Monthly Archives: May 2009
chocolate pluot cupcakes
i’ve been baking vegan treats for at least 2 or 3 years now and i can safely say that i’ve got the cookie down. there are so many cookie recipes already that leave out eggs or substitute oil for butter, that a vegan cookie recipe is easy to come by and hard to screw up. [...]
redesign
as you may haven noticed we did a redesign to the site. we hope you all like it – it was done in an effort to bring clarity and focus to the recipes themselves. we hope that this comes across and that the site is easier to use than ever! if you have any feedback, [...]
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maple glazed shallot rolls
i’ve been getting really into baking my own bread lately. why buy loaves for sandwiches or buns for burgers at the grocery store when i can just bake them fresh myself!? in the past few weeks this recipe has become a fast favorite of mine – it is a completely whole wheat roll that is [...]
a raw oat breakfast for two
i’ve been working at my local juice bar for a few months now where we make all the milk for our smoothies fresh daily. we make coconut milk by blending the meat and the water – we make almond, oat and buckwheat milks by simply soaking, blending and straining the grains or nuts. the pulp [...]
spaghetti squash with broccoli and leek
sometimes you want a nice pasta dish without having that heavy, starchy fullness it can leave you with. that’s where spaghetti squash comes in. it takes a little longer to cook than regular pasta, but it tastes and feels a lot lighter, can be prepared any way pasta is, and is a gluten-free, low-carb, low-calorie [...]
lemon lavender cookies
when i first had the idea for this recipe i wanted to call it a lavenderdoodle. i was inspired by the simplicity of snickerdoodles – basically a sugar cookie rolled in cinnamon sugar – so i wanted to make a version with lavender instead. but the final result ended up much more subtle, not resembling [...]
5 reasons to go raw, and 5 not to