Salted Caramel Ice Cream

Caramel: 2 tablespoon raw honey 1/2 teaspoon sea salt 1/4 cup coconut cream 1 tablespoon organic butter or ghee 1/4 teaspoon vanilla Ice Cream: 13.5 ounce can of coconut milk 1/4 cup raw honey 1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise and seeds scraped 2 egg yolks In a small saucepan, heat caramel ingredients on...

Naturally Green Cupcakes (sunflower seed butter, apples & cinnamon)

This phenomenon was just brought to my attention.  Apparently, when you cook sunflower seed butter, the chlorogenic acid that naturally occurs reacts and turns green.  It gets richer in color as it cools ~ kind of swampy, but my girls thought it was pretty cool, so there you go!  Cupcakes: 5 eggs,...

Veal Oscar

This is in honor of the Academy Awards this Sunday…get it? Oscar? Veal Oscar?!  I hope you like this version.    By the way, this dish has a fantastic result; however, you are juggling a lot of balls in the air while cooking ~ the veal, the asparagus, the crab, the bearnaise ~ it’s a...

Choco Raspberry Pudding

I let my husband eat his entire dish before I told him that avocado was the main ingredient! 1 cup raspberries 1/4 cup date sugar (or preferred sweetener) 1 tablespoon water 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa 1 small ripe banana 2 ripe avocados, pitted and skins removed 2 tablespoons raw honey 1/4 teaspoon sea...

Collards and Ham Hock

Meal 1 of 31:  Back to Basics Happy New Year!  I eat this every January 1st.  Eating the greens signifies good fortune for the coming year.  The ham symbolizes progress.  So, I hope you enjoy this simple, yet delicious tradition! 1.5 pounds collard greens 3/4 pound ham (pork) hock 2 cups water 2...