Holiday Recipes For Cookies, Cakes, Pies & More

Vegan Holiday Cookie, Cake, Pie and Bread Recipes

The holidays are here and that means lots of sweet treats, baking and indulging. However, time is tight this time of year and even though we’d love to bake our nights away, enjoying our delicious desserts by a roaring fire, it’s just nor possible. Or is it? We’ve compiled a menu of our favorite holiday recipes so that you can [...]

Colombian Arepas

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Having just spent the holidays with my family, arepas are still fresh in my mind! For breakfast or to sop up some yummy veggie soup, these corn meal, cheese filled cakes are a little slice of heaven. Straight from the pages of my newest cookbook, The Healthy Voyager’s Global Kitchen, check out the easy how-to [...]

Pumpkin-ana Flax Muffins

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As you may have read in some of my past posts, pumpkin is a superfood that just happens to be delicious too. Plus it’s fall and nothing is better then warm muffins, especially pumpkin muffins, with your morning tea or coffee. Here is an even tastier and healthier version then the run-of-the-mill variety of pumpkin [...]

Piping Hot Pita Bread

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Mmmm, fresh out of the oven pita bread is oh so good for sandwiches as well as dips such as hummus and the like! But conventional pita bread may have ingredients that don’t work for folks depending on specialty diet, etc so here is my home made pita recipe that can be modified for gluten [...]

A Month of Holiday Treats – Pies, Cupcakes & Breads

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Mmmmm, nothing looks prettier on a holiday tablescape like a well decorated cake or a classic holiday pie.  This is the time of year for full on baking frenzies so to complement your cookies and candies, it’s almost a requirement to have cakes, pies and holiday breads along with them.  Be it to enjoy with [...]

Holiday Leftover Brunch

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Everyone is stuffed (for now) but there is so much food leftover! What to do, what to do!  Well, host an after Thanksgiving brunch to get rid of your leftovers before you eat them all or worse, they go bad.  Invite your friends, have some mimosas and do Thanksgiving all over again, the brunchy way [...]

Perfect Pumpkin Cornbread with Cinnamon Butter

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Pumpkin for breakfast, pumpkin for lunch, pumpkin for dinner. Can’t get enough pumpkins this time of year.  I love this cornbread as a batch goes a long way and is perfect for breakfast as well as with dinner and even dessert (uh yeah, old bread can be used as Pumpkin Cornbread Pudding!) But yeah, for [...]

Fireworks & Healthy Fare This 4th!

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Yep, we’re already past the mid-point of 2010. It’s time to celebrate our country’s independence  with food, drinks and general out door summer shenanigans.  We can choose to go haywire or we can try to be as good as we can be by making smart food choices. Check out my 2008 & 2009 posts for [...]

Spring Flings – Easter & Passover Tips & Treats!

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The flowers are blooming, the hill sides are green, the air is fresh – Spring has sprung! And with spring comes friend and family gatherings, Passover chocolates and Easter bunny treats ; ) As per usual, you can find past year eco tips & healthy recipes by checking the 2008 & 2009 postings. There you [...]

Have a Greener St. Paddy’s Day!

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St. Paddy’s is a wonderful day to celebrate drunkenness by way of green beer and food comas by way of corned beef. But there are ways to partake in the debauchery without falling off the proverbial health wagon. Here are a few tips to have a greener and healthier St. Patty’s day this year! St. [...]