I got you intrigued, didn’t I? 🙂 You may not have imagined that this was going to be a vegan frozen dessert, with really healthy ingredients. I found this bottle of coconut butter in the food store recently and bought it with glee. What better treat to try with it than butter pecan ice cream?
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Here’s a review of Spectrum brand organic shortening, that can be used in place of regular shortening. Crisco, the widely used vegetable shortening may claim that it has 0% trans fat, but is made by partial hydrogenation that will still introduce trans fats below the threshold for declaring it. It has other unhealthy stuff as
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  Being a south-Indian, it took me a while to learn the art of making good rotis. I once had a Gujarati roommate and her mom used to make these awesome chapattis for dinner. I picked up some tips from her, but when I tried it by myself it wouldn’t work. Always ended up tearing
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  I was able to successfully grow kohlrabi in my garden this year! It is one of the easiest vegetables to grow, provided you have made the area rabbit-proof. I used a gardening tip and planted a row of lettuce as a companion right next to it. They grew pretty tall and yielded nice bulbs.
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  I do not have much of a sweet tooth, but I have a weakness for ice cream and stock up the freezer with the ‘good’ choices that are available out there. This summer I wanted to get a good ice cream maker to experiment with and make my own healthier versions. Following some advice from Brandi
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Another tried and tested recipe of a blogger friend! Sophie is a great blogger and a wonderful friend. She has been blogging for many years at Sophies Foodie Files and comes up with fabulous original ideas. I recently tried her pudding recipe and it is fantastic! Hop over to Sophie’s Vegan Gluten-free strawberry pudding for the
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  After I made Nutella, even if I was eating it out of the jar non-stop, I realized that the kids did not share my enthusiasm in consuming it. I had to make something with it, then! There are many versions of Nutella truffles and pies out there. After much thought, I settled on trying something
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A few weeks ago, I got a bag of raw hazelnuts from Trader Joe’s. The first recipe that comes to mind is homemade Nutella. Interestingly, I have never bought Nutella from the store, but I do love Ferrero Rocher chocolates. Most people say that the flavor of the nuts is so much better in the homemade
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What is a superfood? I first came across this term while watching the documentary ‘Food Matters’. They are highly nutrient dense foods that are shown to have beneficial properties, such as anti-oxidants, that may reduce the risk of certain chronic conditions. Healthy foods actually have a scoring system called ANDI (aggregate nutrient density index) that
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  ‘Halwa’ is a decadent Indian sweet, usually made by boiling grain or vegetable like carrot in milk with constant stirring. I generally avoid recipes that call for stirring for a long time on low heat. But there are times when you would like to produce a quick dessert for guests with what is available
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