I’m a skeptic when it comes to vegan butter, I will admit. I’ve tried to get behind it but the truth is is that the flavor always leaves me disappointed and let down. Not only is it impossible to slather a slice of gluten free bread with a good butter substitute but baking with it…
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Salad On A Stick
Looking for ways to get your cutie pies to eat more veggies every day? Make healthy eating fun with Salad on a Stick! Sometimes you need creativity with the little ones and give them an incentive to eat their daily allotment of plants, so get creative in the kitchen! Maybe if I served my salad on a stick,…
Healthy Gummy Fruit Snacks
Have you ever heard of agar? If not, pull up a chair and let me tell you a little story about an incredible food ingredient that will make you marvel over the wonders of Mother Nature. Picture it, Sicily 1932. No wait, that is Golden Girls. I apologize–my circuits got crossed. Agar. A jelly-like substance obtained…
Pretzel Log Cabin
Who says that you have to create gingerbread houses only for winter? I say we start a new tradition over here that summer is for the edible house building. I had a bag of gluten free pretzel sticks I bought for the TeePee Cookies that needed to be used up so I sat there staring…
Summer Veggie Pasta Salad
I live in a very tiny apartment/studio here in LA. It’s a mix between a bachelor and one bedroom and despite the fact that I am convinced I am living in Hades, this place was not equipped with air conditioning. Why that is, is beyond me but we have a window unit that lovingly blows…
Taco “Ice Cream” Cones
With all this posting of ice cream here and here, how about making dinner look like dessert with Taco “Ice Cream” Cones? Because sometimes you need a savory treat in the form of a sweet one. Besides, what kid wouldn’t want a taco that looks like ice cream? Well, really I am sure they would…
Tropical Papaya Gelato
Talk about a home delivery that I love to see on my doorstep: A box full of high-quality, freshly picked, tree-ripened strawberry papayas straight from Jamaica from Martha’s Best. These papayas are beyond good. I had to quickly make this Tropical Papaya Gelato because I was tempted to eat every papaya in the box as…
