Yesterday was a nice comfort food day in the kitchen. Easy recipes and lots of warm flavor. While making my banana walnut bread, I soaked some black-eyed peas for an hour and then cooked up some really low-prep soup. Dry black-eyed peas soak fast and cook fast, so they are an ideal bean to have [...]
After having had a piece of banana bread at a coffee shop the other day from a local bakery that makes understated vegan breads, I decided I wanted to make some of my own for a fraction of the price with a fraction of the sugar. I adapted a recipe out of John Robbin’s awesome [...]
I am celebrating Easter mostly by eating a lot of fruit and beans, reading Howard Zinn, and enjoying the strange coastal winter storm we’re having. Er, we’re not really followers of any tradition around here. So, while I was slicing up an avocado in the skin and squeezing out the contents onto a dish (very [...]
I was looking up hummus recipes… every recipes website on the first page of Google is terrible. They are full of foods that better taste good because they will kill you. The worst part is most the sites are just search results of other sites, and they all steal recipes from each other! So, you [...]
Jana DrJoel is a new blog that chronicles Jana’s journey through Dr. Fuhrman’s eat for health book. She’s making all the recipes and posting pictures of each one. This blog makes me hungry. This is a website that Dr. Joel should have made. I love his recipes, but it’s so much easier to eat them [...]
Here is a salad idea that I got from watching Simply Delicioso on Hulu. It combines a vegetable that I recently learned about, jicama (hee-kah-mah), a crispy and refreshing root plant with a very subtle and sweet flavor, and a fruit that I’ve been enjoying on a daily basis, the mango. I used a head [...]
As far back as I can remember, pizza has always been my favorite food. During the progression of my gradual diet change to a whole-food plant-based diet, cheese was the last on my list to go. It’s the stronghold of omnivores everywhere: If only were it not for the cheese, they say. Well, I can’t [...]