Bert Jackson

Quick, Delicious Guacamole

February 23, 2011

A quick fav for a pot luck, or think outside the box and use as a topping for fish or a vegetable dish. About 10 minutes total time 2 plum tomatoes, diced 1/2 red onion, minced 3 ripe avocado 1 T lemon juice 1 T lime juice 1T cilantro 1/2 t sea salt 1/2 t […]

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Baked Falafel

February 23, 2011

OK, sort of. I love falafels, and what’s not to love about deep fried anything? So I thought, is there a way to make this without adding in all that fat? So this is the experiment, baked falafels. Total time, about 1 1/2 hours Prep/kitchen time, about 15 minutes You’ll need 2 6-muffin tins 2 […]

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Improv Chickpea Salad

February 22, 2011

Most of my cooking is simple and often off-the-cuff. One of my goals is to teach the dynamics of cooking to share with others the skill sets to create food on the fly without a recipe handy. So I put myself on the spot with a camera and a can of chickpeas and whipped up […]

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Tasty, Simple Brown Rice

February 22, 2011

I almost always have a pot of brown rice handy in the refrigerator for use in a variety of recipes. Organic brown rice is gluten-free and a complex carbohydrate. When the grains you eat are 1) whole grains (as in not white or processed), and 2) whole grains (as in not ground to flour but […]

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Eating Out with a Plan

February 1, 2011

So here we all are, day one, for those of us on Dr. Rhonda’s 90-day vegan challenge. Oprah Wimpfrey only challenged her staff to a week! One of the roadblocks to eating well is eating out. In some cases, we have to eat out, in other cases, we just need to BE out (especially those […]

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