Recipes

Looking for a delicious dinner that comes together easily? This coconut peanut curry is flavorful, satisfying, and unique. First, roast the chickpeas and cauliflower in the oven and then sautée them along with vegetables, coconut milk, and peanut butter. The result is a salty-sweet curry that is as nutrient-dense as it is delicious. Purple Cauliflower Peanut Coconut Curry [Vegan] Ingredients For the Sauce: 1 yellow onion, finely chopped 1 garlic clove, minced 1 tablespoon fresh ginger, minced 1 teaspoon coconut oil 1 13.5-ounce can light coconut milk 3 tablespoons peanut butter 3 tablespoons coconut aminos or low-sodium soy sauce 1...

Qatar, eh? This should be fun, I know it’s the only country in the word starting with the letter Q. I know it’s in the Middle East, I was fairly sure on the Arabian Peninsula. That was as far as it went. (image credit: maps.com via infoplease.com) I was really excited once I did my little bit of reading; much like plenty of countries in the area (think Bahrain, UAE) it’s very progressive and modern in a lot of ways, think technology, infrastructure – however apparently only something like 11% of the population are Qatari and the rest are from elsewhere!...

A solid classic Vegetarian Minestrone Soup recipe is the best thing to have in your weekly cooking schedule because it is not only cheap and super nourishing but full of fresh vibrant seasonal veggies. A delicious way to get a big serving of veggies into your diet. And this vegetarian minestrone soup might be the best meal prep recipe ever. You will definitely get 4-6 meals out of it. Good vegetarian minestrone soup is defined by the neatly and finely diced vegetables. And therefore, I find cooking a minestrone soup almost therapeutical. You only need one of each vegetable variety...

Keeping it Simple Eat a whole leaf of garden chard and a tomato plain. No dressing. So often we make cooking difficult. However, if we are making sure that our grocery bag has more whole foods than processed ones, they can be prepared in a simple manner and eaten by themselves. We don’t have to put them in elaborate recipes. We just have to develop our taste to enjoy them whole. Buy a half peck of apples from your local orchard. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Cook a whole cauliflower and sprinkle cumin seeds on top …...

November arrived with a huge windstorm that both postponed Trick-or-Treating until Saturday and brought down the leaves in volume from the maple, oak and ash trees.  Their final display of gold and red regularly causes me to catch my breath, but the weather is turning cold this weekend, with our first frost, so that beauty will turn into the beginnings of winter, more stark than lush. Our lawn has a leaf coat on it now, but I don’t really like to rake, and honestly leaving it until spring is the environmentally sound thing to do, so I’m considering whether to...