Something special from Mandy's kitchen...
As I mentioned in a previous post, we’ve had two breakfast staples in our house as of late: baked oatmeal and homemade muffins. Depending on what ingredients we have on hand, we make one or the other, and we change our muffin variety all the …
I would be remiss if I didn’t blog about my latest obsession. My curry baked kabocha. I have been making it at least 2-3 times per week, and nope, I haven’t gotten sick of it yet! It’s absolutely divine! – spicy, salty, sweet, rich, nutty, …
Ever since my flop-of-a-carrot cake birthday cake for my son last year, he’s been asking me to make him a strawberry-banana cake. Interesting flavor combination for a cake right? Well, who can blame a toddler for imagining up some of his favorite fruits into a …
I adapted this recipe from a Whole 30 paleo cookbook I had received as a gift years ago. My version isn’t quite paleo because I use organic frozen mixed vegetables, which include peas, corn, and green beans, but the original recipe calls for just diced …
I make an awesome coffee spice rub that I use to season almost every cut of red meat we throw on the grill. Whether it be a ribeye, skirt steak, London broil, New York strip, flat iron, you name it, my homemade spice rub gets …
This is another recipe adapted from my father-in-law. He makes the absolute best fried rice, but it is not gluten free and it also contains eggs, so unfortunately I never get to enjoy it when he makes it. It’s requested at all family gatherings, whether …
We do wings a lot around here. Whenever organic chicken wings or organic chicken drumsticks are on sale, as they happened to be at Whole Foods this week, I grab a bunch to store in the freezer. Sometimes I prefer the buying just drumsticks because …
GoRaw granola This granola is fantastic! It comes in three different flavors: apple cinnamon, raisin crunch, and coco crunch. We usually get the apple cinnamon simply because it’s the only flavor we can find at the store, and currently I can only find this granola …
I am always on the hunt for more clean vegan yogurts. Unfortunately, many of the ones I find on the shelves at the grocery store are full of sugar, natural flavors, gums, thickeners, oils, and other unwanted ingredients. And almost all of these yogurts have …
When I first met my husband, I was exposed to true, authentic Thai food. I’d had Thai food plenty of times before from restaurants, but what my family had considered “really good Thai food” was essentially just an Americanized disgrace to the Thai culture. My …
When I was in elementary school I remember my brother coming home one day from an afternoon at his friends house and telling us about this “hamburger helper” dish his friend’s mom had made them for lunch. He simply raved about it and insisted my …
I love lasagna. In fact, I posted a vegan-gluten free recipe on my web site several years ago made with almond milk ricotta cheese and lentil lasagna noodles that was absolutely delicious! Check out that recipe here! But for those of you who can enjoy …
Mama’s meatloaf sounds like a hand-written family heirloom recipe passed down through generations; a tattered, sacred, grease-splattered note with words written in such fine cursive it’s almost impossible to read. Well, I’d like to tell you that were true here, but in this case, I’m …