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Breakfast in Bed: Multigrain Pancake/Waffle Mix with 3 Variations

As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to appreciate breakfast more and more, especially on those mornings when I wake up with a growling stomach (most mornings…).  So this makes Angela’s (Canned Time) Breakfast in Bed …

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5 Revamped Vegan Breakfasts. Recipe #1: Slow Cooker Multigrain Pudding

When switching over to the new site, I couldn’t help but browse through some of my very early posts.  Yikes.  Some of the recipes really needed tweaking and new photography.  So just for fun, I’ve …

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Humble Pie: Chai-Spiced Oatmeal Tart with Warm Coconut-Vanilla Sauce

When one is a blogger (and aren’t we all?) sometimes strange ideas come – often while on the treadmill at 6 in the morning. Like, why is it so often the case that in a …

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Raw Carrot Cake & Cream Cheese Hearts. Sugar- and Gluten-free.

Can you feel the love in the air?   Valentine’s Day usually passes me by without so much as a single long-stemmed rose, and I’m very much okay with that.  Kel and I aren’t big …

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Beer with Breakfast: Mexican Chocolate Waffles

I’m not going to waste anyone’s time here today.  These are waffles.  They’ve got chocolate and beer in them – but no oil and no sugar – and they are good.  Now go and spend …

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Carrot Walnut Bread (or how to use the pulp from your juicer)

I did it!  I actually made a recipe that I pinned to one of my Pinterest boards!  Based on a non-vegan recipe by Try Anything Once my version uses whole wheat flour, chia instead of eggs, and …

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Chocolate Sweet Potato Spice Cake

Chocolate cake reminds me of my mother, who in my humble opinion, baked the best chocolate cake on earth.  It was coated in a creamy, buttery frosting that wasn’t too awfully sweet.  This cake is …

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Cinnamon Apple “Toast.” Raw, Gluten- and Sugar-free.

When low, gray clouds scud across the blue and mornings are cool enough for a flannel shirt and the leaf tips of the winged elms, hackberrys, scrub oaks, and bois d’arcs turn brown, I feel …

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Vegan MoFo 2: French Toast Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwiches

I’ve got quite a few “favorite” recipes coming up this month, but this one ranks right up there.  It’s got everything: peanut butter, jelly, nanners, cinnamon, pumpkin, and carbohydrates.   This is a nod towards …

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Vegan MoFo 1: (Chocolate) Peanut Butter & Jelly Bars, For Two. Gluten-free. Mostly Raw.

Let’s start out this MoFo thing with a super-simple recipe that lets the flavors of peanut butter and sweet fruit (the jelly stand-in) shine – along with their good friends, chocolate and cinnamon. These treats …

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Oil-free Banana Fig Cakes with Date-Coconut Drizzle

Last week I spotted a gigantic purple fig hiding amongst the leaves in one of our potted plants.  Kel and I watched its progress carefully; we didn’t want to let this one go to the …

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Raw “Granola Bar” Crackers

I’ve now about worked my way through the entire list of cracker and flatbread recipes in Matthew Kenney’s book, Everyday Raw.  (Raw ice cream – you are next!  As soon as I can source young …

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Snickerdoodles: Inspired by Dog Biscuits

A couple of weeks ago, Ike’s aunt (Kel’s sister) sent him a care package that included a bag of doggy snickerdoodles. Snickerdoodles for a dog?! Curious, I opened the bag and the smell of cinnamon …

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Chocolate-Cinnamon-Orange Cashew French Toast

One thing I discovered (though I’d already suspected it) while participating in the Green Smoothie Challenge: I eat too much bread.  It’s not that I felt a dramatic physical difference; I just felt lighter and …

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Kristy’s Cookie Exchange: Molasses Crinkles

Every generation has its version of “the good old days.”  For some, the memories are sepia-toned or come in shades of black, white and gray.  For me they’re tinged with the yellow fade peculiar to …

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Vanilla Chai Truffle Cakes (aka Black & White Cakes)

Much more prim and proper than their deep dark chocolate cousins, these vanilla cupcakes with a chai truffle center also pack a less powerful caloric punch.  The cupcake is based on a recipe from The …

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Mocha Spice Pancakes w/ a Simple Syrup

There’s nothing quite like pilfering a recipe – especially when you shamelessly pilfer one of your own recipes.  At least I’m giving myself credit – it’s just blogging etiquette.  These pancakes were inspired by my …

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Deep Dark Chocolate Chai Truffle Cakes & The Giveaway Winner

I once worked briefly for an Army Colonel.  He could’ve stepped off of the movie set of Apocalypse Now: tall and wiry with a stiff and graying crew cut, a brisk manner and a lopsided, …

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Cinnamon Raisin Swirl Flatbread Sandwiches w/ Chocolate Cheez & Caramelized Bananas

These flatbreads are based on a recipe for Spiced Pumpkin Flatbreads that I shared earlier this month.  It occurred to me that a cinnamony-sweet version would be just the thing for a brunch, lunch or …

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Virtual Vegan Potluck: Maple Creme & Mocha Spice Cake Trifle with Fresh Blueberries

Welcome to the Potluck!  By now your waistband is probably stretched a bit, the table is thick with empty plates and glasses and you’ve probably gone through a napkin or two.  There are still lots …

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VeganMoFo: Cocoa PB Balls

Sigh.  The last peanut-milk-meal + chocolate post of the 2012 MoFo season!  This recipe is based on Cookie Bites by Erika over at Good Clean Food.  With my first taste of those nutty-chocolatey bites, I knew …

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A Month of MoFo: Banana Bread Pancakes with Cacao, Pecan & Walnut “Butter”

So a month of VeganMoFo begins.  I’m imaging the Internet staggering under the blow of vegan bloggers submitting their first posts today and I kind of like the thought.  I’m aiming for 20 posts this month, …

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Berried Treasures & Portabella Stroganoff: The Unprocessed Giveaway

Life is uncertain.  Eat DESSERT first. – Chef AJ Tip: Excess/leftover blueberry filling and date streusel make an excellent whole-grain cereal topper. Berried Treasures with Macadamia Nut Creme and Portabella Stroganoff from Unprocessed: How to Achieve Vibrant Health and …

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Bread To Convalesce By: Chocolate-Cinnamon Babka

When a neighbor of ours went in for some major foot surgery – surgery that would leave him house-bound for quite a while – Kel and I thought it would be nice to drop off …

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The Clay Boy Maker’s Chocolate-Ginger-Orange Cookies (And a Virtual Vegan Potluck Update)

If you’ve signed on to participate in the Virtual Vegan Potluck, please take a moment to visit the VVP Page for the latest list of participants.  (Please check the list and make sure your blog …

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Cinnamon Raisin Swirl Bread (or The Loaf Formerly Known As The Brick)

Remember this loaf?  The Brick?  The utter failure?  I was determined to try again – this time remembering the salt and the maple syrup – because I just knew it would be a good loaf …

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Small Kitchen Tragedies

I should have stayed out of the kitchen on Sunday.  The peanut butter-banana-wheat germ pancakes came out just right, sure, but it was downhill from there.  I had been looking forward to a morning of …

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Other People’s Food (& Drink), Part 2

I had some roasted, mashed sweet potato languishing in my refrigerator just about the time that Insatiably posted a recipe for mini pumpkin pies.  Cute and easy with definite  deliciousness potential: all the prerequisites.  Within …

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Anadama French Toast with Fruit Compote

All my vital signs have returned to normal after yesterday’s rant… Thanks to everyone for leaving such thought-provoking comments, many of which made points that I missed in my post.  It’s really great to get …

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Chai Tea-Infused Cherry & Apricot Compote

Many years back, I went for lunch one day to a small Indian restaurant in the basement of an old house on the quiet part of Pearl Street in Boulder, CO. Basements aren’t the most …

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