Several years ago I saw a Rachael Ray episode on Thanksgiving for which she prepared a dish with mashed potatoes and parsnips with spinach and parmesan stirred in. It sounded so good but I wanted to try using cauliflower instead of potatoes to make it healthier. Substituting 2 cauliflower heads for the potatoes, it turned […]
In the last six or eight months I’ve been doing a lot of research about alternative health care possibilities to help my mother with her unending arthritis pain. I was very impressed by some medical school studies on turmeric and the positive results from drinking turmeric ginger tea. They found that participants who cut out […]
Cee’s Share Your World prompts for this week: Favorite thing to photograph? Write? Or Cook? I’ve drifted away from photography over the years but the two things most likely to cause me to reach for a camera are a great sunset or Salty (the cat) in a funny position. Right now my favorite thing to […]
After years of hearing people talk about substituting cauliflower for potatoes and mashing, I tried a recipe a couple of years ago in which I made the substitution and I fell in love. Although I posted about it, I just mentioned substituting. Since this makes such a yummy, yet healthier alternative, thought I’d post in […]
The only sport I follow is figure skating — thirty some years. So the U.S. Figure Skating Championships count big for me. I recorded it all and meted out watching over the week. This weekend, I forgot for most of it that the Super Bowl was happening and didn’t know who was playing. Nope, the […]
I posted a recipe for oatcakes a while ago. I’ve been playing with the recipe again. Thought I’d share my new version. First, while I gather that the original oatcakes are more like a really thick hot cereal, I cook them till they actually have a more cakey texture. If you prefer the original idea, […]
I have all three of Anna Thomas’s Vegetarian Epicure books and all have recipes that figure regularly in my cooking repertoire. The one I almost always keep on hand is Butternut Squash Pear Soup from her New Vegetarian Epicure*. Made a double batch last week and am thrilled to have a big supply in my freezer. I’m […]
A few years ago I posted my Thanksgiving menu with recipes; all of them tweaked to reflect a no wheat no dairy diet. I’ve tweaked the dressing a bit more, so thought I’d give an update. The original dressing recipe came from Barefoot Contessa. I first tweaked it by using gluten-free stuffing cubes from Whole […]
Been doing some tweaking to the basic chocolate avocado mousse recipe with which I began (see previous post). Think I’ve got it. Now if you’re a health food purist, my tweaks may not be healthy enough for you though I don’t think there’s anything terrible in here. But this is SO chocolate-y and yummy. Because […]
Not long ago I attended a cooking class about a particular healthy eating theory. The theory didn’t suit me or what I can eat, but one of the items was a pudding-y dessert with cashews as the base. Since I can’t have wheat or dairy and have been substituting ingredients in desserts for years, I […]
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