Super Easy Potato Leek Soup

My 20 year old daughter is a vegan who also doesn’t eat gluten or onions. Gluten I can cook without. There are plenty of options. Meat is optional, too. BUT ONIONS? I cook with onions almost every day. So, when she comes over for family dinner, I always try to have something here for her

Cannabis Infused Five Minute Chocolate Cake

Gluten free, dairy free, grain free, sugar free, and is made in less than 5 minutes, start to finish. Bonus: a not very secret ingredient that reduces pain and inflammation, is legal in Washington and Colorado, and is literally growing in my back yard. 1 very ripe medium banana 1 large egg 1/4 t vanilla

A Better Way to Skin a Watermelon

Tired of fighting with your watermelons? Give this hack a try.

Crystallized Ginger Millet Cookies

Sweet Chia Seed Cornbread (GF, Vegan)

  I made chili for dinner and wanted to make a vegan cornbread with chia seeds instead of eggs, so I started pulling flours out of the cupboard and calculating. Then I thought…I bet someone has already done this. And someone totally had. I tweaked a couple of things from the original recipe, swapping in

Vegan Chocolate Frosting

Everyone in this family has a food sensitivity, allergy or specific preference to take into account when planning a meal: no gluten, no soy, no dairy, some vegan, some vegetarian, and some who will *only* eat meat and proteins. So, cooking for this crowd takes some research, planning and a little ingenuity. There are a

Easy Miso Ginger Chicken Thighs

  Every once in a while, I like to bake or cook something that will challenge me to think differently about food. Something that takes a lot of brain power to come up with or will be a feat of endurance, requiring hours and hours of intensive planning and physical labor in the kitchen. Today

Lime Mint Chickpea Salad

After a brief hiatus, I’m back with some new light vegan spring recipes! The butter, bacon, lamb and egg yolks didn’t agree with a certain member of our family, who discovered that his cholesterol was elevated and that he’d gained a few pounds over the holidays. Rather than outright accusing me of trying to kill

Christmas and Thanksgiving Roundup

I didn’t have a lot of time to take or post photos or recipes during the holidays, so I’m doing a photo dump here. Recipes forthcoming! Working backwards…

Dark Chocolate Almond Fudge (Paleo, dairy and gluten free)