Minimal Ingredient Mondays: Curried potatoes with chickpeas

Last week I took over hosting  Minimal Ingredient Mondays, a weekly link-up party where bloggers share their gluten and dairy-free recipes that have minimal ingredients, from Erin over at Sift Stir and Savour .   Last week was just crazy for me.  I’m sure it was just as crazy for you, which is why you did not share your recipe.  I […]

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Minimal Ingredient Mondays finds a new home

Erin over at Sift Stir and Savour has been hosting  Minimal Ingredient Mondays, a weekly link-up party where bloggers share their gluten and dairy-free recipes that have minimal ingredients, for a while now. I try to participate every week. Unfortunately, Erin will no longer be able to host this link up party.  In order to keep the party going, I […]

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Chocolate Coconut Energy Bars:

After the success of my carrot cake energy bars, including being featured on Minimal Ingredient Monday over at Sift Stir and Savor, I decided to try my hand at another flavor for my energy bars. There were some changes I wanted to make.  I resisted adding coconut the last time in deference to those people who might be sensitive to […]

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Carrot Cake Energy Bars

In college I got turned onto Luna Bars.  After going off sugar and soy I moved on to Larabars.  When I moved to back to St Lucia I would order them online or buy them at $7 each.  The health food store closed down and I can’t afford to order any right now.  I have been seeing a lot of […]

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Sweet Potato Hash

People of then ask me what do I eat for breakfast.  Being allergic to eggs, wheat and dairy takes most breakfast options off the table.  Add in no refined sugar and there seems to be no more traditional breakfast choices left.  The key I have found is instead of focusing on what I can no longer enjoy and trying to […]

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An Old Favorite: Vegan chilli

During gradschool I lived with my cousin and her 5yr old daughter. Her mom says I spoiled her because I let her help me with a lot of stuff and played silly games with her. One day I had a craving for vegetarian chilli. Together we scoured online for recipes and she chose this one from the stir. I made […]

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Pumpkin Pancakes: Calling all cooks

The pumpkin recipes just keep coming.  When you puree and entire pumpkin you have to find something to do with it.  I tried to make pumpkin pancakes but it just didn’t happen.  They came out ooey and gooey.  I would have liked them to be light and fluffy.  My mom and I fought over them.  I was planning to tinker […]

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Chickpea Burgers

By now you may think that chickpeas also known as garbanzo beans are my favorite.  Not so.  Actually its red beans.  I love the rich bold flavor.  A close second is adzuki beans but I can’t seem to find it here.  The options are supermarket are:

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Coconut Lentil soup with plantains

I tried to get this post our earlier. I wrote out the entire thing using the app on my tablet then lost it when my tablet synced.  This was over a week ago and I’ve been super busy since.  Here goes…. My best friend came to visit me for a week to celebrate my birthday, she is awesome!  She had […]

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