* updated from February 2012 Hello blissful beings! If you remember back in the day in 2012 I had a yearly theme for my blog where I shared amazing recipes and showed you how to use all kinds of cookware. Do you remember the Cooking Tool of the Month series!? I’ve decided to update my…
As I get closer to my competition (April 26th) and continue to eat clean and somewhat boring, my cravings for treats have gone down. But sometimes when I am craving a treat I break out my baking pans and think of what I can create that sort of fits into my competition diet (I will…
Tis the season for pumpkin. Two ways. Many weeks ago in fact I began to see pumpkin take over the interwebs. I’m pretty late to the game having seen all my favorite bloggers already post pumpkin recipes. Better late than never right? I popped open a can of pumpkin and pondered what to make with…
One thing that sets apart Blissful Bites from other vegan cookbooks is the chapter on Sea Vegetables (or seaweed). It wasn’t until I went to a macrobiotic culinary school that I was introduced to the exciting world of sea veggies. Honestly, I didn’t even like sushi until after that and came to love nori for…
August Cooking By Color – Red As August comes to a close summer in Texas still burns on. My diet this summer has been high raw, maybe about 50% on most days. I’ve been crazy about fruit. We get beautiful berries at the beginning of summer and then stone fruits like peaches, plums, nectarines, pluots,…
March Cooking By Color – Orange I’m kind of in love with kabocha squash. I first learned about this hard-skinned squash in culinary school. Since macrobiotics is heavily influenced by Japanese foods we cooked kabocha in a number of different ways. Fried, steamed, pureed in soups, made into desserts, you name it. It’s naturally sweet…