Started early this morning putting together breakfast for Sweetie: mashed sweet potatoes, topped with frozen straw, black and blueberries and my Crazy Good No SOS Granola. He also got the rest of the wheat berries, topped with some roasted purple potatoes, purple beans and some sauteed mushrooms that…
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Some people wonder from time to time just what one might eat on any given day. Here’s the way it played out for me today. Got up later than usual this morning and lifted some weights. By about 10 I sat down and had a bowl of my…
I’m addicted to this stuff and I can’t get enough. This is my current favorite snack and I don’t know what I would do if I couldn’t have this around as my go-to when I don’t feel like making something. Here’s what I do: Ingredients: (this varies from…
We’d been reading up on the benefits of amla powder and I was wanting to get some to add into our diet. On the North side of Chicago, there are several blocks known as Little India that I thought would be a good place to seek out this…
I used to eat here quite a bit when I used to work near here and I was pleased that they haven’t lost their touch. In the past I always got either the chicken or the beef tibs, which was always really good. This time though I got…
Continuing our Japanese West Coast dining tour, we tried a popular vegan “sushi” restaurant, Shizen. Located in a newer building on the corner of 14th and Valencia in San Francisco’s rapidly gentrifying Mission District, Shizen sells itself as a new way of thinking about sustainable sushi. As a…
Okay, I have to admit that I’ve yet to be a fan of fake Mac N Cheez because no part of it ever tasted like any part of the name. Until now. Last night I whipped up decadent version of the tasty classic that I could not stop…
A couple of years back, we had the privilege to travel to Marrakech in Morocco, where we had some of the most amazing food. One of the dishes we really loved before we went plant-based was a chicken tagine with preserved lemon. I’ve loved the lemony-salty flavor of…
The Impossible Burger debate was a test for vegans, and we failed. Lurking on some vegan Facebook groups I can totally see this play out. People are mean. I actually have wondered if some of the people aren’t a part of the animal exploitation industry trying to sow…
Um, so this is good. And I threw it together in a snap. Make the soba according to package directions. I boiled enough water for 1 in my Windsor pan, because it boils water the fastest. Why does it do this? Because it has wide rim where a…