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NomYourself Cookbook Review, Recipe + GIVEAWAY!Â
If you're a vegan and you have an instagram, you're probably already a huge fan of NomYourself, run by 20-something superstar-chef-in-the-making Mary Mattern. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, go check her out. This girl boss from Maryland started as an accidental vegan, starting by self-publishing her first cookbook two years ago and getting into being a private chef after that. She began getting more interested in creating delicious, gourmet vegan meals and started an instagram account to showcase them all. Her meals attracted stars from Ellie Goulding to Jeremy Piven, and now her account serves over 100,000 people! (I know. #LifeGoals) She's made friends with some of the greatest plant-based chefs on both sides of the country, toured as Ellie Goulding's personal chef, and continues to post mouth-watering dishes to her instagram account daily. She has created a worthy vegan empire on social media and I am honored to have received her NEW cookbook to review!Â
The cover features a smiling Mary holding a basket of veggies, and is a fun departure from a book cover with a meal on the front. It just exudes how rad she is and the cool girl personalty she conveys. With her tatted arms and cute baseball tees, she's not only a rockstar chef, she's a total babe - and her newest cookbook doesn't disappoint! I'm most excited to make the Snickerdoodle Banana Bites, Chipotle BBQ Quinoa Chili, and Southern Fried Buttermilk Tofu. Today though, we're sharing Mary's Cauliflower Ricotta Stuffed Shells. They're were easy to make and turned out super yummy! The cauliflower in the recipe breaks down to be the perfect ricotta substitution, and I was pleasantly surprised with how flavorful they were. We have plenty of leftovers that I'm pretty excited to reheat all week...if they last that long! The only substitution we made was replacing the garlic powder with 2 cloves of garlic, since we didn't have any. It would be a great dinner alongside a salad and some crusty bread, but was pretty damn good on its own, too. Whether you're gonna make the shells now or not, be sure to scroll to the bottom of the post to enter to WIN your very own copy of the NEW NomYourself Cookbook!
But first, a note from Mary about this recipe:Â
Cauliflower has to be one of the most versatile vegetables out there. You can fry it, bake it, sauté it, boil it (if you want your whole house to smell like cauliflower), and I'm sure there are some preparations I'm leaving out. Cauliflower also makes one hell of a ricotta-like filling for baked stuffed pasta shells. If you're not a huge stuffed-shells fan, just replace this pasta with some ziti and bake some baked ziti instead. Remember, this is your kitchen. I'm just living on a shelf in it. INGREDIENTS 1 large head of cauliflower, chopped 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1/4 cup nutritional yeast 1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk 2 teaspoons garlic powder 1 teaspoon onion powder 1 bunch flat-leaf parsley, chopped 2 pinches of sea salt 1 12-oz jar tomato sauce OR about 1 1/2 cups homemade tomato sauce 1 12-oz package jumbo shells, cooked al dente DIRECTIONS 1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. 2. In the bowl of a blender, blend the cauliflower, olive oil, nutritional yeast, almond milk, garlic powder, onion powder, parsley and sea salt. Don't overblend. You want to eliminate big chunks of cauliflower, but you still want a coarse consistency. 3. Spread half of the tomato sauce on the bottom of an 8x8 glass baking dish. 4. Stuff the shells with the cauliflower mixture and pour the remaining sauce on top of the shells. 5. Bake for 15 minutes. Enjoy! Makes about 20 medium shells.
You made it! If you've got a stuffed shells in the oven, you're extra lucky. If you don't, treat yourself by entering to WIN your own copy of Mary's book in our giveaway! Don't wanna wait? We can't blame you! You can buy a copy here and should absolutely check out her instagram, which is regularly updated with some serious eats and fun candids. On the other hand, you could just enter to win below! Thanks again to Mary for writing this yummy cookbook and letting us review it for her AND give away a copy. She rocks. Entries open to US only please. Sorry, mates. Good luck!
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29 Comments
Amy Katz link
9/17/2015 08:34:13 pm
I love Isa, but who doesn't?!
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jenna
9/17/2015 08:45:24 pm
Would love to win this book! My fav instagrammer (besides u of course) is Nourishnotpunish. :)
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Tamara
9/18/2015 02:03:33 am
Angela Liddon from Oh She Glows!
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Victoria Klein link
9/18/2015 05:09:03 am
I was worried when I first saw this recipe, thinking it would take a long time to make, but DANG! I'm making this tomorrow!
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Shannon Hickman link
9/18/2015 07:37:05 am
I love following Kathy Patalsky from Healthy. Happy. Life. Her posts always make me smile and I'm happy to follow a fellow smoothie-lover!
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Julia
9/18/2015 08:24:40 am
This recipe looks delicious!
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grace fuller
9/18/2015 08:30:53 am
My SECOND favorite food instagram is @forksoverknives. They stand for a great cause and always post amazing recipes! My first favorite, however (regardless of this entry) has always been @nomyourself!
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Lisa link
9/18/2015 08:32:21 am
Is it wrong to say my own - lisabug80?! I love looking back over my own Instagram photos because it's like my own little album of happy! I love to cook and try all those wonderful vegan recipes out there to show off how yummy vegan food can be! 😋
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Kristen link
9/18/2015 08:50:14 am
These shells look delicious! I follow Mary on Instagram and she is one of my favorites. I also love the posts from Isa. I just realized I need to follow more food bloggers.
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Steph
9/18/2015 09:18:13 am
I like to follow Ottolenghi
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Adie
9/18/2015 10:06:12 am
I follow Isa and Mary. So making recipe for dinner
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Katie
9/18/2015 10:08:03 am
I NEED this cookbook! I love her recipes, so yummy!
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natalie link
9/18/2015 11:42:07 am
minimalist baker
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jane
9/18/2015 12:24:23 pm
so hard....so many....
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Rusty M
9/18/2015 03:01:57 pm
I am not on Instagram but I think I'd better start! I love Kathy from Healthy Happy Life.
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Nikki
9/18/2015 03:13:04 pm
Keepin' It Kind
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Anne-Marie Burton
9/18/2015 08:14:03 pm
My favorite food blogger is Fettle Vegan! First vegan food blogger I ever started following and have loved all your recipes so far! I actually made the potato leek soup for dinner last night and 2 non-vegans told me how delish it was :)
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Danielle
9/19/2015 03:04:57 pm
My favourite is deliciouslyella x
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Eileen
9/20/2015 10:35:04 am
Candice Kumai!
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Nicole Selah Destrampe
9/20/2015 06:26:03 pm
There are too many I really love House Vegan and Produce on Parade though.
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Carla
9/21/2015 05:15:33 am
Kristy Turner at Keepin' It Kind.
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Caroline
9/21/2015 08:21:30 am
I need to make this! It looks so good.
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Ali Celestino
9/22/2015 07:45:24 am
I don't honestly have a favorite they are all really good with recipes and pictures so I can usually find what I'm looking for from any of the chefs or home cooks. Alot of the bloggers should have there own cooking shows though.
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Christina link
9/22/2015 12:28:02 pm
Your opening sentence is hilarious and very accurate. I really want to try the Snickerdoodle Banana Bites! They sounds yummy!
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Tatiana
9/22/2015 04:56:38 pm
That looks soo good!
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PJ Diamond
9/22/2015 05:54:12 pm
Yum!
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natasha link
9/22/2015 06:30:57 pm
I seriously need this cookbook!!!
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Caro
9/22/2015 06:47:10 pm
OhSheGlows and NomYourself of course! 😜
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Nicole
9/23/2015 09:45:33 am
Newish to complete veganism and need some more recipes to go along with all the wonderful visual inspiration! Thanks for the chance to win :)
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