Simple and delicious would describe this Zesty Quinoa Bean Salad. You will find yourself making this to take to all your potlucks and workplace shared meals as well as part of your weekly batch cooking. One of the things that makes this salad special is that it can be enjoyed either hot or cold. I…
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Apple Cinnamon Dessert Hummus
A delicious new twist on hummus made with warm spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamon and served as a dessert! Lightly sweetened with no sugar added apple juice and medjool dates. Kid friendly and parent approved. Apple Cinnamon Dessert Hummus 2 cups garbanzo beans, drained – canned or home cooked 1/2 cup oven roasted Japanese Sweet…
Vegan BBQ Lentils In The Instant Pot
Have you noticed that pressure cooking is all the rage these days? Well that and Air Fryers! Today though we are talking pressure cooking. My Friend Joanna Burris Lackey from Chef AJ’s Ultimate Weight Loss Program is a dynamite cook. She has created so many wonderful recipes that she has generously shared with our group on the private…
Whole Food Plant Based SOS Free Brunch
Whole Food Plant Based Brunch Nutmeg Notebook Oat Waffles, chia berry jam, air fried potatoes, mandarins and oat breakfast sausages. For the Oat Waffles I like to use the gluten free, oil free All Oat Waffles recipe from The How To Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease cookbook as my template. I provided a link to the waffle recipe because…
Fall Pudding SOS Free
Even though we follow a Whole Food Plant Based lifestyle that doesn’t mean that we can’t enjoy a holiday dessert. Everyone likes dessert and especially at the holidays. That doesn’t mean that you have to give in to overly indulgent unhealthy food that might send you right into The Pleasure Trap and cause you to crave more…
Air Fried Garlic Mashed Potato Balls & Stuffed Mini Bella’s -No Oil
For Thanksgiving I made 7 pounds of Instant Pot Garlic Mashed Potatoes for our company meal. We really didn’t have much leftover. Everyone seems to love mashed potatoes and gravy – including me. With my Breville Smart Oven Air fryer I am always thinking about what I can air fry sans oil to transform our plant based favorites into…
How To Cut A Fresh Pineapple Quick & Easy
I love fresh pineapple all year long and fortunately we are able to purchase them all year long. I used to dread cutting the pineapple up and sometimes I would cheat and buy the already cut pineapple at Costco or Sams’ Club. But that was so expensive and sometimes the pineapple wasn’t completely ripe so…
Instant Pot Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Mashed potatoes are so easy in the Instant Pot pressure cooker. You cook, mash and keep them warm all in the Instant Pot. No draining water off either and the taste – nothing short of fabulous! Now you will make mashed potatoes all the time not just at the holidays. Skin on or off? I…
How Sweet It Is
I don’t know about you but I almost never dream about food even though that seems kind of strange for someone who has a food blog and loves to cook. Anyway the other night I had a dream that I made this recipe and people were swooning over it! As soon as I woke up…
Freshly Grated Nutmeg
I am a huge fan of freshly grated Nutmeg! Given my blog name perhaps you have already figured that out! I was wondering around a kitchen supply store maybe eight or ten years ago when I spotted the cutest little hand held grater that had storage in the top of it and it came with…