Raw Spicy Holiday Cheeseball
After I made a successful cheese log last week, I decided that I wanted to make a cheese ball as well. But this one was going to have a lot more zip and pizazz to it. I had a jalapeno, and I wanted to use that in there. After all, jalapenos and cheese are a […]
Black Bean Jalapeno Hummus
One of my old coworkers at the deli used to call a big pot of black beans on the stove a “pot of doom”. It does sort of look like a witches brew…the beans coloring the water an almost blueish green black bubbling away. Funny, because one of my friends once asked if we cackle […]
Vegan Peppermint Cheesecake Brownies
I was in a big brownie sort of mood on my day off. It was raining and sleeting outside, it was dark and dreary…but I was in a good mood! Because I was in my kitchen in my pjs listening to Christmas music and whipping up a batch of brownies! Now who wouldn’t be in […]
Raw Cranberry Pecan Chevre Log
When I was a kid, I loved anything cheese. I remember being super excited when my Mom made a cheese ball for a family gathering. It was the best thing ever in my 8 year old mind. I still love cheese as an adult…but now it is vegan cheese. I am not a big fan […]
Vegan Red Berry Hibiscus Crisp
I have been really digging cranberries lately. Maybe it is because I kind of miss tart summer berries, and when baked into desserts, they are kind of similar. Nice and jammy, sweet and tart when combined with just the right ingredients. Or maybe the fact that I am missing warmer weather when the sun is […]
Vegan Cranberry Pecan Sandies
My Mom and I used to make these cranberry pecan butter cookies when I was little, and they were delicious. They melted in your mouth, and they were super simple to make. She was just telling me I should make a veganized version this year, and so I decided to. Although, mine would not require […]
Raw Mini Caramel Apple Tartlettes
Apple crumble and apple pie are one of my favorite desserts this time of the year. And I was craving some hard core this week. So, I had to make something to satisfy that craving of course! I did not however want to bake one, I wanted this to be a raw dessert. I have been […]
Festive Pomegranate Slaw
It has been really unseasonably warm here lately. It is supposed to be almost winter, and normally we have lots of snow on the ground by now and I am running in a Winter wonderland with solid lakes and sparkling icicles hanging from the trees, but instead it is brown. Don’t get me wrong, I […]
Vegan Cranberry Orange Hand Pies
I am still on my wanting to make some sort of pie every week kick. But I don’t want to be boring and make the same thing twice, so I decided to try something new. Just pure cranberry pie. You know, cranberries are usually mixed with something else like apples, or pears or whatnot, but […]
Vegan Eggnog Waffles
My Dad gave me a “Frozen” (as in the Disney movie) waffle maker last week, and I was pretty excited about it. Mainly because the waffle mold inside is shaped like a snowflake, and it is now snowing here and practically Winter. Yes, I know I am a kid sometimes getting excited about things, but […]
Raw Chocolate Chunk Cookie Dough Nut Butter
You know what always makes me happy? Nut butter. Not that other things don’t make me happy too, but as far as foods go…pure happiness in a jar. But it has to be the good stuff. Nothing artificial, not sugary or filled with oils that don’t belong in there, preferably home made. I mean, if […]
Vegan Molten Dark Chocolate Cakes
Last weekend was Eric’s Birthday. We have spent 3 years together and in those 3 years he has been my best friend. We do pretty much everything together when we have days off, enjoying nature most of the time, visiting new or familiar places and seeing things we have never seen, and having long talks […]
Vegan Gingerbread Cheesecake and a L. C. Finns Extract Giveaway!
When L. C. Finns contacted me and asked if I would like to try their line of flavor extracts I was excited. I looked on their website and discovered that they make all of their extracts small batch by hand, and they are made with real ingredients! Heck yes I wanted to try them. And […]
Vegan Hazelnut Butter Cardamom Chocolate Chunk Cookies
I bought a big old bag of hazelnuts recently, just to switch things up a bit. I am usually always buying almonds or walnuts, but the hazelnuts just sounded really good. I toasted a big pan to use in recipes, then ended up making most of it into hazelnut butter…which was really good. I snacked […]
Vegan Mocha Pumpkin Bread
I had some leftover pumpkin from another recipe needing to be used in the fridge, and I did not want to put a lot of work into making something with it. Cake sounded good, but I have made lots of pumpkin spice cakes this year. Plus cake was a little more work than I wanted. […]
Vegan Cheddar Thyme Biscuits
I haven’t made biscuits in ages, and I know I have never made vegan biscuits, so I decided to make some last Monday on my day off. Honestly, I had seen someone making some on a cooking show and they started to sound really good to me. I told Eric I was going to make […]
Vegan Cranberry Pear Pie with Walnut Crumble Topping
When I was little, I thought cranberries came in a can, jiggled and nothing more. I was not a big fan, and usually didn’t take any on Thanksgiving. They just seemed to me like they were part of the tradition but nobody really ate them. Thank goodness I have since been exposed to good cranberries. […]
Vegan Squash Cornbread Stuffing
I have made lots of traditional Thanksgiving foods in the past, but oddly enough, I have never actually made stuffing. Which is kind of weird since I did love my Grandmother’s stuffing, and it was one of my favorite things at Thanksgiving. So, this year I decided to make some. I am really not a big bread […]
Vegan Mini Chocolate Hazelnut Tarts
I was thinking all day Monday about what I wanted to make that night and I was sorta stumped. I knew I wanted something dessert, and I knew I wanted to make something new that I hadn’t made before but I could not think of what. Lots of things sounded good to me. My mind […]
Maple Chestnut Truffles
I was so excited last weekend when I went to the store and saw chestnuts! Every year I have to buy some to roast, because they are delicious and I love snacking on them. Eric had never tried them before so even more of a reason to buy them this time. We snacked on some, […]
Vegan Apple Raspberry Pie with Almond Streusel Topping
My Mom recently told me about a pie she had enjoyed at a restaurant that was so good. It was an apple raspberry pie with an almond crumble topping. It sounded so good to me, that I decided I wanted to enjoy some too, so I decided to create one myself. Apples are plentiful […]
Vegan Sweet Potato Cranberry Pancakes
Last Thursday, It was a rather chilly day, and Eric and I had just arrived back from a walk in the in the dark. It was sleeting, which had made it even more chilly, and all I could think about was what sort of warm comfort food I was going to make when I arrived […]
Sweet and Spicy Double Squash Salad
I can never get enough of squash when it comes into season. It is so good roasted especially, and butternut and buttercup are so sweet that they almost taste like dessert to me. So I eat it about as much as I can while I can get the local varieties. It is kind of addictive. […]
Vegan Pumpkin Pull Apart Bread
My Grandma used to make the most wonderful thing in the world (at least to my five year old self), monkey bread. In case you have never heard of it, it is bread that is shaped into little balls, all baked together with cinnamon sugar that becomes gooey and caramel like, and pecans. It was […]
Vegan Italian Sausage Casserole
My Mom used to make a casserole when I was little that was one of my favorite things. It had pasta, a flavorful red sauce, sausage, and cheese. I could have done without the sausage, because I have never been a meat fan, but it always tasted amazing, like lasagna but so much easier to […]
Vegan Sweet Potato Tart with Cinnamon Pecan Streusel Topping
I love, love, love sweet potatoes and yams. One of my all time favorite things is to roast them until they are intense in flavor and then just enjoy them with a squeeze of lime and sea salt, or to make fries out of them with a little olive oil and sea salt. So good. […]
Raw Cranberry Pecan Truffles
It is the time of year when I find myself adding cranberries to everything. Salads, desserts, savory dishes…they are so pretty, like little red jewels, plus they are delicious. I am one of those people who likes tart things. Anyways, I decided last week one night that some cranberry pecan truffles sounded amazing. I […]
Vegan Pumpkin Cinnamon Roll Pancakes (gluten free)
I asked Eric what I should make one night last week and he said cinnamon rolls. But unfortunately it was a work night, and I didn’t have a lot of time to let those babies rise, so I couldn’t make them. But they sounded really good to me too, so I thought I would […]
Peanut Maple Crunch Granola
I asked Eric what type of granola I should make last week. He said something maple. I wanted to make something new not something I had made before because I like to always try something new when it comes to making food, so o decided maple with peanut butter. Because peanuts with a little […]
Vegan Mini Pecan Pies
Pecan pie was always my Mother and Grandmother’s favorite dessert when it came to Thanksgiving desserts. My Grandma would always serve apple, pumpkin and pecan, and the pecan was always the pie that had some left over because most people in my family are not huge nut fans and prefer the apple and pumpkin. I […]
Vegan Butternut Squash Apple Pie
Eric recently made his own pumpkin pie from scratch (like roasting the pumpkins and all). His turned out so cute, he made mini ones, and it made appreciate the fact that he can bake if he wants to. I can’t say I can say that about any other guys I have had in my life […]
Mini Raw Salted Caramel Mounds Bars
I always have to make some sort of Halloween candy every year, and I like to switch it up and make at least one new thing. I have made most of the favorite chocolate candies, but I realized I have never made Mounds bars! I have made Almond Joy, but not Mounds. Both of these […]
Spicy Raw Apple Salsa and Pumpkin Chia Chips
I saw an apple salsa somewhere on TV (not sure where because I can’t remember now), and all I remember about it was that I wanted to make apple salsa of my own after seeing that! I don’t even remember what was in theirs, but that’s ok because I had an idea of what I wanted […]
Vegan Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes
My favorite Halloween candy was always peanut butter cups. Not that I didn’t love snickers and twix, because I did love anything chocolate. There was just something special about the chocolate and peanut butter combination. I would always trade for it if I could, but it was hard because my friends loved it too. I […]
Vegan Sticky Toffee Apple Pudding
Last week, after Eric and I went to the apple orchard he told me I should make pudding with some of the apples. I have never actually heard of apple pudding, so I had to ask him to elaborate, and what he described to me sounded like sticky toffee pudding but with apples for […]
Creamy Vegan Pumpkin and Leek Penne Pasta
I don’t look at a bad day as a reason to throw a pity party. Instead I think of it as character building. If you can survive a really bad day, then the next one won’t be so bad because you know you will get through it. Right? And when you have good days, […]
Vegan Crabapple Rustic Tart with Gingerbread Rye Crust
I was given a bag of organic sprouted rye flour which I have never had before. I always thought rye flour was just for rye bread and so I never tried it since I have never tried to make rye bread. But since I had a bag, I wondered if it would be good in […]
Raw White Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake
I was hard core craving some pumpkin spice cheesecake last weekend. But just plain pumpkin spice wasn’t going to cut it, I wanted to add white chocolate as well. oddly enough it has been a while since I made a raw cheesecake since I have been working on my book making other types of cakes. […]
Vegan Roasted Squash and Black Bean Pot Pies
I got my last CSA box of the season and it had some really good stuff in it. Most of all, the butternut squash, black beans, and tomatillos. Those 3 ingredients were just begging to be used in some sort of delicious Mexican inspired dish for dinner. Mondays are my day off, so that […]
French Lentils in Mushroom Gravy with Mashed Sweet and Gold Potatoes
It was kind of chilly last Thursday, and so I decided that I wanted some warming comfort food for dinner. I really wanted something like shepard’s pie, but I didn’t want to have to go through of the work of making it so I ended up making something simpler that still had gravy and […]
Vegan Pumpkin Chocolate Chunk Doughnuts
It is finally starting to feel like fall. I have broken out the jackets and sweaters, and it is long sleeve running weather. But I love it. It makes me feel cozy inside when it is a little chilly on the outside and I have to move a little faster or snuggle a little more […]
Pumpkin Pie Dessert Hummus
I have made pumpkin spice everything else, so I decided that some pumpkin pie hummus would be wonderful…since I am still craving pumpkin deliciousness. I like to have either hummus or nut butter with apples or crackers for an evening snack, but I get bored having the same thing, so this pumpkin pie hummus was […]
Vegan Spicy Roasted Potato and Jalapeno Pizza
I saw a jalapeno popper pizza on a menu, and I decided that I needed to veganize it, or at least make something similar. I knew I wanted it to have cheese and jalapenos of course, but it ended up being a bit more than just that, because I am a huge fan of piling veggies […]
Vegan Pumpkin Apple Shortcakes
I love strawberry shortcake in the summer, but what about fall? Shouldn’t there be a fall shortcake? At least those were my thoughts one day last week. I decided I needed to make a fall shortcake. Pumpkin biscuits with sautéed apples and cream…it was all sounding pretty darn heavenly by the time I got home […]
Roasted Pumpkin and Black Bean Salad with Groundnut Dressing
When I was out for my run this morning, I noticed a few people have set out pumpkins on their steps as decoration. Not surprising, official pumpkin season is officially here! I even got one in my CSA box this time. Although it was pretty, and I thought I might want to just display it, […]
Vegan Pumpkin Spice Crepes
Eric has been telling me I should make cinnamon sugar crepes for months now, and I was a bit stubborn saying that they sounded boring, and they did a little to me…until I realized it is now fall, and I could make pumpkin crepes with cinnamon sugar! Because that makes ALL the difference, at least […]
Vegan Tater Tot Hotdish
Anyone who lives in Minnesota has had tater tot hotdish in their lifetime most likely, it is pretty much a staple here of Grandmothers to serve to their families, or at church basement functions. My Grandma made it. But the funny thing is, I have never been a fan. Usually it is made with cream […]
Vegan Pecan Pie Mylkshake and Sprout Living Giveaway!
Sprout Living was kind enough to send me some of their FD Sprout Mixes (which can be found here: https://www.sproutliving.com/shop/fd-sprout-bundle/ ). I sprout things myself, and I love to serve sprouts on top of salads, but I had never tried the dried variety that they offer before. Sprouts are a good thing to add to your diet […]
Vegan Firecracker Apple Pie
One of my coworkers said to me a few days back “I don’t know how you have the energy to do all that baking you do.” The truth is though, baking is relaxing to me. The main things that really relax me are running (well more afterwards after I have gotten out all my frustrations […]
Raw Pumpkin Spice Granola
I am heading into pumpkin bliss at full speed. Pumpkin does not last long in this household lately after I buy it because I am finding all sorts of delicious ways to use it in recipes. Of course I have baked a few things, and made a few savories, but snacks are not off limits, […]
Lentil Ragout over Pumpkin Gnocchi
The last time I attempted to make vegan gnocchi, it ended in disaster. They fell apart, and I was so disappointed because I was excited about the recipe. That was about 6 years ago, and I decided it was time to attempt them again. After all, I have nailed several things since then that had […]
Vegan Maple Pecan Pumpkin Cookies
Happy first official day of Autumn! Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy Summer but crisp fall mornings are one of my favorite things. I have been enjoying wearing sweatshirts and feeling a bit of a chill in the air. This weather makes for great runs and comfortable walks, all the while crunching the leaves on […]
Vegan Marshmallow Coconut Almond Cups
I always get suggestions from family and friends on what I should veganize or make, and a few weeks back, Eric suggested Cup O Gold candy. My first reaction was, “What the heck is that? I have never heard of it!” I had to google it. They sounded good, chocolate cups with marshmallow coconut almond […]
Raw Spiced Carrot Apple Granola
The aroma of Autumn is in the air. You can especially smell it in the morning. As I head out for my runs, the air feels crisp and dry. The trees are just starting to show signs of color, reds, yellows and oranges appearing on a select few, and a few are falling to the […]
Vegan Cinnamon Apple Pear Pandowdy
I have sort of made it my mission this year to make different types of fruit desserts that I have not made before. It used to always just be pie and crumble and I get a little bored making the same things even though they are all pretty delicious. I recently made a buckle, […]
Vegan Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Dessert Hummus
I have been on a huge hummus kick lately, and when I was making my last batch of hummus, I thought I would go about it a little differently and make something sweet. Yep! You heard right, sweet hummus. It may sound weird, but actually it turned out wonderful! People make cookie dough from chickpeas […]
Vegan Asian Edamame Noodles
A while back, I had bought some edamame pasta and forgotten to use it. That is, until this week, when I remembered I had it and decided I was hungry for pasta. I had gotten it because it only has one ingredient…edamame! Kind of shocking I know, but since I love edamame I had to […]
Vegan Apple Streusel Doughnuts
My Mom recently suggested I make some apple doughnuts. She said she heard someone else talking about some, and they sounded so good…and I agreed, so I had to make some. I hadn’t made baked vegan apple doughnuts ever so I was excited about this. I had just picked up a bunch of honeycrisp apples, […]
Pumpkin Spice Overnight Oats
Pumpkin everything season has arrived. People are gaga over pumpkin everything from lattes to muffins, and I totally get it because I love it too, and Autumn is my favorite season. I have started making the pumpkin delicacies myself too. I had made a cake last weekend and had leftover pumpkin, so I decided […]
French Lentil and Kale Salad with Almond Dressing
My CSA box is always a source of good meals and inspiration, and this week was no different. It was overflowing with deliciousness. I did not have a lot of time one night last week, so I made a quick salad for dinner. I had a gorgeous bouquet of kale I wanted to use. […]
Vegan Cream Cheese Apple Galette
Last Friday, I decided to face my fears and run a race. I haven’t ran a race in 4 years. Yes, I run all the time, I haven’t stopped with that. It is a source of joy and makes me feel good and gives me time to think every morning and relieve stress before it […]
Key Lime Pie Ice Cream
I am anxiously awaiting fall and cooler temps, but I am not quite ready to say goodbye to all summer food yet. Like ice cream. Luckilly I don’t have to though, and I do eat my ice cream year round. Just have to eat it in my warm kitchen instead of outdoors when the temperatures […]
Raw Caramel Pecan Peach Granola
After I made my last batch of Granola, I promised Eric I would make another batch soon because he loved it so much. So I had to get on it fast, because I always keep my word on things like that. I was kind of excited about it too because it sounded good to me […]
Raw Mint Chip Cheesecake Bars
I have always loved mint chip ice cream (or peppermint bon bon as we call it here). There is just something so refreshing and summery about it, and the green color makes me happy. I enjoy it even more now that I make my own and use natural green color and unrefined sugars. I was […]
Vegan Peach Buckle
I saw a buckle a few weeks back in a cooking magazine, and I decided that I seriously needed to make one, because it sounded amazing! Cake with plenty of fruit, and a crumble topping, two of my favorite things! I had loads of peaches, so I thought, what better way to use them than in […]
Roasted Tomatillo Hummus and Chia Hemp Flax Crackers
Most people make green sauce or salsa with tomatillos, but I decided to make hummus. My first experience this year ever with tomatillos came when they were in my CSA box and I had no idea what to do with them since I had never worked with them before. But I was excited to try […]
Vegan Nectarine Strawberry Lavender Almond Cobble Pie
Lately I am trying to always see the positive in things. I was working on it yesterday on my run when it was very hot and sticky (it has been hitting 90 the last few days here), and I was feeling pretty miserable. Yes it was hot, but I had so many good things […]
Raw Caramel Peanut Clusters
Just as you should never judge a book by its cover, or a person by their looks, you should never judge a food only by its appearance. Unless it has mold or something…but that is not what I am talking about. I am talking about freshly made food here. I have had so many people […]
Italian Veggie Lentil Soup
I had loads of different sorts of veggies from my CSA box, just begging to be used in something, and what I finally decided on was soup. I didn’t have a lot of time that night to make something fussy, and what I wanted was something good, something I could just quickly throw together and […]
Vegan Salted Caramel Peanut Butter Brownies
Mondays are my day off. So, besides sleeping in I like to bake things! I thought long and hard about what I wanted to make last Monday, and I decided on brownies. I know I have made many forms of brownies to share with you all, but they just sounded so good I couldn’t resist. […]
How I Combat Pain Naturally and 2 Recipes!
I am a very active person. I get up and run at 6-11 miles or bike an hour almost every morning, I stand all day at work, and I like to go for evening walks. I try and take care of myself the best I can, but sometimes I get sore. When I was […]
Vegan Peanut Butter S’mores Mousse Pie
I have been wanting to make a s’mores pie for quite some time now. Ever since I discovered aquafaba marshmallows a few months back. Pie making has become my Friday night thing to do lately, so last Friday I decided I needed to make this pie I had been dreaming about. Eric loved the idea […]
Chipotle Chickpea Salad Sandwiches
I was never a huge fan of chicken salad growing up, so I am not sure where my urge to make vegan chickpea salad sandwiches came from. Maybe because chickpeas are way more delicious to me than chicken ever was, and I can make my own plant based mayo (I was never a fan of […]
Vegan Mocha Almond Granola
On a whim last weekend I decided that I needed to make chocolate granola. I had not made oat granola in ages…probably a 4-5 years, so it was about time. I had just been bragging to Eric about how good my oat granola was when I realized I had not made him any, ever! So I […]
Raw Red Velvet Bars
I saw a recipe for Red Velvet Bars on Pinterest when I was browsing recipes, and I thought to myself, hey I could veganize this! Because I love everything red velvet. And surprisingly I had not yet created red velvet bars. So, it was time. It was a good day, and I was in a […]
Vegan Peach and Blackberry Cobbler with Pecan Biscuits
Eric calls me kitty because he thinks I act like a cat. Including hating getting wet. I am not much of a swimmer and I can’t stand getting rained on and wearing soaked clothes. So, I surprised myself last week and actually enjoyed getting rained on while running. It was not raining when I started, […]
Simple Vegan Vanilla Maple Sweet Corn Ice Cream
I was given loads of fresh corn in my CSA box this week and I was trying to think of creative uses for it. I love to just eat it raw and plain sometimes, and so does Eric. The organic local varieties are so sweet and delicious without anything on them. Because they are sweet, […]
Vegan Banana Caramel Crepe Cake
I am recently into crepe cakes. I made my first one about a month ago, and I fell in love. It was always something I had wanted to make, but never got around to it. I thought it would be too time consuming, so I always brushed it off. That is until now. I tried […]
Vegan Veggie Lentil Enchiladas with Green Sauce
I have never actually used tomatillos before. I have seen them many times at the store or farmer’s market, but passed them up thinking I don’t know how to use them, and I prefer to just buy what I know. But that mind set is boring. And I was wrong to pass them up. I […]
Simple Vegan Vanilla Bean Cake
When Singing Dog Vanilla contacted me and asked if I would like to try their product, I was like heck yeah! I use vanilla in almost every dessert I make, and it is one of my favorite flavors. If I were asked to choose between chocolate and vanilla it would always be vanilla. So, I […]
Green Tea Mint Scrub
I recently tried a facial scrub with peppermint in it, and I loved it so much that I decided to create my own mint body scrub. In the summer after a workout in the hot humid air, it is nice to pamper yourself while in the shower cooling off. The peppermint in the scrub cools […]
Vegan Spicy Chorizo Veggie Pizza
I had made some vegan pepperjack cheese last week, and I used some for quesadillas, but I wanted to make a pizza out of the rest of it. Some sort of spicy Mexican pizza because I haven’t had a pizza like that in a while with melty cheese. I thought long and hard all day […]
Vegan Triple Berry Cobbler with Hazelnut Biscuits
I was craving something fruity…like a pie or crumble, but I was also craving scones…what to make? This is what I was thinking about on my walk after work on Friday. I had lots of berries and I knew I was going to use those, but I equally wanted a pie (for all of that […]
Vegan Fluffernutter Doughnuts
I have been wanting to make doughnuts again for a few weeks now, and then when I finally got around to it I could not decide on a flavor. You see, there are so many different possibilities, all of which sounded amazing. So whenever I have a problem like that I talk to Eric and […]
Amy’s Vegan Monster Cookies
Monster cookies used to be a weekly thing I made back in college, since I would bring them to cross country meet for the team to enjoy after the race. We all loved them, but there was someone else who loved them even more. My Dad. To this day, he asks me often, “When […]
Vegan Roasted Tomato and Kale Quesadillas
I used to be a huge cheese lover. My favorite sandwich (and all I would order in a restaurant for years) was always good old grilled cheese. But I would never say no to a quesadilla. To me, it was just good old grilled cheese with tortillas. It was actually the first thing I ever […]
Vegan Mango Nectarine Pie with Almond Oat Crust
Philippians 4:6 “Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.” This is the verse I so often forget and yet need to hear. It is when things don’t go so smoothly in life, and it feels like things are falling apart that […]
Summer Lentil Stuffed Pattypan Squash
Pattypan or sunburst squash as they are also called, have to be one of the most adorable things ever! I remember the first time I saw some at the store I had to buy them just because they were so cute, not knowing for sure how to prepare them. Little did I know they can […]
Vegan Hazelnut Chocolate Raspberry Biscotti
There was a time when I made a lot of biscotti. It was back when I was in college and I had found some biscotti recipes in a magazine and decided to try them all, then make my own variations. I loved the stuff. Plus, it was a nice change from regular cookies, having a nice […]
Vegan Summer Spice Cake (gluten free)
I apologize for my lack of sharing cake recipes lately, but it is all for good reason. I am working on a vegan cake book, which I will tell you more about in the future since it is a ways from being published, but the cake recipes I have been making weekly have been going into […]
Vegan Carrot Cake Overnight Oats
I love carrot cake. And now, I can have carrot cake for breakfast. Not just a slice of carrot cake though, an actual nutritious breakfast that will not leave me with a sugar rush. Carrot cake overnight oats! My new favorite thing, and they could not be easier to make. Ok, the truth is I […]
Cool Cucumber Salad
When I was younger, my Mom made a cucumber salad with a creamy dressing made with sour cream, vinegar and dill plus a little honey to sweeten. I think this must be a classic that most people’s Mothers or Grandmothers made, because most people you ask can relate to it. We sell a version in the […]
Vegan Blueberry Pluot Galette with Hazelnut Oat Crust
I was really craving some blueberry pie last week. But I had two problems. First, not enough blueberries to make a whole pie, and second, not enough time to make a pie. Because all that rolling and chilling and shaping, then waiting an hour for it to bake…yeah I did not have time. But I got […]
2 Summer Berry Smoothies- Double Berry Lavender and Blackberry Basil Ginger
If I could enjoy fresh berries year round I would be all for it. But then I would have to move…and I do like it here in Minnesota despite the short berry season. So, when it is berry season I eat as many of them as I can. Just straight up (since they are like nature’s […]
Vegan Chocolate Hazelnut Macaroons
I was given some hazelnut meal and the first thought I had was to pair it with chocolate. I was always a big fan of Nutella growing up, but I am an even bigger fan of home made hazelnut and chocolate butter. The flavor is just wonderful! Hence the hazelnut and chocolate choice for the […]
Vegan Mini S’mores Bites
I have been making marshmallow fluff weekly since I first discovered aquafaba (chickpea liquid that creates vegan marshmallows and meringue) and how fun it is. I thought marshmallows were off limits to vegans, something I could only hold in my past memories as a child…boy was I wrong. I have been trying to create recipes […]
40 Vegan Ice Cream Recipes
I love ice cream year round, but this is the time of the year when I really, really, really appreciate it. There is nothing like enjoying a bowl of cool ice cream on a hot Summer day to cool off. There was a point in time I made an ice cream recipe a week. And, […]
Vegan Strawberry Basil Pizza
About 5 years ago, I had a tradition of making pizza once a week. Trying out different toppings and cheeses every time, experimenting with something new. It was never just the standard usual recipes…it was things like caramelized fennel and onions with lemon, walnuts and pine nuts with pecorino romano…or apple gruyere with caramelized onions, […]
Raw Peanut Butter and Chocolate Dream Bars
If you read this blog often, then you know I have a thing for chocolate and peanut butter. Hasn’t changed since I had my first peanut butter cup and fell in love. So, every so often I just have to make a peanut butter and chocolate dessert. I do not think I will ever tire […]
Vegan Avocado Potato Salad
I got my hands on some of the most beautiful potatoes I had ever seen last week. They were a mix of purple, pink and yellow. I have seen a lot of these potatoes at the farmer’s market lately and I have been wanting to buy some, but didn’t get around to it until […]