My dear friend Shayda is an amazing vegan cook who just happens to specialize in Persian cuisine! She has taught me to make some amazing vegan Persian food, It happens to be no oil, no sugar, no flour and low sodium but it is big on flavor. She makes it all seem so easy and…
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Hearty Lentil Vegetable Stew
Fall is in the air and it makes me want to start cooking soups, stews and chili. Yes good old comfort food. I love a hearty lentil soup and we tend to like ours to be more like stew – really thick and packed with goodness. For a while now I have been making a…
Taco Salad Anyone?
I do love Mexican food, taco salads and chopped salads. So yesterday I combined all of my favorites into an excellent Big Beautiful Chopped Taco Salad. It was spicy, crunchy, filling and yes – even healthy! My tastebuds were happy, my tummy was full and I took delight in knowing that I fed myself a…
Mexican Chopped Salad
You all know how much I love my Big Beautiful Chopped Salads that I eat everyday for lunch. I have now created a new one that is so different and captures all the wonderful flavors of the Mexican and Southwest food that I love. It is still easy – peasy – which is the only…
Batch Cooking in August!
One of the most frequently asked questions I get is how do you batch cook? There are so many different ways to batch cook -batch prep – food. What is batch cooking? Preparing larger quantities of food than just what you can eat for one meal or in one day. This actually cuts down on…
Ultimate Weight Loss Live Vegas Webinar Give-A-Way!
As many of you know I am a student of Chef AJ’s Ultimate Weight Loss on line program! I have taken her and Jay Pea’s Mastery Class and have been a mentor for subsequent classes. It’s a whole food plant based lifestyle that is centered around the calorie density chart and the way of eating…
Make A Great Tasting Ketchup & BBQ Sauce – No Added Sugar!
If you are trying to eat a clean healthy whole food plant based diet you become a proficient label reader. That is when you notice that condiments are full of sugar and salt. Now you start looking for recipes to make your own condiments. So when your on line friend posts a ketchup recipe that…
Watch the Video of Tami & Al’s Radio Interview!
You might recall that a couple weeks ago Al Schmidt and I were guests of Peggy Bean on her SOS radio show on KVMR FM 89.5. Peggy allowed hubby Tom to video tape the interview and post it on our You Tube channel. Al is our 82 years young friend who reversed his heart disease…
The Secrets To Ultimate Weight Loss – Chef AJ
Chef AJ’s book “The Secrets To Ultimate Weight Loss” is now on Amazon! I am so excited about this because Chef AJ’s Ultimate Weight Loss Program has changed my life. I was a yo – yo dieter until I joined her program in 2015. I got to my goal weight easily following her program and…