This quick and easy recipe works well wether you’re serving a brunch or just want something different to go along with your potatoes at breakfast. Preheat oven to 350˚ Serves 6 Lightly grease an 8X8 baking dish 1 tsp. butter 1 jalapeño, chopped in small pieces Melt the butter in… Read more“Zesty Egg Bake”
Category: Healthy (er) Recipes
Simple ways to incorporate healthier choices into your daily cooking.
Taco Tuesday for Vegetarians (Vegans and Those Who Must Eat Gluten-free)
Looking for a quick vegetarian taco Tuesday recipe? Here’s a quick and easy taco recipe that even the meat eaters in your family will love (I know, I’ve tried it on non-vegetarian, teenage boys). The best part about this recipe is that you can easily freeze the leftovers and have… Read more“Taco Tuesday for Vegetarians (Vegans and Those Who Must Eat Gluten-free)”
Scrumptious Date Bars
Until I moved to Arizona, I had never met such a large concentration of people who didn’t care for chocolate–which posed a real challenge for when I needed to fix treats or desserts for my students. And then I remembered how my mom used to make date bars when we… Read more“Scrumptious Date Bars”
Bow-Tie Pasta with Pesto, Potatoes and Green Beans
I usually make the pesto sauce ahead of time and keep it in the refrigerator with a thin layer of olive oil on top to keep it from discoloring. That way, I can throw the dish together in twenty minutes when I get home form work or from church. If…. Read more“Bow-Tie Pasta with Pesto, Potatoes and Green Beans”
Vegetarian Fiesta Pizza With Creamy Jalapeño Sauce
I remember the first time I ordered a gourmet vegetarian pizza in Mexico, at a popular pizza joint in Ensenada. When we asked the waiter if they served a vegetarian pizza, he shrugged, gave us an odd look, and nodded. Thirty minutes later, he returned and placed a pizza on… Read more“Vegetarian Fiesta Pizza With Creamy Jalapeño Sauce”
Last-Minute Vegetarian Meatballs: A Story about Spontaneous Spaghetti Dinners
It’s 9:20 on a blustery Saturday morning, and we’ve had a desultory debate for three hours about what we should do today. We wanted to find some place beautiful and warm and relax away from school (we live on campus at a boarding school), even if it meant missing church…. Read more“Last-Minute Vegetarian Meatballs: A Story about Spontaneous Spaghetti Dinners”
Sweet Potato Pecan Pie
This week, we’re sharing a recipe for amazing sweet potato pecan pie. We use the white sweet potatoes, not the orange colored ones (they have a drier consistency). We hope you’ll love this rich but not-too-decadant pie! Filling 3 lbs. white sweet potatoes 1 can sweetened condensed… Read more“Sweet Potato Pecan Pie”
Butterscotch Oatmeal Cookies
My test crowd consists of students, grades 1-12, and when the kids come over on Friday nights, I have a hard time keeping the cookies on the cooling rack–average shelf life–thirty seconds! But I don’t mind serving these cookies to my crowd of kids, because they have half the… Read more“Butterscotch Oatmeal Cookies”
Spicy Potato Soup-Quick and Easy (not to mention GF and Vegan)
Prep Time: 10 minutes Cook time: about 20 minutes ©2013 Anita Strawn de Ojeda You’ll need 6 medium-large red potatoes (about 2 lbs.) 2 cans of green chilies (whether you use mild, medium or spicy is up to you–we like it with spicy green chilies) 1 tsp. olive oil 1/2… Read more“Spicy Potato Soup-Quick and Easy (not to mention GF and Vegan)”
Chocolate-Mint Brownies
If you’d like to start feeding your family healthier desserts, a good way to start is by using whole-wheat flour in chocolate things—they won’t know that you’ve abandoned the white flour ;). You can even toss in some flax seed to make them even better for you. Healthy (er) brownies… Read more“Chocolate-Mint Brownies”