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Chocolate Mousse: Easy & Elegant Recipe For Quick No-Bake Dessert
Chocolate mousse is one of the easiest desserts to make. This one is made from chocolate and tofu, so it’s lower in fat and calories than the chocolate avocado mousse I posted before.
Chocolate mousse made with silken tofu is rich, deeply flavored, velvety and tastes just great. Just dress it up with fresh fruit, such as strawberries or bananas, cashew cream, shredded coconut or crumbled vegan cookies on top, and you have an elegant dessert to serve to your guests!
Two Strawberry Banana Smoothie Recipes, One With a (Green) Twist
Strawberry smoothie recipes are some of my favorites. This strawberry banana smoothie is chock-full of great-for-you stuff like green kale leaves, sweet strawberries and creamy bananas. It tastes healthy, sure, but in the most delicious way possible. Plus, you get your daily dose of fruits and greens in one beverage. It’s a winning combination!
Mixed Vegetable Salad Recipe with Homemade Eggless Mayo
This is my take on delicious Polish-style mixed vegetable salad. Traditionally it’s made with eggs and vegetables are smothered in egg-based mayonnaise, so even though it’s called a vegetable salad, make no mistake, it’s not a healthy salad dish that you should be eating on a daily basis.
So, here is my healthy version of this dish. And ito boot, it’s also made with lots of raw vegetables and low-fat egg-less mayo, which makes it even healthier and lower in calories (for example, you can substitute cooked potatoes with more raw veggies, such as raw zucchini.)
Blueberry Smoothie Recipes To Live For!
Blueberries have long been known as nature’s super fruit. Delicious blueberry smoothies are an excellent way to get more vitamins and antioxidants into your diet.
Unfortunately, most blueberry smoothie recipes available both online and in cookbooks include dairy, such as yogurt or cream. One way to make a non-dairy version, is by simply adding banana, and maybe some sweetener and/or non-dairy milk or yogurt. (If you are wondering why I’m against adding dairy to smoothies, read this post and this post). Adding a cup of orange juice to the blend will do the job too.
Here is a really easy green smoothie recipe with you today. Something I would call a “basic” green smoothie.
#1. Because it’s not too frightening looking and you can tell it has berries in it (this may seem a little normal looking). This may also appeal to people who are afraid of drinking something that looks like green grass!
#2. It tastes very nice and you almost cannot detect any greens in it at all. To make into a true “beginner’s green smoothie” you may want to add baby spinach instead of kale, although I find kale to be very mild in smoothies too.
Reset Your Health With Green Drinks
When is the right time for you to take control of your health?
Right now.
Eating more fruits, vegetables, and greens is like hitting a reset button. It’s a chance to start over after weeks of indulging in holiday fare. But sometimes we need an extra nudge to add the good stuff back in — and it had better be tasty, or the habit won’t stick very long.
That’s why green smoothies and juices are so popular — they are delicious and will surely make you feel better if you just stick with them.
The magic of juices and smoothies, of course, is that a single glass can pack several fruits, veggies and greens — and all of their vitamins and minerals — into one meal or snack. That makes it easier to increase the fruits and vegetables we eat, which is just what the doctor ordered for many of us.
It’s time to stop thinking about it…time to stop dreaming about it…time to make it happen.
Plus, you’ll be doing some good things for the planet too, if you start eating more unprocessed plant foods.
Here are some ideas to get you started with green drinks for 2013 and beyond…
Pomegranate Health Benefits Plus 4 Smoothie Recipes, Including Dr.Fuhrman’s Skinny Shake
Pomegranate has always been high on my too-much-trouble-to-even-bother ingredient list. I always considered it as a fruit that’s just too much work to eat because it’s such a pain to de-seed, so I didn’t have it very often.
In my pre-vegan days, it was up right there with crab legs. Now that I’m vegan (it took me 46 years to get there), I no longer eat any animal parts, and I’m experimenting with various new and old ingredients that I don’t use very often – just like pomegranate.
So, finally, I decided to tackle this pomegranate situation. I bought a big pomegranate lately and it’s been sitting on my counter-top for over a week, so I knew it was time to try it. And surely enough, after just a tiny bit of research, I discovered that a whole pomegranate (minus the skin) can be blended up into a creamy froth, with no bittery flavor from the pith, using my Vitamix, so there you go!
I experimented a little with various ingredient combinations, and here is what I discovered:
- Even a high-powered blender will not be able to break up the seeds completely, so be ready for some crunchy unblended seeds in this smoothie. Kinda like a raspberry smoothie may have. Personally, I don’t mind them at all – but if you are super-sensitive you have been warned! In my opinion, even if it’s a little chunky, it’s still delicious, so just get over it!
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