When the days shorten and begin to cool it’s a great time to whip up some healthy comfort food. Humble applesauce fits the bill! When you prepare homemade applesauce you can be confident your finished product will be a healthy dish with wholesome ingredients – minus all the unhealthy chemicals and preservatives. The pleasing aroma of…
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Homemade Clif Bars – Chocolate Chip or Cherry {Vegan & Gluten Free}
Why not make your own Clif Bar goodness? If you are Vegan or Gluten free ~ these tasty bars are for you! Be creative with your additions like raisins, dried cherries, dried apricots or add any other dried fruit you can think of (without added sugar, of course)! INGREDIENTS: Wet Ingredients: 12 pitted Medjool dates…
Vegetable Curry
(Recipe adapted from More-with-Less cookbook by Doris Janzen Longacre.) Serves 5-6 This curry is an all-time family favorite at our house! It is a quick meal option on a busy day. Just pop your rice in a rice cooker and cook your curry. Sweet warm Jasmine rice is a perfect complement to this savory curry….
Frozen Bananas with Mini Chocolate Chips
Guess how many ingredients are in this recipe? Only 2 . . . Frozen bananas Dark chocolate mini chocolate chips Place your frozen bananas and put them in a high-quality blender (such as a Vitamix). Blend until you achieve a consistency that resembles soft serve. You can add up to 1/4 cup milk of…
Easy Apple Cake in One Bowl
This recipe is quick and easy with a delicious outcome. Save yourself precious time, and serve this cake in place of a labor intensive apple pie. Experiment with flavors and use pure maple syrup instead of the sugar, or mix and match like I do, with 1 cup date sugar and 1/2 cup pure maple…
Vegan Caramel Sauce
This caramel sauce is very tasty on so many dessert delights! I’ve used it on the pumpkin bars, as well as the one bowl apple cake. It also sweetens Greek yogurt that doesn’t have added sugars. INGREDIENTS: 3/4 cup full fat coconut milk fat* 3/4 cup coconut sugar or date sugar 2 tablespoons honey…
Mushroom Stroganoff
You will not miss the beef in this hearty, aromatic stroganoff! It serves up as awesome leftovers too. That is, if everyone has not cleaned their plates and the cooking pan! This Mushroom Stroganoff is meat-free comfort food at it’s best and you can replace the noodles with quinoa or converted rice to follow a lower glycemic requirement….
Date Sweetened Peanut Butter Cookies
Peanut Butter Cookies Craving a warm cookie? These peanut butter cookies are so delicious! Best of all, they are quick and easy and only contain whole pitted dates for the sweetener. (Recipe found at blissfulbalance.com.) Makes: 12-18 cookies Ingredients 1 Cup unsweetened peanut butter 1 C pitted dates 1 tsp. vanilla extract 1 egg Preparation…
Turkey Meatloaf
This savory and moist Turkey Meatloaf is Quick and Easy! You will see this turkey meat loaf as comfort food at its best! Jazz up “ho-hum” meatloaf with ground turkey and mushrooms. (Recipe from Inspired Taste.) Ingredients 1 1/4 lb lean ground turkey 2 garlic cloves, minced 8 oz. mushrooms, trimmed and finely chopped 1…
Delicious Date Sweetened Brownies
Ingredients 1 C almond flour 1 C Medjool dates; pitted 2 large organic eggs 1/4 C honey (or sweetener of choice) 1/4 C extra-virgin coconut oil, melted 1 tsp vanilla 1/2 C dark cocoa powder 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp salt Preparation Steps Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease 8…
Mint Chip Coconut Milk Ice Cream
Looking for a dairy-free ice cream alternative that still has that creamy texture and rich goodness of dairy ice cream? This coconut milk ice cream is a great replacement! Refreshing peppermint and crunchy chocolate chips add to it’s creamy goodness! And, you know exactly what is in each and every mouthful because you prepared it…
Power Bran Muffins
Energize your morning with these Power Bran Muffins… Makes: 12 Muffins Enjoy these delicious muffins with your favorite smoothie! See some of our favorite smoothie recipes here: Spicy Fiesta Smoothie Sunshine Smoothie Ingredients 2 C Wheat Bran 1 C bleached all-purpose flour 1 C unsweetened almond milk (or milk of your choice) 2 tsp apple…