Category: recipes
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Healthy plus fast and satisfying
Nothing says southern comfort food like breakfast for dinner. Many days I simply don’t want to cook a meal that takes time to prepare. My usual default in those situations is to cook breakfast for dinner. In this journey of eating healthy I have discovered I can bump it up a notch in scrumptious deliciousness…
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Buckwheat for the Win
When I’m learning to cook with a new item and I don’t realize half a cup is all that’s needed for two people, it gives me the the opportunity to get creative with the other cooked half cup the next day. While I generally cook only enough to serve two, I was raised and raised…
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Kasha
My meal experiment for this evenings dinner involved using ground Kasha as a side dish rather than creating flour for pancakes. This is becoming one of my favorite whole grain healthy eating alternatives. For those unaware, kasha is simply roasted buckwheat groats. Raw ones do not digestc well so I purchase those already roasted even…
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Healthy eating
In keeping with my healthy eating lifestyle, we had homemade buckwheat pancakes with homemade fig syrup and black coffee for dinner tonight. I have made them before using only buckwheat flour which is very flavorful and extremely filling. That in and of itself is not a bad thing. I was just looking for something slightly…
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on food
In my quest to eat even more healthy than I already do, I’m learning about better ways to bake. Enriched white flour has no nutritional value so I’ve completely removed it from our kitchen. I’ve replaced it with mostly oat flour and the occasional whole white wheat. Buckwheat/ kasha is excellent for pancakes as well.…