Turkey Enchiladas
If it seems like I’ve spent days turning leftovers from Thanksgiving into other meals, it’s because its true. Now my blog just has to catch up with my freezer! Which brings me to one of my favorite...
View ArticleDairy-free Creamy Sweet Potato Soup Recipe
I had a dozen baked sweet potatoes left over from the Thanksgiving celebration that I turned into a creamy, nutty, dairy-free soup this week. Africans often prepare sweet potatoes with peanuts or...
View ArticlePost-Thanksgiving Turkey Stew
On the Sunday after Thanksgiving, I stuck the turkey carcass – with any remnants still hanging on it – into a large stock pot, covered it with water, and let it simmer for hours before straining out...
View ArticleLentil “Meat” Balls
I was inspired by Gwyneth Paltrow’s latest Goop newsletter and her recipe for lentil “meatballs”. Of course, I couldn’t make it exactly as Gwyneth had suggested: for one thing, her recipe calls for...
View Article“Meaty” Vegan Chili Recipe
In my family, finding a meal we can all eat can be tricky. Make-your-own-burritos can be a good choice, but I had an itch to make a pot of chili when my brother and one of my sisters came for dinner...
View ArticleGluten-free Pasta with Kale Pesto
Last night I had a hankering for pesto. I fell in love with pesto during the year I spent eating my way through Italy, and my friend Gregorio taught me the simple formula for a delicious pesto out of a...
View Article10 Things You Can Do with Pasta
Moving to Italy in 1989 was life-changing for me in so many ways, but one of the biggest revelations I had was that pasta came in different shapes and sizes and could be combined with things other than...
View ArticleHomemade Yoghurt Recipe – Can be dairy-free!
Can’t find a commercially-sold yoghurt that doesn’t have at least 9g of sugar and a list of unpronounceable ingredients? Need a dairy-free yoghurt alternative, because no matter how many people tell...
View ArticleSandwich Night: Tuna Melts with Crispy Kale
Some nights it just feels like too much to go all out for cooking much of anything, and the other night I remembered a favorite post on Sarah Zeldman’s Solutions For Busy Moms blog about it being okay...
View ArticleGluten-Free Matzoh Ball Recipe
Check out this gluten-free matzoh ball recipe from Gluten Free A-Z Blog. It uses almond meal for the matzoh balls and only has four ingredients! Let me know if you try it out! ©2013 Effortless Eating....
View ArticleHomemade Saline Spray Recipe
Cleansing your nasal passages regularly should be a basic part of everyone’s health maintenance routine. While I’m a fan of the pre-measured mixing packets and delivery system from NeilMed Sinus Rinse,...
View ArticleRecycle Your Underwear!
We compost, recycle papers and plastics, and limit our water usage, but one way to help the earth that never occurred to me was to recycle old underwear. Rodale.com offers five surprising ways to...
View Article8 Herbs for a Kitchen Garden
Not much compares to the culinary joy of picking fresh herbs to add to your kitchen creations. Wherever I land, there are a few staple herbs I like to grow in garden plots or pots every summer. Here’s...
View ArticleFruit Smoothies Are Easy and Healthy
I love getting freshly blended fruit and vegetable juices when I travel to tropical locales: maracuja juice at the Jugo bars in northeastern Brazil and papaya juice in Costa Rica stand out in my...
View ArticleGluten-free Bread Option: Try Pancakes
One of the most frustrating aspects about going wheat-free or gluten-free is the loss of bread. For more than 5,000 years, bread in some form has been a staple food for human civilization, and it can...
View ArticleA Twist on a Classic Deviled Egg Recipe: It’s the Chile
I love deviled eggs. I love making them, eating them, and sharing them at pot-lucks. I was recently at a restaurant for a luncheon where deviled eggs were on the buffet. I excitedly grabbed a couple...
View ArticleSun-Tea: A Healthy Alternative to Store-Bought Pre-Sweetened Teas
Making sun-tea is one of my favorite summertime rituals. There’s not much as refreshing as a tall glass of iced tea on a hot day, but I prefer to brew my own tea rather than ingest all of the additives...
View ArticleMaking Meals to Stock Your Freezer
What do you do when you’re faced with hundreds of dollars of thawing meat? I haven’t been posting much this week because on Sunday morning I went to the basement to do laundry and stepped into a puddle...
View ArticleGluten-free Crunchy Coconut Chicken Drumsticks
I wasn’t sure what to do with a bunch of chicken drumsticks that had thawed during our freezer disaster but I knew I wanted to do something gluten-free and out of the ordinary, and these coconut-quinoa...
View ArticleChicken Split Pea Soup Recipe
Last week I saw a bin of yellow split peas at the grocery store and thought: I should make a split pea soup! So, when our freezer thawed and I had a bunch of thawed chicken on my hands, that’s exactly...
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