Saturday is my favorite day of the week. Not because it’s the weekend but because it’s the best farmers market day. On Saturday, organic farmers, growers and owners of fabulous small business who aren’t normally there during the week come on Saturday to showcase their goods. And it was on a Saturday I met a couple of guys selling the most beautiful yellow oyster mushrooms I’ve ever seen. When I saw them I had to buy them and use them…

Soup as a meal can be a food easily overlooked at as being easy to make and filling.  One might think you have to slave in the kitchen doing lots of prep work, cut tons of veggies, create a broth from scratch and simmer the soup for hours to make a good soup.  But my friends if you’ve ever made a smoothie, you’ve actually made a fruit soup. Making a quick filling soup is just like making a smoothie, without…

I don’t know about you but I used to think granola was so healthy.  Little did I know that each time I was eating a bowl of granola for breakfast or grabbing some as a snack I was eating loads of sugar.  For example my favorite brand of granola I used to eat contained lots of sugar and in different forms,  like molasses, cane sugar and oat syrup solids.  All these types of sugars were in one small package of…

Spaghetti squash is a god send from mother nature especially if you have to stay away from a lot of grains like me.  This squash has very little carbs and has nutrients such as complex B vitamins, calcium, copper and fiber, to find out more about the nutritional values click here. How to prep your spaghetti squash I started eating spaghetti squash a couple of years ago and use to first cut the squash in half, scoop the seeds out…

First let me start by saying when I was younger the only time I liked sweet potatoes was in my mother’s sweet potato pie and that’s because my mother would blend the sweet potatoes so smooth where there would be no “strings” in the mixture.  Other than my mom’s pie I never wanted sweet potatoes.   Sweet potatoes always seemed to be stringy when I was younger.  However now that I’m grown I just can’t get enough of them.  I…

How often do you see oranges cooked or baked in recipes?  Or better yet in waffle recipes?  Well my dear friends here’s a waffle recipe using chunks of oranges cooked in the waffle.  This waffle has a lot going on it’s bright, citrusy, sweet, slightly crunchy due to the poppy seeds and sooo good! With the orange season (December to April) almost over, oranges are in the food markets right now, sweet, juicy and just waiting to be eaten and…

As a child one of my favorite things to eat were fig newtons.  There was just something about the gooey center with the slightly crunchy fig seeds and the soft outside cookie that would make me so happy seeing them in my lunch box.   For me when it came to cookies, fig newtons were right up there with oatmeal raisin and chocolate chip. Always looking to recreate that fig newton taste, I did just that years ago when I had…

This recipe is a revision of a favorite recipe of mine created in 2017 called Cacao Chia waffles.  Back then I was still eating cacao, chia seeds, sugar and coconut milk.  Since then I found out those items are high in arginine and should be avoided when trying to lessen shingle outbreaks.   For those battling viral infections, eating foods high in arginine disrupts the viral life cycle.  Foods higher in lysine or with an equal balance of lysine to arginine helps the…