Tag Archive: coconut

Sweet-Tooth Friday: Vegan Chocolate Cupcakes with Coconut-Ganache

Matt and Christine, Easter 1988

Happy Sweet-Tooth Friday!  This is Christine, and it's time to celebrate Spring the best way I know how…with vegan cupcakes!  Topped with a luscious coconut-ganache, these chocolate cupcakes will outshine everything in your Easter basket. My dark (chocolate) secret You and I have had this dessert relationship going on for almost a year now, so…

Homemade Energy Bars

[christine photo]

Happy Sweet-Tooth Friday!   This is Christine again, so get your ovens revved up for some Athletic baking!  Instead of dessert, this week I'm tackling home-baked Energy Bars!  Most "healthy" bars on the market are fairly expensive and fall into one of two categories; they have enough sugar and processing to qualify as candy or they…

Sweet Potato Curry with Tofu, Bok Choy, and Carmelized Shallots

[Matt Photo]

One day when I was a kid, the doctor informed my parents that I had extremely high cholesterol, 230 or something like that.  This didn't mean much to me, except that all of the sudden I wasn't allowed to have hot dogs anymore.  Coconut oil shared some of the blame, and it was also banished. …