Cashew Yogurt Recipe

I happened upon a new website tonight called the Recipe Renovator. The author turns animal protein based recipes into vegan or vegetarian equivalents. I've added her blog to my blog list on the lower right sidebar.

I ate yogurt on my breakfast cereal or oatmeal practically every day of my life, so that's a long time! Until of course I adopted the WFPB diet. I haven't yet tried a soy yogurt, but now that I ran across this recipe for cashew nut yogurt on the Recipe Renovator site I'm keen to try making some of my own yogurt.

Did you know that cashew nuts are a great vegan resource. They can be used to substitute for cream, or used to make vegan cheese and obviously from above, vegan yogurt too. I get my cashew nuts through Amazon's "Subscribe and Save" program. That way I can get them raw and organic at a good discount.

Of course if you are going to start making yogurt at home yourself, it's probably best to get a yogurt maker to avoid the hit-and-miss methods described in the cashew nut yogurt recipe. This is the one that Recipe Renovator recommends.

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Yummy Black Bean Recipe - Pineapple Rum Black Beans

Here's a black bean recipe that I prepared for lunch on the weekend. I had just cooked a big batch of black beans in my pressure cooker so turned to my copy of Kathy Hester's "The Great Vegan Bean Book" to find some ideas. I was hungry and wanted something extra tasty and satisfying to go with the big salad I was planning.

I guess you could say that the recipe is Caribbean/Cuban inspired as it has pineapple and rum in it. The cool thing is that I happened to have pineapple-flavored rum in my liquor cabinet, and I have no idea where it came from! At Hester's recommendation I also cooked her recipe for coconut lime mashed sweet potatoes on which I placed the beans.

Here's a picture I took to give you an idea of how it looked. I had already eaten half when I thought that I just had to share this recipe and needed a picture, so had to tidy up the plate a little bit for the photo. LOL!

Pineapple Rum Black Beans (p. 114 of "The Great Vegan Bean Book" by …

How to Get Started on a Whole-Food Plant-Based Diet

Welcome! Presumably you've landed on this page because you are thinking about trying a "whole-food plant-based" diet.

A whole-food plant-based diet is a diet that is focused on healthy nutrition, and that consists of whole foods rather than processed foods, and excludes animal protein.

I was once in your shoes: I wanted to stop eating animal protein because I had high and worsening cholesterol levels, but I had no clue on how to get going. By pure luck, right at the time I wanted to make changes to my nutrition to fight my high cholesterol, Lady Luck intervened and I read about Dr. Joel Fuhrman's book "Eat to Live" on an investment site of all places! It was the beginning of my journey to self-education, motivation, and action. Fortunately there are some amazing resources out there online that helped me be successful in changing my nutrition for the better, and I'll share them with you in this post.

But first, I need you to make a pledge before you go a…

Flourless Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

In my last post on making soy milk at home I mentioned that you are going to end up with soy bean pulp, which is known as "okara" in Japanese. It's full of soy protein and fiber as well as calcium, iron, and riboflavin, so it just seems such a waste to throw it away. Correction: it is a waste to throw it away!

Huge volumes of okara are left over from the commercial production of soy milk and tofu, most of which is fed to cows and pigs because for some reason people seem to prefer to eat okara only after it's been turned into the flesh of an animal. But we are not about to feed the okara left over from our soy-milk-making efforts to the pigs when it can curl our hair.

We have experimented with a few ways to use our okara - add it to oatmeal for breakfast, add it to soup, or substitute it for 1/3 of the flour in any recipe. But our favorite thing is to use it to make chocolate chip cookies. Is it any wonder when we are such chocoholics! The result is a healthy cookie,…

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