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Cobblestone Farm Market Dinner – gluten-free, vegan, and makes my body oh so...

A few years ago, local folks started a small farmers’ market that is walkable from my house. It is at a place called Cobblestone Farm. They have a newsletter each week, with a recipe. I call this...

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Blondies – easy, healthy, vegan, gluten-free, and very yummy!

My kids and I love the blondies from Simple Pleasures bakery which is inside a gluten-free Indian buffet restaurant that we love, Earthen Jar, here in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Out of love of their...

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Tavern Stew with Cornbread – easy, gluten-free, dairy-free, warm on a cold day

It’s been a zillion years since I last ate at Casey’s Tavern, but I have fond memories that my partner Jan and I used to love a meal that they served there, a beany stew served on top of cornbread. I...

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Pumpkin Spice Donuts with Chocolate Ganache Frosting – gluten-free, no...

  oiled donut pan with pastry brush   Oh my goodness, I am in love with this recipe! I keep baking these donuts again and again. They are amazing! Sweet and dense, with a deeply satisfying chocolate...

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Dinner Crepes filled with lentils and either greens or mushrooms – delicious,...

Un-filled crepes and their filling I am still here! It’s amazing that five months have gone by since my last posting. One day during that time I wrote down a list of recipes that I want to post here....

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Chocolate Marble Banana Bread – gluten-free, vegan, no dairy, no eggs,...

Marble cake is very easy to make and looks impressively gorgeous! Years ago I was in charge of bringing snacks to a troop of hungry Girl Scouts with a long list of food restrictions. For each meeting,...

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Mulberry Forest – vegan ice cream – gluten-free – dairy-free – totally amazing!

Mulberries, growing in my yard Mulberries are one of my favorite foods in the world. Recently I was thinking about black forest ice cream, which is made from chocolate and cherries and not much else. I...

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Pasta with Red Lentils and Ginger – a quick, yummy, healthy, gluten-free meal

This recipe is my modification of a recipe from the excellent cookbook Vegetarian Planet by Didi Emmons. It is healthy, yummy, super-quick to cook, and even my picky kids will eat it. What more could...

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Chickpea Flatbread – easy, quick, gluten-free, warm, and yummy

chickpea flatbread cooking I’ve been enjoying chickpea flatbread lately, and I’ve loved this yummy recipe for a long time, so I figured I should post it. This recipe is super-simple, takes just a few...

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Sukiyaki – a yummy, quick, Asian-ish, gluten-free, vegan meal that my whole...

I make a lot of extremely-not-authentic versions of recipes that, while not authentic, are very quick and yummy. This recipe is Asian-ish, and easy, quick, and delicious! If I remember right,...

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Tiny Sweet Potato Pies – a snack or a whole meal, gluten-free, vegan, and...

  sliced sweet potatoes, ready to bake   These tiny sweet potato pies are quick, cute, and oh so delicious! They make a good snack or small meal. They have protein from the almond butter, and the sweet...

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Potato and Smoky Chickpea Bowls with Tempeh Bacon – gluten-free, vegan, warm,...

  Sliced tempeh on the left; marinade spread on cookie sheet on the right. (I used salsa in the marinade, so it is a little bumpy. This easy recipe is mostly about leaving trays of food sitting in the...

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Cornbread Stuffing – gluten-free, dairy-free, and super yummy!

This is the stuffing that I make every year at Thanksgiving. I love this recipe! This is my take on the stuffing recipe from Nava Atlas’ book Vegetarian Celebrations. I have made it less sweet, and...

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Chickpea Salad with Sweet Potato Fries – quick, vegan, gluten-free, and yummy!

My son James, my nephew Keane, and I really like this easy chickpea salad recipe. Yum! The chickpea salad is heavily adapted from the excellent cookbook Vegan Lunch Box by Jennifer McCann. It uses an...

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Lo Mein – easy, gluten-free, vegan, super yummy!

Cutting the tofu – I stand it on end and cut from top to bottom, so that the top looks like two squares. Then I cut a diagonal along each square. Then lie the tofu on its side and make parallel cuts...

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Pudding Cookies – healthy, yummy, vegan, and gluten-free!

The very first recipe that I posted on this site is a recipe for healthy chocolate chip cookies. It is delicious – but it has a lot of nuts in it, which makes it pretty high in fat and very...

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Pot Stickers – gluten-free, vegetarian, vegan, Asian dumplings – yum!

Years ago, my family loved to get vegetarian pot stickers — little dumplings — from a Chinese vegetarian restaurant called Chia Shiang. We loved that restaurant, and their potstickers were a real...

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N Bean Pasta Salad – gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan, healthy, and yummy!

This recipe started out as a three-bean pasta salad from the excellent cookbook Moosewood Restaurant Daily Special. My partner, Jan, was a big fan of quick recipes, and he used to cook this recipe...

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White Bean Pancakes – gluten-free, vegetarian, very soothing and yummy!

This shows the consistency of the batter. You can click on the picture to zoom in and see it better. I invented this easy recipe in 2011. It’s basically a mix of eggs and mashed potatoes, with some...

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Frankentofu! – a yummy, quick, vegan, gluten-free tofu recipe

A pan of Frankentofu – yum! This is a simplified nod to Golden Crispy Tofu — a recipe that I love! Instead of putting (gluten-free) breading on the outside of each piece of tofu, this recipe aims at...

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