Treat yourself to a mug of Hot Spiced Coconut Apple Cider on a chilly fall evening. While I love simplicity in my meals, I can’t help but fancy up foods, too. It takes just a few brief moments to make additions that will enhance without complication. The resulting foods exemplify easy gourmet. For example, smearing plain […]
Beyond Pills: Supplementing with Food
Because our food sources and diets are not always optimal, supplements can play an important part in our health regimens. I see supplementation as a nice option and as a sometimes necessity for health. It’s also useful for rounding out a diet that may be lacking in certain nutrients due to soil depletion and other […]
My Favorite Ways to Use Freeze-Dried Berries
There was a time when I didn’t like cooking. I didn’t know how to do it well, and I thought it was so much less hassle to eat prepared foods or even snack on packaged goods for my meals. Needless to say, my energy was sluggish, and I didn’t feel particularly vibrant. One of the […]
What’s Your Vegan Transition Style?
“Everyone needs to be vegan right now!” It’s understandable to feel this sense of urgency. Tens of billions of animals are born into a life of misery and murder every year. Preventable lifestyle diseases are on the rise. Coping with dangerous work conditions, abuses from management, low pay, and psychological damage are the norm for […]
Berry-Studded Chocolate Bliss Balls
We all have certain foods that are wrapped in memory; all it takes is one bite, and we’re whisked back in time to the moment we first tasted it. The experience, told to others over time, can expand to mythic proportions. And I swear, like many before have sworn with their own personal memories, that […]