I’m not much of a breakfast person, but I love a good brunch. The fact that I can have savory and sweet treats on one plate AND not have to roll out of bed before 10? Sign me up!
…Vegan Key Lime Pie
I dragged my boyfriend to KCRW’s annual Pie Contest at UCLA this past weekend and now I am in a sugar coma. Please send help.
…Foraged Stinging Nettle Pesto
I remember my first childhood encounter with stinging nettle all too well. My family was camping up in the bluffs above the California coast for the weekend and I had found a ground of kids to play a campground-wide game of hide and seek with. When the countdown began, we all took off flying on our bikes to find the best bit of shrubbery to launch ourselves into. Can you guess where I decided to hide?…
Vegan Hawaiian Sweet Rolls
Summer is sadly coming to an end, and I’m trying to soak up the last of daylight savings time before it disappears forever. This weekend was primarily spent getting our coop and brooder ready for the new babies we’ll be getting soon (yay!), but I did manage to get a bit of cooking in somehow. We went to a vegan pot luck on Sunday and I was a little stumped on what to bring. I see cooking vegan as a fun challenge in creativity, so I jumped in head first and didn’t look back….
Instant Pot Baby Back Ribs
Chowing down on ribs has become something of a Father’s Day tradition in my family, though I’m not entirely sure where or when it started. The past few years I have been trying to figure out the most delicious, time-saving, and easiest way to whip up these bad boys, and I think I’ve finally found it – The Instant Pot.
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Spruce Tip Shortbread
On a recent trip up to our neighbors in Canada, I was fascinated by all the beautiful spruce trees around where we were staying. I remember vaguely watching some chef documentary a while back where they used spruce tips in their cooking and really wanted to try to it out. I’m all about forgaing for random edibles, but I wasn’t entirely sure how to tell which type of tree was which….
Carrot Ginger Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Ah, the carrot cake. The only cake that I can eat 4 slices of without feeling completely guilty about it. It has plenty of vegetables in it, so in my opinion it’s basically a salad!…
Irish Soda Bread
My family has a long-standing tradition of celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with a meal of corned beef and cabbage. Though this is of course delicious in its own right, the thing I look forward to every year isn’t the corned beef or the veggies, it’s the Irish Soda Bread. …
Clams with Spicy Green Sauce
You could say I have jumped on the seafood train as of late. While trying a new low carb diet and not eating a lot of meat, the boyfriend and I have gotten pretty tired of the standard soup or salad for dinner. On my weekly grocery run last week, I headed to the seafood section with every intention of procuring some salmon for dinner, but instead came home with clams. What can I say.. fishing them out of their watery bath seemed like too much fun to miss out on. Yeah, I may have been a bit bored at the market that day….
Meyer Lemon Meringue Tart
When I’m putting together a relatively dense holiday meal, I like to keep the dessert light and tangy whenever possible. For Christmas Eve this year, I made Sous Vide Leg of Lamb along with Roasted Harissa Carrots and Scalloped Potatoes. Heavy, heavier, and heaviest. If we were going to have dessert after all those carbs and protein, I knew it would need to be something to cut through the dense flavors of the night’s dishes….