Pomegranate Walnut and Apple Salad
I’m trying really hard this year to slow down and enjoy the holiday season, eat light and healthy and enjoy every day. I seem to do fine with eating healthy because it’s just the way I eat, but the hard…
Vegan Pumpkin Minestrone
We are having some beautiful fall weather in South Florida! When fall comes to Florida, it’s more of a pretend season. It will be 80 degrees and locals will pulling out their boots, light sweaters and scarves…pretty silly looking to the…
Bloody Halloween Red Lentil and Beet Soup
I bloody love Halloween. And I love this soup. In fact, it will make a reappearance in December for a gorgeous red Christmas soup, minus the drips and fake bloody hand. Halloween wickedly crept up on me this year. I’m usually…
Baked Eggplant with Tomato and Vegan Mozzarella
How quickly time passes… last week I was vacationing in the beautiful surroundings of Italy and now…well, it’s all a cherished memory as I work my way back into the daily routines of my life. Yet, I brought back a different…
The Best Homemade Pita Bread
Can you pass up freshly baked bread? I can easily pass on the bread basket served at most restaurants, unless with one sniff as the basket is laid before me, it’s freshly baked, warm from the oven. Then I need to immediately rethink…
Pumpkin Granola
On the positive side of all my recent relocations, I’ve definitely downsized, including my pantry. Over the last year and a half, my pantry stores the basics for healthy Mediterranean style cooking and baking. I prepare meals mostly from scratch…
Quinoa Pumpkin Granola
I have to be honest here, this started with a desire to make pumpkin quinoa pudding, you know, like a rice pudding swapping the rice for quinoa. Not so uncommon in my life, I start with an idea I’m excited…
Artichoke and Vegan Sausage Stuffing
I’ve been sharing my favorite recipes for this year’s Thanksgiving. There are so many different stuffing recipes out there using cornbread or wild rice, dried fruits and nuts. I probably have made just about every recipe there is over the years! …
Roasted Pumpkin Sweet Potato Hash
Was I kidding when I said pumpkin will be sneaking in almost every one of my posts this month!! Not a day or two goes by without something pumpkin showing up in one of my meals! Especially when I roast…
Farinata…Chickpea Flatbread
Welcome to my new-found favorite treat… Farinata (fa ri na ta) ! Most of my friends are familiar with polenta crostini, pouring the soft, creamy mixture into a baking sheet, chilling overnight and cutting into squares to grill or fry. Farinata or…
