Fresh green herbs, sweet red pepper, crisp cucumber, and pungent purple onion, all tossed together with tender red lentils and a simple red wine vinaigrette–drumroll please. This colorful red lentil confetti salad is a winner!

Serve this salad cold, as a side dish to complement the rest of a meal. Or spoon the confetti-like mix of veggies and red lentils on a bed of crisp salad greens. With its protein punch, make it your main meal!

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Soft and wondrously chewy olive oil focaccia is the easiest bread in the world to make, and it’s a perfect blank canvas for vegetable and herb floral designs.  These edible art pieces are so cool I just had to decorate and bake a whole wheat version and show you how to make your own focaccia garden.

Edible bouquets and breadscapes, focaccia bread art has become a trendy project during this year’s stay-at-home times. May this post encourage you into the kitchen to try your hand at baking a focaccia garden!

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Soft and moist, like a good brownie, naturally sweetened with maple syrup and ripe bananas, these almond flour chocolate banana muffins are a healthy gluten free chocolate treat.

In some places right now, all-purpose wheat flour is scarce. Are the baking shelves bare because we’re staying home and finding ourselves with more time to bake? This is an excellent time to whip up a batch of chocolate banana muffins, made with almond flour.

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