Monthly Archives: July 2015

Jul10

Vegan GF Cherry Chocolate Chip Muffins

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I’m going to tell you right now to plan on doubling this recipe or be ready to make another batch really soon. Because the recipe makes 9 muffins and they lasted about 9 minutes in my house. All my boys loved them. Their friends (even the ones that turn their nose up anytime I mention the word vegan) loved them.

I hardly ever make muffins. My husband makes a pretty great pumpkin muffin recipe every week to take to work and that’s sort of his thing. But I had these wonderful dried tart cherries lying around from my recent trip to Michigan and what goes better with cherries than chocolate?

So I made the muffins this week…

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Jul7

Farro Dolma Salad with Baba Ganoush

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Center For Yoga, Birmingham, MI

I recently returned home from a month-long journey that took me from Houston, TX to the suburbs of Detroit, MI. What I am willing to do for yoga…drive 20 hours, share a hotel room with other people for more than three weeks, wake up at the crack of dawn…and love (almost) every minute of it.

I had the privilege of studying what I love with 39 other people who love yoga as much I do. And when you get that many people together focused on a common purpose, great things happen. We laughed, we cried, we sweat (a lot), we danced, we sang and we bonded in an amazing way. I’m so happy to say that I have brothers and sisters all around the country that I shared this life-changing experience with.

Another thing we did was eat some pretty delicious mediterranean food. Who knew? Detroit is home to some incredible food. Maybe food tastes better after you’ve done a ton of yoga (or meditated for 8 hours or sat in a sweat lodge), but all I know is that I loved it. We had, among other things: dolmas; lentils and rice; cucumber tomato salads, hummus and baba ganoush. Of course, I was inspired to make some of this at home.

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