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Sweet Gluten-Free Rosemary & Fig Quick Bread (Vegan, Allergy-Free)

October 31, 2018 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 46 Comments

An easy sweet and herby bread recipe that’s perfect for a warming breakfast, dessert, or afternoon snack! This Sweet Gluten-Free Rosemary & Fig Quick Bread is vegan, allergy-free, full of dried mission figs, fig preserves, rosemary, and topped with a brown sugar crumble!

The greatest dried fruit, the fig, the greatest aromatic herb, rosemary. Combine these two elegant ingredients and you’ll have one show stopping flavor combination on your hands! Pairing fruit with an herby, typically savory, ingredient always yields a mouthwatering delicious taste experience. Yet it is an underutilized food phenomenon that needs to go mainstream and grace more kitchens ASAP! Fruit and herbs are a must and soon you’ll be pairing them together every chance you get!Read More

Homemade Gluten-Free Fig Newtons (Vegan, Allergy-Free)

August 16, 2017 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 70 Comments

The classic cookie now baked right at home! Homemade Gluten-Free Fig Newtons, naturally sweet, vegan, and top-8 allergy-free. A healthy dessert or snack, these fig filled soft cookie rolls will be a new staple recipe in your home!

We’re getting “figgy with it” today! Welcome to the FIRST of many “old school” back-to-school recipe remakes I’ll be sharing over the next two months! One of the biggest reader requests I get is for gluten-free/allergy-free versions of some of those classic and iconic American processed foods we all used to love and grow-up with. I also get a lot of my recipe inspiration from my own childhood favorites or just the memories and events surrounding certain foods.Read More

Buckwheat Waffles with Fig, Maple, Tahini Compote

October 31, 2016 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 106 Comments

Simple gluten-free, nut-free, and vegan buckwheat waffles with a full-flavored fig, maple, tahini compote to take this breakfast over the top! These waffles will be your new favorite weekend breakfast or brunch recipe!

I have a thing for figs. It’s not even that I eat them often, especially not fresh (those babies are expensive!). One of those foods I’ve always just love the “idea” of and I think look so lovely in recipes. Figs evoke “elegance” and deeply sophisticated tastes. I also just like the word…Fig. It’s funny, but I think it suits a fig well. I guess you can’t neglect the fact that there are multiple types of figs. We have Adriatic (or White) Figs, Black Mission Figs, Brown Turkish Figs, Calimyrna Figs, and Kadota Figs.Read More

Raw Raspberry Fig Chia Jam

July 27, 2015 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 140 Comments

The perfect healthy jam to spread on your morning toast or add to a nut butter sandwich. Raw, naturally sweet, and packed with healthy chia seed omega 3s, you’ll be happily spreading this raw raspberry fig chia jam on everything!

After many years of wanting to make my own fruit jam, I finally did so a few weeks ago! Boy, was it easy and I’m still kicking myself for waiting so long! I’m actually more of a fruit butter person, but jam and jelly is wonderful too (and quicker to make). Well, chia jams are quick to make! When you have an over-abundance of summer fruits in the kitchen too and there is no way to finish it all before it goes bad, whipping up some jam is the answer!Read More