This heirloom tomato gazpacho recipe makes an unforgettable way to show off the best of summer’s tomatoes. Full-flavored with a gorgeous color, this refreshing summer soup is hard to beat. With its intense, sweet and tangy taste, this soup is tomato-ness at its best!
What is cacao? Well, any chocolate lover can probably tell you that cacao is the main ingredient of this sweet, melting food of love. And in fact, it also holds the key to the benefits of dark chocolate. But do you know the origins of cacao and what makes cacao aphrodisiac?
A fun & tasty tofu lasagna with zucchini & bocconcini It’s a challenge to create recipes that are delicious, nutritious and aphrodisiac. That was the goal when I worked on this meatless lasagna. I took my favorite ground meat lasagna recipe and reimagined it to be the main course of a romantic meal.
If you’re a coffee lover like me, this is the stimulating, energy and brain bolstering brew that you need in your life. (Ok, need is a strong word but if you love coffee, you will want to check it out.) After twelve years of searching for a strong, quick kick to the pants I stumbled […]
Manganese may be the catch-22 of nutrients. If you are deficient, your body is going to break down. But if you have too much, your body is going to break down. (Fortunately, too much manganese is fairly rare.)
Do you like the sound of eating ice cream for breakfast? While traditional ice cream doesn’t get your day off to a nutritious start, a bowl of creamy mango nice cream offers the benefits of fresh fruit and the satisfying, smooth and rich texture of a bowl of ice cream. And you don’t even need […]
You won’t believe it’s vegan It’s amazing what you can find surfing Instagram. We’ve found several ideas to inspire our recipe development but in this instance, we found a whole recipe! This Instagram find came from the author of the blog Vegan Plaisir, a site dedicated to simple techniques for vegan cooking.
You may know flowers as symbols of beauty. But flowers symbolize many things including love, friendship, joy and peace and they adorn events that revere life, love, and change. But personally, I am not a fan of receiving cut flowers. I’d much rather the flowers live longer than a week, surviving happily in soil so […]
Savory cheese scones for tea time or any time If you aren’t a baker, you may shy away from the idea of homemade scones. You shouldn’t. And this recipe is exactly what you need to show you that making scones from scratch is the best way to enjoy these better-than-biscuits snacks. Try them once and […]
