Almond Ice Milk with Strawberry and Rhubarb Salad

This combination of frosty almond milk and tart, fresh rhubarb is raw, gluten free and vegan (for honey eating vegans, of course). I know to some that sounds totally boring, but for as much as I like buttery treats, I also crave a bit of lightness (especially when the weather warms up) and this dess

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Almond Ice Milk with Strawberry and Rhubarb Salad


Chocolate Cupcakes with Raspberry Buttercream

Although I may not love Valentine’s Day, it’s a really good excuse for me to bake pink things and buy heart shaped sprinkles ! :) Last night I made these delicious chocolate cupcakes with fresh raspberry buttercream and they are absolutely perfect for any day of the year, not just February 14th. I h

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Chocolate Cupcakes with Raspberry Buttercream


Vegan Omnomness

I made almond milk for the first time today. It was quite easy. You need: 1 cup of almonds random amount of soaking water 3 cups of water some vanilla if you like some sugar, xylitol, splenda, whatever sweetness pleases you. Directions: Soak almonds overnight of for about 9 hours, round about. put t

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Yummy Fruit Pizza

Need a dessert for Sunday dinner? This is one I made the other evening for our church ladies night. When I left for the evening, my children were wondering if there would be any leftovers. I told them to pray really hard. Sure enough, I came home with leftover fruit pizza to go in lunchboxes or eate

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recipe: ginger fruit salad

Happy New Year! If your resolution was to “eat healthy,” boy, do I have the recipe for you. I made this fruit salad when Mike, Jen and Jamie came over for our Christmas brunch. I like it because the ginger is unexpected. The ingredients sound weird (honey + red wine vinegar + ginger) — but trust me

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Valentine’s Cocktails Courtesy of Sparkling ICE and VOGA Italia Wine

The PomBerry Sparkle from VOGA features VOGA Premium Sparkling Wine, vanilla flavored vodka, and a splash of pomegranate juice. This sophisticated concoction shows your partner that you want only the best for them. Garnished with a skewer of fresh berries, this drink looks as good as it taste. The F

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Valentine’s Cocktails Courtesy of Sparkling ICE and VOGA Italia Wine


Stuffing or Dressing?

That stuff that goes inside the turkey–do you call it stuffing or dressing? It’s always been stuffing at my house and it is my favorite part of the meal. My daughter makes an excellent one. She cuts a sourdough loaf into cubes, then bakes it, then makes her own breadcrumbs. She sautees sausage meat

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Stuffing or Dressing?


Blue Cheese Buttermilk Fondue

Oh, yeah, that’s what I’m talking about. I had some friends over for a visit recently, and as usual, I made a decadent fat-filled meal. I didn’t try to, it just happened. At one point we had a wine tasting with our cheese plate, replete with pickled tarragon green beans and quince-rosemary jam. We a

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Spinach and Cheese Calzones with Tomato Sauce

Here is the recipe for pizza dough. This made 2 large calzones. http://casseroleclub.blogspot.com/2009/09/pesto-pizza.htm I made the dough and separated them into 2 balls before letting them rise. Filling for 2 large calzones: 9 oz fresh baby spinach 24 oz whole milk ricotta (I used whole because it

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Spinach and Cheese Calzones with Tomato Sauce


white rose cocktail

1 jigger El Bart Gin (1 1/2 oz Farmer’s) Juice 1/4 Orange (1/2 oz) Juice 1 Lime (1/2 oz) 1/2 jigger Maraschino (1/2 oz Marasca) 1 Egg White Shake once without ice and once with ice. Strain into a wine glass (I used a cocktail glass). Two Fridays ago, I was flipping through Hugo Ensslin’s 1917 Recipe

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aqua fresca with watermelon and raspberries

This is a fun drink that’s found all over the place here in San Antonio. It’s usually full of sugar and this all natural version has very little sweetness to it. quarter watermelon, cut into chunks 1 cup raspberries 2 inches chopped ginger juice of one lime sparkling mineral water mint leaves, to ga

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Part One of Industrious Summer: Homemade Chicken Stock

Since I began to buy into the nutritional broth thing, I decided to give it a whirl. This includes buying whole organic chickens, and planning meals around that. My friend Amanda, who I mentioned in the previous post, would make broth once a week, and if you go through it that fast that is a great i

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Blueberry Limeade Cocktail

My sister, she’s a bit of a party animal. In that super hard working, college student kind of way. She can throw a really good theme party. When I was her age, I threw dinner parties. She’s young at heart. I’m in her words, an old soul. She’s always the life of the party. I’m well, not. She likes to

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Blueberry Limeade Cocktail


Lemon Curd Canned Recipe Tested by me and delicious

This home-canned lemon curd is a thick lemon preserve that works as a pie filling and it’s good mixed with yogurt or used as a cake filling, in a trifle, or any other uses you might imagine. I put my first batch in half pint jars for gifts but you can use pint jars to make pies. Just throw a jar in

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Recipe: New England Clam Chowder

50 littleneck clams, picked over, discard any with broken shells 2 cups water

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Recipe: New England Clam Chowder