Recipe Category Archives: 30 Minutes or Less

Patriotic Mocktails Recipes. All Variations

Mocktails: Mock Cocktails. Get it?

You can have every bit as much fun with delicious and exciting non-alcoholic drinks, saving on sugar, empty calories and yes, alcohol.

Make your mocktails Fun and FUNctional!

I am including Levana Nourishments in my mocktails for maximum nutrition.

In honor of July 4th, let’s make some patriotic mocktails:

Grand old mocktails the colors of the Grand Old Flag!

Get yourself a high quality blender:

You will get a perfectly smooth mixture even while you keep all the fiber in.

Frozen Vegetables and Fruits:

My favorites: intensely flavored, clean, cut, at the height of their ripeness and sweetness.

Less ice, more frozen veggies and fruits!

Good patriotic cook that I am, I am thinking red food, white food, blue foods. The more intense the food color, the more nourishing the food. Please include even the ones you think are weird: cauliflower, white beans, jicama etc… They will add bulk and texture and will go totally undetected.

Think Red

Mixed Berry Levana Nourishments, raspberries, cooked beets (canned, frozen or vacuum-packed cooked), watermelon, red chard, strawberries, rhubarb, pomegranate, cherries, cranberries.

Think White:

Vanilla Bean Levana Nourishments, Banana, cauliflower (raw or frozen), old-fashioned oats, coconut, pears, jicama, peeled cucumber, peeled celery, fennel, frozen or canned artichoke hearts, raw or cooked corn, tofu, cooked white beans.

Think Blue

Mixed Berry Levana Nourishments, blueberries, purple kale, purple carrots, dark plums, dark grapes, raw or cooked purple cauliflower, purple cabbage, dark figs

 

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Oatmeal Cookies Recipe. All Variations

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Vanilla Bean Levana Nourishments

oatmeal cookies

My oatmeal cookies recipe is a gem, and does all my bidding:

I make them with added nuts and seeds, gluten-free-friendly, vegan-friendly, you name it! I use the recipe in a dozen permutations and get different oatmeal cookies each time, all delicious, fun and exciting.

These oatmeal cookies are so crunchy you can crumble them and use them as granola:

In fact as often as not, this is the way I make my granola, and believe it or not I find it easier that way.

Couldn’t live without them! They will be your best friends, as they are so versatile! In fact, don’t even bother with a mixer: All ingredients aboard, mix, shape, bake, that’s the whole story!

Occasionally I have an urge to eat more of oatmeal cookies than is good for me, and I forgo a whole meal so I can splurge and have four or five of them instead, with a cup of tea. In this case, I conveniently call them lunch: They are real food!

Worried you won’t be able to keep your hands off my  (OK, your) oatmeal cookies?

Store them out of sight, in the freezer. No need to wait for them to defrost: Cookies never freeze solid!

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Pumpkin Chestnut Mousse Recipe

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Vanilla Bean Levana Nourishments

pumpkin chestnut mousse

Pumpkin Chestnut Mousse with red beans:

Does this sound funky enough for you?

The best part is, no, make that the best parts are:
– No cooking
– Delicious
– Vegan
– Raw
– Quick
– Nutritious enough to be much more than dessert, indeed part of dinner.

And Gluten-free to boot!

No time to make dessert? I have here what it takes to make six ample servings of something absolutely delicious without turning on your oven or your stove. I admit it: I was in a mad scientist mood when I dreamed up this pumpkin chestnut mousse: The bean-pumpkin-chestnut trinity is as improbable as it gets, but it works! I knew a star was born, and it became one of my favorite comfort foods! All natural, and no cooking whatsoever!

Who knew beans could find their way into a dessert?

Just listen to what my son Yakov wrote me: “Ma, your unlikely bean pumpkin chestnut mousse concoction (I think that’s what you should call it) was delicioso! My kids gobbled it up, and I stole a few bites. Yummy!”  At first he had looked too horrified to taste it after I rattled off the ingredients, even though I offered him a dollar bribe, just for old times’ sake, but then he reconsidered….. Morality: Do NOT rattle off funky ingredients! Especially when the said funky ingredients are blended and do their unseen magic, just offer a serving of the delicious stuff for dessert, and wait till it’s been devoured. Oh gosh I almost forgot: don’t talk about beans, OK?

Vacuum-packed chestnuts have recently become widely available, and a real pleasure to use in savory and sweet dishes. And if you happen to have freshly cooked pumpkin, of course use it.

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Cold Sesame Noodles Recipe

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Mushroom Medley Levana Nourishments

cold sesame noodles

Cold Sesame Noodles are a real treat, for children big and small.

Lapsang Souchong is a Chinese tea with an intriguing pungent, smoky, “tarry” taste. As a drink, you will either love it or hate it, but you will always love it in a dressing or marinade, and of course in cold noodles. Settle for Earl Grey if you don’t have it on hand.

I used to make oodles of cold sesame noodles in my catering years.

Cold Sesame Noodles are a great place to sneak in a perfectly healthy pasta:

Try soba or rice noodles, and many other gluten-free noodles

You’ll be happy to have this sauce on hand, not only for these noodles, but for grilled chicken or fish, or even as a salad dressing.

 

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Cornbread Recipe. All Variations

adapted from Levana Cooks, using Garden Vegetable Levana Nourishments

cornbread

Cornbread is ready in a snap:

So nice to know we have options that are dairy-free, low-gluten, and gluten-free.

The secret of good cornbread is to stick your empty greased pan in the oven while you whip up the batter to get it really good and hot; this way the baking gets a huge head start as soon as the batter is poured, and the bread gets all those lovely trademark cracks all over.

Variations:

Corn lovers, you’ll be mighty happy: I have included several easy and fabulous variations of the beloved basic recipe:

 

 

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