My latest recipe idea did not go at all as planned, but I ended up making something I really liked—a low sugar Strawberry Cocoa Mousse. How did I get this idea? Well, my refrigerator held a quart of disappointing strawberries.They were lacking in flavor and much too firm. At first, I had planned on roasting […]
Savory and Sweet French Toast
No regrets here about my recipe for vegan French Toast in Gene Baur’s Living the Farm Sanctuary Life book. It’s a keeper—delicious, healthy and easy to make. Last night, though, when I was organizing my freezer, (yes, that is a thing I do regularly, the fridge too), and saw the bag of chickpea flour I’d purchased recently at […]
Vegan Strawberry Cream Sando
The Ichigo, or Strawberry Cream Sando, is found all over Japan, in convenience and grocery stores and bakeries too. Ichigo is Japanese for strawberry. These sandwiches are particularly popular in the prefecture of Tochigi, where most of the Japanese’s strawberries are grown. Tochigi strawberries are extremely plump, sweet, delicious, and expensive. Any favorite fruit or combination can be […]
The Oat Milk Trend (or How I started Loving Matcha Lattes again)
Elixr, a really cool coffee house, is just five minutes from my home, and that alone is very good news. Odd, don’t you think that it took my kids visiting from Bucks County recently to let me know about this terrific place. My first time there, I wanted a matcha latte and asked if they served […]
