Tasty Tuesday: Chia Almond Muffins

We love eating muffins around here. And what is there not to like? They are a portable snack that tastes great. So I try to come up with various muffins recipes. Here are two other muffin recipes from the blog: zucchini muffins and almond corn meal muffins. These chia almond muffins turned out very well. My husband had a hard [...]

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Tasty Tuesday: Three Bean Summery Salad

I made this salad for a potluck and it completed the other delicious appetizers very nicely. The salad has a fresh and flavourful taste. You can serve this salad with coconut tofu chocolate pudding and you have a light and delicious summer dinner. This salad is rich in: Proteins, molybdenum, folate, copper, fiber, and manganese from beans Vitamins K and B5 from [...]

2016-10-19T08:29:42-06:00By |Categories: Dinner recipes, Lunch recipes, Nutrition, Tasty Tuesdays|Tags: , |2 Comments

Tasty Tuesday: Shrimp Garlic Pasta

We do not eat shrimp very often around here as shrimp is hard to find in a high quality form, but once every few months I make a meal with shrimp, like this tasty shrimp garlic pasta. This Shrimp Garlic Pasta is rich in: Healthy fats from coconut oil Manganese and vitamin B6 from garlic, in addition to garlic’s anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and [...]

Tasty Tuesday: Pasta Salad with Green Peppers, Tomatoes, and Olives

My son does not like raw tomatoes by themselves, but he eats them when they are mixed with other ingredients, especially when the tomatoes are cooked. Tomatoes are best eaten cooked in order to benefit from the lycopene as the bioavailability of lycopene is greater in cooked tomatoes than in raw tomatoes. Lycopene found in tomatoes is beneficial to prostate [...]

Tasty Tuesday: Vanilla Coconut Blueberry Cupcakes

I tried to come up with a cupcake recipe for my kids’ birthdays that is gluten-free and dairy-free and that both would enjoy. After several failed attempts, this recipe fits the bill perfectly. They taste similar to a cross between a cupcake and a muffin. My son asked for another one, and another one, and another one, and he said [...]

Tasty Tuesday: Carrot Apple Curry Soup

My photo does not look too good, but the soup is DELICIOUS. We had some friends and their children over for supper and I served this carrot soup at the beginning of the meal. All the adults liked the soup and the kids that tried the soup also liked it. There was a sweet little girl who couldn't have enough [...]

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