I'm in love with my dehydrator. I know what you're thinking. You can't be IN LOVE with an inanimate object. You can't be IN love with something unless it/they can reciprocate. To that I say, "My dehydrator loves me." I'm not crazy. Well, at least in THAT way. Part of love is doing nice things for someone, right? It's folding laundry for you, picking a wild flower on a walk, foot rubs... It's making tasty foods for you to make you happy. Clearly the dehydrator can't fold laundry, pick flowers, or rub my feet for me, but it surely turns out some of the tastiest foods to come out of my kitchen. That's love. And my dehydrator does another View Post
Double Stack Vegan Bean and Mexican Crumbles Tostadas and a GIVEAWAY!
I’ve mentioned before that I was a vegetarian for seven years in my late teens and early adulthood. Although I am clearly no longer a vegetarian, I still eat vegetable-heavy meals and retain some of my eating habits from those years. For instance, I’m an enthusiastic flinger of nutritional yeast (especially on buttered toast and popcorn). I eat vegetable-heavy meals most days of the week, and I swoon at farmer’s markets. My husband and our eldest two kids, God love ‘em, are equally enthusiastic eaters of vegetables. We’d be the healthiest eaters this side of the Mississippi if it weren’t for three little things… …My youngest three kids. The View Post
1-Ingredient Cherry Ice Cream & How to Freeze Cherries
Cherry season is in full swing around here. While it's on, I feel it is my bounden duty to eat as many of them fresh as is humanly possible. To this end, I usually order in the neighborhood of sixty and eighty pounds from my local Amish friends. We all do our best to make ourselves sick by eating vast quantities of them, but there comes a point where jam making and fresh cherry eating must cease and I need alternate plans on what to do with the bounty. I almost always freeze at least twenty pounds of the beautiful little red orbs so that we can make what my boys (both the ones I helped make and the one I married) so charmingly refer to as View Post
Piña Colada Smoothies | Vegan and Dairy Free
Piña Colada Smoothies are my new go-to smoothie. They're kind of fabulous. You know how I've told you I was a picky eater when I was a kid? I was a total texture-phobe and I was dead picky about flavour combinations. My mom now says, "Hey, we just didn't know you were gourmet." My mom is the Queen of the Euphemism. I must've been a righteous pain in the rear to feed. The reason I'm confessing this (again) is that pineapple and coconut were both on my no-fly list. I didn't like pineapple because of the stringy texture. I didn't like coconut because the sum exposure I had to coconut in Northern Michigan in the 70s and 80s was View Post
Homemade No-Cook Instant Pudding Mix | Make Ahead Mondays
We are on the tail end of a two week tour of our household by the flu. The only person who has -thus far- remained unscathed is my germaphobe husband. Don't get me wrong, I am the original Purell poster girl, but next to me, my hubby is Howard Hughes. The poor guy looks like a man on death row awaiting his fate. He jumps at the rattle of every cough (which means he's been getting quite a cardiovascular workout lately.) He's been bravely facing his fate, making runs to the store for more boxes of tissues, whipping together dinner for his furniture jockey crew, delivering, "Hey! It's been five days! I bet you'll be feeling great soon! Can I View Post
One Ingredient Mango (or Banana) Ice Cream
Around a decade ago, my stepmom, Val, and my dad gave us a seriously burly juicer as a gift. For those of you well-versed in juicers, I'll name drop for a second here; it's a Champion. That thing is jet-engine powerful. And I used that jet engine to make juice. Lots of juice. Juice is good for kids, right?* But there's only so much juice a gal and her crew can consume. *Well, as long as it's real juice and not a sugar bomb. I know... Then one day, while we were hovering around Val's kitchen looking hungry (because if you're smart, that is the way you'll arrange your face in her kitchen so you can taste her food), she offered to whip up View Post