Hi Everyone! Thanks for sticking with me after my last recipe-free post. (I’m not going to mention those who unsubscribed!). But really, thanks for caring about what I say here. My intentions are always to share what has been useful to me in the hopes that it is useful to you. In that vein, I am going to keep this post short and sweet to share with you something that has been very helpful to me! Raise your hand if you ever doubt yourself? I’m seeing a ...
Updates galore! Plus discovering my unique voice & contribution!
Hello Everyone!! It has been SO LONG since I’ve written a post here! A LOT has happened. Here’s the abbreviated (food-focused) version: I started a bakery (yay...see pics!)I became fully vegan (yay for the animals, sad for my grilled cheese loving soul)I moved to Antigua (yay-yay, and whhhhat? Really!?)I closed my bakery (YAY, seriously YAY! ...that was fun, but such hard work)I’m starting a new online community in our 40 year old business (biggest YAY and what I am ...
Sweet Potato Pie with Apple & Oat Crust Gluten Free & Sugar Free
You want some really great pie without all the sugar? I thought so. Behold the Fruit Sweetened Sweet Potato Pie. I am really digging this fruit-sweetened kick I've been on. If you are trying to get more fruit and less sugar in your diet, I have the answer for you - turn your fruit into dessert. Win-win. Examples here, here, and here. Is it strange that I am sharing this sweet potato pie with you just as spring begins? To be fair, my feet are still frozen into what feels like permanent ...
Roasted Sunchokes & Baked Eggs with Olives, Onions, and Plumped Raisins
I wrote a whole thing about inspiration for this post. Then I read it and thought, "What am I talking about?!" And then I thought ugh, "shut up". Ya know, said with attitude and all sassy like. Do you ever hear yourself speaking, or thinking for that matter, and realize, "I need a break from myself?" There's being you and then there's being you toooo much. Probably, those who love you find it charming...errr, hopefully. But you find it utterly charmless. My inspiration post was ...
Delicata Squash Kimchi Bowls with Crispy Breadcrumbs & Almond Sauce
Do you like to eat out of edible dishes? Me too. It makes me feel like a kid again, when food was playful and sometimes looked like cartoon characters. I think we could all, no matter our age, use a hefty dose of playful in our lives. If you aren't into eating your dinnerware, you can be an ol' stick-in-the-mud and chop the squash into chunks and then bowl-it-up like a grumpy old grampa. But if you did this and were eating with me, I would take this as a challenge, a gauntlet, to make you ...
Rainbow Chicken Salad Soft Tacos with Homemade Sprouted Wheat Tortillas
Everyone here went pretty nuts for this salad. I truly have not stopped hearing about it, which is probably a hint that I should be making it again soon. So, it's well-tested for y'all. The mix of the sweet squash combined with the unique and delicious bitter-savoriness of cabbage and brussels just works. It was a lick-the-bowl affair around here. After the first time I made this, it occurred to me that the only thing that would make this dish better is if it were wrapped in a homemade ...
Homemade Peanut Butter & Honey Granola Bar Bites
About a week ago I had the idea to turn granola bars into bite-sized single-serving pieces. I gave myself a hearty pat on the back for being a super inventive chef-blogger extraordinaire. And then I realized that there are a billion (and one) granola bar recipes and half a billion of them are bite-sized, no-bake 'granola bar bites'. Not only was my idea not original, but my super-catchy, slogan-worthy name is already overused and eye-roll worthy. Sigh... There is not much new under the ...
Ginger Steamed Cod with Salad Stir Fry
It's been awhile since I posted a recipe using an animal protein on the blog. I am a bit trepidatious in sharing it. I think many of you dear readers are either vegan or vegetarian. Although that could be a wildly inaccurate assumption. Let me know in the comments! Hopefully this recipe can be adapted to your purposes (exchange tofu for fish, yum!). The reason I don't have many recipes for meat is simply because I tend not to eat it. I am a carbohydrate, fruit, and vegetable loving ...