No-Cook Fresh Lobster Spring Rolls with Easy Peanut Dipping Sauce — these light, beautiful spring rolls make the most of fresh produce and tender, succulent lobster. Deceptively easy and impressive as heck, these colorful spring rolls are dairy-free (and easily made gluten-free, too.) Thank you to Fish Fixe for providing the seafood used in developing this recipe! GIVEAWAY! We’re giving one lucky reader a Fish Fixe “Fixe Your Own Box” shipment containing 16 portions of premium, sustainable seafood ($139 value) — and there are two ways to enter. 1) Browse the offerings at FishFixe.com and comment below with what seafood … Read More
Crispy Pan-Roasted Chicken Breasts with Lemon-Scallion Drippings
Crispy Pan-Roasted Chicken Breasts with Lemon Scallion Drippings and Vegan Braised Beluga Lentils – the quickest and most foolproof way to cook bone-in chicken breasts. Elegant enough for company, easy enough for any night of the week. *GIVEAWAY ALERT! I’m giving away one Le Creuset 5.5 qt Dutch Oven in the beautiful toasted ivory color you see here. Visit Instagram for details! Contest closes 3/3/19 at 11:59pm PST.* It’s been a busy few weeks around here, and things are only going to get busier. Doctors appointments and travel for me, a couple of long evenings for Chris. A few … Read More
Easy Weeknight Black Bean Soup (Vegan Optional)
Easy Weeknight Black Bean Soup – a hearty, flavorful + surprisingly vegan black bean soup. Sweet, smoky and completely satisfying. Hi friends! Popping in quickly to direct you to the recipe for one of my favorite soups of the season: an easy, vegan black soup that is so loaded with flavor yet deliriously simple to prepare. This Easy Weeknight Black Bean Soup was inspired by one of the first black bean soups I ever made, back when I was home from college for the holidays and had not a care in the world but poring over cookbooks (Nigella was having … Read More
No-Bake Gluten-Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls + How To Build a Simple Snack Board
No-Bake Gluten-Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls – salty + sweet, crunchy + creamy chocolate peanut butter bon bons made with only 5 simple ingredients. This post has been sponsored by The Marketplace, by Safeway. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Visit MoreForU.com to explore the full selection of products. If there’s one thing that becomes particularly clear around the holidays, it’s how much I love to snack. The boards, the platters, the chips, dips and tiny sweets. I love the big, multi-course meals and the decadent desserts, but if I could only partake in one element of holiday noshing, it … Read More
The Reverse Affogato (aka the best coffee shop espresso at home)
Meet the Reverse Affogato — dark, rich espresso topped with luscious vanilla bean foam. The perfect coffee shop espresso at home. This holiday season has thrown us so many curveballs. First, we spent nearly two full weeks indoors due to the windblown smoke from Northern California’s wildfires. We baked and built forts and dance partied and worked our way through our entire collection of vinyl several times, but at some point, the novelty wears off. And then, a power outage struck the night before Thanksgiving with a pie in the oven, sherbet chilling in the freezer and a 13-lb brisket … Read More