Falafel Bowls with Roasted Red Pepper Tahini Sauce

falafel bowls roasted red pepper

It’s been sweltering around here lately, and the last thing I’ve wanted to do is crank up the oven.

But I ate a falafel from the hot bar at Earth Fare not too long ago, and since then I can’t get the idea of recreating those flavors out of my mind. The craving got the best of me in the end. So I turned on the oven in my already oven-like tiny kitchen.

It was like oven inception….but totally worth it for these falafel bowls. 

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Two Ingredient Dairy Free Ice-Cream

Dairy Free Ice-Cream

Two-ingredient dairy free ice-cream. 

Have you guys tried this yet? 

Maybe you haven’t seen a version of this dairy free “ice-cream” made of frozen bananas? But if you haven’t, I’m not sure which part of the internet you call home.

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Taco Salad with Grass-Fed Beef

Taco Salad with Grass-Fed Beef | Reclaiming Yesterday

[I made this tasty Taco Salad with Grass-Fed Beef for Earth Fare!]

If you made me choose my all-time favorite salad…

Why would you make me do that?? Ok but if you force me to pick a favorite, it would have to be taco salad with grass-fed beef!

It’s fun, and filling, and easy enough to throw together on a weeknight.  

Before I adopted the Just-Eat-Real-Food philosophy, I never ate red meat. I had a false belief that red meat was unhealthy, and I blame that misconception on the way red meat has been vilified by the mainstream media. For years we’ve been told to avoid and limit red meat. But new research is causing nutritional experts to backtrack and even reverse those recommendations.  Continue reading