Cost-Effective Skin Care to Fight PhotoAging

Everyone cares about their appearance to a certain extent. Beyond esthetics, the care and feeding of your skin has important implications for your overall health and wellbeing beyond vanity. Your skin is your body’s single biggest organ and also your gateway to good health. We now know that the skin plays a vital role inContinueContinue reading “Cost-Effective Skin Care to Fight PhotoAging”

Just Landing: Fresh Granola

Sometimes the best thing to happen all day is a fresh batch of Granola. Gluten Free Granola In case you missed it, here is the Gluten Free (GF) Granola Recipe.

Just Landing: Fresh Granola

Sometimes the best thing to happen all day is a fresh batch of Granola. Gluten Free Granola In case you missed it, here is the Gluten Free (GF) Granola Recipe.

Seeded Crackers (GF)

These crackers pack enormous flavor, crunch, with added nutritional benefit from all those seeds. This is the recipe that “Big Cracker” doesn’t want you to know about. (joke)

Fresh Orange “Creamsicle” Ice Cream

While the temperatures here are moderating as we reach the end of August, it is still great weather for (non-dairy) ice cream. It is easy to make and one of my all time favorites, bringing back for me memories of childhood creamsicles.

UPDATE – Kosher L’Pesach Granola with Buckwheat

Passover Granola with Buckwheat This year – at least so far – I have been unable to find the quinoa flakes that were so helpful last year for my Passover Granola. So what’s a gal to do?! After asking at both of the likely stores nearby (there is one more a bit further away toContinueContinue reading “UPDATE – Kosher L’Pesach Granola with Buckwheat”

One More Granola Before Pesach….

It’s almost time to switch from making conventional granola with rolled oats to quinoa for Pesach. This week I am starting to see the early posts of baking, meal plans and questions about Passover recipes. Now that I have replenished our granola supply one more tome, I will also be focusing on Passover!

Mushroom Barley Soup

A close friend has requested my recipe for Mushroom Barley Soup – the ultimate compliment – so I am sharing it here. After several weeks of beautiful weather with balmy temperatures we are back to wind and rain here in the north of Israel and so a perfect day to make another hardy, winter soup!

Easy Tofu Tips + Everyday Tofu Recipe

If you have wistfully picked up a box of fresh tofu in the supermarket only to put it down again because it would “just sit in your refrigerator,” this is for you.