Lands & Flavors

Plant-based, Earth-inspired Recipes

About

Hello there!

I’m Omar and I’m an avid world traveler with an insatiable appetite for cooking, baking, and all things vegan. I started this blog as a means of sharing cooking tips, travel stories, and, most importantly, tasty plant-based, 100% vegan recipes. For the uninitiated, this means that all the recipes on this blog do not contain any animal-derived products including: meat, seafood, dairy, eggs, and honey. What you will find are flavorful, plant-powered recipes that taste delicious and are every bit as satisfying. So, let us journey around the world to faraway lands and recreate the authentic flavors we encounter.

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Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life.

–Paul Theroux

Lentils, noodles, carmelized onions, tomatoes, and a spiced broth come together to make this filling Lentil and Spinach Rashteh.
These sweet and crunchy Vegan Biscotti with Provençal Flavors feature dried lavender, citrus zest, and toasted almonds. They have just the right texture for eating alone or dunking in coffee.
Olives, tomatoes, roasted veggies, herbs, or fruits...the topping possibilities are endless with this base recipe for Homemade Focaccia. And no kneading required!
An egg- and dairy-free version of a Turkish cuisine favorite, this Vegan Spinach and Cheese Börek recipe is just as delicious as the original.
This Jamaican Jerk Quinoa combines chiles, allspice, nutmeg, cloves, and ginger for that spicy Jamaican taste. Great for making quinoa bowls, too!
A ubiquitous spicy and tangy vegetable and split pea stew, there are as many recipes for this South Indian Sambar as there are families in southern India.