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3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Chocolate Squares

I must admit when I saw this recipe online for 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Chocolate Squares, I couldn’t get to it fast enough. Although it was dubbed as flourless, I gave it a new title. Three ingredients? Really? And no flour? Who knew? How simple and easy was this...

Oil Free Edamame Quinoa Salad

This Oil Free Edamame Quinoa Salad is light, refreshing, and all raw. No need to cook the corn and edamame beans. Thaw slightly (or not) and just add them to the salad as is. I used red quinoa in this recipe, but the white or black quinoa works as well. Delicious!...

Wacky Pineapple Cake

Wacky Pineapple Cake has a story attached to it. When I was first married and experimenting with cooking and baking, my aunts used to send me many wonderful ways with food. Here is one card I found recently in my repertoire of recipes, Wacky Cake. It could have been...

Oil Free Popcorn

Yes, you heard it right. Oil Free Popcorn. It's not your buttery, oil-laden movie popcorn. But it's very good. Is popcorn healthy? Popcorn is a whole food. So without the oil, it's only corn. Dried, but corn. A whole food. You are simply eating the inside of the...

Easy Oil Free Lentil Stew

This easy oil free lentil stew not only contains the good stuff in the lentils, but all the nutritious vegetables cooked with it. It makes for a perfect healthy vegan meal. I love this stew. It was so surprisingly good and had so much flavor. I put it together, yet I...

How to Cook Perfect Brown Rice

I’ve heard so many people say they can’t cook rice. That it never turns out. That they just don’t know how to cook perfect brown rice. That it’s sticky and lumpy, and on and on. So they resort to a rice cooker. Well, if you don’t have a rice cooker and you don’t want...

Chana Dal & Collards

This is absolutely the best dish ever. Chana Dal & Collards. Chana Dal is a bean that hails from India. It resembles yellow split peas. The authentic Chana Dal is rare here in the United States. So, yellow split peas stand in as a second. Chana Dal does not boil...