How to make healthy choices every day

Dessert

Simple Strawbery Cake with Grilled Rhubarb Vanilla Sauce

Simple Strawbery Cake with Grilled Rhubarb Vanilla Sauce

Let me start off by saying that I don’t really “get” rhubarb. Perhaps it’s that I find the typical uses for it rather predictable, or that more often than not it’s accompanied by massive amounts of white sugar to offset the natural sourness. What is…

The Raw Brownie

The Raw Brownie

Um, so, I am about to change your life. Ready? The Raw Brownie. I guess I haven’t mentioned it yet, but I am now working as a chef in the premier raw food restaurant in Copenhagen. Yes, I still have my other restaurant job and…

Everybody Loves the Sunshine Citrus Salad

Hello beautiful!That is what my breakfast said this morning. No, I am not crazy, maybe just a little starved for some fresh-food attention. I really had trouble coming up with a post this week because we are in such a time of change! Is it…

Chocolate Fudge and Self Love

Okay, I’ll admit it: I’m not so down with the big V-day (did you notice I flat-out ignored it the last two years here on the blog?) It’s not that I am anti-romance in any way – I love getting flowers. Yea, bring ‘em on!…

Raw Cashew Dreamcake

Holy Mother of Pete. Why haven’t I done this before?I’m talking about raw cheesecake, and I suppose the reasons I haven’t made one yet now seem like silly excuses. I feel like a frickin’ kitchen magician, people. Join me. Now, I am not pretending I…

Solstice Sweets and a Holiday Menu

WOW! What a solstice that was, eh? A lunar eclipse, a full moon, a total deep-freeze accompanied by a massive snowfall, and all on the same day we welcome winter?! It’s enough to make this tree hugger burst! Tee hee. To celebrate the awesomeness my…

On Being Cozy and Banana Bread

On Being Cozy and Banana Bread

The Danes got it right. Apart from exceptionally designed mid-century furniture, cities built for bicycles, and remarkable rye bread, they have truly mastered the art of coziness, hence On Being Cozy and Banana Bread. In Denmark, this pursuit is know as “hygge”, and it applies…

Making Yogurt, all by Yourself

To Do List: #1 – Get a goat. Seriously. Those four-legged, milk-giving wonders sure have worked their way into my heart. After spending morning after delightful morning feeding, grooming, and of course milking them, I have fallen into a total goat bliss-out. All I want…