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!
…all sides + starters
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….
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. …
Sweet Potato Rolls with Rosemary Maple Glaze
When it comes to last minute dinner parties, typically I’m the one rushing to the grocery store, flying around the kitchen, and yelling at the boys to clean up their respective messes before everyone arrives. Thankfully this weekend I got to experience the other side of dinner parties: being the guest! …
Pumpkin Pie Bites
Fall is really here! In Southern California, fall usually means pumpkin spice lattes at Starbucks coupled with 90+ degree weather. However, my favorite season finally made its wonderful appearance this week as temperatures cooled down to a much more bearable 70 degrees during the day (absolutely freezing, I know). This new + improved – and decidedly more seasonally appropriate – temperature has already made me start craving all things pumpkin and Thanksgiving themed. I blame the weather for the many pumpkin recipes that I will be posting this week. Prepare your stomachs….
Fig, Caramelized Onion + Goat Cheese Tart
Whenever I hit up my local farmer’s market, I’m always so tempted to snag myself some figs and just head for the hills to devour them whole. The biggest turn-off about a fig? The price tag. I don’t know about you, but I can’t justify spending $8 a basket on 6 or 7 beauties, no matter how perfectly ripe and tasty they happen to be. Luckily for me, I made a discovery last month that I have been waiting patiently to come to fruition (hah, get it): My neighbor’s fig tree….
Gluten Free Dutch Oven Boule
In case you (like me five minutes ago) didn’t know, boule is a fancy word for round loaf of crusty bread. It also happens to be pretty fun to say, though to be honest I’m not entirely sure that I’m pronouncing it right. Either way, mastering gluten free bread has lately become kind of an obsession of mine.
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Mama T’s Chunky Guacamole
When it comes to party appetizers, my Mom has it on lock. She knows how to whip up a tasty snack on the spot and still make it look like she’s having the time of her life mashing a billion avocados in a humongous ceramic bowl. As you may have guessed, I love hosting.
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The Perfect Quinoa Salad
When it comes to making lunch to take to work, I’m usually about the laziest person there is. I love taking my time making a delicious dinner or dessert, but for some reason lunch just doesn’t make the cut on my interest levels. Especially since I know it will most likely be leftovers (aka the best kind of lunch), which means I’m not often set with the task of making something for lunch from scratch….