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Fun Finds Friday – Van’s Natural Foods Crackers – Product Review

admin October 18, 2013 1 Comment
I have not tried too many gluten free crackers.  Many seem to have milk or eggs in them.  A few times I have tried to eat rice crackers.  But they are like cardboard wafers.  Not something that resembles a wheat cracker at all. Then I found these crackers made by Van’s Natural Foods at a Wal-Mart, but later have requested my local grocer to carry them and now they are.  I purchased these...

Italian Roasted Zucchini and Summer Squash

admin October 14, 2013 2 Comments
Have you eaten a plethora of zucchini and summer squash?  We have and this is one side dish that doesn’t get old; at least not for us.   This is so simple I can barely call it a recipe.  It almost seems silly to put it on here.  But simple doesn’t mean tasteless.  No!  It is very tasty.   Do you eat zucchini and summer squash? Also shared at Gluten Free Friday .

Sensational Sweet Potato Cupcakes With Maple Infused “Buttercream” Frosting

admin October 11, 2013 15 Comments
Today’s recipe is one of my all-time favorites!  And one of my best! It is something I created for a recipe contest.  I didn’t win, which was a real bummer, but I’m thinking the lack of eggs, soy, wheat and milk in the recipe made the judges go, “huh?”  without even trying it.  What a shame because this is the BEST CUPCAKE EVER!   Then Angel from The Wellness Angel asked me to be a...

Fall Inspired Foods Recipe Round-Up

admin October 10, 2013 0 Comments
I have the pleasure to be a part of a Fall Inspired Food Blog Series.  Every day I have been tweeting and Facebooking (if that is a word) all about the other participants fall inspired recipes. I will be sharing a Sweet Potato Cupcake recipe tomorrow (Friday) that you simply will not want to miss.  I by far have the least healthy of the recipes, and oops...it's not vegan.  In other words, I...

Grilled Pineapple – A How To Photo Tutorial

admin October 8, 2013 3 Comments
Have you ever eaten at a Brazilian barbeque restaurant?  We went to one a few weeks back for our wedding anniversary.  Oh. My. Goodness.  Okay, if you are a vegan or vegetarian this is NOT the place for you.  But meat lovers...this is the place to go!  (By the way, I don’t consider myself a meat lover.  I eat meat, but it’s not my first food love).  However, we LOVED this place from...

Fun Finds Friday – Yogurt Squares

admin October 3, 2013 0 Comments
Everyone in my house has had a round of antibiotics lately.  So in addition to our probiotics, I wanted to have a fun option for getting even more probiotics into us.  Enter….Fun Finds Friday---Yogurt Squares.   Actually I renamed these Yogurt Squares (they are originally called Probiotic Gelatin Treats).  I figured that would be more interesting to a kid.   Simply put…it’s yogurt plus...

Better Than Milk Powdered Rice Milk – Product Review

admin October 1, 2013 0 Comments
Did you know there is such a thing as powdered rice milk?  Over the years I have seen recipes here and there calling for powdered soy milk.  Since we like to avoid soy, I looked to see if I could find powdered rice milk.  And there is; it is pictured below.   It is difficult to find.  I’ve only found it in one, out of the way store and it was expensive.  However, it is available online at...

Southwest Grilled Chicken

admin September 25, 2013 6 Comments
I grill well into autumn.  And I grill a lot of chicken.  I have about three chicken marinades that I rotate through and they are getting a little old.  So, I set out to find a new and different marinade to liven up our grilled chicken.   I adapted today’s marinade recipe from here.  It has a Southwestern flair to it so I renamed it Southwest Grilled Chicken.  If you like lime, you’ll...

Minty Chocolate Dessert Bars

admin September 21, 2013 17 Comments
I am always on the lookout for a great brownie.   Brownies are the ONE thing that is next to impossible to make without eggs.  I have tried recipe after recipe of vegan brownies with little to no success.  So when I saw the words, “build a better brownie” in an Oprah magazine a couple of years ago, it grabbed my attention. (Recipe that follows was slightly adapted from that). Okay, so...

Fun Finds Friday – Blueberry Sauce

admin September 20, 2013 0 Comments
Fun Finds Friday is here! Recently I had been shopping and saw a bottle of blueberry sauce.  As usual, I turned over the jar to read the label.  While it had no allergens (shocking!) it was not blueberry sauce.  It was high fructose corn syrup and other chemical sounding names.  It had something like “blueberry flavoring” in it.  Five years ago I probably would have bought it.  Now? ...