Happy Sunday! We’re in the final countdown to Thanksgiving!! What’s on your menu for this year? I’m thinking: Fall Kale Salad Maple-Dijon Roasted Brussels Sprouts Whole Wheat Butternut Spice Cake and Healthy Pecan Pie Truffles Plus, Keep Reading
Cranberry-Pear Tart with Cinnamon Whole Wheat Crust
Without even meaning to, I’ve posted exclusively Thanksgiving-appropriate recipes for the past week, and when I look forward to the coming week’s posts, they’re all Thanksgiving-y, too. So, whether you like it or not, we’re Keep Reading
Maple-Dijon Roasted Brussels Sprouts
One way or another, I always find myself in charge of most of the Thanksgiving sides. My family likes to stick with the classics, but there’s always room for a few extra, exciting vegetables. These Keep Reading
Whole Wheat Butternut Spice Cake
A dense yet tender whole wheat cake spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger, that’s topped with maple whipped cream. This cake would be just as welcome for breakfast this weekend as it would be for dessert Keep Reading
DIY Instant Oatmeal Cups
Instant oatmeal doesn’t have to come from the store in a container destined for the trash. You can easily make it at home for less money (!!), and without the 20-something long list of mystery Keep Reading
Maple Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
Cookies are my love language; I use them to tell people I care about them, to say thank you, to celebrate milestones, and to comfort a loss. While I usually make cookies for other people, Keep Reading
Pumpkin Pie Smoothie
Happy November! Time to bust out the pumpkin pie (smoothies!). Confession: I made this smoothie with butternut squash because we have an entire bushel of it that needs to be used up, and I’m not Keep Reading
Sunday Night Polenta
I could have titled this recipe Goat Cheese Polenta Bowls with Roasted Kabocha Squash and Spinach-Asiago Pesto, but then the beauty of this easy, use-up-whatever-you-have-in-the-fridge meal would be lost. By Sunday there’s always a few leftover Keep Reading
Date-Sweetened Chocolate Ice Cream
With chopped up Dark Chocolate Hazelnut Butter Cups and toasted hazelnuts for good measure. I have loved ice cream for the majority of my almost-27-years on this planet. Growing up in a vacation hotspot meant there Keep Reading
Dark Chocolate Hazelnut Butter Cups
It’s Friday, let’s eat some chocolate! Homemade toasted hazelnut butter gets mixed with maple syrup and enrobed in chocolate to make a perfectly sweet, nutty, complex version of a good old peanut butter cup. I’ve Keep Reading