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Chickpeas with Preserved Lemons

Hey everybody! Over the long weekend, we finally got things set up and created our first whole foods plant based no oil video for making mixed chickpeas with preserved lemons. It’s a wonderful, simple dish with great flavor, and you’re not going to miss the lack of added…

Serious WFPBNO Thanksgiving Prep

This is going to be my second plant-based Thanksgiving this year, and I think I’ve learned a lot in the past year about how to work with ingredients and what I can and can not do.  As well as should and should not do.  In the past six…

Happy Halloween!

Preparing for trick-or-treaters.  There are A LOT of kids here.  Can’t wait to start thinking about and prepping for Thanksgiving beginning tomorrow!

Thanksgiving!

Out this morning running the roads and starting to think about what we’re going to put on the plate for Thanksgiving.  The obvious choices come to mind which are easy to do in plant-based versions. Cranberry relish – check Corn – frozen over the summer, check! Green Beans…

Buckwheat!

I’ve been adding buckwheat to my granola for a couple of weeks now, but not until last night have I tried to eat it cooked on its own. I finished my evening last night, setting up what I’d wanted to cook today: Lemony Chickpeas, mixed beans and the…

Company

We’ve had company over the past weekend so I’ve been busy and haven’t posted anything.  I was going to say I hadn’t posted a lot, but that’s clearly a bunch of bullshit. I haven’t posted anything.  I’ve made a lot, I just haven’t let all of my adoring…

Vegan No SOS Dal Tadka

I thought I had a bag of lentils in the pantry.  Sadly, I do not.  I do, however, have a big bag of chana dal that I’ve had for a month or two and haven’t known what I think I should do with it.  I did a quick…

Lab Results!

We’ve been eating this way for the better part of a year and have been nearly fully compliant since the beginning of this year. Drum roll please…. Glucose dropped from 94 to 85 Cholesterol dropped from 239 to 152 HDL from 92 to 80 LDL dropped from 136…

The Third Ring of Hell

After having gone out to JonaMac Orchard way out in Malta, IL, and picked up a shitload, though I think the technical term might be a bushel, of apples and other assorted goodies.  I started peeling this morning and have about a peck (another technical term) of apples…