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Starting From Scratch: Quick and Simple Pasta Sauce

Starting From Scratch: What You Should Know about Food and Cooking is a food manifesto that helps young readers relate to what they eat, inspiring both budding chefs and budding food lovers in the process. Beginning with an exploration of taste and how it works, author and food activist Sarah Elton explains how ingredients have… Continue reading Starting From Scratch: Quick and Simple Pasta Sauce

baking · children · cooking · Dessert · Plant Based Diet

Vanilla Cupcakes For The Birthday Boy

Walker turned 4 today! Very hard to wrap it around my head that my little man is growing up so fast. Somehow it went so much slower when Ford was that age.....maybe because it was just him and I? Kirk and I took the 3 boys out yesterday for a pleasant hike nearby, and Walker… Continue reading Vanilla Cupcakes For The Birthday Boy

baking · cooking · Dessert · Plant Based Diet

Lil’ Chocolate & Banana Cake Bites

Little balls of cake, hidden as cookies. Dairy and egg free, yet so full of chocolate no would guess. Lil' Chocolate & Banana Cake Bites Ingredients: 1/3  cup unsweetened cocoa powder ¼ cup Earth Balance Buttery Stick, room temperature ¾ cup granulated sugar 6 ounce jar stage 3 baby bananas 1 tsp pure vanilla extract 1… Continue reading Lil’ Chocolate & Banana Cake Bites

cooking · Dinner · Lunch · Plant Based Diet

Celebrating Spring: Avocado & Pea Sandwiches

Spring! Oh so wonderful Spring has arrived today! Which means we should celebrate and pretend it is warm and lovely outside 😉 Is there anything more "spring" feeling than an intensely fresh tasting green pea sandwich filling? Avocado & Pea Sandwiches Ingredients: 2 ripe avocados 1 cup frozen green peas, thawed (no-salt added) 1 Tbsp… Continue reading Celebrating Spring: Avocado & Pea Sandwiches