{Detox} Sardine Tartines
If you are reading this, I give you props for being more open-minded than my brother, sister and mother who flee the room when I crack open a tin of sardines. I’ve loved sardines ever since my dad...
View ArticleGuest Post: Peanut Butter Quinoa Oat Muffins
So…I realize sardines may not top most people’s list of favorite edible items ever. But if your list is missing sardines, cake better be topping the list! Also, muffins. Which is why I’m bringing you...
View ArticlePancake Fridays: Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Silver Dollar Pancakes
I’m going to New York! For three glorious days next week, I’m escaping to the metropolitan, cultured bustle of NYC for the first time since far too long ago. I’m going to a) scope out potential life...
View ArticleShelby’s Loaded Guacamole
Here’s a fun fact: Erik and I used to hate avocados. As a kid, I would not touch them. I’d scrape them out of my California rolls and I’d scoop only the salsa layer out of 7-layer dip, shunning the...
View ArticleAlmond Butter Quinoa Oat Mini Muffins
So yesterday: I’m in my car, sweating slightly as I loop around my old college campus, at a loss for parking ideas and in a rush to get to an on-campus dinner for which I’m late. Phone is at my side,...
View ArticleBanana Bread French Toast Parfaits (with the best vegan, GF banana bread ever)
In lieu of pancakes, I bring you something else breakfasty! Last night, I started to make a cake for someone. I had grand plans of spreading pliable, freshly made ice cream across thick banana bread...
View ArticleSpent Grain Chocolate Chip Cookies (vegan)
I am not a beer person. I can count the number of beers that I’ve actually enjoyed on one hand—beer is tolerable, but generally not enjoyable. Which is why I was bewildered to find myself fixating on...
View ArticleBanana Yogurt Cookies
Goodbyes are the worst. I do this thing where sometimes I yell “bye!” over my shoulder and hotfoot it away like I don’t care whether I’ll ever see person in question again. I’m rude. This happens very...
View ArticleVegan Chocolate Mini Muffins (no sugar!)
So, I’m really excited about these muffins. (!!!) Remember when I gave up sugar for a week? And then tried to switch over to only natural sweeteners? Obviously I fell off the wagon a little. Well, I’m...
View ArticlePancake Fridays: Oat and Yogurt Pancakes
If you google “best restaurant pancake recipe” like I do periodically (every other day or so—you know, whenever the pancake cravings become overwhelming) you’ll undoubtedly have come across several...
View ArticleAvocado Banana Bread
I made this loaf purely from ingredients from my boyfriend’s kitchen. What does that mean? You can EASILY make this! Also, that we really like guacamole and therefore the stray avocado can occasionally...
View ArticleSoft No-Bake Chocolate Granola Bars
It’s Monday and my back is cramping in two very precise spots in the middle of my back, my shoulders are slightly sunburnt, my feet are weary from walking and a blister on the side of my foot that has...
View ArticlePancake Fridays: Musings on Whole Wheat Pancakes (with maple yogurt!)
For whatever reason, after weeks of messing around with oats and buckwheat and spelt, my body’s been really craving whole wheat. Get some gluten in me! So two weekends ago, Erik and I had some...
View ArticleSpinach Frozen Yogurt
Big news: Erik is requesting green smoothies. Yes, that is my Midwestern, steak-loving, Honey-Bunches-of-Oats-traditionalist boyfriend loves my spinach concoctions so much, he’s asking for them,...
View ArticleVegan Cauliflower Pizza Bowls
Upon learning you live in Houston, anyone who’s ever been to Houston will likely look at you with pity in their eyes—how do you stand the heat? Not long ago, I was still an adoring fan of Houston...
View ArticlePancake Fridays: Sweet Corn & Tomato Pancakes
As a kid, some family friend showed me how she scatters a tiny pinch of sugar over tomato slices before she eats them. I thought it was the weirdest thing, but tried it when I got home. And of course...
View ArticlePickled Onion Salsa
Garlic is a point of contention between me and the world. Garlic and onion. I love them, but the potent combination of either of those + my mouth is not something the world (I’m sure) wishes to have....
View ArticleStovetop Granola
I feel exactly as David Lebovitz feels about his favorite granola recipe, which is: “I never planned to write about this granola, since Molly and Cenk [insert: David] did excellent adaptations. Because...
View ArticleCashew Honey Blackberry Muffins + a blogger brunch
Home: never have I so appreciated the cool, breezy-sunny weather of northern California as I did this past weekend, celebrating the fourth of July in perfect 70 degree weather. Not one trace of...
View Article{Stovetop} Banana Bread Bites
While I was in California brunching and making pie over the fourth, my boyfriend was in Wisconsin. Catching fish. LARGE fish. Like 25 pounders. Large enough fish that their fishing group was able to...
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