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Summer Squash Salad with Dill Sauce
recipe from Rene Oswald Ingredients: Salad: 3 yellow squash (about 2 lb.) 1/4 cup sun-dried tomatoes, soaked in water for 15 minutes 10 sun-dried olives, pitted 2 ears of corn, kernels removed from cob 1/2 lb. lettuce or spinach leaves Delicious Di (read full article)
Blueberry Cardamom Cheesecake
beautiful recipe and photo from Sweetly Raw Ingredients: Crust: 1 cup walnuts 2/3 cup pitted, packed dates Filling: 3 cups blueberries 1 1/2 cups cashews 1/2 cup pure maple syrup 2 tablespoons lemon juice 2 teaspoons ground cardamom (start wit (read full article)
Bon-voyage & birthday cake: taking "30" on the road
Dear readers, Can you believe that we're already in the second week of August? This summer has flown by faster than Steven Slater escaped via emergency slide! Each year, my birthday tends to stretch from a 24-hour fiesta to a 30-day celebration (read full article)
Dear Noy
Lifting the Aug. 23 holiday for continuity of government services is a stupid reason. I don’t think Noynoy has ever visited a government office. Growing up in a family of politicians, I don’t think he needed to fall in line to get an ID or file f (read full article)
Agave Nectar Is NOT Healthy, Other Options For Healthy Sweeteners, Ep278
Learn about healthy sweeteners– what you can use to make healthy desserts and satisfy your sweet tooth without affecting your weight & health! To buy honey, lucuma powder, mesquite powder, dried fruit, stevia etc.. Go to: USA–> Cli (read full article)
Crunchy BBQ Chips
recipe from Abeba’s Krazy Krackers 1 1/2 cup water 2 carrots 2 tomatoes 1-2 dates (soaked for 30 mins) 3/4 tsp chili powder 1 celery stalk 1/2 cup sundried tomatoes (soaked 30 mins) dash of cayenne pepper nama shoyu sauce or celtic salt to tas (read full article)
Foraging for Wild Blackberries
For one of my Christmas presents, Jim planned us a weekend get-away to Port Townsend and the Olympic Peninsula. After our initial dates didn’t work out, we rescheduled for this past weekend, for a little catch-up time after our 3-weeks apart (read full article)
Rick Reichart's Second Class at Icing Inspirations in Ontario, Canada 2011
Images courtesy of Rachel Robertson Photography In late June we announced that Rick Reichart would be making his teaching debut at Icing Inspirations in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada in March of 2011. Four days later, the first class sold out and a wai (read full article)
Fava beans
Have you seen fresh fava beans? If you are on the lookout, you might find them at your local farmer's market or if you are really lucky, you might find them hiding in your grocery store's produce section. I work at a farm that just harvested a large (read full article)
Mark Hix Chop House
The Chop House dates back to the sixteenth century. It was a place where businessmen ate and conducted their affairs over platters of meat and ale. Mentioned in Dickens,this culinary institution has resurfaced today as Mark Hix’s Chop and Oys (read full article)
Tangy Chocolate Pudding
This is a lighter and tangier raw chocolate pudding recipe for chocolate pudding. The addition of plums is the reason! Ingredients: 8 dates, presoaked 1 tbsp vanilla extract 2 avocados 1/4 cup raw cacao powder 1/4 cup mesquite or carob powder 1 or 2 (read full article)
Raw Energy Gel
recipe by Diane and Michael and The Vibrant Kitchen Ingredients: ¼ cup raw agave 2 dates pitted 2 tablespoons Mila seed (chia or salba) ½ cup water ½ teaspoon lemon zest ½ teaspoon lemon juice Pinch sea salt Directions: Mix the Mila with the  (read full article)
O Canada! Second Class offered with Rick Reichart at Icing Inspirations
Image courtesy of Rachel Robertson PhotographyAbout a week ago we announced we would be making a big announcement soon. On Monday, June 28th, Rick's first class "Discover Your Inner Artist" at Icing Inspirations in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada was ann (read full article)
Prom Date: The French Laundry
Gabrielle Perdrizet and I, spring 1977, ready for the Montgomery High School Senior Prom. Santa Rosa, California I took my prom date to dinner at the French Laundry. No, really, I did. In 1977. Granted back then it wasn’t the French Laun (read full article)
Mila Miso Gravy
recipe from Diane and Michael and The Vibrant Kitchen Ingredients: ¼ cup raw mellow or white Miso 1/3 cup cold pressed organic extra virgin olive oil 1 clove garlic ½ orange, peeled 1 tsp Mila seed + 2 tablespoons water 3 pitted dates Directions: (read full article)
Recipe: Moroccan Lamb Shanks
It’s winter in Oz, and even though I am lucky enough to live on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, we still have chilly evenings. Slow-cooked lambs shanks hit the spot perfectly for a winter-warming meal. The Moroccan combination of sweet, fruit (read full article)
Healthy Homemade Fruit Thin Bars (Think Fig Newtons...)
I am always on the look out for healthy homemade snacks and luckily I have lots of friends who are willing to share their recipes. My friend, Jane & I swap cookbooks, which is a really nice way to gain some new recipes, complete with feedback fro (read full article)
Alice’s Cook Book – Alice Hart. (Quadrille)
I am a keen collector of cookbooks. My collection runs into the hundreds, and dates back nearly a century. However, I can say with some degree of confidence that I have never read in any of them that the use of a camper van is recommended by way of (read full article)
Double Lotus Soup
Double Lotus: Lotus root and lotus seeds :)Double Lotus Soup (Serves 2 to 3)Ingredients: 300g of meat (pork or chicken)lotus rootred dateslotus seedsa carrot1 litre of water a pinch of salt (optional)Method: 1. Parboil the meat to remo (read full article)
Almond and Date Brown Rice Pudding
I had some brown rice left over from the chorizo meal, and while I was tempted to eat it with piles of salsa mixed in, I was even more interested in eating that salsa with the tortilla chips in the pantry. So uh... yeah. I couldn't really think about (read full article)
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