Every holiday menu needs a lively salad to freshen up an otherwise heavy assortment of dishes in various shades of brown and beige. Let this pear, blue cheese and pomegranate salad be your new go-to for festive occasions. It is exceedingly simple and allows a few beautiful ingredients to shine. Sweet, luscious pear contrasts with…
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Sweet + Salty Nuts with Rosemary
Be forewarned: these sweet and salty nuts are known to cause a complete lack of self-control. They will disappear at an alarming rate, leaving you slightly dazed and longing for more. I made them a few weeks ago as part of a Thanksgiving salad, and Nick and I ate half of them before they even…
Holiday Gift Guide 2019
Happy Holidays! We’re having a rather festive start to December here with a thick blanket of snow and our first snow day of the season. We’re all stir crazy, but enjoying the opportunity to cozy up at home together. If you, too, are stuck indoors and perhaps ticking some gifts off your list for those…
Cranberry Crumble Bars with Ginger + Easy Cranberry Sauce
Happy Thanksgiving! I hope your holiday is filled to the brim with happiness, delicious food and complete agreement on politics. I have already been warned to keep political “discussions” (i.e. steamrolling) to a minimum. We shall see. I’m popping in today to share a delightful way to use up leftover cranberry sauce — these Cranberry…
Spiced Pumpkin Snack Cake with Vegan Maple Cream Cheese Frosting – Gluten-free + Dairy-free
Hello! I’m casually popping in the day before Thanksgiving to share this pumpkin cake with you. Because with a toddler and a newborn, that is how I operate these days — last-minute and slightly frazzled. If you’re in need of a last minute T-day dessert, let this be a contender. It is quick and foolproof,…
The Creamiest Nut Milk + The Crunchiest Buckwheat Granola, with Roasted Cranberries
I have been meaning to share this recipe for weeks, with the idea that this granola would make a a lovely homemade hostess gift for the holiday. Well, here we are 4 days before Christmas and I am scrambling! If you could only see the chaotic mess behind the scenes of my seemingly serene and…
Roasted Cauliflower Salad + Radicchio, Meyer Lemon and Crispy Capers
How, oh how is Christmas next week? Once again the season is coming and going all too rapidly for my liking. There are still presents to be bought, cookies to be baked, movies to be watched, etc. etc. We are headed to Florida for our friends’ wedding this weekend, so all holiday preparations are currently…
2017 Holiday Gift Guide
I’m late in posting this, but if you’re anything like me, no matter how early you start holiday shopping, inevitably you still have some to do in the two weeks leading up to Christmas. How does this happen every year?? See below for some ideas for anyone on your list in a range of price…
Spiced Pomegranate Kombucha Float with Health-Ade Holiday Cheers
This post is sponsored by Health-Ade Kombucha, whose products I use and love. All opinions are 100% my own. Cheers! It’s almost the weekend — and only two weekends left before Christmas. How this happened, I do not know. It is usually right about now when the last-minute holiday panic sets in, as does the…
Chewy Triple-Ginger Molasses Cookies
It’s cookie baking season — the most wonderful time of the year, indeed! As the end of November draws near, I go into full on baking mode. Ideally, my oven is on at all times. Even more ideally, cooking up something sweet and festive. Funny enough, I’m actually not that big of a sweets person,…
