Nourished Festival 2019

Nourished Festival 2019 (formerly Gluten Free Allergy Friendly Expo) The Nourished Festival is 100% Gluten Free! The last few years, I have been lucky enough to attended the Gluten Free Allergy Friendly Expo in NJ.  This year (on October 5-6), they will be returning to the Meadowlands in Secaucus, New Jersey under the new name … Continue reading Nourished Festival 2019

Blueberry Lemon Sorbet

Blueberry Lemon Sorbet The last few weeks I've gotten a few requests for gluten free, dairy free dessert options. One of my favorite flavor combinations is blueberry and lemon, as you know from my Lemon Blueberry Overnight Quinoa recipe. The weather is getting warmer and berries are now plentiful. Blueberries are the inspiration for this … Continue reading Blueberry Lemon Sorbet

Roasted Tomato Salsa

Roasted Tomato Salsa As the summer approaches, one of my favorite items at the local farmer's market is the cherry tomato.  They are fantastic to eat straight but they also make the sweetest and most delicious salsa.  You can use it for salsa fresca (aka pica de galio) or if when they get ALMOST overly … Continue reading Roasted Tomato Salsa

Paleo Berry Jam

Paleo Berry Jam Everyone in my family LOVES jam but lets face it, to make a good tasting jam require SUGAR and lots of it! This is not going to work in our household since I have been working to not only cut the kids sugar intake but also the grown ups. For the last … Continue reading Paleo Berry Jam

Roasted Pepper Spread

Roasted Pepper Spread Roasted Pepper Spread This is another recipe that is inspired by when you buy vegetable in bulk and completely forgot about them. Yesterday, I walked into the kitchen to finally clean things up and I realized that there was still a bag of peppers that we hadn't used up.  Since, we had … Continue reading Roasted Pepper Spread

Vegan Chocolate Truffles

Vegan Chocolate Truffles One of my favorite things to buy are chocolate truffles but with recent reactions to particular nuts and dairy I don't get them anymore. Then I remembered something an old friend of mine use to say about truffles...that chocolate truffles are essentially just cream and good chocolate melted together. Building on that … Continue reading Vegan Chocolate Truffles

Cinnamon Apple Butter

Cinnamon Apple Butter Don't laugh at me but I have been very hesitant about using my electronic pressure cooker (aka. instant pot). I had this irrational fear of it exploding in my kitchen and food all over my walls. I must have read the instruction pamphlet a hundred times, to ensure there was no mistake … Continue reading Cinnamon Apple Butter

Grainless Chia Crepes

Grainless Chia Crepes I seem to be on a crepe frenzy lately with my last recipe being a Chocolate Banana Crepe.      In my recipe directory, I also have a tapioca based white vegan crepe. Now, for my third crepe recipe, the grainless chia crepe which is also vegan!  I don't know about your world but … Continue reading Grainless Chia Crepes

Roasted Kale

Roasted Kale This past week has been a crazy whirlwind week for me and now its settle down for a bit.  I looked in my fridge and realized that I had some kale that really need to be cooked up.  It was not really in a state that I wanted to eat it raw.  It … Continue reading Roasted Kale