Vegan Recipes 
Valentine’s Day Chocolate Cherry Smoothie
(0)Chocolate and cherries have always been synonymous to Valentine’s Day. This sweet, decadent tasting smoothie lets the flavor of the chocolate and cherries shine! This delicious chocolate concoction tastes like dessert, but is deceptively healthy. There’s no added sugar or salt, and (of course) zero cholesterol. It packs 31% of your daily fiber needs, as… Read More ›
Terrorizing (Or Terrified) Rice Krispie Monsters
Part of Halloween’s popularity is we all get to be kids again. Which includes playing with our food and eating nostalgic cookies and candies. And what’s more nostalgic than Rice Krispie treats? For awhile these were off-limit to vegans (most marshmallows contain animal gelatin), but vegan marshmallows are becoming easier and easier to find. One… Read More ›
Bloody H*ll! What’s In My Bloody Mary?
A Bloody Mary seems like such a safe drink for vegans. It’s basically just tomato juice and potato juice (vodka), right? Wrong. Your Bloody Mary (or Virgin Mary) could have clam juice, anchovies, beef broth, or eggs! Let me walk you through a basic “template” for creating a Bloody (or Virgin) Mary. I say “template”… Read More ›
Suicide Smoothie
No, this smoothie does not contain cyanide! The name comes from those drinks children make at the soda fountain, combining ALL the soda flavors into one big cup. Which is sorta what I do with this smoothie. I usually make it on Sunday – or whatever day I do my weekly grocery shopping or place… Read More ›
Strawberry Meal Salad
In my last post, I shared a “template” for what I call a Strawberry Dessert Salad. It’s a classic salad with berries, nuts, and sweet poppyseed dressing that I eat after a meal, as a healthy “dessert”. Or, on hot summer mornings I will sometimes eat it for breakfast. But what if you want something… Read More ›
Strawberry Dessert Salad or Breakfast Salad
Spring may have finally sprung in Charlotte! Only a few days after a freak April snowstorm, Charlotteans are running around in shorts and flip flops and blasting the air conditioning. I’m driving home in daylight, even when I work late. There are lots of baby birds and bunnies and … insects. Not to mention pollen!… Read More ›
Healing Pumpkin Curry Soup
One item that should be on your annual Autumn bucket list … cook something with pumpkin! Most of us think of pumpkin as something sweet – pumpkin pie or pumpkin spice latte – or Trader Joe’s Pumpkin Spice Rolls. But pumpkin is actually a winter squash, and can be taken in a savory direction… Read More ›
Palak Shorba (Indian Cream of Spinach Soup)
“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves … We have had our Summer Evenings, now for October Eves!” – Humbert Wolf On my Autumn bucket list: Make soup! There is nothing more comforting as a bowl of hot soup on a chilly day. Ok, maybe a bowl of hot soup… Read More ›
Halloween Smoothies
“What do you give a ghost for breakfast? A BOOBERRY Smoothie, of course!” – Great Aunt Martha My Aunt Martha was always the pun-ny one in the family! She was also a very imaginative cook – especially when it came to making food for children. She understood the value of “playing with your food” and… Read More ›
Five Easy Baked Sweet Potato Variations (That Require Zero Cooking Skills)
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me; fluttering from the Autumn tree.” – Emily Bronte Ok, so yesterday I showed everyone how easy it is to cook luscious, inexpensive, healthy sweet potatoes in my post Perfect Baked Sweet Potatoes. And today, I’m going to give you five easy ways to modify a basic sweet potato. The… Read More ›
Perfect Baked Sweet Potatoes
“You say witch like it’s a bad thing.” – Unknown So far this Autumn, I’ve spent a lot of time writing about pumpkins and pumpkin spice. However, there are other Autumn favorites that are on my Autumn bucket list as well – such as sweet potatoes! I was a late convert to sweet potatoes, because… Read More ›
Scary Polenta Bites
I have not been Mo Fo’ing as much as I would like, but I couldn’t resist today’s prompt – What is your favorite holiday – and what is your favorite recipe to make? I’ve always loved Halloween – and here is one of my favorite Halloween recipes. If you grew up in the 70’s or… Read More ›
Mary’s Mojito (Watermelon/Strawberry/Mint Smoothies – Pink and Green Versions)
Back to Vegan Mofo 2018 again after Hurricane Florence! In my last post I wrote about creating a smoothie inspired by my Great Aunt Martha. Today, I write about the smoothie inspired by my Great Aunt Mary. Martha and Mary were less than two years apart in age and were as close as twins. Two… Read More ›
Bless Your Heart Smoothie (Green and Non Green Versions)
Welcome back to Vegan Mofo 2018! This week’s theme … Inspiration! I guess I am a little unusual in that, for most of my life, three of my best friends were a half-century older than me. I am talking about my great-aunts Martha, Mary, and Billie. Our family was close, and my three great-aunts played… Read More ›
Top Ten Tips For Green Smoothie Newbies
It’s Vegan Mofo 2018, and this week’s theme is … INSPIRATION! In my last post, I introduced myself and shared some things about myself … including that I don’t like salads. Green smoothies have been a very effective way to get around that for me. It’s much easier to drink two cups of leafy greens… Read More ›
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