Banana Cake Squares with Chocolate Chips and Hazelnuts
If you’re like me and have had it with the cold and rain, may I suggest baking this super moist banana cake. It’s definitely [more…]
AuthorDeborah Brooks
Stuffed Peppers With Lentils, Grains, Feta and Mint
Stuffed peppers, that classic casserole style dinner many of us associate with our moms, have a much more colorful and international history. Cultures from around [more…]
Café Gratitude Latin Inspired Pop-Up Dinner
Restaurant pop-ups are popping up all over town. These one-night-only events are a fantastic way to experience new and exciting menu items, often prepared by [more…]
Chinese Chick’n Salad
In my pre-vegan days, Chinese Chicken Salad was a favorite option when eating out. Crispy, crunchy, bright and refreshing, it satisfied my sweet/salty tooth while [more…]
Dried Fruit and Nut Bark
Almond bark has been a favorite candy since I can remember eating candy. It was always a special treat, as a child, when visiting [more…]
Roasted Red New Potatoes with Sour Cream and “Caviar”
Valentines Day is traditionally all about the confectionary treats – from candy hearts to heart shaped boxes of chocolates – as an expression of [more…]
CHi Foods Teams up with Café Gratitude to Bring New Menu Items
Exciting things are happening at Café Gratitude on North Larchmont and their other locations in Los Angeles. CHi Foods, of Santa Barbara, has teamed [more…]
Lucky Lunar New Year Salad
While Lunar New Year began on January 23, it’s a weeks-long festival of food, fun and celebrations that culminates with the Lantern Festival on [more…]
No-Boil Pasta Marinara Bake (a.k.a. More Tales from the Kitchen-less Cook)
Surviving a kitchen remodel takes creativity and ingenuity when one wants to rely more on home cooked food than on takeout. It’s a daily [more…]
Buffalo Roasted Cauliflower with Mixed Herb Dressing
Kicking off the New Year with a recipe that has a kick to it – Buffalo Roasted Cauliflower! Buffalo Roasted Cauliflower is a plant-based [more…]
Kitchen Refresh
Hello everyone. Happy New Year to you all. There’s a lot new going on in my house. Well, will be sometime in the next few [more…]
Christmas Maple Mustard Glazed Baked Tofu “Ham”
One of the more challenging issues with adopting a plant-based diet is how to celebrate holidays with friends and family and still feel included. [more…]
Sun-dried Tomato Pesto
Christmas is in the air here in LA, from the decorated houses, lampposts and shop windows to the extra crazy traffic, to what feels [more…]
Homemade Applesauce
It’s a Hanukkah tradition to serve foods fried in oil for eight days and nights. These foods symbolize the one day’s worth of olive [more…]
Veggie Power Bowl with Sriracha Mango Tahini Dressing
It’s that time of year again. Post Thanksgiving dinner with Chanukah and Christmas looming on the horizon. It seems as if we hardly have time [more…]
Insalata Radicchio E Pera
With 5 days and counting, here’s another lovely recipe to consider for your Thanksgiving dinner. It’s a recreation of a fabulous salad that I [more…]
Farro, Mushroom and Sausage Stuffed Baby Pumpkins
While we all grew up with the notion of picking the biggest pumpkin to display in our yards for Halloween, when it comes to [more…]
Baked Just Egg Bites
A few years back sous vide eggs became the rage at a particular coffee conglomerate for those of us wanting to cut back on [more…]
Miso Glazed Japanese Eggplant
Eggplant! It’s a love-it-or-hate-it vegetable to most. I’m of the “love it” camp, forever encouraging the haters to try it just one more time. [more…]
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
It’s that time of year again. Goblins and ghouls, witches and wizards, black cats and unicorns will be parading the sidewalks in an evening-long [more…]