Nutmeg Notebook

Category: Bake

  • Vegan Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Blondies  Gluten Free

    Vegan Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Blondies Gluten Free

    This is my new favorite dessert recipe. I love the combination of peanut butter and chocolate. I was delighted with how delicious this recipe is, but yet it fits well into my healthy food plan. These Blondies are soft and chewy and the perfect ending to a meal. I am using the defatted peanut butter…

  • Pumpkin Spice Oat Muffins & Cookies

    Pumpkin Spice Oat Muffins & Cookies

    It’s that time of year when we want all things pumpkin! This is a pumpkin version of my favorite Quinoa Banana Oat Muffin recipe. These are a dense filling muffin with all the fun flavors of pumpkin spice. If you prefer you can even bake them up as cookies! Can’t decide – then make half…

  • Mushroom Spinach Lasagna Vegan

    Mushroom Spinach Lasagna Vegan

    Lasagna is a huge comfort food for many people including my family. This fabulous Lasagna recipe is my most requested meal when the family is getting together anytime of year. They love it. I make it for Christmas, birthdays, Mother’s and Father’s Day. It feeds a crowd and is filling without making you feel stuffed.…

  • Chocolate Cherry Brownies

    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…

  • Hearty Lentil Shepherd’s Pie

    Hearty Lentil Shepherd’s Pie

    I do love a hearty Lentil Shepherd’s Pie. It’s what comes to mind when I think of good ole down home comfort food. Sometimes that is just what we need to make us feel all warm and cozy from the inside out. A Shepherd’s Pie has been my go to dish for company, potlucks, to…

  • Perfectly Peachy Pie

    Perfectly Peachy Pie

    This all came about because I bought peaches at Costco and they all became ripe at the same time! Necessity is the mother of invention and that is often how things come about in my kitchen. This isn’t a traditional pie of course – no fattening ingredients were used in this Pie. No added sugar…

  • Cherry Peach Cobbler – No Added Sugar

    Cherry Peach Cobbler – No Added Sugar

    Can you have dessert on a SOS Free food plan? (SOS Free stands for salt, oil & sugar free.) Yes you can! Fruit is so amazing and yes we do enjoy it plain and simple right from Mother Nature. However, sometimes you just want something that feels and looks more like a traditional dessert. We…

  • Sweet Pea’s – Mini Jammies!

    Sweet Pea’s – Mini Jammies!

    I love making healthy little snacks that our toddler Granddaughter Sweet Pea will eat. These oat and jam mini muffins that we call Jammies are toddler friendly and mother and grandmother approved! Let’s be truthful here – even the grown ups like these. There is something extra appealing about food made into miniature serving sizes.…

  • Oat & Jam Bars – Jammies

    Oat & Jam Bars – Jammies

    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 posted a…

  • Quinoa Banana Oat Muffins

    Quinoa Banana Oat Muffins

    I am long overdue in sharing this Quinoa Banana Oat Muffins recipe. I have been making these muffins for the past year and every time I post a photo of these on Instagram or my facebook page people ask for the recipe. I didn’t have a recipe to share because I was just making them…