[Date-free Date Squares! Photo credit: Celine Saki.] Let’s get ready for the holidays! This is Week One of A Gluten Free Holiday–2011 Edition, so get those ovens fired up, pull out the fancy china, polish the silverware*, and start planning those place settings! The event is the brainchild of our lovely hostess, Amy over at Simply Sugar and […]
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Giveaway Winner Announced: Unprocessed
Thanks to everyone who entered the giveaway for Chef AJ’s cookbook, Unprocessed! I’m so glad to know that so many of you are interested in cooking with whole foods and no added fats or sugars. I’ve done the Random Generator thing, and the winner is. . . Number 15, Suzanne! Suzanne mentioned her favorite food, […]
Back-to-School-Swag: Review and Giveaway of Unprocessed by Chef AJ
[Rich and delicious raw Cream of Zucchini Soup] Hope y’all had a great Labor Day weekend (or Saturday and Sunday, as the case may be). The HH, Girls and I had a lovely weekend despite my need to do some school work. We brunched, enjoyed a couple of sun-kissed walks (and the Girls even had […]
Winners of Nutra-Vege Omega 3 Oils (and a Pancake Sneak Peek!)
Hope everyone had a great weekend! Mine was filled with about 200 exams to mark. . . luckily, there were also some wonderful eats (see below), including more salad dressing made with my Nutra-Vege entirely animal-free Omega 3 oil. I’m so glad that you all seem as excited about it as I am (even those […]
Raw Sweet Potato and Greens Slaw
[As I mentioned last time, I’m thrilled beyond words that my cookbook, Sweet Freedom, is one of only three cookbooks recommended on Ellen DeGeneres’s new “Going Vegan with Ellen” page! If you’ve had success with the recipes or if you have the book and like it, please hop over and leave a comment to let […]
Winner of Amy’s Simply Sugar and Gluten Free
Thanks to everyone who entered the giveaway for a copy of Amy’s book, Simply Sugar and Gluten Free! I was thrilled that so many of you are interested in cooking without gluten or sugar. . . and having this book full of delicious and easy recipes! 😀 Thanks to random.org, we have a winner! Congratulations […]
Raw Chocolate Almond Butter
[A favorite raw breakfast: chocolate almond spread on apple slices.] Remember the days when there was only one kind of nut butter–and nobody was allergic to it? I think I ate peanut butter almost every day until my late 30s. As a kid, I slathered it on saltines alongside chocolate milk during cartoon-drenched Saturday mornings; I ate […]
Carob Coconut Cups
I know that many of you are already fans of Amy, the blogger behind the wildly popular Simply Sugar and Gluten Free (which recently got a facelift–check out the new look!). A few months ago, Amy published her first cookbook, Simply Sugar and Gluten Free, and her publisher kindly sent me a copy for review. For someone […]
Chocolate-Mint Milkshake
[Strawberry, kale, protein powder, chia and rice milk smoothie.] It’s no secret that I love breakfast (I even wrote an entire ebook about the meal), and smoothies are one of my very favorite breakfasts–they’re a delicious, nutritious way to start the day that’s also quick and easy (and who among us doesn’t love quick and easy? At […]
Four Books–and Four Winners!
Thanks to everyone who entered the first “Giveaways Gone Wild” this week! I’m giving away one of four fantastic books (three cookbooks and one literary). With the help of random.org, I chose names in order of the books listed. The first person to ask for each of the four titles won that book! And here are our […]