Homemade Water Kefir and Tibicos- A Healthy Probiotic Drink

I’m very into my probiotics. I don’t eat yogurt because I can’t eat dairy, and I don’t buy store bought probiotics, but I do have probiotics, usually every day, and sometimes many times a day- and much more probiotics than is available in the store bought stuff. How’s that? I eat fermented foods that I […]

Sprouted Lentil Salsa Recipe/ Chili Salad with Raw Sprouted Lentils- Vegan, Gluten Free

Growing up, my husband’s family had a pretty standard menu every week, nothing too adventurous  One day, though, they ate over at a friend’s house and became introduced to this wonderful dish called “chili salad”. It quickly became incorporated into their family’s menu rotation, since every family member fell in love with it. When I married […]

Vegan Mung Bean Crepes/Tortillas Recipe- Gluten Free

Mung bean crepes filled with potato, eggplant, and zucchini curry. When most people think mung beans (if they think about them at all), they think mung bean sprouts, the standard “bean sprouts” used in Chinese cooking. However, there are so many other uses for mung beans, including mung bean pancakes, and in this recipe, mung […]

Sunflower Seed Vegan Cheeze Spread Recipe- Gluten Free, Nooch Free

I know I rarely post two posts in one day (and I should just schedule my posts so that instead of two in one day, I have a post every day)…. but… I just invented this really yummy vegan cheese spread/sauce, and it’s so good that I didn’t want to wait to post it until […]

A Dinner Party For My Birthday

Today I turned 25 years old. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you’ll probably know already that when it comes to birthdays and other celebrations, I don’t believe in “skimping”. I believe in celebrating, in style, and frugally too, because without the fun in life, life isn’t worth living. A little bit […]

Green Banana Empanadas Recipe- Gluten Free, Vegan Options

I was visiting my friend Debbie today with my kids, and while I was there, my kids helped themselves to bananas from her shelf. “Make sure you take bananas from the bottom, those are ripe- the ones on the top aren’t,” she warned them. Debbie told me that her kids, roughly the same age as […]