Cabbage Crunch

About once a week we have lunch at our local Whole Foods Market, and one of my favorite items on the salad bar is cabbage crunch. It’s also easy and convenient to make at home any time I’m in the mood for it since I always have seeds and nuts on hand.

The cabbage … [read more]

How to Make Homemade Granola

Making homemade granola is really easy to do.

The recipe is also flexible and open, giving you the ability to mix and match ingredients based on your preferences and what you have available in your pantry at any given moment.

Don’t have almonds or maybe you don’t like them all that much? No problem. Use walnuts, hazelnuts, … [read more]

Whole Wheat Hamburger Buns in a Jiffy

Hamburger buns are incredibly quick and easy to make. They take only about an hour or so from start to finish, and they taste way better than anything you’ll buy pre-packaged in the grocery store. Besides that, they’re firmer and can hold the weight of a hamburger and all your favorite toppings much better than … [read more]

No Rise-No Knead Yogurt Brown Bread

I was completely out of bread this morning and short on time. Here’s a really tasty quick bread that I made in under an hour. It has a wonderful nutty texture with a mild flavor. It’s also a fairly dense bread that’s packs a fair amount of protein in every bite. Now it’s not as … [read more]

Rosemary Sesame Seed Rolls

I absolutely love rosemary bread, and so do Kemal and my Mom. The sesame seeds add a wonderful nutty texture while the rosemary has a beautiful aroma and flavor. They’re best fresh from the oven smothered in butter.

Rosemary Sesame Seed Rolls

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1 pkg. dry active … [read more]

Olive Oil Crackers

I just had to have crackers to go with my split pea soup yesterday so I made two kinds…sesame olive oil and pesto basil. Here are the pesto basil crackers:

You can see a picture of the sesame olive oil crackers here. They’re on my plate with the split pea soup.

You just make the … [read more]