3 October 2014
Almond Flour Brownies
If you try explaining the paleo diet to a twenty-first century caveman, you'll get all kinds of funny looks. They think it sounds crazy. And maybe they're (...)
22 July 2014
Tomato salad with cherry tomatoes, carrots, squash, and goat cheese
Tomato Salad heirloom cherry tomatoes, sliced into bite-size pieces rainbow carrots, small-diced squash and/or zucchini, small-diced (I used zephyr squash) (...)
19 November 2013
Chunky Vegetarian Chili
This is an easy, one-pot dish that doesn't need meat to make it hearty. Amounts are flexible, depending on what you like in your chili. Don't forget to rinse (...)
22 October 2013
Low Sugar Granola
I've been reading Robert Ludig's Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease. It's all about the hideous amounts of sugar (...)
15 October 2013
Beet and kale chips with gun control
These are so good ... better than potato chips. They really have to be sliced extra thin to get them crunchy, so a mandoline slicer is a must. Two beets will (...)
30 September 2013
Healthier Brownies
After finding a recipe (Dark Chocolate Whole-Wheat Brownies) on the 100 Days of Real Food blog, I wanted to try applying some of those ingredients into my (...)
13 September 2013
Chickpea Burgers
There are veggie burgers made with black beans, garbanzo beans (chickpeas), kidney beans, pinto beans, ... OK, just about any kind of bean. Then there are (...)
20 August 2013
Quick and easy garlic mashed potatoes
These are the easiest and quickest mashed potatoes you can make. This is another recipe from The Southern Vegetarian Cookbook. It's also a healthier version (...)
16 August 2013
Southern vegetarian cookbook recipe
One of the food blogs I peruse on a regular basis is The Chubby Vegetarian (http://chubbyvegetarian.blogspot.com/). They (it's a two-person operation) do very (...)
21 June 2013
Lentil and farro vegetable burgers
You can pretty much combine whatever non-meat ingredients you want, smoosh them into a patty, and fry or bake them ... and you have veggie burgers. Just make a (...)
12 April 2013
Wild Sockeye Salmon with Farro and Kale Salad
It's time to take a break from all the searching. Searching for a dentist, an eye doctor, a place to get a haircut and the occasional (although on a regular (...)
14 February 2013
Tuna tartare burger with sweet potato tots
I wish I could say that I created this. A tuna tartare burger with a side of sweet potato tots. It was excellent. Relocating to a new state, a new city, makes (...)
18 September 2012
Banana Bread
This is a moist, sweet bread that isn't overpowered by the flavor of the bananas. I've taken Erin McKenna's gluten-free recipe and added the gluten back in by (...)
12 September 2012
Light Meals
Kes(We lost Kes recently. She was 17 but still the queen of the household.) Here's a small sampling of some light lunches/dinners put together from left-overs (...)
6 September 2012
Lentils and farro soup with curry powder
This concoction was based on the Farro Soup recipe in Heidi Swanson's Super Natural Every Day. Hers is an actual soup, but I added less vegetable broth to mine (...)
29 August 2012
Butternut Squash Soup
Butternut squash is so sweet and delicious, and a pain in the butt to peel and chop. So the option of making soup with it is a good one if you want to avoid (...)
24 August 2012
Coconut Oil Brownies
My friend (you know who you are :) ) and I have been commiserating about how soy is in EVERYTHING. Even our beloved chocolate bars. Soy lecithin is added to (...)
21 August 2012
Whole Wheat Beer Bread
No messing with yeast, no waiting for rising, simple ingredients, and it has enough flavor to stand on its own. The most time-consuming part of making this (...)
16 August 2012
Chewy Snack Loaf
Chewy Snack Loaf is not the original name of this "cake" -- it's actually Tu bi'Shvat Cake, adapted by David Lebovitz from The Book of New Israeli Food by (...)
3 August 2012
Chocolate mini cupcakes with donut-like taste
The name needs some work, but it's basically a donut recipe made into mini cupcakes. This is not your typical donut-like cake. What makes a donut a donut (I (...)
26 July 2012
Nut and Seed Biscotti
This is my favorite biscotti to make. Heidi Swanson, you're a genius. Few ingredients, few steps, a beautiful batter. About the "beautiful batter" comment. I (...)
25 July 2012
Spiced Zucchini Nut Bread
What do you do with a foot-long zucchini (I wish I had taken a photo!)? Well, I shredded every bit of it and used it to make muffins and bread. The nice thing (...)
