April 24, 2023
There is a point in a banana’s life cycle… or should I say death cycle… that excites my brain with baking opportunities! Since my school has a tradition of giving bananas out to students taking the state exams, I was left with many in my classroom. So two sweet treats Read more…
April 29, 2021
I’m really excited to go camping this weekend and have the season’s first starshoot. But I’d need some nutritionally dense eats to sustain me through a packed itinerary. I played around with this recipe, so these are chocolate banana tahini flax gluten-free muffins! Say that five times fast. They’re packed Read more…
October 6, 2020
Fall is for roasted roots and vegetables the hue of the Earth in all its vibrance. And, thankfully, the busiest time of the year calls for the easiest dinner preparation–coat in olive oil, salt and pepper and set in the oven. Repeat. If only I can lesson plan this way. Read more…
June 2, 2019
How drastically different Sunday morning and Sunday evening feel? Do you get a jolt of energy as Sunday evening rears its head? I sure do. Like a last gasp of freedom–and most of the resulting activity is in the kitchen. I assemble my lunch for Monday, finally get my overnight Read more…
August 1, 2015
The coconut oil tells me it’s sweltering out… So happy to report on vegan soft serve in Freeport! Sunrise Vitamin and Health has Tofutti soft serve. Tofutti was been around since my early vegan days in the 90’s. I remember feasting on their now-discontinued Chipwich-like ice cream sandwiches. These early vegan Read more…
October 17, 2012
#1: Pumpkins #2: Hearty Loaves #3: Bright, October sun #4: Migrating birds #5: My being missing in action, inundated with all things 10-year-old.
August 28, 2008
It’s pantry turnover time once again! Spending the upcoming Labor day weekend with Wok Man in his hometown of Milwaukee, it was time to use it or lose it. Stuffed peppers: A very simple way to use up veggies, leftover tofu scraps, grains and herbs. I start to panic if Read more…