The first recipe I gave you for Sauteed Cabbage was so popular I decided I’d give you another. A good source of quercetin, Vitamin C, and fiber, African-American staple Cabbage and its’ cruciferous cousins such as Collard Greens, are likely the healthiest foods on the planet. My mother’s version of this dish, which I call…
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A Plant-Based Pyramid: Broccoli Salad
Mrs. Alelia Murphy, the oldest person in the United States, died a few months ago November 28, 2019. She was 114 years old and an African-American woman. Her successor, 114 year old Mrs. Hester Ford is also African-American. In fact, 6 out of the 10 oldest Americans on record were all African-American women born in…
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Black Bean Nachos
After you make my recipe for Black Beans, which is the national dish of Brazil, you can mix it up by turning one of your meals into nachos. You can be creative by adding whatever you find at your local farmers’ market and, of course avocado. For this recipe, I combined Trader Joe’s Organic Blue…
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Six Minute Brussel Sprouts
I can never do anything right enough for my mother. Well into my 30’s, my mother would still call asking what I was going to eat for dinner that evening or what had I eaten. I could have said I prepared a 5-star Michellin meal yet she would inevitably ask – but what was your…
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Vegan French Lentil Soup
I am in detoxing mode from Thanksgiving food and drinks, so soup is on the menu until we get nearer to Christmastime. First up, a superb Vegan French Lentil Soup that is hearty, healthy and something that won’t make you feel deprived. Try to purchase your lentils at a store where the inventory frequently turns…
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Elderflower Gin & Tonic
The Elderflower Gin & Tonic is the signature cocktail we need to carry us through the holidays into 2021. No carbs or GMO’s, this low sugar cocktail is simply sublime.
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Cranberry Quinoa
A vegan side dish worthy of any holiday table, Cranberry Quinoa tastes fantastic.
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Vegan Blueberry Cobbler
I grew up eating Duncan Hines Blueberry Muffins for breakfast on weekends – of course they don’t make that mix anymore. Unlike Nana my paternal grandmother, outside of homemade biscuits, this was as close to baking as my mother ever got although she was and to this day is a fantastic cook. Thus, because Nana…
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Pass The Peas
Despite what you may have heard, soul food is primarily a plant based cuisine, and one of its’ major stars is the pea. “Pass the peas.” The phrase immortalized in song by James Brown back-up band The JB’s and later Tony, Toni, Tone on their 1990 release The Revival, pays homage to a dish that…
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Nana’s Green Beans
The first year I went away to college I came back home for the weekend and prepared some fresh green beans as a side dish for my family. I probably would not remember the encounter if my paternal grandmother Nana, a professional baker and cook in her own right, could not stop raving, saying they…
