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Homemade Granola

August 5, 2019 by Sheila

Granola

Have you ever made your own granola? Don’t worry, we won’t judge if you’re an old hippie. Although I never made any in my hippie days, back in the early 1970’s I had my first yogurt topped with granola at a rustic cafe in a little upstate New York town where I went camping with […]

Filed Under: Good Morning! Tagged With: almonds, cinnamon, coconut, coconut oil, coconut sugar, dried cranberries, dried fruit, dried gogi berries, honey, maple syrup, nuts, oat flour, oats, olive oil, puffed brown rice, puffed kamut. puffed quinoa, puffed millet, pumpkin seeds, rolled oats, slivered almonds, vanilla extract, wheat bran, wheat germ

Sweeteners

April 14, 2017 by Sheila

Sweeteners

Top, left to right: Confectioners Sugar, Palm Sugar, Jaggery, Piloncilla, Panela, Buckwheat Honey, Wildflower Honey Center, left to right: Superfine/Caster Sugar, Raw/Demerra Sugar, Barley Malt Syrup Bottom, left to right: White Granulated Sugar, Coconut Sugar, Dark Brown Sugar, Light brown sugar, Molasses, Brown Rice Syrup, Coconut Nectar White Sugars White Granulated Sugar – highly refined, […]

Filed Under: Cooking Basics Tagged With: barley malt syrup, brown rice syrup, brown sugar, coconut nectar, cofectioner's sugar, honey, jaggery, maple syrup, molasses, palm sugar, panela, pilconcilla, raw sugar, white sugar

Quinoa, Kale and Butternut Squash Patties with Beet Relish

March 7, 2016 by Sheila

Quinoa Patties

Everybody is detoxing. Just mention the desire to give up sugar (that would be me) and everyone within earshot will chime in with what they are or are not eating. Vegetables top the charts, mostly raw (no, but thank you anyway) with some taking drastic action and reducing intake to only vegetables and fruits with […]

Filed Under: Grains, Greens, Vegetable Main Dishes Tagged With: beet relish, beets, burger, butternut squash, coriander, cumin, kale, maple syrup, maple vinegar, Meyer lemon, parsley, parsnip, pattie, quinoa, red onions, veggie burger, winter squash

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