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Pear Upside Down Cake – Vegan Gluten Free

Gluten free, dairy & egg free

I heard my sister had made a pear upside down cake last fall from the pears I gave her so I got down to making up my recipe without all the ingredients that would usually go in.

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Ingredients:

1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup rice syrup
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Pear Hazelnut Crumble

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In the fall I picked so many pears from a friends tree that I had get creative and this is one very yummy result. Read the rest of this entry »

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Almond Milk: Healthy Dairy Free Alternative

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Almond milk is an ingredient common in Medieval European recipes, particularly in Lenten dishes (milk, eggs, and meat broth all being forbidden in Lent).

The recipe below is my basic quick one.
Ingredients:

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Power Spinach Salad

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This is very simple and tasty salad is full of powerfoods ; everyone I have served it to enjoys it very much.

Ingredients:

1 pound fresh spinach
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1/4 cup olive oil
few drops of stevia
Tamari or Braggs to taste
1 avocado, diced
1/4 cup chopped walnuts, roasted till golden
2 mandarin orange sections

Directions:

1.    Wash and trim spinach; pat dry with paper towels.
2.    Combine lemon juice, oil, stevia and Tamari or Braggs in large bowl; add avocado cubes, coating well with the dressing.
3.    Toss spinach and walnuts with avocado and dressing.
4.    Add mandarin orange sections and toss spinach salad again.

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Perfect Oatmeal Porridge

Oatmeal porridge has been a traditional breakfast food for hundreds of years. On a winter day there it is so warming to have a steaming bowl of porridge with raisins.  In the summer I do not cook them just soak; see my recipe below.

I like the old fashioned oats as they have a fuller flavour and are healthier.  You can eat this as a raw meal or make it into regular porridge.  As they take longer to cook I often soak them over night but you do not have to.

oatmeal photo by House of Sims at flickr Perfect Oatmeal Porridge

Oatmeal & Sultanas

Ingredients:
1/3 cup old fashioned oats (rolled oats can be used)
1 cup water
2 Tablespoons sultanas
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Apple Cake – Vegan Gluten Free

Practice Makes Perfect!

It took me FIVE TIMES to get this recipe just right!

All my happy taste testers liked it right away but I knew it could be even better…and the following recipe is.

This is a deeply satisfying cake filled with healthy ingredients. Apples being one of them!

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Apple Cake – Vegan Gluten Free (dairy & egg free)

Ingredients:
2 cups fresh apples + 1/2 cup sliced apples for top
1/2 cup vegetable oil Read the rest of this entry »

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