Review: Lucid Food

Lucid Food arrives, already a present, gorgeous with scrolling artwork and vibrant images, wrapped and ready. I am enamored. Also, I am hungry. Thumbing past photography for Chickpea Cakes with a verdant green Cilantro-Jalapeno Sauce, Fall Fruit Focaccia succulent with apple wedges, Crispy Yuba Rolls that look toasty brown and crunchy, ready to dip, I […]

Review: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years

I read Blue Like Jazz, Miller’s first and wildly successful memoir, in what seems now another life and another frame of mind. But Donald Miller is travelling with me in a freakish parallel universe. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years tracks Miller learning to view his life through a camera lens. This hook, life […]

Review: Good Mail Day

Innovative, bright ways to re-invent your junk mail and build relationships via the old-fashioned art of correspondence wait for you in this book. Gone are the days of the pony express, sadly. Yet we humans still loiter around the mailbox, rallying our hopes if the postal worker’s bundle looks interesting. If I received any of […]

Sweet ‘n’ Creamy, Too-Good-To-Pass-Up Hot Rice Pudding

Ingredients: Yield: 4 Servings Prep Time: 1 hour (See tip to reduce prep time to 15 minutes or less.) There is something about rice cereal, a.k.a. rice pudding, that sounds kind of old fashioned, and it seems to me that many people don’t really gravitate toward it these days. I challenge the trend! Nourishing to […]

Black Olive & Garlic Quesadillas

Ingredients: Prep Time: 10 minutes Yield: 1 serving If you love roasted garlic and really good black olives, then you can view this recipe as yet another great way to indulge in these heavenly foods. Black olive tapenade can be found on the condiment aisle of the grocery store or made from scratch. • 1 […]

Lemon Poppy Seed Minicakes

Ingredients: 1 lemon (juice, pulp, zest) 2/3 c. Silk Creamer (soy milk creamer) 1 1/3 c. whole-wheat pastry flour 1/2 c. white-wheat flour 1 t. poppy seeds 1 1/2 t. baking soda 1 1/2 t. baking powder 1/2 t. salt 1/3 c. canola oil 1/2 c. honey 1/2 c. maple sytrup (pure) 1/2 t. vanilla […]

Blueberry Almost Ice-Cream

Ingredients: 1 c. blueberries (frozen) 1/2 c. pineapple chunks (frozen) 1 t. vanilla 1 T. pure maple syrup 1/2 c. soy milk garnish fresh strawberries Directions: Put all ingredients in blender; blend until smooth. Serve in glass dishes; garnish with fresh strawberries. Yield: Two 1/2-cup servings plus 1/4-cup serving. Nutritional Information: Per serving: calories: 47; […]