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Where to Find Safe and Natural Cosmetics and Skin Care Products

Where do you look for make-up and skin care that you can feel safe using? Try Natural Solutions: Holistic Beauty, Body, & Bath, a healthy-minded collection of products free of chemicals, parabens, phthalates, petrolateum and other nasty ingredients found  in most standard make-up products. What’s the problem with all these chemicals in your cosmetics and [...]

Post-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 the meat and returning the broth and the cleaned meat to the pot. I added some chopped potatoes, [...]

Dairy-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 peanut butter and milk, like I did in my African Peanut Butter Chicken recipe in the Glorious One-Pot Meals cookbook, and many readers [...]

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 ways to put leftover turkey to good use in easy delicious heat-n-serve dinners on busy winter evenings: turkey [...]

Leftover Mashed Potato Croquettes

What to do with a pile of leftover mashed potatoes? How about Mashed Potato Croquettes for something a little different? Who doesn’t love mashed potatoes? I used organic Yukon Gold potatoes and put them through a food grinder — with the skins! — for nutritious deliciousness. This year my husband declared that I had made [...]

Portobello Mushrooms Stuffed with Leftover Thanksgiving Stuffing

Whew, what a holiday! Thanksgiving is such a glorious holiday for food, and we have a big tradition for leftovers in my family. Personally, I love opening a fridge full of Thanksgiving leftovers, but by Saturday I can’t stand the sight of another turkey sandwich and I’m fishing around for creative ways to eat and [...]

Eating Clean In a Dirty World by Jennafer Ashley, DTR

I downloaded a helpful book on Kindle today: Eating Clean in A Dirty World: An easy to follow guide to cleaning up your diet for life by Jennafer Ashley, DTR. I was pleased to see it offers a solid overview for avoiding chemicals, GMOs, and other pollutants in our food supply. In the book, Jennafer [...]

Sunbutter: A Peanut Butter Alternative

I’ve never been a rabid peanut butter fan, though I understand the appeal for a quick and easy, non-perishable, packable protein spread for everything from school lunches to hiking trips to an everyday snack. While I didn’t really dig peanut butter as a child, Sunbutter Sunflower Seed Spread slathered on an apple slice or a [...]

All-Natural, Non-Toxic Stainless Steel Appliance Cleaner

The year I spent living in Florence, Italy, taught me a lot about the many uses of olive oil. In cooking classes I learned about using olive oil for cooking, dipping bread, and dressing pasta and vegetables, of course, but it was from my Italian friends and neighbors that I learned olive oil can function [...]

Gluten-free, Dairy-free, Vegan Cream Pie Recipe

A few years ago, a friend passed along a recipe for a dairy-free cream pie that was so scrumptious that I’ve since taken the concept and adapted it to make other variations. It’s a delicious dessert that will wow a crowd of regular eaters as much as those vegans, gluten-free’rs, and raw foodies at your [...]