The Best Yogurt EverIf you want really great tasting yogurt, the kind you can eat plain out of the carton, look for Balkans style or natural yogurt.  Check the ingredients.  The best yogurt only has milk products (this may include powdered milk or whey protein) and bacterial cultures.  It is naturally thick and creamy, and [...]

These are absolutely delectable and elegant; great for fancy dinners when you want a side dish to impress your guests.

Food is, of course, the most basic of our needs beyond water and air (and toilet paper!). Isn’t it funny how we take these simple things for granted? You breathe in and out, you pull on the roll, you turn on the tap, you pop a Lean Cuisine into the microwave, or answer, “Yes”, to “Fries with that?” Easy, automatic, instant. But of course, it’s not. All of these things, with the exception of air, require a complicated combination of infrastructure and workforce to get to us. We only think about it when the system breaks down (imagine a toilet paper factory worker’s strike!), or when we pay our bills.

Ice Cream – The Natural AlternativeThere are hundreds of ice cream flavors on the market. And many of them taste very good. Unfortunately, most ice cream is full of fake stuff… high fructose corn syrup, artificial flavors, preservatives, etc. Yuck.
I have found a great alternative. No, not some fancy expensive alternative. Just Breyer’s Natural Vanilla. [...]

20 Minutes to Dinner by Bryanna Clark GroganThe subtitle for this book is Quick, Low-fat, Low-Calorie, Vegetarian Meals. And it should be noted that they are also vegan: no eggs, no milk, cheese, butter, or other dairy, and of course, no other animal products. Most of her recipes include some kind of tofu, or other [...]

Food and Healing by Annemarie ColbinThis is a thought-provoking book about how our diet affects our daily life from emotional, physical and spiritual perspectives. I found a lot of myself in Annemarie. She was Dutch but lived in South America for most of her childhood and adolescence. Then she moved to America. She was married [...]

Totally Vegan Mud Pie CakeMmmm… chocolate cake! No eggs, no butter, no milk. Completely delicious, and easy!
I found this recipe at a cabin I stayed at recently in Canada. Our hosts were vegetarian, and I did have a bit of milk and eggs, but we were pretty limited. On this particular night, I was out [...]