After completing my volunteer shift at the Living Green Expo on Sunday, I browsed the many vendor booths set up in the Minnesota State Fairgrounds Grandstand Building. I was delighted to run across the Manitoba Harvest Hemp Seed Oil Company because I had been in my local food co-op on Saturday asking for hemp seed…

For thirty-five years, I have been making "Stormy Day Bean Soup" for my family. It is an economical way to serve a highly nutritious flavorful satisfying meal with very little prep. I made this pot with four different varieties of heirloom dry beans and served it with "Doctor Kracker Pumpkin Seed Cheese Snacker Crackers". Crackers…

Dick is having a colonoscopy tomorrow, so he is enjoying a liquid cuisine today. To ease the essential but nasty preparation ritual, I stocked up on broth, juice, popsicles, and Jell-O. He keeps rereading the preprocedure instruction sheet searching for an allowable food item that we possibly may have missed. As I was in the…

Even though this recipe is called "tea", it has the consistency of a smoothie. It comes from my Super Smoothies recipe book that I purchased at a yard sale. Sleepy Tea The herb chamomile, used in tea form in this recipe, is a mild relaxant… thus the recipe’s name. 1 ½ c orange segments 2…

  When Dick and I vacationed in Jamaica twenty-five years ago, we watched in amazement as a limber man wrapped his bare legs and feet around the trunk of a tall tree clamoring to the very top where clusters of coconuts were hanging. He lopped off a coconut with his machete and, with as much…

I made this dessert for Easter dinner yesterday when my kids came to visit. It was a light ending to our meal with just the right amount of lemony flavor. I will most certainly be serving it to my bed and breakfast guests for a summer evening dessert. Frozen Lemon Dessert 4 egg yolks 2/3…

Dick and I enjoyed a "raw food" breakfast at the Ecopolitan Restaurant in Minneapolis in the fall of 2007 after attending a play at the Old Loghouse Theater in Excelsior the night before. This afternoon, I made this yummy nutritious Green Smoothie, a recipe provided by Dr. Adiel Tel-Oren founder of Ecopolitan. Green Smoothie Serves…

A perfect soup day today… I chose Hamburger Veggie Soup because I had errands to run and it's an easy throw-together meal to prepare first thing in the morning to heat later. Also, I always stock the ingredients in my pantry. I made frozen banana sundaes for dessert which take minutes to prepare. Something hot……

I wanted to express my appreciation to my friend Debbie's son for paving the way towards a potential caboose acquisition to complement the 1890s railroad passenger car where I serve breakfast, so I baked some chocolate cookies and boxed them up with some homemade marshmallows. To complete the gift and write a message to the…