With 3 simple ingredients you can create a creamy smooth chocolate sauce that will make you swoon. It checks off all the boxes for chocolate lovers. It’s simple and easy. Nut free, gluten free, oil free, low fat, no refined sugar and no coconut products. You will be tempted to keep it to yourself, but…
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Cinnamon Pear Sauce
A simple easy recipe that will create a beautiful aroma through out your home. Early in the fall I had some overly ripe pears that needed to be used in something and I didn’t have time for something fancy so a Cinnamon Pear Sauce was created on the spot. It was perfection. A little fresh…
Vegan Mint Chocolate Chip Nice Cream – Sugar Free – Plus A Ninja CREAMi Option
Before I transitioned to a whole food plant based lifestyle my favorite ice cream was mint chocolate chip. I loved the the mint flavor and the texture and flavor of the all the little bits of chocolate throughout the ice cream. As I do with all of my favorite foods I find a way to…
Chocolate Cherry Brownies
It almost sounds to good to be true but you really can make delicious brownies that are healthy too! I have to admit that I haven’t had a brownie in years – or so that was true until earlier this week. On Tuesday we celebrated our 41st wedding anniversary and I wanted something special for…
Delicious Oat & Jam Bars – Gluten Free
Oats and all fruit sweetened spread – what a winning combination! Bake them up into some yummy whole food plant based bars and you have a delicious dessert or a little sweet treat to enjoy with some tea – hot or iced depending on the day. I call these yummy bars Jammies! I wanted to…
Sweet Pea’s Mo-Mo Smoothie – Feeding Toddlers a Plant Based Diet
I am so excited to have a guest post today. My daughter Katy is sharing a fabulous nutrient rich smoothie recipe that she developed to serve the needs of our incredibly energetic granddaughter whom we shall call Sweet Pea. I have had many requests from mothers and grandmothers for ideas and recipes for feeding children…
Fall Pudding SOS Free
Even though we follow a Whole Food Plant Based lifestyle that doesn’t mean that we can’t enjoy a holiday dessert. Everyone likes dessert and especially at the holidays. That doesn’t mean that you have to give in to overly indulgent unhealthy food that might send you right into The Pleasure Trap and cause you to crave more…
How To Cut A Fresh Pineapple Quick & Easy
I love fresh pineapple all year long and fortunately we are able to purchase them all year long. I used to dread cutting the pineapple up and sometimes I would cheat and buy the already cut pineapple at Costco or Sams’ Club. But that was so expensive and sometimes the pineapple wasn’t completely ripe so…
How Sweet It Is
I don’t know about you but I almost never dream about food even though that seems kind of strange for someone who has a food blog and loves to cook. Anyway the other night I had a dream that I made this recipe and people were swooning over it! As soon as I woke up…
Apple Cranberry Crisp
Pin it The secret ingredients in this crisp recipe are cashew butter and applesauce! They work perfectly to replace butter and are neutral in flavor so you wont’ even detect any difference. I wish I could take credit for the brilliant idea to sub cashew butter for dairy butter but I owe the magic to…