Healthy food blog, easy recipes for healthy living made by a father and full time nurse, inspired by his sons and wife.
Pumpkin or any squash soup is a favorite at our home in autumn. We typically will have soup and bread on Friday nights all fall long! This pumpkin coconut soup is easily made vegan and has an extra nutty flavor by adding peanut butter to …
I don’t know what it is about this time of year but it makes me want to use a pressure cooker or slow cooker! Time to pull out the Instant Pot!!! It’s fall and to me that means warm comforting foods, this sweet potato poached …
Great healthy snacks for the kids, or post bedtime treats for the parents! As a nurse working in the cath lab I am often on call and need to have healthy snacks to grab on the go! These Coconut Ginger Oat Balls do the trick! …
I always use organic oats especially when cooking for my kids. Recent studies have found traces of pesticides make their way into oats! Yikes! The effects of these chemicals on our bodies is widely disputed, though a court recently ruled Monsanto was responsible for causing …
Orange zest, dark chocolate, ginger!? Ginger zap and orange zest zing play off the slight sweetness of the dark chocolate perfectly in these flaky, feed me more please! Scones have been around since the 1500’s and there is a reason we are still eating them …
•Creamy Pesto Sauce (vegan)• This sauce is so rich and creamy you would never believe there isn’t a hint of dairy in it! We love pesto and our kids do as well! It is always so rewarding to cook a clean healthy meal for your …
•Vegan Raspberry Dark Chocolate Bars• these easy to make chocolate bars have a pecan nut base with dark chocolate and freeze dried raspberries on top! Ingredients: (for 5×7 dish, double for 9×9 dish) 1 cup pecans 1 tsp coconut oil 2 tbsp oats 1 tsp flour …
So many tomatoes!!! Our tomato bushes keep exploding with ripe tasty tomatoes, so we keep coming up with recipes to use them in! This fresh basil and tomato soup can be made on the stove or in a crockpot overnight. Hope you enjoy this soup …
These muffins are comforting with a nice citrus kick. Using Greek yogurt keeps them nice and moist, in fact I have to admit I have actually forgotten to add the coconut oil before and they still turned out great! 1 1/2 cup flour 2 tsp …
This time of year my heirloom tomatoes are ripening as fast as I can pick them! What a great problem to have right? The only issue is finding new ways to get them into our meals. Spanish rice recipes often call for canned tomatoes or …