A Mexican Feast. Here is the complete menu, for your copying pleasure, along with the recipes, resources and shortcuts that I used. The point is healthy and delicious, not to kill yourself in the kitchen. Even with shortcuts, there is already plenty of that around here! New Jicama salad recipe.
Watching those Chia Head commercials growing up, did you ever imagine it would become the next Super Food? Per your request, here is the basic recipe (and some fun options) for the chia pudding I tricked my kids into eating.
Egg-free Angel Food Cake Recipe & Tips If you’re allergic to eggs or vegan, you too can have Angel Food Cake! It’s not very good for you, but I was excited to find a recipe I could work with. I’ve always loved Angel Food Cake with whipped cream and strawberries. I’m happy to know I …
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Shabbat in an Hour and Healthy Chinese Food that actually tastes good! My carnivorous husband asks so little as I experiment on him night after vegan night. So when he asked me to make him Chinese broccoli in garlic sauce I quickly planned a Chinese Shabbat dinner. He even said that I should make it …
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Inspired by a recipe in Dr. Neil Barnard’s, “Get Healthy, Go Vegan,” cookbook, I went to town preparing for Mother’s Day Brunch. This vegan Spanish Frittata, non-vegan eater approved, is the result!
Healthy Spanish Rice Recipe & Fajitas for the Family! I don’t know about you, but I love meals where everyone can choose what they want to add to their own dish. Last week I saw a recipe for “Anything Goes Fajitas” on www.JewishFoodExperience.com and decided that was the feast I was going to make for …
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I look at the week as a great opportunity to do a few things that I try to do the rest of the year (maybe I’ll do a little better though…):
1. Stay away from processed vegan foods (like the sour cream, cream cheese, and fake meats)
2. Be adventurous with vegetables!
Del Sroufe is known for a few specific accomplishments. First, he wrote the Forks Over Knives cookbook. Second, he has written a new cookbook, “Better than Vegan.” The reason he wrote this new cookbook highlighting a whole foods, plant-based way of eating, is because of another one of his remarkable accomplishments: Getting up to 475 pounds as a vegan!
Vegan Purim Success! As I start thinking about my first Passover as a vegan (and not just vegetarian), I’m happy to report a successful first vegan Purim. I can’t eat most of the candy (good for me!) and had to make my own to get vegan hamantaschen (I hear there is one brand that is …
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See below for my first blog for My Jewish Learning’s The Nosher Blog. Maple Squash Pudding When I first tasted the delicious, and later ubiquitous, butternut squash kugel, I thought I was eating something healthy. However, there is a reason it tasted like cake: It was cake. My Shabbat host readily admitted that that kugel …
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