Greetings from the household of a 3-year-old. She kicked off her fourth trip around the sun in April (it’s been a while since we’ve chatted, I know…), and it’s as if a switch was flipped with the whispered whoosh of those extinguished candles. We’re potty trained. We’re putting our clothes on by ourselves. We’re sleeping with a pillow and a blanket. We’re still doing this thing where she is we. I’ll outgrow it before it becomes obnoxious. And it’s not as if I was expecting the worst of age three, but all things considered, she’s been a delight. The first few … Read More
Chocolate Chip Cookie Crisps / Vegan + Gluten-Free
Let me just say: I let my kid watch an irresponsible amount of Boss Baby so I could get this post pushed out to you guys today. Bad parenting in the name of really, really excellent cookies. These cookies came about (like most good things) mostly unintentionally. A late-night craving for our favorite (Accidentally) Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies, a pantry short on AP flour and brown sugar. We’ll make do, I figured. Some cookies are better than no cookies. And while I still maintain that to be true, the resulting cookies were…not ideal. Thick and doughy, and with all white … Read More
Endless Summer Noodle Bowls: Miso Butter Linguine with Sweet Corn, Snap Peas + Summer Sausage
And just like that, it’s 2018. We’ve made some modifications to how we eat in the New Year. For some reason, “resolutions” related to what I put in my body are about the only kind that stick. I know it’s easy to look down your nose at such clichés, but if I make them attainable enough (small enough, simple enough), I can convince myself to commit them to habit. Six or seven years ago I gave up soda. (Not that I drank much of it, but fewer things go better with Mexican food than icy Coke.) A year or two … Read More
Vanilla Cream Cheese Cupcakes with Blackberry Lemon Buttercream + a Giveaway!
Twenty-seventeen, you guys. Woof. And the holidays. Woof Woof. This year was confusing, to say the least. I spent the first half chemically incapacitated, the second half wholly elated, and the whole lot of it at a loss for words as humanity continues its attempts at devolution. But in this moment, I am stuffed to the gills with treats and sweets and roasted meats — and plenty of other fine examples of gluttony that don’t happen to rhyme. And I am pushing cupcakes on you at the very last minute, begging you to make them happen in your own kitchen … Read More
Creamy Cashew-Maple Matcha Lattes (Vegan) + and a Giveaway!
Happy Thanksgiving week, friends! This past year has been so tumultuous — moreso, even, than I anticipated when I was drafting last year’s post on thankfulness from under a cozy blanket of blissful ignorance and optimism. But on Thursday, we’re hosting Thanksgiving for the first time since we moved back to California, and I’m ready to spoil the family that has kept our spirits afloat despite the leaden cloak of cancer with love in the form I know best: food. But rather than sharing our holiday dinner plans here (no matter how much I love the word spatchcock, I’m in … Read More