No-Bake Spice Cake Pumpkin Truffles — These festive pumpkin spice truffles couldn’t be simpler. Pairing tender Signature SELECT Seasons Pumpkin Spice Madelines with Open Nature Buttercream Frosting Mix, white or dark chocolate and optionally spooky features, these Halloween truffles are the perfect bite (and simple enough for kiddos to help with, too!). This post has been sponsored by Safeway. All thoughts and opinions are my own. I think it goes without saying that this Halloween is going to look a little (ok, a lot) different than years’ past. And since this is the first year Lana is old enough to … Read More
Shaved Brussel Sprout Salad with White Miso Vinaigrette and Soy Sauce Eggs — and News!
Shaved Brussel Sprout Salad with White Miso Vinaigrette and Soy Sauce Eggs — A hearty, satisfying salad full of crunchy texture and loads of flavor thanks to a tangy-sweet dressing and a topping of deeply savory soy sauce marinated eggs. Yep, the always conspicuous…and News! so we’ll get to that first. Today, I’m completely humbled to announce something that’s been in the works for a while over here. Something that’s been both a labor of love and a rite of passage, of sorts, as we continue to settle into this Coastside community that’s so quickly become the warm, fuzzy hometown … Read More
Chili Butter Braised Crispy Pan Roasted Potatoes (GF)
Chili Butter Braised Pan Crispy Roasted Potatoes — Tiny potatoes cooked with herbs, chili spices and a full stick of butter make for a surprisingly easy but impressively indulgent holiday side dish. This post has been sponsored by Plugrá® Butter. All thoughts and opinions are my own. We find Plugrá Butter at our local Safeway store, where Lana and I make a thrilling game of grocery shopping wherein I show her a picture of the specific product we’re seeking on the Safeway Mobile App and she hunts it down with the unmatched speed of a professional preschooler. (You’re mocking me, … Read More
Chocolate Pumpkin Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting | Gluten-Free
Chocolate Pumpkin Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting — a rich, not-too-sweet autumn cake topped with a classic cream cheese frosting and nutty, coconut-almond granola. Gluten-free. Monday! Hope you had a good weekend, friends. We had friends in town for the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival, after which we carved pumpkins for our own front porch and filled our bellies with crusty, grilled cheese sandwiches dunked in big bowls of my favorite Buttered Miso-Tomato Soup. This week I prep for an upcoming trip to Hong Kong (HK! I’m immensely excited for dumplings/toast/high tea/Hello Kitty cafes – please send recs for any/all!), … Read More
Oat-Free Coconut Almond Granola | Grain-Free + Vegan
Incredibly simple, this Oat-Free Coconut Almond Granola is also oil-free and refined sugar-free, and it’s delicious over yogurt, as a salad topping, atop your favorite frosted cake, or just for snacking. We’ve got friends driving down from the city tomorrow for the Pumpkin Festival — our first as residents here — so I’m just quickly popping in to share with you a recipe for a grain-free paleo granola that we’ve been making almost nonstop for the past few weeks. A recipe that’s so quintessentially fall, I dare you not to make it part of your autumnal traditions. Apple picking with … Read More