Ancient Grains Pear Porridge Prep time: 5 minutes Cook time: 25 minutes Total time: 30 minutes Serves: 4 Ancient Grains Pear Porridge is a gluten free morning porridge with quinoa, amaranth, pear, and warming spices. Ingredients 2 cups water 1 cup brazil nut milk (1 cup brazil nuts + 4 cups water = see “guide…
12th Man Chili
12th Man Chili Prep time: Cook time: Total time: 30 minutes Serves: 6-8 servings This chili is fantastic as is, or topped with shredded cheese, sour cream or yogurt, avocado, chopped red onion, cilantro and/or crumbled tortilla chips and served with cornbread and beer. True fans top with crumbled blue corn tortilla chips and bright…
Cheddar Herb Cornbread Waffles
Cheddar Herb Cornbread Waffles Prep time: Cook time: Total time: Serves: These savory waffles are perfect with a bowl of soup at dinner or for something a little different at breakfast. Ingredients 1/4 cup vegetable oil 6 eggs 1 cup milk (I used almond milk) 2 tbs. sugar 1 cup all-purpose flour 1 1/2 cups…
Snickers Salad Overnight Oatmeal
Snickers Salad Overnight Oatmeal Prep time: Cook time: Total time: Serves: 1 serving The Midwest is the birthplace of many interesting culinary creations, including “Snickers Salad”. This is that “salad” in overnight oatmeal form! Ingredients ½ cup rolled oats 1/3 cup yogurt 1/3 cup milk 1 teaspoon caramel syrup (mine was from Starbucks) ½ teaspoon…
Pumpkin Bulgur
Pumpkin Bulgur Prep time: Cook time: Total time: less than 30 minutes Serves: 1 serving This pumpkin bulgur comes together in under 30 minutes. It’s rich and creamy like a risotto because of the pumpkin but still healthy. If you don’t have bulgur, try quinoa or rice or experiment with any other grain. Want to…
Chocolate Waffles with Peanut Butter Sauce
Chocolate Waffles with Peanut Butter Sauce Prep time: 20 minutes Cook time: 10 minutes Total time: 30 minutes Serves: 5 waffles These crispy chocolate waffles with peanut butter sauce are a completely decadent breakfast and they’re gluten-free! Ingredients ½ cup almond flour ½ cup brown rice flour ½ cup gluten free baking flour ¼ cup…
Orange Soy Ginger Glazed Brussels Sprouts, Eggplant, and Broccoli
Orange Soy Ginger Glazed Brussels Sprouts, Eggplant, and Broccoli Prep time: Cook time: Total time: Serves: This recipe is a great way to make a vegetable side dish that will complete your meal but add a little extra flavor. Best of all, it takes almost no time to create and uses ingredients you already have…
Roasted Delicata Squash & Wheat Berry Salad with Feta
Roasted Delicata Squash & Wheat Berry Salad with Feta Prep time: 15 minutes Cook time: 1 hour Total time: 1 hour 15 minutes Serves: 4 Hearty wheat berry salad with roasted delicate squash, scallions, and tangy feta, dressed with lemon-honey vinaigrette: this salad is good served warm, cold, or at room temperature and will keep…
Miso Soup with Sweet Potato Dumplings
Miso Soup with Sweet Potato Dumplings Prep time: Cook time: Total time: Serves: Another fall favorite of mine is the Sweet Potato. There are endless ways to prepare this delicious fall treat: bake them, mash them, bake them into muffins, cook sweet potato fries, etc. But how about as a dumpling filling which can be…
Miso Pumpkin and Broccoli Bowl
Miso Pumpkin and Broccoli Bowl Prep time: Cook time: Total time: Serves: This bowl is once again super easy. I’m all about throwing vegetables on the stove and letting them cook while I make a sauce, and then throwing them over brown rice or bulgur or on top of salad greens. Ingredients 1 cup broccoli…
Miso-glazed Asparagus and Eggplant
Miso-glazed Asparagus and Eggplant Prep time: Cook time: Total time: less than 30 minutes Serves: 1 serving To me, eggplant used to be the vegetarian alternative to Chicken Parmesan and not something I would ever want to order or cook. However, that all changed after traveling to China. I spent the summer of 2012 in…
Easy Marinara Veggie Bowl
Easy Marinara Veggie Bowl Prep time: Cook time: Total time: 30 minutes or less Serves: 1 serving Do you ever have one of those days where you want something delicious and healthy for dinner but don’t feel like spending a lot of time in the kitchen? Is that 90% of the time? Good, me too….