Recipes

Does anyone really need an excuse to bake a chocolate cake? I know I don’t. But it happened that I had a couple of ingredients at home that I was looking to use up. I was excited to discover a great recipe I could adapt to fit the bill. I have an abundance of fresh […]

Lovin’ Fresh is a series of recipes designed to showcase produce gathered from local farms or grown in my own garden. I love cooking with my mom.  She’s got all this amazing know-how that you just don’t find in cookbooks.  And she has a couple of recipes that I don’t dare mess with on my

Okay, I’m on a sweet potato binge these days . . . This has become a staple of at least one weekend breakfast or brunch meal every week. Serves 4 (but, I usually double it for our Sunday family crowd) Ingredients 3 medium sweet potatoes – cubed in ½” pieces ½ medium red onion –

Sorry to be late with this one. Trying to do recipes on Fridays . . . oh well, here ya go! Wow! That IS a mouthfull!!!! Got the idea for this recipe at the Chiropractor’s office, while perusing Good Housekeeping, which I otherwise wouldn’t admit I was reading . . . I adapted it and

Spring is almost here, but at least here in St Louis, we’re still facing a few chilly, rainy days. In fact, we’ve had several in the past few weeks. On days like this, I love a steaming mug of veggie chili. Oh, sure, the Texas chili purists will claim that any chili with veggies ain’t

Farm Fresh is a series of recipes designed to showcase produce gathered from local farms or grown in my own garden. It’s only April but I’m already thinking about breaking out my grill. My grill is, well, not something to really write home about, or, for that matter, to write a blog post about. I

Now that the weather is warming up and produce is coming into season up here in zone 5, I am trying to be more conscientious about eating a raw diet. While I don’t think I have the patience and stamina (or the gadgets) to go completely raw, I am trying to incorporate more raw elements

I thought about writing an April Fool’s Day post, wherein I pretended I’d gone back to eating meat. But I realized that a) Beth already did a great job covering our practical joke bases, and b) I’m a terrible liar. So I decided to stick with something I’m much better at: creating new recipes. After

This is one of my favorite meals – breakfast or anytime! I do my best to use local ingredients. We have some happy local chickens that provide wonderful eggs and other than the tortilla, it depends on what growing season we are in as to how local I can be with the rest of the

Ah yes, the veggie burger. If you’ve ever gone meat-free for a substantial amount of time, chances are you came to rely on this tried and true staple. It’s gotten me through many a company barbecue and airport layover. It turns out though, that most big name veggie burger brands are not actually vegan —

One of our favorite  dishes in our house are homemade potato chips.  Thicker and heartier than your standard store-bought chips, they’re more of a side than a snack food, and I frequently make them to pair with other veggie-based meals. Wait.  I know what you’re thinking: making your own chips?  That’s got to be more