I discovered this recipe on Fitness Freak's blog. It was originally published in the October 2005 issue of Vegetarian Times Magazine. They are guiltless morsels of sweetness jam-packed full of goodness. I used some buckwheat honey that I had purchased last July when Dick and I volunteered in the North Central Beekeepers Association's booth at the Crow Wing County Fair.…

This gingerbread house is the perfect size for when you want just a couple sweet nibbles. Set at each guest's place at the dinner table… How cute is this?  I cut out a paper snowflake for a pretty snowy groundcover set atop a colorful circle of scrapbook paper. (A handy dandy tool is a "circle cutter" that can be purchased in the scrapbooking…

I revisited a December 2000 issue of Cooking Light that I had tucked away for "awhile". Upon leafing through the pages, a section of the magazine titled "How to Make the Ultimate Light Cookie" caught my interest. I chose to make this raspberry strippers recipe because of its festive look and simplistic ingredients. It turned out that the…

I officially started my Christmas baking today by trying a new recipe from Kristen's Raw. I reduced the measurements by half so as not to waste any ingredients if it flopped and because my cute little Betty Crocker micro food processor, that I scored at a yard sale, wouldn't hold any more than that. It turned…

When I receive magazines in the mail, I immediately flip to the recipes. Therefore, my favorite publication is Clean Eating Magazine because the entire magazine is recipes. A limited number of recipes can be found on their cleaneatingmag.com web site, as well. This recipe caught my interest but my month delay in printing it was disappointing when I discovered it was no…

One of my favorite cookbook authors is Jane Kinderlehrer, who is a former food editor of Prevention Magazine. One of the cookbooks in her series is titled "Smart Muffins”. Her recipes contain no sugar. Instead, frozen fruit juice concentrates, raw unfiltered and unprocessed honey, 100% pure maple syrup, and unsulphured molasses are used. A wide array of whole grains, seeds, and…

For lunch today, we ate the last bowls of extremely tasty vegetarian chili that I had made the night before last when Dick carved our pumpkin. I discovered the recipe on bread-and-honey.blogspot.com … such a homey name. It is moderately spicy hot, so I'm guessing it would not be kid preferred unless you reduce the chili powder,…

  These ice cream "sandwitches" look like they are fussy to make, but follow my adaptation and you'll be pulling them out of your freezer to impress every friend that stops by unannounced. The photo washed out the true color of the ice cream, making it appear as if it is vanilla, but it is mint with…

Today on the way home from the post office to mail off a package and to purchase some supplies for a fun Halloween treat that I am making, I was mulling over what I might prepare for supper. I had made a vegetable soup for lunch but had no plans beyond that. When I walked in the…

My friend Deb's birthday is four days before mine, so we get together to celebrate each year. Our busy schedules prevented us from connecting at the end of September on our actual birthdates, so we had lunch at my house yesterday. I prepared vegetarian taco salad and Deb brought the tiniest, most adorable, yummy chocolate cake. I found a birthday…