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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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Tofu with Zucchini & Almond Cream

This Tofu with Zucchini & Almond Cream recipe is very yummy and easy to make for dinner and filled with #Powerfoods Read the rest of this entry »

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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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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Millet…the Alkalizing Grain!

Millet has always been a favorite grain of mine since I discovered it 35 years ago!

millet the alkalizing grain 242x300 Millet...the Alkalizing Grain!It's gluten free, high protein and is one of the few grains that is alkalizing to the body. It's good for your body in so many ways that I had added a millet recipe below.

What would life be like without millet? Fortunately I do not even have to think about that as it is readily available as it grows right here in Alberta.  For those of you who thought that millet was just bird food; it is one of the power foods for us. Read the rest of this entry »

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