I love making healthy little snacks that our toddler Granddaughter Sweet Pea will eat. These oat and jam mini muffins that we call Jammies are toddler friendly and mother and grandmother approved! Let’s be truthful here – even the grown ups like these. There is something extra appealing about food made into miniature serving sizes….
Rice/Grains
Oat & Jam Bars – Jammies
Oats and all fruit sweetened spread – what a winning combination! Bake them up into some yummy whole food plant based bars and you have a delicious dessert or a little sweet treat to enjoy with some tea – hot or iced depending on the day. I call these yummy bars Jammies! I posted a…
Quinoa Tabbouleh – Gluten Free
We had a family gathering recently and our daughter wanted to make a salad that I could also enjoy. I have a gluten sensitivity as well as being SOS free whole food plant based / vegan. Our daughter always goes out of her way to accomodate my dietary needs. Since she is also an amazing…
Zesty Quinoa Bean Salad
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…
Quinoa Banana Oat Muffins
I am long overdue in sharing this Quinoa Banana Oat Muffins recipe. I have been making these muffins for the past year and every time I post a photo of these on Instagram or my facebook page people ask for the recipe. I didn’t have a recipe to share because I was just making them…
Heather’s Sweet Cherry Berry Oat Muffins
It’s so much fun when you get to meet your on line friends in person. I have “known” Heather from The Butterfly Raw Food Weight Loss Facebook and Her The Butterfly Effect Plant Based Weight Loss You Tube for about 3 years. We got to meet last year in Vegas at a conference for the…
How To Make Darn Good Vegan Sausages – Gluten Free & Oil Free
Yes it can be done! You can actually make healthy gluten, free, oil, free, vegan sausages. They just so happen to also be very low sodium and sugar free. It sounds too good to be true but trust me this works. I was inspired by the new Engine 2 Cookbook and their recipe for Epic…
Instant Pot Wild Rice
Some people think when you adopt a whole food plant based diet that your menu will be limited and your food choices are restrictive. Actually the opposite is true. Suddenly you discover a wide array of new food choices that you never even thought of before. Wild rice is one of my favorite foods now…
Oat Groats What Are They & How Do You Cook Them?
Just when you think you have tried most of the whole grains and cereals a different one crosses your path. Such is the case with myself and oat groats. Recently my friend Barbara Whitney suggested that I might enjoy oat groats in place of brown rice in savory dishes. In the past I have made…
Another Whole Food Plant Based Batch Cooking Day
Yesterday was another batch cooking day. It takes a few hours and lots of dirty dishes but it saves me so much time later in the week. I love having things made ahead so we can easily reheat and eat. It feels so good to fuel our bodies with healthy yet delicious food. Not only…