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Banana Nut Muffins

Banana Nut Muffins

These muffins are so useful in controlling the ‘mindless margin.’ Each muffin is 100% whole wheat, made with extra virgin olive oil, no added sugar, bananas and nuts – perfect for breakfast on the run, snack, or dessert at less than 100 calories. If you usually buy the 300-calorie white flour fatty muffins – you’ve […]

Banana Split Pancakes

Splurge on fancy pancakes that are extra delicious and fun.

Banana-Nut Pancakes with Caramel Topping

Add some bananas and some nuts to your pancakes. This pancake recipe is great for banana lovers.

Banana-Pecan Pancakes

This recipe is as fancy as you will find in an exclusive breakfast club; your friends and family will think that you spent hours making a special breakfast just for them.

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Basic Sautéed Red Swiss Chard

Swiss chard is one of the spring vegetables that grows in our garden. If you’re not familiar with Swiss chard’s habits, I’ll tell you a little about it. This time of year in the mountain west, the perennial Swiss chard is sleeping; but in the spring it will awaken again. It’s so clever, you don’t […]

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Basics of the Mediterranean Style of Eating

A unified Med Diet is a primarily plant-based, whole-foods diet filled with an abundance of healthful plant-derived bioactive compounds and a low intake of artery-clogging saturated fat, dietary cholesterol, and trans fat. Janet Bond Brill made 13 suggestions for a unified Mediterranean Diet in her article, “The Mediterranean Diet and Your Health” Am J Lifestyle […]

Berry Delicious Apricots and Pistachios

Berry Delicious Apricots and Pistachios

Our house guest wants this recipe – it has a very nice texture and the flavors are a hint of India. Ingredients: 2 cups cooked wheat berries 4 cups water 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil 1 cup onion, chopped 2 teaspoons garlic, minced 11/2 teaspoons ground cumin 1 cup red bell pepper, seeded and diced […]

Black Bean and Stinging Nettle Soup

Spring is the best time of the year to collect stinging nettle for eating. The tender new leaves provide a great tasting green. By the end of the summer, the stinging nettle leaves are usually large and tough. With cooler temperatures and rain in the fall, tender new leaves sprout and you can use stinging […]

Blueberry Muffins

Classic Blue Berry muffins with a whole wheat twist!

Blueberry Ricotta Gourmet Muffins

Blueberry Ricotta Gourmet Muffins

These muffins really look and taste (Oh my goodness, they are so good.) like gourmet muffins served at a 5-star bed and breakfast; but you can make them quickly and easily. Dads and kids can make them for mom or mom and kids can make them for grandma. Let mom or grandma think you worked […]