I've been staying with my friend Sheryl, waiting until I leave town again. I'm so blessed to have friends like her in my life who open their home to me and let me crash in their office/guest room! To show my appreciation I've been cooking for us. Using all the great things she gets in…
Wow!! I’m in love with Portland’s vegan food choices. I’m in love with the nice people, the free parking, cheap fuel prices, cheap yoga, inexpensive organic food options, making new friends and meeting my fellow tweeters. I’m not in love with the craptastic weather though! It was raining and freezing cold the whole time…
I've been back home in the US for over 3 weeks now. It has given me plenty of time to ponder and reminisce about my 3 month travels in Asia and what I learned from the whole thing. Within 2 weeks of being gone from home I had already felt like a new person. I…
If you are anything like me you are craving soup 24/7 in this cold winter weather. My favorite type of soup for this season is something thick and chunky or a velvety pureed soup. That’s what you got here and since it uses almond milk instead of cream, you’ve got a low-fat, divine creamy soup….
Happy Solstice everyone! My baking skills have been off the charts lately! I must admit I don’t usually like desserts without some oil, particularly cakes and cookies. But in the interest of eating as healthy as possible and giving the oil naysayers more options in my upcoming cookbook (which by the way you can pre-order…
I must admit that even though I adore coffee cake, I’ve never tried to make one on my own. In culinary school I remember seeing one in a demonstration and I’ve eaten a few vegan versions over the years that were full of vegan butter and sugar. With the rainy cold weather I decided to…