Vegan Blueberry Muffin Cake
Blueberry muffins remind me of lazy Saturday mornings. When I was little, I would beg my Dad to let me help him make them. It wasn’t that difficult…considering we used the ones from a box. My Dad did not inherit my Grandma’s baking skills. But I still loved the muffins anyhow. Especially when still warm […]
Vegan Blueberry Cream Cheese Galettes
I hope you all had a good weekend, I certainly did! Usually every year I go to the Minnesota State Fair, but Eric and I are both not wishing to spend a lot of money lately and it ends up costing a lot, so we decided to go on another fun outing instead. What […]
Vegan Vanilla Cheesecake Ice Cream with Blueberry Jam Swirl
What does one do with 3 lbs of blueberries? Eat them all in a big bowl and end up like Violet Beauregarde in Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and turn into a giant blueberry? To be completely honest after seeing that movie as a kid, I always thought about that scene of the movie when […]
Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Pancakes
I have been in the mood for chocolate chip cookies lately for some reason. Maybe it is the fact that at the deli I work in, my station is next to the baked goods cooling rack and those darn cookies cooling smell sooo good! They are not vegan, so I am never tempted to steal […]
Moroccan Lentil Stew
I visited my Grandpa last Sunday and came home with about 10 lbs of fresh tomatoes from his garden. What does one do with that many fresh tomatoes besides make sauce? Well, I found lots of uses for them! I love my Grandpa’s Tomatoes, and every year I anxiously await them. It is so nice […]
Vegan Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies
I am sure a lot of you might think I am crazy when I say this, but growing up, Oreos were never my favorite cookies. Even as a kid, I could tell that they were not like my Grandma’s delicious home made cookies. Something tasted off about them. I now know it is because there […]
Vegan Toasted Almond Fudge Ripple Ice Cream
So, I ran my first race in a year last weekend. It was actually only my second in 4 years (after previously running about 20 a year), because I took a long time off of running in races after a string of injuries that had me feeling burnt out about it. I have still been […]
Vegan Marionberry Peach Crisp
There was a time in my life that I loved fruit crisps so much that I made them every single weekend for months on end. It may sound weird, but it was something I looked forward to. I do tend to get stuck in ruts sometimes when I really like something (or more so […]
Vegan Maple Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies
One of my favorite places to be as a child was in my Grandma’s kitchen. She was always making something delicious no matter what time of the day, and she often baked things. Like chocolate chip cookies. She must have baked hundreds of batches of them. She always had them on hand to give away […]
Watermelon Basil Slushie
When I was little, I used to love getting things like Sno Cones, Mr. Mistys at Dairy Queen, and Hawaiian Ices at the fair. They were so refreshing…and so sugary. Just what my 10 year old self loved! I can’t say I have had anything like that in about 15 years, but good memories go […]
Cooling Cucumber Miso Almond Noodles
My Grandpa grows a garden of just cucumbers and tomatoes every Summer, and he always shares a bunch with me. I am extremely grateful for that. They are honestly the best tomatoes and cucumbers I have ever tasted and every time I get one at the store I am disappointed because they don’t measure up […]
Vegan Hazelnut Cookies and Cream Parfait
Sometimes on my runs when I am having a tough time, I day dream about other stuff. Don’t get me wrong, I love it and I am grateful for every run good or bad, but sometimes it takes more mental toughness when I feel tired or conditions aren’t ideal. Well, yesterday I was having a […]
Vegan Tomato Chocolate Cupcakes
Eric needed some cheering up, and it was a rainy day so I decided to bake him some cupcakes. Because cupcakes make everything better (at least for the moment) right? His favorite thing is chocolate (anything chocolate), so that is what I made. But these were special chocolate cupcakes, they had a secret unexpected ingredient. […]
Vegan Coffee Caramel Peanut Butter Ice Cream
There was a point in time where I drank coffee in the morning like it was water. I would have 3 32 oz mugs before noon from the time I was in college until about 4 years ago. I liked coffee, but I always drank it so fast (because I am busy most mornings) that […]
Summer Cantaloupe, Sun Dried Tomato and Macadamia Chevre Salad
I once overheard a woman yelling at the produce guy at the grocery store because they did not have any arugula at the time. She was mad because she wanted to make a recipe using it and nothing else would do. I felt like telling her that she could improvise and use spinach, or maybe […]
Vegan Mini Chocolate Almond Brownie Cheesecakes
On my days off, I like to make something a little decadent. This time, I made some chocolate almond brownie cheesecakes. I am loving desserts like this lately because they are easy, but they are just as delicious as their larger cousins. I had just made some fresh almond butter, and I was craving chocolate […]
Vegan Blueberry Maple Cobbler with Pecan Biscuits
When I was younger I used to go to the library every week and check out cookbooks. I would sit with a big old pile of them and page through them looking for new recipes to try. This is how I taught myself to cook in fact! One Summer in college, I would make 1 […]
Vegan Roasted Tomato Sweet Corn Pizza with Rosemary
I wish I could have a garden of my own, but unfortunately I can’t. Thankfully I have people who share their garden fresh veggies with me! My Grandpa does every year, he grows cucumbers and tomatoes, and they are always way better than store bought. My coworker brought some tomatoes in to work last Friday, […]
Watermelon Cherry Basil Cooler
When I was little, and into sugary popsicles, I could have cared less about watermelon. It was all about the brightly colored freezes, bomb pops and those sorts of things when it came to keeping cool in the Summer. But now as an adult, I have an appreciation for naturally cooling foods. Give me a watermelon […]
Vegan Maple Pecan Muffin Pancakes
I saw on a local news show, a segment about muffin tin pancakes and apparently they are all the rage lately on social media. I must be out of the loop, because I had not heard about them until that point. Whoever invented them though is genius, because they are so much easier to make […]
Vegan Mini Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecakes
When I was younger I used to browse recipes online and cook books from the library and actually make them exactly as they were. But now I rarely do that. Because of course, most of the recipes I come across that look really good to me are not vegan, and I didn’t used to be […]
Vegan Chipotle Peach Cobbler with Pecan Biscuits
When I see a recipe that looks amazing on TV or Facebook or wherever I happen to be, I say to myself, I need to veganize that. I saw someone making peach cobbler a few weeks back on a cooking show, and it wasn’t vegan at all but I said to myself, I need to […]