Rice Cooking Tips: Because it includes the germ of the rice kernel, with it’s volatile essential oils, brown rice should be stored in the fridge or freezer so it doesn’t go rancid. Brown rice can be used in place of white rice, but it has a much longer cooking time. We’ve tried various ways to [...]

Perfect light green salad for a low fat meal or spring menu Easy Healthy Spinach Salad Recipe: Organic baby spinach, colorful salad mix, red cabbage, shredded carrot, toasted sunflower seeds. Total Prep Time: 15 minutes 6 Servings: Nutrition Data Per Serving: 46 cal, 5g carb, 0g fat, 51mg sodium, 2g fiber, 3g protein, low cholesterol, [...]

Gourmet Chef Alan Roettinger’s Excellent Vegan Adventures Professional Chef Alan Roettinger is the Speed Vegan. That’s because he wields a 12 inch chef’s knife at warp speed, wearing chef’s whites, while having Fun in the Kitchen. Actually I think this book should have been called The Gourmet Chef’s Excellent Vegan Adventures. There are many intriguing [...]

Savvy Veg Comments: We only know what many others know: Diabetes is an epidemic in North America, and the top culprit is the Standard American Diet. After reading some of the diabetes articles online, and talking with diabetic authors such as Jessica Apple, we’ve begun to get a sense for what a diabetic vegetarian diet [...]

75 out-of-this-world recipes for pies, tarts, cobblers, and more So, I have this pie cookbook from my pre-veganish days. It is full of sinful concoctions requiring huge amounts of butter, heavy cream, and eggs. The pictures are amazing, total food porn, and my kids and I have spent many hours poring over this cookbook wishing [...]

More than 200 vegan recipes for special occasions Vegan Holiday Kitchen author Nava Atlas has been a popular vegetarian, then vegan, cookbook writer for a long time. Susan Voisin, who shot the beautiful food pictures for this cookbook and contributed a few recipes, is the author of the popular food blog, Fat Free Vegan, and [...]

Quick Easy, Delicious Vegan or Ovo-Lacto Veg Scones When I made this scone recipe for my daughter who just had a baby, she said these scones would attract nursing mothers from miles around. Fortunately none of them came over, because she ate them all! Most scones are best eaten warm from the oven – for [...]

Healthy Delicious Vegan Desserts With No Dairy, Egg, Wheat or Refined Sugars Author Ricki Heller of Diet, Dessert Dogs is Canadian, living just outside Toronto, Ont. with her husband and two border collie-lab cross dogs. Her dessert cookbook has made me nostalgic for the sweet comfort foods of my long-ago Canadian childhood. Sweet Freedom received [...]

Crockpot Soup Recipe: Barley, Garbanzo Kidney Beans, Veggies When we couldn’t find one satisfactory vegetarian soup recipe with barley + beans + vegetables, we took bits from here there, and made Barley Bean Veggie Soup. Total Prep And Cook Time: 60 Minutes 8 Servings Nutrition Data Per Serving (no added salt): 195 cal, 37g carb, [...]

Black beans, and lentils combine with potatoes, cabbage, carrots and celery for an ideal cold weather soup Technically this is a bean soup recipe, but it’s so thick and hearty we had to call it a stew. Whatever you call it, it’s an easy meal in a bowl. The complementary flavors of black beans and [...]