Be honest. Are your mornings glorious these days? Mine definitely aren't. They usually start around 6:15AM, when Owen appears at my side of the bed asking 1) if he can watch TV, and 2) if he can have something totally inappropriate for breakfast, like M&Ms or Cheez-Its. I steel myself and tell ...
Overnight Breakfast Bulgur with Maple Berry Sauce (Vegan)
Ever since I read Yes Please last year, I've remembered Amy Poehler's motto, "Good for her, not for me." It's kind of how I feel about anyone who has given up sugar. That's awesome for you, and so healthy, but I would never do it. I mean, I wrote a dessert cookbook. It's no secret that ...
Chocolate Raspberry Smoothie Bowl (Vegan)
Let's have chocolate for breakfast and feel good about it. I'd like to introduce you to this ↑↑↑. The first smoothie bowl I have ever made or consumed. I honestly don't know why it took me so long to get on the bandwagon. What's not to love? It's basically just a smoothie with ...
Cornbread Coffee Cake
Are there two more beautiful words together than coffee and cake? I honestly can't think of any. I'm pretty much always in the mood for one or the other, or both. Let's talk specifically about this coffee cake, which is a mashup of two of my favorite things. First up, cornbread. When I ...
Butternut Squash Pomegranate Smoothie
My mom went through a phase of eating half a butternut squash for dinner. I must have been in middle school at the time. I remember it because she usually just ate whatever my brother and I were having (spaghetti), and then all of a sudden she started preparing something separately just for herself. ...
Healthy Cranberry Orange Kefir Cake
I tried kefir once, 10 years ago, when another waitress at the wine bar I worked at brought some in and offered me a sip. I hated it, and for the next decade I never gave it a second thought. But tastes evolve, or maybe she just had a really gross kind? Because two weeks ago, standing in the ...
Slow Cooker Ratatouille with Fried Eggs
I feel like there is a major conundrum with ratatouille. Yes, it's made with decidedly summery vegetables--eggplant, tomatoes, and zucchini--but it still seems to me like a cold weather dish. At its essence, ratatouille is a hearty vegetable stew, thick and chunky, and exactly the kind of thing you ...
Six Ingredient Salted Caramel Granola
I learned something about myself last weekend: I am not above using store-bought caramel sauce. I hope you're not either, because then you would miss out on this insanely easy, incredibly delicious granola. All you do is heat a little coconut oil and caramel sauce, then pour it over rolled oats, ...
Vegan Gluten-Free Oatmeal Raisin Smoothie
Can I ask you all a very important question? Do you feel like boxed salad greens go bad at an insanely fast rate? Sometimes it seems like I'm not even out of the grocery store parking lot before there is a rotten leaf of spinach in there, poisoning the whole plastic clamshell. It drives me ...
Plum Quinoa Smoothie
This is a super quick post. We are at the beach in Rhode Island this week. We are stuffing ourselves with seafood (clam cakes and Rhode Island clam chowder!) and Owen is loving swimming in the ocean. Sorry I don't have more photos of this yummy plum quinoa smoothie for you! I actually ...
