Tonight I made potato chips. Lots and lots of them. Like, the whole bag of potatoes. Here’s a tip. A whole bag of potatoes makes way more chips than you can eat in a couple of days. If you do this yourself, you may want to bring it down a…

The recipe I use for pesto is from The Moosewood Cookbook. Here’s my copy of that cookbook. Can you tell it’s well-used? Here is the recipe, with notes on substitutions to make it vegan. It says it makes enough for six servings, but I think it makes more than that.…

I’ve been a muesli fan until recently, really, because granola is usually too sugary for me.  But at the same time, muesli could use a good toasting. Enter homemade granola, where you can control the ingredients! I had a granola recipe from a friend. It had lots of ingredients that…

I’m not sure where I got this recipe—so I apologize in advance for the plagiarism—but I wanted to share it because regular oatmeal is so blah for me, now. This is my favorite cold-weather breakfast! And it makes enough for at least 3 breakfasts (3-4 cups). FRUITED OATMEAL 1 3/4…

The basics Choose your combination of fruit.Add some nuts and/or seeds.Add some cinnamon (nutmeg words, too) Other add-ins/ons: Unsweetened coconutDried fruitUnsweetened yogurtGranola or muesli Sample Recipes Apple Strudel 1 applea handful of raisinschopped walnutsa dash of cinnamon Tropical Treat 1 orange1 kiwi1 datechopped pecansunsweetened dried coconutground flax seeds Banana Bowl…

This recipe is my version of a recipe given to me by a woman named Julie Loveless. Julie was a vegan chef. She had a way with food and I learned from her, including adding a pinch of cayenne to recipes to bring out flavors. Which, now that I’m an…