Recipes

These gluten free brownies are moist and delicious. And they are made with all natural ingredients!

National Oatmeal Day comes but once a year, so eat up! Oats are good for you!

From Swanson Chicken Broth carton… so good I have to share.

I’ve been on a pancake kick lately: on those rare and wonderful lazy weekend mornings, nothing beats a leisurely midmorning brunch. This pancake recipe makes all of my family’s brunchers happy, especially served alongside fresh hot cocoa (or mimosas, depending on age and work schedule)!

This muffin recipe from chef Dan Barber and the Blue Hill Restaurant team was created to compliment the launch of their savory vegetable yogurts.  Several other mouthwatering recipes and videos can be found on their website bluehillyogurt.com. Blue Hill Carrot Oatmeal Muffin Recipe Moist and bursting with carrots, these muffins aren’t just for breakfast. Ingredients 2

Before I found my joyful vegan groove, I used to love traditional Southern biscuits-and-gravy. So whenever I have time to tinker up an indulgent late breakfast or family brunch, this gravy always appears on the menu. It tickles my taste buds and makes me sigh with happiness — and with no need to chop anyone up (except maybe the biscuit)!

This hot and sour recipe has “all of the bright and peppery flavors of the hot-and-sour soup you get at a restaurant with none of the glop.” It comes from Joanne Chang’s new cookbook Flour, too, a collection of the 100 most-requested savory recipes from her four Boston cafés. “Here are all of the bright

This delicious passion fruit salad is simple and tastes great.

I admit it: I’ve fallen hard for hatchback cooking. After a couple of long car trips in which I cooked all our own food, I’m sold on the idea — we eat so much better that way, and cheaper too! I tinkered up this simple chickpea-potato wrap recipe at a rest stop recently, and it’s now officially one of my travel staples. These vegan wraps are tasty lightly grilled on each side, but work just fine without any cooking at all: the perfect hatchback lunch!

My poor husband has a wicked cold. So I whipped up some homemade chicken noodle soup. Sound daunting? Not so! It was quick to come together and quite tasty. Here’s the recipe.

Okra has its origins in Africa and grows beautifully all over the world. Here’s a curried okra recipe along with more about this well-traveled vegetable.

A perfectly cooked beef stew is certainly one of the most comforting and easy-to-cook dishes. It is among those dishes which can be cooked with minimum effort and are ideal for your family in the long winters. Cooking a tasty and filling beef stew is rather easy and simple.

Edamame (eh-dah-mah-may) are sweet young things — sweet, young soybeans, to be exact. And they are perhaps the world’s easiest and most nutritious snack food. Popped from the pod directly into your mouth, the slick orbs have a pleasing toothiness, followed by a sweet, buttery taste that makes it impossible to eat just one. In fact, in Japan, where I first enjoyed them, the edamame recipe below takes the place of peanuts, and come to the table as a salty snack in bars.