickers

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Welcome! I'm Melanie - the founder and content creator of Inspired Epicurean. I share delicious vegan recipes (with a few flexitarian recipes from my pre-vegan days).


Our lifestyle content is crafted to bring eco-friendly and sustainable ideas more mainstream. Learn more about what Inspired Epicurean has to offer in the about me section. Pull up a seat, friends. Cheers!

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    Chive Focaccia
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    Purple Coneflower: Plant Profile
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    Strawberry Top Simple Syrup (No Sugar Added!)

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