Orange, Coconut and Blueberry Toasted Muesli
Simple oil-free and vegan toasted muesli flavored with orange zest, maple syrup, coconut and vanilla. Europe has often struck me as an ill-fitting jigsaw puzzle. As though someone bought dozens of...
View ArticleBlack and White Mini Cupcakes
A cupcake version of Black and White Cookies, with extra chocolate. There’s no butter, only a tablespoon of oil. Black and White Cookies puzzle me. Are they cookies? Are they cakes? Perhaps the answer...
View ArticleRoasted Bell Pepper and Chickpea Enchiladas
Vegetable loaded enchiladas that are vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, and healthy enough any day of Mayo. Today marks 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare. What does that have to do with...
View ArticlePeanut Butter Cup Swirl Baked Oatmeal
Layers of peanut butter and chocolate baked oatmeal sprinkled with peanut butter cups and chocolate chips. Bertie struts down the street, happily munching on a chocolate bar as he walks. ‘Mmm…...
View ArticleSugar Cream Pie Overnight Oats
Easy and creamy overnight oats for one made with yogurt, topped with granola, and inspired by pie. It would be quite reasonable to ask, ‘What in the name of Merlin’s beard is a Sugar Cream Pie?’ Surely...
View ArticleCoconut Candy Granola
Big chunk granola that’s oil free, vegan, easily gluten free, and packed with shredded coconut and walnuts. I don’t know when it happened. I don’t know when the world became obsessed with coconut....
View ArticleGinger Molasses Baked Oatmeal with Apples
Baked oatmeal loosely based on ginger molasses cookies stuffed with apples. Easily dairy free and gluten free. Folks, it’s a darn crazy world out there. Today’s the day of the first Republican...
View ArticleHealthy Blackberry Cobbler
A healthier version of blackberry cobbler using frozen blackberries, some hazelnut meal, no butter and no oil. When you slip on a banana peel and end up with gum in your hair, it’s cobbler time. When...
View ArticleBanana Cake Batter Oatmeal
A warm, breakfast version of banana cake batter topped with an easy cream cheese frosting. Easily vegan too. Murphy’s Law has infiltrated my bananas. When I’m after an extremely ripe, brown-spotted...
View ArticleCoffee and Walnut Layer Cake
Coffee and walnut cakes made without butter, filled with cream cheese frosting and topped with chocolate. A few weeks ago, I had big plans. Big cake plans. Long story short, on the first Sunday of May,...
View ArticleStrawberry Banana Overnight Oats
Sweet and fruity overnight oats for one, which are an easy, make-ahead breakfast for hectic mornings. Lately I’ve been eating overnight oats nearly every morning. While I’d like to say that was purely...
View ArticlePiña Colada Smoothie
A healthy, non-alcoholic Piña Colada smoothie for one that’s creamy due to the frozen banana and yogurt. If you like Piña Coladas, then let’s go and make our escape. Ideally to a world in which monkey...
View ArticlePeanut Butter Baked Doughnuts
Mini baked doughnuts that are healthier than usual, easily dairy free, and the batter’s made in one bowl. Doughnuts, is there anything they can’t do? Before you think I’m reminiscing about old episodes...
View ArticleFig Bar Baked Oatmeal
Baked oatmeal for one based on homemade fig bars. It’s easy, vegan and a reasonably healthy breakfast. Did you know that this coming Sunday is National Peanut Butter Cookie Day? Then Monday is World...
View ArticleBanana Bread with Rum Soaked Raisins
Light, not dense, banana bread that’s made without butter. Moist, nutty and even on the healthy side. I’m not quite sure how – let alone why – it happened, but there has been a serious banana bread...
View ArticleMonster Cookie Overnight Oats
Peanut butter, chocolate chips and M&M’s candies together in a breakfast version of oatmeal cookie dough. This breakfast makes me feel like a kid in a candy store. Here we have M&M’s, chocolate...
View ArticleSpinach, Ricotta and Pumpkin Filled Baked Crepes
Savory crepes with a vegetarian roasted pumpkin, spinach and ricotta filling, covered in sauce and baked. This is going to sound like a big call coming from someone who practically worships peanut...
View ArticlePatriotic Peanut Butter Pretzel Granola
Salty-sweet granola with cranberries, chocolate, crunchy almonds, and a festive red, white and blue theme. Grab some flags and look out for fireworks because several national days are heading our way....
View ArticleRaspberry Swirl Yogurt Cake
A moist raspberry-orange and vanilla marble cake made with plenty of yogurt, a tiny bit of oil, and no butter. What’s better than a piece of cake? A piece of two cakes, of course. That’s the joy of...
View ArticlePeanut Butter Latte Overnight Oats
A fun breakfast for one: single-serving coffee and peanut butter overnight oats topped with chocolate. When I first saw a Peanut Butter Latte advertised at a coffee shop, I was skeptical. So skeptical...
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