Sweet Potato Mash and Casserole

6 sweet potatoes peeled and cubed
1/2 cup of butter
2 squirts of honey
1 tsp of nutmeg

Boil the sweet potatoes in water until tender. Drain and mash them with the butter, honey and nutmeg. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Casserole which is so easy I almost never serve them mashed. Preheat the oven to 350. Use the mash above but add:

1/2 Cup of brown sugar
2 beaten eggs
1/2 tsp of vanilla
1/2 cup of almond milk (or another vegan milk choice)

Mix all the ingredients above to the mashed sweet potatoes. Cook for 25-30 minutes until fluffy and golden. Delicious!

You can add 1/2 cup of pecans if you like but it doesn't really need if you don't have it handy.

Gluten Free deals ~ Week 4

Dealcoop.com's fourth gluten free deal is for Liz Lovely cookies. Buy 30 dollars worth of cookies for 15 dollars. GREAT deal and oh so yummy. Liz Lovely cookies are vegan, organic and they make an entire collection Gluten free. What a great concept and a yummy cookie. So if your missing out on the girl scout cookies this year try some Liz Lovely cookies.

Here are the details:


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Peanut Butter goodness

Lately I've been craving peanut butter like crazy. I've made a few batches of my Chocolate Peanut butter cookies . I have scooped and piled on peanut butter on apples, gluten free toast and just eaten it from a spoon. It's all satisfing my craving but leaves me wanting some peanut butter candy.

I've wanted peanut butter brittle or peanut butter chews. One of my favorite candies as a kid were Peanut Chews. (yum! But not dairy free!) So this week when I popped into Roots to pick up some of my stock items of the week, I found these sweet little peanut butter brittle goodness. (I could have done cartwheels in the aisles I was so happy!)

Granny's Griddle Vegan Peanut Brittle are perfectly portioned out for just enough of a treat after dinner and they are DELICIOUS. I don't even miss the dairy. I tried to find them online to link back to them but could not find a website for them.

If you find these in the store buy some or two. (don't take the last bag! I might be out.) Enjoy!

Panini Press!

My mom just bought me a panini press last week. I made grilled cheese for the boys last night on it and it got me thinking...

What if I added Daiya cheese, Udi's bread and bacon? Delicious. I stuck the frozen slices of bread on the panini press added the bacon, a half of a handful of shredded daiya cheese and let it melt and toast. Such a yummy lunch I think I might make a second sandwich.

Laughable moments

I went into the hospital Friday morning for a routine procedure and when the nurse gave me my allergy bracelet I laughed.

Sulfa, dairy, cats, gluten and whey. It only heard myself laugh out loud but it's amazing how much of difference 3 years can make. Going into having my children four years ago my bracelet said cats and sulfa. 

Luckily my sweet friend Sabrina gave me some wonderful Sweet Sin Bakery Snickerdoodles during my recovery. Which I am already half way through. Hooray for vegan and gluten free treats! Yum.