Let's get one thing out of the way: this is not a virtuous, Monday morning, breakfast-after-a-workout type of granola. No. This is a granola for indulgent weekend brunches, a granola for dumping by the handful into a bowl of vanilla ice cream, a granola for eating at midnight straight from the ...
Pumpkin Chai Steel Cut Oatmeal
This Pumpkin Chai Steel Cut Oatmeal is easy to make with only five simple ingredients. It's gluten-free, vegan, and bursting with the warm, spicy flavors of fall! It's the most wonderful time of the year! Pumpkin time. Chai spice time. Warm, soul-satisfying breakfast time. I've ...
Pumpkin Granola
A chilly fall morning calls for a hearty, wholesome breakfast--like this easy pumpkin granola bursting with crunchy pecans, chewy dried cranberries, and warm spices! Every year, I look forward to cooking and baking with pumpkin in the fall. And every year, the inevitable happens: I end up with ...
Crunchy Maple Peanut Butter Granola Bars with Chocolate Drizzle
Let's talk granola bars. They are definitely a staple pantry item in our house. Alex and I often take them to work (the perfect portable breakfast with a piece of fruit!) and Owen likes to eat them as an after-school snack. As a certified grown-up, oh how I miss after-school snacks! When I was ...
Whole Wheat Oatmeal Fudge Bars
These whole wheat oatmeal fudge bars make the perfect dessert, any time of the year. A crispy oatmeal cookie forms the base and topping, and the middle is rich, gooey fudge. Pass the milk! Sometimes life is full of tough decisions. For instance, last week I couldn't decide if I wanted an oatmeal ...
Cookies and Cream Oatmeal Cookies
These thick, chewy oatmeal cookies are loaded with chocolate chips and crushed chocolate sandwich cookies. A lunchbox classic reinvented! When I was growing up, I carpooled to elementary school with my best friend, Taryn. Sometimes, if we were lucky, whoever's mom was driving would let us stop ...
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 ...
Gluten-Free Banana Sprinkles Skillet Cookie
Toddlers = overripe bananas, amiright? With an almost three-year-old in the house, bananas are a staple in our kitchen. Owen loves them, but he can never finish an entire bunch before they threaten to go bad. What to do? Bake, obviously. Since this is my first post on my new blog (check ...
Whole Wheat Blueberry Apple Rhubarb Crisp
I don't mean to eschew responsibility, but I swear sometimes desserts just happen in our house. I wasn't planning to bake anything last Friday, but I had a pint of blueberries in the fridge along with a few leftover stalks of rhubarb, and there were some green apples in the fruit bowl… before I knew ...
Beet, Banana, and Oat Smoothie
I've come clean with you before about my love for vacuum-packed cooked beets. I know, I know, they are more delicious and less expensive when you roast and peel them yourself, but let's face it: beet cookery is a dangerous business. Every time I do it, I ruin either a manicure or a sweater. It's ...
